Katharinenstift (Heilbronn)
The Katharinenstift is a neo-Gothic, listed building in Arndtstraße 1 in Heilbronn . The building was built by a private foundation in 1899 as a recreation house and came into the possession of the city of Heilbronn in 1921, which expanded it in 1923/24 and converted it into a municipal old people's home, which is now located in a new building next door.
description
The two and a half storey secular building appears like a castle from the end of the Middle Ages. In 1899, Heinrich Stroh designed the central projectile with stair towers and stepped gables , copying the late Gothic style as it was presented in castles and fortresses in Germany.
history
In 1894, the four children of Commerce Councilor Louis Link (1827-1889) and his wife Pauline Link, née Münzing († 1892), were donated to build the “first public recreation house in Heilbronn”. The foundation's capital was initially 40,000 marks, but grew to over 100,000 marks by 1914, which were needed for construction and operation. The chairman of the foundation was pastor Wilhelm Stähle. Originally, a building site was planned near the Karlstorbahnhof, but due to the strong expansion of the city of Heilbronn at the end of the 19th century, the desired quiet location was not found at the planned location, so that the quiet Wiesental (at the Platz der Wüstung Altböckingen ) selected as location. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in spring 1898, and the building was inaugurated on June 5, 1899. In honor of Louis Link, a bust was placed in the garden of the house, which was created by Anton Hess in 1892 .
The facility was a "rest house for those male and female in need who were either sick and not yet able to work or if they continued their previous living conditions are in danger of becoming sick and unable to work." The guests of the house usually stayed four Weeks in the rest house. The purpose of the facility was therefore comparable to that of a current health clinic. The house was managed by the city doctor Alfred Schliz (1849–1915), a son-in-law of Louis Links. At first there were 25 rooms with 40 beds, but as early as 1906 the number of rooms in the house was increased. During the First World War, the house was used by the Red Cross as a hospital next to the recreation facility, and Russian refugees were also cared for there.
In 1921, the founders who were still alive handed over the recreation house with the associated land to the city of Heilbronn free of charge. The reasons for this were that the donors could no longer afford the maintenance and the urgently needed further expansion of the house due to financial and health problems. The city of Heilbronn undertook to keep the name Erholungshaus and to obtain the consent of the donors or their descendants in the event of a change of use over the next 25 years.
In July 1923, the local council decided to set up an old people's home in the building, and in 1924 the building was expanded to include a wing extension, terrace and lounge area. While the spa and recreational activities predominated at first, it was used as a retirement home in the 1930s. After the air raid on Heilbronn in 1944, the building was used as transit and emergency accommodation for bombed-out Heilbronn residents, while the actual residents of the old people's home were relocated to Stocksberg Castle in Stockheim .
Under Mayor Paul Meyle , the building was expanded in 1950/51 to include a three-storey extension with a total of 51 rooms. After the extension was completed on May 9, 1951, the last residents who had been relocated to Stockheim returned; the home in Stockheim was closed at the end of the year. In 1952 the home had a capacity of 123 beds, but the change in the home system reduced the occupancy to 102 people in 1964 and 70 people (including 25 people in the nursing department) in the first half of the 1980s.
From 1983 to 1985 a new building was erected in the vicinity of the historic building. In 1985, the entire facility was renamed the Katharinenstift municipal retirement and nursing home (formerly Link'sche Family Foundation) . The new name refers to the Heilbronn Katharinenspital , which existed from 1306 to 1871 , but continues to honor the origin of the facility, which originated from the Link Foundation.
Individual evidence
- ^ Julius Fekete, Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Monument topography Baden-Württemberg . Volume I.5 Heilbronn district. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 . P. 70
- ^ Bernhard Lattner with texts by Joachim J. Hennze: Stille Zeitzeugen. 500 years of Heilbronn architecture . Edition Lattner, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-9807729-6-9 . P. 43
literature
- Municipal retirement and nursing home Katharinenstift formerly Link'sche Family Foundation . City of Heilbronn, Heilbronn 1986
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Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 6.5 ″ N , 9 ° 15 ′ 19.7 ″ E