Maria Apollonia day nursery

The Maria-Apollonia-Kinderkrippe was a facility for small children in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia , Jesuitengasse .

history

Kommerzienrat Eduard Hoesch donated 300,000 marks in 1884 in memory of his deceased wife. The construction of the crib started in the same year and opened this year as well. Crèche doctor was a Dr. Strong.

The day-care center had the task of looking after healthy children aged between 14 days and three years from needy mothers regardless of denomination during their working hours. The crib was open from six in the morning until eight in the evening. The mothers brought their children, who were received by the guards. The guards lived in the house. The young children under one year of age were bathed daily, the older ones as needed. The crib consisted of two halls, one for the youngest and one for the older ones. The little ones lay in their strollers most of the day . Until the evening everyone was fed and occupied with games until the mothers picked them up again in the evening. Ten pfennigs had to be paid for each child every day , the children of poorer people paid nothing.

The three-story building stood in a large garden . The children were only on the first floor. In the basement were the kitchen, laundry room, storage rooms, heating (!) Etc. Upstairs were the conference room, the bedroom of the superior and nurses, drying room etc. The entrance hall on the ground floor was 6 m wide and 10.30 m long. When the children couldn't play in the garden because of bad weather, they used this hall to play. The heatable (!) Corridor adjoining the hall was 3 m wide and 17.80 m long. This was followed by the rooms for the care of the children. A large number of women were employed in the crib. A guard cared for four children aged two weeks to 12 to 16 months, or eight children aged 16 months to three years. The other Children's Preservation Institutions in Düren accepted children from the age of three.

The older children learned to walk in a walking school if they could not already do so. The hall for the little ones, like the corridor, was paneled with wood up to a height of 1.20 m. In this room were the iron baby carriages, which were 0.94 m long and 0.55 m wide. There was also a wash basin in the room . The windows were 1.18 m above the floor. The bathroom or changing room was opposite.

The walking school with an area of ​​3.18 × 2.75 m was integrated in the middle of the hall for the older children. The wall paneling of the hall also served to accommodate the resting cushions. The small mattresses were attached to the fillings in such a way that when they were lowered they took a sloping position, while they were completely invisible when the filling was closed. The room was then completely free.

Both halls had an air space of 243 m³. Since no more than 56 children were admitted, this corresponded to an air volume of 8.68 m³ per child. The doctor's room was directly accessible from the corridor. The milk kitchen was connected to the main kitchen in the basement by an elevator . It had a cold and a hot water pipe. The milk was heated on a gas stove and filled into the vials. The dishes, e.g. B. the bowl for the big children, was available in duplicate. The used dishes were brought back down to the kitchen by elevator. Each piece of crockery was marked with the child's number. Next to the halls was the dining room or lounge for the staff, who could see the halls at any time.

In the bathroom , next to a large bathtub, there were four porcelain sinks that were integrated into the table tops. Next to the pelvis, which were 0.60 × 0.41 m in size, there was enough space to swaddle the babies on a pillow. The wrapping cloths were preheated in a special device. The used cloths were transported directly down to a tub in the laundry room via a shaft . Sponges etc. were also available twice for each child and provided with their number.

Next to the bathroom was a dressing room in which the children's clothing was hung and aired. At the end of the hall were two large and six flush children's toilets. In the basement was the room for the air heating and the laundry room, which was 5,20 x 5,57 m. It was connected to the bathroom on the first floor through the laundry chute. The main kitchen was 6.52 x 5.57 m.

The conference hall was located on the upper floor, along with a small utility room . The board of directors , which consisted of ten men and 16 women, met there.

The east and south facades were made of yellow bricks. On the eastern front two busts of the Berlin sculptor were Ferdinand Hartz see the Caritas and Humanitas showed. The stone construction work was carried out by the Nocken company from Düren, the masonry work by the Lapp company from Düren. The air heating was supplied and installed by the company Rietschel & Henneberg from Berlin . The site manager was G. Börstinghaus.

The costs were divided as follows: construction costs = 68,000 marks, interior design = 20,000 marks, property = 21,000 marks. The interest on the remaining balance was used for operating costs.

The building was destroyed in the air raid on Düren on November 16, 1944 and was never rebuilt.

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• Article from Kgl. Government architect Wilhelm Schleicher in "Deutsche Bauzeitung" 1887, No. 13, p. 73,

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 5.3 "  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 8.9"  E