Franziskushöhe

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Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 43 "  N , 9 ° 34 ′ 39"  E

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The Franziskushöhe property in Lohr am Main was a lung hospital in Bavaria . The sanatorium was founded in 1901 in what is now the Lindig district of Lohr under the name Luitpoldheim .

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geography

The striking building, which was built in the Wilhelminian style, stands at 265  m above sea level. NN height in the spur of the Mittelberg , a southern branch of the Spessart . To the south, the terrain initially drops very steeply by 50  meters in altitude and then, a little more gently, by another 70 m to the confluence of the Lohr and Main rivers. Due to its exposed secluded location, it is a highly visible landmark .
To the west rises the summit of the 371 m high Beilstein , to the north the terrain rises gradually to over 530  m above sea level. NN height towards the sole height .

30 types of wood are recorded on the site . The Crimean linden tree at the foot of the slope was planted at the opening of the sanatorium, according to the assumption of the landscape conservationist.

History of the Luitpoldheim

Luitpoldheim
(for poor people with lung disease)
Sponsorship Landesversicherungsanstalt Unterfranken (from 1911)
place Lohr am Main
state Bavaria
Country Germany
management
  • Oskar Pischinger (until 1928)
  • Theodor Landgraf (from 1929)
beds 95 (as of 1959)
areas of expertise Pulmonology
founding 1901
resolution 1969
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The sanatorium was built by the association for the establishment of a sanatorium for poor people with lung disease , which was founded by Wilhelm von Leube . The building was originally decided in 1896, but at that time the citizens of Lohr submitted more than 550 signatures with various concerns - in particular for fear of contracting pulmonary tuberculosis - against the building, which delayed the start of construction. Ultimately, however, the construction of the building with its characteristic bay windows in the middle part of the facade was pushed through by the then mayor Franz Joseph Keßler and completed in 1901. The architect was Christoph Mayer (1864–1931) from Würzburg . After its completion, the sanatorium was named in honor of Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria as the Luitpoldheim sanatorium .

The building site acquired by the association from the city of Lohr for a price of 15,000 marks was cleared in the winter of 1896/97. The foundation stone was laid on November 16, 1899, two years later after the opening on June 27, 1901, 40 male patients were accommodated there under the head doctor Oskar Pischinger (1873–1928). In mid-1906 there were a good 60 patients. Nursing and housekeeping were taken over from the beginning until the end of the clinic's duties by ten sisters of the Würzburg congregation, Daughters of the Most Holy Redeemer , a branch of the congregation of the Sisters of the Redeemer . The sanatorium, located high above the city directly on the edge of the forest, had extensive outdoor areas with an orchard, meadows and lounges where patients could breathe the Spessart air, which is considered to be healing . The germ-containing wastewater was drained into a three-chamber system in which it sedimented with the addition of lime. At the IXth held in Brussels from October 6-8, 1910 . At the International Tuberculosis Conference , the guiding principles of the International Association against Tuberculosis were recorded, at which Maria Pischinger, the wife of Oskar Pischinger, who also worked in the clinic, introduced her guiding principles “The medical doctor's wife as his helper”.

In August 1911, the facility was sold for 236,424 marks to the Lower Franconia State Insurance Institute, which continued to operate it as a lung sanatorium and also used it as a hospital during the First World War . In addition to the meanwhile high proportion of insurance and health insurance patients, an increasing number of soldiers with lung disease (mainly from the II. Royal Bavarian Army Corps ) were added, whose supply costs were borne by the military administration . While on January 1, 1915 there were still 37 insurance patients and six soldiers among 50 patients present, on the same day one year later there were 18 insurance patients and 30 soldiers among 62 patients present. In 1917 45 beds were available for military personnel.

The Maria-Theresia-Heim was opened for female lung patients in the forest above Sackenbach on July 11, 1914, where sisters of the Congregation for the Daughters of the Most Holy Redeemer also took care of them until 1985. Oskar Pischinger was 1913-1925 chairman of the Association of sanatorium doctors that he founded in his predecessor Nicholas Nahm (1865 to 1912) and other sanatorium doctors around, and soon over the whole territory of the German Reich spread (risen in the DGP ). On the occasion of the opening of the Maria-Theresia-Heim, he was awarded the title of Medical Councilor. In cooperation with the information and welfare office for lung patients in Nuremberg, his house in Lohr offered two-month advanced training courses in 1919 and 1920 for welfare nurses in the field of caring for tuberculosis sufferers. Pischinger died in Magadino after a repeated stroke .

The lung specialist Theodor Landgraf, who had been the head physician of the Lohr Kurhaus and the sanatorium in Bad Rehburg since 1925, was elected chief physician of the house . In the era of National Socialism the home was confiscated. From the spring of 1942, Theodor Landgraf was also in charge of the reserve hospital for surgery and internal medicine set up in the Aloysianum boys' boarding school ( Rodenbacher Straße 28 ), which had up to 330 beds.

In 1951 the clinic was mentioned in the Bayerisches Ärzteblatt as a men's sanatorium in Luitpoldheim . In 1959 the Luitpoldheim was mentioned in the 21st session of the Bavarian state parliament . At that time it had 95 beds.

