Magdalenasyl "Talitha kumi"
The Magdalene asylum "Talitha kumi" was part of the Bethesda Diakonissenanstalt in the Niederlößnitz district of the Saxon city of Radebeul , at Heinrich-Zille-Straße 15. Today there is the Hedwig-Fröhlich-Haus , a nursing home of the Dresden Deaconess Institution , named after its founder Hedwig Fröhlich, wife of the first rector of the Dresden Diakonissenanstalt and pastor Heinrich Fröhlich.
Word meanings
The term “Magdalenen” asylum goes back to the practice of designating “morally endangered young women” or “ fallen girls ” as “Magdalene” based on Mary Magdalene in the Bible. As early as the middle of the 18th century, the homes, which have fallen into disrepute for decades of child abuse, were first set up in England and Ireland, and shortly afterwards in Holland and in a few German cities " Magdalene homes " based on the English model.
The old nickname “Talitha kumi” goes back to a saying of Jesus Christ who said to a terminally ill girl: “Girl, get up!” ( Mk 5,41 EU ).
The eastern part of today's Heinrich-Zille-Strasse, a cattle route that has been recorded since around 1600, was called Magdalenenstrasse since the late 19th century after the adjacent Magdalenenasyl . Renamed in 1934 in Ludendorffstrasse , in 1945 it was renamed after the Radeburg painter and draftsman Heinrich Zille .
description
A T-shaped, two-storey building with a knee-high floor, in which there are small rectangular windows, and with a gable roof belongs to the complex, which is now a listed building . This building, erected by the Ziller brothers in 1869, housed the chapel in its eastern side wing , which can be recognized by the cross on the roof ridge and the high arched windows. These, as well as all the other windows in this building, are framed by walls made of sandstone.
The central building, erected in 1927, has three floors with six window axes in the street view, on top of which sits a flat hipped roof with small dormers . To the west of the simple building stands a two-story building with a gable roof at the gable facing the street. All three buildings are connected to each other.
The former, also listed, porter's lodge stands near the street near the former entrance gate, which has now been walled up.
history
After 1863, the Dresdner Diakonissenanstalt the hospital to Niederlößnitz had taken on the eastern neighboring properties, the establishment was under the Diakonissenanstalt "Bethesda" as an infirmary Bethesda continued. In the following year 1864, thanks to a foundation from Cora von Erdmannsdorff to support the Inner Mission , the Magdalenasyl “Talitha kumi” , a “reformatory for morally endangered young women” , was built west of the existing facility . At first this only consisted of a small house. This was remodeled in 1869 by the Lößnitz master builders, the Ziller brothers, with the T-shaped building with the former chapel in the eastern (left) part today. There was also a single-storey porter's house to regulate the passage through the gate in the surrounding wall. With this expansion, the number of available places increased from 6 to 36. The property had its own bakery as well as arable and garden land in order to be able to educate and shape the inmates through physical work outdoors.
The girls who had already "fallen" or were only "at risk", mainly from Dresden , were instructed by the royal police headquarters, the welfare authorities or the legal guardians.
In 1927, the Dresden architect Willi Tröger created the adjoining building to the west, the three-storey main building on the eaves and the gable-end building on the right. With this expansion in 1928, a private vocational school for difficult to educate and morally endangered girls was attached. The associated new name for the Bethesda Girls 'Education Home was changed to the Kötzschenbroda Girls' Home in 1933 . The home and school were given up in 1938 due to insufficient occupancy and in 1940 converted into today's diaconal retirement home Hedwig-Fröhlich-Haus , named after the founder, the wife of the first rector of the Dresden deaconess institution and pastor Heinrich Fröhlich.
In the 1990s, the facility received a modern extension to the rear, after which the existing buildings were extensively renovated between 2000 and 2002.
literature
- Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
- Friedbert Ficker , Gert Morzinek, Barbara Mazurek: Ernst Ziller - A Saxon architect and building researcher in Greece. The Ziller family . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg i. Allgäu 2003, ISBN 978-3-89870-076-4 .
- Markus Hansel; Thilo Hansel; Thomas Gerlach (epilogue): In the footsteps of the Ziller brothers in Radebeul . Architectural considerations. 1st edition. Notschriften Verlag, Radebeul 2008, ISBN 978-3-940200-22-8 .
- Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .
- Gert Morzinek: Historical forays with Gert Morzinek . The collected works from 5 years “StadtSpiegel”. premium publishing house, Großenhain 2007.
Web links
- Website of the Hedwig-Fröhlich-Haus in Radebeul
- Photos of the deaconess and retirement home 'Hedwig-Fröhlich-Haus' at the Deutsche Fotothek
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Frank Andert (editor): Stadtlexikon Radebeul. Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Ed .: Large district town of Radebeul. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, p. 128-129 .
- ↑ Markus Hansel; Thilo Hansel; Thomas Gerlach (epilogue): In the footsteps of the Ziller brothers in Radebeul . Architectural considerations. 1st edition. Notschriften Verlag, Radebeul 2008, ISBN 978-3-940200-22-8 , p. 28-29 .
- ↑ a b Monument registration 08951328. Retrieved on December 4, 2019.
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 31.3 " N , 13 ° 38 ′ 58.5" E