District Hospital Kempten
| District Hospital Kempten | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | Clinic Association Kempten-Oberallgäu |
| place |
Memminger Strasse 52, Kempten (Allgäu) |
| state | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 44 '1 " N , 10 ° 18' 39" E |
| beds | 275 (1972) |
| founding | 1841/42 |
| resolution | 2012 |
| Website | - |
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The district hospital , formerly the district hospital , was a hospital on Memminger Strasse in Kempten (Allgäu) and is a listed building . The plan to close the hospital because of the Kempten Clinic on Robert-Weixler-Strasse was postponed several times, but was then implemented on November 23, 2012. The building on Munich's Ludwigstrasse was the model for the former district hospital .
The hospital is based on the amalgamation of various small hospitals: The hospital on Brachgasse in Kempten was combined with those in Härtnagel , Grönenbach , Legau and Obergünzburg in the new hospital building in 1841. From 1853 to 1980 the patients were cared for by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul , the hospital was shaped by the chief physician Max Madlener .
history
The former district hospital is a three-story wing that was built between 1835 and 1841 and opened on August 25, 1841. Simon Mayr from Munich created the plans . The building has 17 to 5 arched window axes, the three middle ones being highlighted as risalits or grouped together as a group of three at the sides. The floors are divided by cornices .
The hospital was divided by gender: there were two stairwells each and the corridors were divided into two by glass. The rooms were heated by a central cast-iron air heating furnace in the basement . Supply ducts brought ambient air from outside into the boiler room. It was heated there and channeled through a system of shafts in the walls to the upper floors. In the upper part of the rooms the warm air escaped and heated them.
In 1972 a new ward building with 165 beds was completed. The district hospital thus had a total of 275 beds. This also included nine- and seven-story apartment buildings. With the Kempten Clinic , the centrally located district hospital increasingly lost its importance and was closed on November 23, 2012.
Chapels
St. Vincenz Chapel
The hospital's house chapel is dedicated to Saint Vincent . The rectangular room has side oratorios . The chapel is decorated with paintings of the Magi and the erection of the cross, as well as other works of art, some of which come from the Kempten residence .
Hospital chapel
In 1971, a parabolic chapel was built by Hans Wachter as a total work of art on the area of the district hospital . The altar was made from a block of Kirchheim shell limestone. The 2.60 meter high sacrament column, in which the tabernacle is set in bronze, is made of the same material . The Way of the Cross is also made of bronze. The gallery parapet represents a ten meter long relief showing the sun with its rays. The incidence of light is particularly impressive due to the fine-colored structuring of the window glasses in the ribbon window below the wooden ceiling. The overall concept consists of the idea of an ark. The colored window glasses create a connection with the motifs of the creative elements to the outside world, which is arranged inside. The unsettled and restless person finds his composure again in the ark and can trust the Creator anew. The architecture in this form is unique in the Allgäu and is strongly reminiscent of the modern design of church rooms by the well-known southern French artist Le Corbusier ( Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp ).
In the chapel, services for the clinic staff and patients were held on Sundays and once on weekdays. The memorial services of the staff of the palliative care unit were of particular importance for the deceased patients.
In 2013, the city of Kempten released the area for residential development after the two houses of the Kempten Clinic in Robert-Weixler-Strasse were merged. The monument office did not put the chapel under monument protection, so it has since been demolished. To prevent the demolition, the clinic chaplain Andreas Beutmüller started an online petition on openPetition to preserve the chapel at the hospice in Memminger Straße in 87439 Kempten .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kempten Clinic: The new clinic is ready for patients. ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. April 19, 2013 (accessed December 4, 2012)
- ^ Franz-Rasso Böck , Ralf Lienert , Joachim Weigel (eds.): Century views of Kempten 1900–2000 . Verlag Tobias Dannheimer - Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten (Allgäu) 1999, ISBN 3-88881-035-3 , p. 156 .
- ^ Josef Rottenkolber: The district hospital Kempten. Its creation and development . Jos. Kösel, Kempten 1941.
- ^ A b Michael Petzet : City and District of Kempten. (= Bavarian art monuments. Vol. 5), 1st edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 453751636 , p. 41f.
- ↑ Alexander Duke of Württemberg, Wolfgang Haberl, Gerhard Weber, Michael Petzet (eds.): Monuments in Bavaria: City of Kempten. Volume VII.85. 1st edition. Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Munich - Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7954-1003-7 , pp. 52 f .
- ^ Description of the new sick and beneficiary institution in Kempten. In: Allgemeine Bauzeitung . 1842, pp. 293-298. (on-line)
- ^ City of Kempten (ed.): Kempten im Allgäu. (3rd documentation), Kösel, Kempten 1972, p. 96f.
- ↑ https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/erhalt-der-klinkkapelle-in-der-memmingerstrasse-in-87439-kempten
Web links
- Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation: Entry D-7-63-000-143