Reuse

Franziskushöhe family recreation home

In 1969 the buildings and the grounds were sold to the Dillinger Franciscan Sisters for almost six million Deutschmarks , who gave the complex the current name "Franziskushöhe" after their patron saint Francis of Assisi . Originally the property was to be used for a convent and boarding school. This plan was discarded in favor of a family rest home opened in 1974 . By 1994, over 10,000 families had taken advantage of the offer, and then operations had to be closed because the families' leisure time behavior had changed and there was no longer enough offspring for the Dillingen Franciscan Sisters. In mid-2000 the sale of the property was decided.

Hotel "Franziskushöhe"

In 2001 Hermann Joha bought the house and the surrounding area from the order and converted it into today's 4-star hotel "Franziskushöhe" with 68 rooms and 140 beds. The hotel, which opened on April 18, 2005, employs around 50 people and was operated by Franziskushöhe GmbH in Hürth . At the beginning of 2020, Joha announced the sale to the Michel hotel chain with the handover on March 1, 2020.

literature

  • Sanatorium Luitpoldheim near Lohr im Spessart, report of the association for the establishment of a sanatorium for poor people with lung disease in Lower Franconia. 4. for the years 1900 a. 1901. 5. for the years 1902 a. 1903, publishing and printing by H. Stürz, 1902.
  • Edmund Josef Rauch: The contested Luitpoldheim became the Franziskushöhe. In: Frankenland , No. 24, 1974, pp. 180-182. ( online )
  • Carolin Steinert: An oasis for parents and children. The Franziskushöhe family recreation home in Lohr am Main is celebrating its 25th birthday. In: Würzburger Katholisches Sonntagsblatt, No. 16, April 18, 1999, p. 11.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Büdel: Franziskushöhe: Trees in great biodiversity - For walkers an excursion into wood science and a journey through time. , Main-Echo, April 16, 2014.
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Dehm: From the lung sanatorium to the Rexroth headquarters. Main-Post, July 10, 2014.
  3. ^ In: Journal for diseases of the respiratory organs , Volume 36, Barth , Leipzig 1922, p. 402.
  4. ↑ a b c Edmund Josef Rauch: The contested Luitpoldheim became the Franziskushöhe. In: Frankenland, No. 24, 1974, pp. 180-182.
  5. ↑ Thomas Josef Möhler: Lohrer departure into the industrial age Founding years: Many new buildings are changing the cityscape - formative influence of Mayor Franz Joseph Keßler. Main-Echo , March 29, 2011.
  6. ↑ The history of the Franziskushöhe. Hotel Franziskushöhe; accessed on August 29, 2016.
  7. ↑ So it was back then - July 1906 , Main-Post.
  8. ↑ Karl-Heinz Schroll: When the Americans came. End of war and post-war period in Lohr a. Main 1945–1948. History and Museum Association Lohr a. Main, 2000, p. 203.
  9. ↑ Haustechnische Rundschau - magazine for heating, ventilation and lighting, for water supply, sewage disposal and sewerage , volumes 17-18, 1913, p. 32.
  10. ↑ Maria Pischinger: The wife of the sanatorium doctor as his helper. In: IX. International Tuberculosis Conference. International Association against Tuberculosis (Ed.), Brussels 1911, p. 287 ff. ( Online )
  11. ^ In: Official news of the Reich Insurance Office , Volume 28, J. Springer, 1912, p. 514. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  12. ^ In: Hans Günther Hohn: The German pension history. Pro Business, 2004, p. 95.
  13. ^ In: Official News for Reich Insurance , Volume 33, Reich Labor Ministry , 1917, p. 362.
  14. ^ History of the Franziskushöhe
  15. ^ Medical Council Dr. O. Pischinger †. In: Die Tuberkulose , Volumes 8–9, 1928, pp. 151–152. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  16. ^ In: Journal for Diseases of the Respiratory Organs , Volume 22, Barth, Leipzig, p. 600.
  17. ↑ In: Karl Wilhelm Jötten : The information and welfare office for lung patients, as it is and how it should be. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1923, p. 80. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  18. ↑ In Memoriam Dr. Oskar Pischinger. In: Contributions to the clinic of tuberculosis and specific tuberculosis research , Ed. 69, May 1928, pp. 131–132. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  19. ^ The Kurhaus Lohr was, like the mentioned sanatorium, in Bad Rehburg. (see under Bad Rehburg loses funding )
  20. ↑ In: Zentralblatt for the entire tuberculosis research , Volume 29, p. 868. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  21. ↑ Karl-Heinz Schroll: When the Americans came. End of war and post-war period in Lohr a. Main 1945–1948. History and Museum Association Lohr a. Main, 2000, p. 149.
  22. ↑ In: Bayerisches Ärzteblatt , H. 1/1951 , p. 11.
  23. ↑ Luitpoldheim b. Bavarian Lanttag 1959
  24. ↑ New member of the Ringhotels - an oasis of calm in the middle of the Spessart. In: Trend & Tradition , Ringhotels e. V., 1/2010, p. 25.
  25. ↑ Sisters in Trouble. Main-Post, June 29, 2000.
  26. ↑ Wolfgang Dehm: The Lohrer Hotel Krone is about to end. Main-Post, September 9, 2007.
  27. ↑ Hermann Joha sells Lohrer Hotel Franziskushöhe. Main-Echo, February 7, 2020, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
  28. ↑ Johannes Ungemach: For the time being nothing will change - except for the name. Main-Echo, February 19, 2020, accessed on February 19, 2020 .