Children's sanatorium Schloss Friedenweiler

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Former children's sanatorium Schloss Friedenweiler

The children's sanatorium Schloss Friedenweiler was from 1922 to 1983 a children's sanatorium and convalescent home in Friedenweiler near Neustadt (Black Forest) in Schloss Friedenweiler, the former convent wing of the Friedenweiler monastery .

history

The high incidence of tuberculosis in children immediately after the First World War prompted the Princess von Fürstenberg to make the secularized Friedenweiler Monastery in her possession available to the Caritas Association of Mannheim for a children's sanatorium in 1922. Due to the altitude of 904 m above sea level and the rural location, the terrain corresponded to the ideas of tuberculosis therapy at that time. The most important therapy options in the early days were energy-rich nutritional therapy , heliotherapy and reclining cures at high altitude. The chaplain, Ferdinand Klotz (1891–1973), who joined in 1922, took over as rector in the same year until his retirement in 1971. From 1932, Dr. Martin Glaser.

The quadrum of the monastery was rebuilt at great expense between 1927 and 1930. The children's sanatorium received central heating and running water. The medical station was equipped with an X-ray department , a laboratory and a gymnastics department. An essential part of the concept were loggia-like bedrooms with special large-format retractable sliding windows. In good weather conditions, the alpine panorama opened up with a view of the Säntis .

An orthopedic department was established for the treatment of bone tuberculosis and existed until 1972. The facility had 260 beds that were occupied all year round. The children's sanatorium survived the time during and after the Second World War unscathed, thanks to its remote location and intensive support from the French occupying forces. During the war it preferred, but not exclusively, accommodated children from the exposed industrial city of Mannheim . After the war, the sponsorship was transferred to the Caritas Association of the Archdiocese of Freiburg .

With the advent of chemotherapy and more efficient therapy combinations, the clientele disappeared from the mid-1960s. The facility was only able to maintain the use of the freed-up capacities for children's recreation and children's leisure time in the medium term. In 1975 the last structural expansion took place. In 1983 the sanatorium was closed. Since another renovation, completed in 1989, Friedenweiler Castle has been used as a retirement and nursing home.

literature

  • Children's sanatorium Schloss Friedenweiler , Leporello with 24 photos of the facility and the leisure activities, a short description and map, Kettling & Krüger Graphic Art Institute, Schalksmühle in Westphalia, around 1950.
  • Waltraud Schiffels: In Search of the Reality of Feeling: Gender Role Stereotypes and Self-Design from the Perspective of a Transsexual, in: Hede Helfrich (ed.): Patriarchat der Vernunft - Matriarchat des Feeling ?, Daedalus, Münster, 2001, pp. 216–232 . (Memories of a transsexual about a long-term treatment for children in Friedenweiler in the late 1940s) ISBN 3-89126-167-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Reiner Albert, Günther Saltin, Roman Nitsch: Der Caritasverband Mannheim und seine Geschichte, to Thorbecke, 2005, p. 89.
  2. ↑ Ferdinand Klotz, in: Badische Biographien, Volume 1, p. 192.
  3. ↑ Central sheet for the entire tuberculosis research, Volume 36, p. 36.
  4. ↑ See Hermann Riedel: Halt! Swiss border !: the end of the Second World War in the southern Black Forest and on the Upper Rhine in documentary reports by German, French and Swiss participants and those affected, Verlag des Südkuriers, 1984, p. 271.
  5. ↑ Hans Gaiser, Bruno Feigenbutz: Kinderheilstätte Schloss Friedenweiler, in: Der Baumeister: Journal for Architecture, Planning, Environment, Volume 73, 1976, IV, p. 308.

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 '0.2 "  N , 8 ° 15' 24.2"  E