Peter Monnik

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Peter Monnik , also Peter Monick ( page 1479 in Lübeck ) was council clerk of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck.

The mill gate in 1552

As a Lübeck court clerk, Master Peter Monnik stands for the beginning of the history of psychiatry in Lübeck. At that time, madmen (like animals) were kept in mad boxes that were unprotected against the weather at the gates of the medieval city. In 1479, together with three other Lübeck citizens, he campaigned in a successful petition to the Lübeck Council for the housing of the insane in one of the inner towers of the mill gate of the Lübeck city fortifications . While the accommodation remained the responsibility of the city, the care and maintenance of those affected was transferred to a civic commission, the head of which raised the necessary funds as donations.

Honors

The winter lime avenue of the Strecknitz estate, which was laid out in the 19th century and is now a protected natural monument , is now the Peter Monnik Weg

On the occasion of the 62nd German Medical Congress in 1959, which took place in honor of the Medical Association of Lübeck together with its 150th Foundation Festival in Lübeck, Peter Monnik was also honored; the Peter-Monnik-Weg directly at Gut Strecknitz , at the former Strecknitz sanatorium and today's University of Lübeck , with its listed lime tree avenue, which has existed since the 19th century, was named after him.

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Pauli : On the history of leprosy, the madhouses and the plague in Lübeck , in: Rohlfs, H. and Rohlfs, G. (Hrsg.): German archive for the history of medicine and medical geography , volume 1, 1878
  • Friedrich von Rohden: From old Lübeck doctors in: Der Wagen 1960, pp. 83-100
  • Bern Carrière (Ed.): The Medical Association of Lübeck: 175 years of its history, 1809–1984 , Verlag Ärzteverein, Lübeck 1984
  • Peter Johanek : Urban health and welfare system before 1800 , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2000, p. 115

Individual evidence

  1. The term “ mad box” for a raw wooden crate can also be found in other Hanseatic cities such as Braunschweig and Hamburg
  2. The mad boxes in front of the Burgtor and the Mühlentor in Lübeck were first mentioned in 1419. Cf. Antjekathrin Graßmann (Ed.): Irrenhaus und Heilanstalt Strecknitz in: Lübeck-Lexikon . Schmidt-Römhild Lübeck 2006, ISBN 379507777X
  3. Peter Sahlmann: The old imperial and Hanseatic city of Lübeck: Vedutas from four centuries. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1993 (Publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck: Series B; Vol. 23), p. 19 with footnotes 123 and 124 ISBN 3-7950-0461-6