Sanatorium Grotenburg
| Gardens of the former Sanatorium Grotenburg | |
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| place | Detmold |
| architect | Dietrich Bollmann |
| Construction year | 1907 |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 55 '12.4 " N , 8 ° 50' 39" E |
The Teutoburg Forest Sanatorium Grotenburg was a sanatorium at the foot of the Grotenburg in Hiddesen , today a district of Detmold . The remaining part of the garden has been a listed building since 1987.
history
The Sanatorium Grotenburg goes to Dr. Manfred Fuhrmann back. The plans for the building were submitted in September 1906 by the Detmold architect Dietrich Bollmann, with Fuhrmann probably also working on the concept. Construction began soon afterwards and the inauguration took place in autumn 1907.
The sanatorium was extremely successful up to the First World War , but when Fuhrmann was recalled to the front it was neglected during the war years, so that he had to rebuild it, so to speak, after his return. Another turning point was the economic crisis from 1930. Fuhrmann ran the sanatorium until his death in 1939.
Shortly thereafter, at the end of August 1939, the Wehrmacht confiscated the building and set up a reserve hospital there by March 1945. After the end of the war, refugees from Latvia and Estonia were housed there, after which it was used as a rest home for employees of the Volksfürsorge, who had already bought the site in 1941, and the Hamburg gas works. In the 1960s, various structural changes were made (demolition of the half-timbered houses and the lower lounge area including the goldfish pond).
The final decline began in 1977, when the sanatorium changed hands again and served as a speculative object for a farmer from Hörste. During this time the sanatorium and doctor's house burned several times. After the farmer went bankrupt around 1985, the property fell to the Detmold Volksbank and a Detmold property manager as insolvency assets. They had the existing buildings demolished in order to be able to identify the property as residential building land.
architecture
The formerly 42,475 m² property consisted of three areas: A small part was occupied by the sanatorium building, the rest was divided into a park and a kitchen garden by a chestnut avenue. Buildings already in the kitchen garden section were integrated into the facility, so a house from 1839 served as the residence of the Fuhrmann family (so-called doctor's house) and kitchen for the patients, two half-timbered houses, a barn, a stable, a machine house and two greenhouses were also built continued to be used or put to a new use. In the park, which is now under monument protection, two lounge halls were set up for the sanatorium guests in the north and south.
sanatorium
The sanatorium, which was stylistically influenced by Henry van de Velde , was a plastered, two-story brick building on a natural stone base with a horseshoe-shaped floor plan. The cold roof was covered with red hollow tiles, only the pavilions were converted into rooms. Guest rooms and bathrooms were located in the two side wings, reading room and library were located in the central building, and the hallway on the ground floor. From there it went north to the main courtyard , from where a set of stairs led into the park. The overall dimensions of the building were 30 × 21 meters, with the central building being 14 meters wide.
Parking area
The trapezoidal garden narrowing to the north was designed in the neo-baroque style. The area rises in four terrace steps towards the sanatorium. To the east, the park is bordered by a chestnut avenue, on the opposite side in the lower area by a group of conifers. There a hornbeam hedge closes off the garden from the street.
The uppermost terrace with the sanatorium is separated from the subgrade below by a stone retaining wall with attached pillars and a white wooden lattice. Small pavilions stood at the corners. A double flight of stone stairs leads down. In the wall there is a niche in the grotto with the torso of a stone fountain figure riding a mythical animal. The second terrace was originally divided into two square fields with central rondelles and a central path. The retaining wall, also made of ashlar, is pierced by a central staircase that leads to a platform and from there to the next level via a double-flighted, side flight of stairs. The yew hedge on the wall probably dates from the time the garden was built. On the third subgrade, a square depression still indicates a former water basin. A slope edge separates this terrace from the northernmost level.
Are no longer preserved
- on the second level there is a sundial with gravel paths lined with box tree hedges
- the pool of water
- the western Kastanienallee
- the lounge halls with the goldfish pond on the lowest level
- the pavilions on the side of the stone wall
Manfred Fuhrmann
Manfred Fuhrmann was born on April 2, 1877 in Bad Oldesloe . After graduating from high school in Quedlinburg , at the insistence of his parents, he began to study medicine, which he completed at the University of Giessen after stops in Halle and Zurich . His specialty was psychiatry. From 1902 Fuhrmann was first assistant doctor at the Lindenhaus sanatorium near Lemgo , until he finally moved to Hiddesen around 1907.
During the First World War , Manfred Fuhrmann was sent to the Eastern Front as a field doctor, from which he returned in 1918 with an Iron Cross 1st class and malaria.
In 1929 Fuhrmann joined the NSDAP , from which he left on January 1, 1933, after he had been removed from office because he was considered “intolerable”.
Manfred Fuhrmann died on August 5, 1939 after a long and serious illness.
literature
- Roderich Fuhrmann: The Teutoburg Forest Sanatorium Grotenburg in Hiddesen near Detmold and the principles of the homeland security style . In: Builders and architects in Lippe . Edited by Eckart Bergmann and Jochen Georg Güntzel. Aisthesis Verlag, Bielefeld 1997, ISBN 3-89528-206-5 .
- Manfred Fuhrmann : Dr. med. Manfred Fuhrmann and the Grotenburg Sanatorium . In: Dorfchronik Hiddesen . Kneipp and Transport Association Hiddesen eV, Detmold 2005, ISBN 3-00-019695-1 .
- Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: History of the sanatorium and the park in LWL geodata culture
