Dahl Monastery and Hospital

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Monastery and hospital
Monastery and hospital

The monastery and hospital Dahl is in the district Dahl in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ), Kamillianerstraße 42. The monastery and hospital of the Camillians are between Ohler and Dahl east of the railway line. The St. Camillus Church is part of the complex .

history

The building was constructed from 1929 to 1931.

It was entered in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach on February 17, 2011 under No. K 096 .

architecture

The tower facade of the church dominates the building complex on the wooded hill on its north side like a monolith . Your sanctuary faces west. The original novitiate and retirement home adjoin to the south as a four-storey, angular building with flat hip or saddle roofs . The main entrance, originally designed as access to the novitiate and old people's home , now serves as the main entrance to the hospital.

The cloister , i.e. the central area of ​​the monastery, is inserted in the open corner on the entrance side . The two-storey construction and the facade design with brick stand out architecturally - with an aesthetic connection to the church.

The monastery originally had its own entrance on its northeast corner, in the east facade not far from the church . There are two courtyards at the interface between the two parts of the building. A simple courtyard, mainly used for lighting, is located in the corner of the white, higher wing. It was originally adjoined by the refectory with a glazed wall on the north side (today a café). To the east is the well-preserved Great Hall, which had an important distribution function within the facility, but which is no longer plausible in the context of the hospital routing.

From the east upstream main entrance only led porch to the Great Hall, now home in which the input information with reception. The remarkable interior design in the style of Expressionist architecture has been preserved in the Great Hall . The exposed wooden ceiling is supported by very narrow beams, the lower edges of which are accentuated in red. The walls show unplastered brick with careful processing, the passages are framed with geometrically arranged layers of stone. Solnhofen slabs lie on the floor . Böhm was also always interested in buildings from the Romanesque and Renaissance periods in Italy, which did not remain without influence on this area. In this regard, mention should be made of the stairs that lead along the inner wall to the upper floor of the cloister. In the inner wall, an open passage (like a gallery ) opens up above the stairs on the upper floor , which is separated from the room by unusual round supports. The supports are framed in brown and decorated in color with narrow rings.

In the center of the cloister, which is closer to the church, is the Kreuzhof, which takes on the role of a cloister in modern forms. It is two-story and almost completely glazed towards the inner courtyard . The tall, rectangular windows close with narrow arches. Here, too, the inner walls are designed with exposed bricks; The same applies to the floors on the ground floor and Solnhofen tiles on the upper floor. The ceilings show different designs. Some of them are closed with brick vaults, some with beamed ceilings; in some areas there are concrete cross members attached to the vertical beams of the glass facade. There is a simple staircase in the narrow east wing of the cloister. In the northeast corner of the upper floor, the library was set up, which also served as a day room . In front of her there is a balcony in the main facade .

The oratory is located on the upper floor in the narrow connection between the enclosure and the church . The chapel room is visually separated from the narrow entrance area by means of a series of paired round supports that were designed like the supports on the passage to the Great Hall, i. H. Brown with lighter rings. Today they are painted white throughout. The chapel furnishings - benches as well as the altar and altar furnishings - have been lost. However, the original art glazing of the narrow, vertically structured window openings with colored, ornamentally arranged panes has been preserved .

Even in the original conception, the novitiate and old people's home should stand out on the outside with white facades and two additional floors. This principle was retained in the course of the reorganization for the hospital. Most of the rooms for novices and old monks could easily be converted into hospital rooms. Although a healthcare building usually undergoes rapid structural changes, the interior conception created for the asthma hospital is still largely preserved. This affects many hospital rooms, floors, and even closets.

The most extensive structural change was the addition of a narrow wing with glazed lounges on the southeast corner of the south wing; Only a stub of it remains on the building today. The bay-like extension on the narrow east side of the south wing originally had a glazed balcony above. This was later converted into a closed room. The largest subsequent intervention in the building fabric, which was carried out at an unknown time, was to close a gap on the north side of the south wing. Here, at the level of the transition to the enclosure or the Great Hall, there is the staircase with spacious stairs and large glazing (the panes were originally clear glazed, the wall and floor tiles have been preserved). In addition, the east end of the south wing was slightly widened to the north and in this way corresponded to the staircase protruding in front of the facade. The recess in between was closed later, however, in order to gain space for more rooms on the north side. Originally there were only narrow window openings for the corridors in the area. The hospital facades have recently been provided with thermal insulation. This is white and rough, which corresponds to the original condition. A long rain protection roof has been installed in front of the main entrance.

The hospital, monastery and church of the Catholic Order of the Camillians were built in 1929–31. The church, including the stairway access and the accompanying walls, are already entered in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach.

The monument described here includes the hospital built on the south side of the church on an L-shaped floor plan , the facades of which are plastered white. This also includes the narrow utility wing that is attached to the south side of the church. The lower cloister is inserted in the corners of the hospital, which stands out clearly with its brick façade. The site is enclosed with a brick wall from the construction period, which is included in the monument value (see above). The extension by the architects Aretz and Kaufmann, which was built on the back of the hospital from 1982 onwards, is not part of the monument .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 47.7 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 43.5"  E