Sanatorium Apolant (Bad Kissingen)
The former Kurhaus Dr. Apolant is a former sanatorium in Baroque Art Nouveau style in Bad Kissingen (Menzelstrasse 8-10). It is under monument protection and is entered in the Bavarian monument list under the number D-6-72-114-67.
history
The Medical Council Dr. med. Edgar Apolant , son of the businessman Alexander Apolant and his wife Bertha Memmelsdorf (1841–1911), who was born in Stettin , practiced as a successful doctor in Berlin-Wilmersdorf at Kaiserallee 23. In 1906 he was appointed to the secret medical council. His family was of Jewish descent , but now the Protestant converts .
In 1906, Apolant had his Kurhaus, named after him, at Menzelstrasse 8 in Bad Kissingen. Build Apolant , a sanatorium for internal diseases and diet cures . The main building, built in Baroque Art Nouveau style according to plans by the architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg , is a three-storey hipped mansard roof building with a raised central projectile and a gable .
Due to growing demand, an even larger neighboring building was added to the property in 1912/1913 (Menzelstrasse 10). This elongated extension, also designed by Paul Schultze-Naumburg , is a three-storey mansard roof with a semicircular projection to the south . Remnants of the old enclosure from 1906 are also still preserved today.
During the First World War , the sanatorium was declared a reserve hospital.
Throughout the years, the sanatorium in Bad Kissingen was only operated in the summer months from March 1st to October 31st, while Apolant kept his residence in Berlin. Edgar Apolant died in 1929 and his son Edgar Sigmund (1894- ??) took over the paternal inheritance. After the seizure of power of the Nazis (1933) is Apolant saw jun. Forced to leave his homeland at an early stage because of his Jewish descent, and in 1935 he emigrated to Port Washington (New York) , where he took US citizenship in 1943. The operation of the sanatorium was continued until the beginning of the Second World War (1939). Edgar Apolant's sister Ella Apolant worked here as a receptionist. On September 15, 1942, she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where she died in 1944. In her honor, a stumbling block was laid in front of the sanatorium .
During the war, the sanatorium, now expropriated by the Nazis, served as a refugee home. After the war the house came under fiduciary management.
In 1955, the Hessian State Insurance Company , today's Deutsche Rentenversicherung Hessen , took over the sanatorium in year-round operation. In the same year, the two Apolant houses were connected by a contemporary, modern central building. Three years later the north gable was extended by an extension similar to the central building. Both extensions were planned without taking the existing design into account, in particular due to the connecting structure, the solitary character of the two original buildings was lost. After more than 20 years of use, the LVA Hessen finally gave up the sanatorium in 1978 as a result of a changed business policy as part of a concentration of permanent establishments.
The building complex has been empty since 1978 until today (2017). Changing owners tried several times over the years to revive the property. However, all ideas were given up in the planning phase, since without exception they did not pay off economically. In addition, the short-term zone statute, which was introduced in Bad Kissingen in 1977 and is still valid for this property, only prescribes spa use (sanatorium, hotel, holiday apartment and the like), while permanent living (such as retirement homes, owner-occupied apartments) is prohibited.
Current development
On December 7, 2000, the former Sanatorium Apolant was again foreclosed , but no buyer was found at the time. It was not until 2002 that the real estate company MA.MA GmbH from Isen ( Erding district ) bought the property. But their plans to convert the sanatorium to another use - initially into a 4-star hotel with a modern extension, later into a complex of holiday apartments - also failed due to the lack of profitable financing options.
Finally, in 2011, Projekt-BuG from Upper Bavaria acquired the property. As a result of the 35-year vacancy since 1978, the cantilevered components have already collapsed, which is why an application for the demolition of the former sanatorium was submitted to the Bad Kissingen city council at the end of 2012.
On December 18, 2012, the building committee of the Bad Kissingen city council unanimously approved the demolition of the Apolant sanatorium after discussions with the monument authorities , but only under the condition of a permanent building permit for a replacement building. Associated with this is still the express demand for the new building to be used in accordance with the short zone statutes.
See also
Web links
- Revitalization attempt; photos
- Sanatorium Apolant: Pictures of Decay (2011) on architectur marginal.de
- Biography of Ella Apolant on www.badkissingen.de - "Bad Kissinger Stolpersteine"
Individual evidence
- ^ Edgar Apolant received his doctorate in 1889 from the University of Leipzig . - Source: PhDs from all faculties from 1810 to 1991 ( memento of the original from August 31, 2012 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. .
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Beck, Rudolf Walter: Jüdisches Leben in Bad Kissingen , 1990, page 91
- ^ Ordinance sheet of the Royal Bavarian War Ministry , Part 1, 1918, page 575 ( excerpt )
- ↑ Apolant before the foreclosure auction , in: Main-Post of October 20, 2000
- ↑ Despite monument protection: City agrees to demolition of the Apolant , in: Main-Post dated December 19, 2012
- ↑ The Apolant in Bad Kissingen can be demolished , in: Saale-Zeitung of December 19, 2012
Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '47.4 " N , 10 ° 4' 52.3" E