Sankt Georgen Hospital in Bernau
| Sankt-Georgen-Hospital zu Bernau with chapel |
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 Chapel and hospital building on Mühlenstrasse |
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| place | Bernau near Berlin |
| Construction year | around 1450 (chapel) 1738 (hospital) |
| Floor space | 5000 m² (entire hospital area) |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 40 '52.7 " N , 13 ° 34' 58.8" E |
The Sankt-Georgen-Hospital zu Bernau is a former Christian hospital in Bernau near Berlin , which includes an older chapel , the hospital building and a residential building for the employees. The facility was built at the beginning of the 14th century as a foundation by a Bernau craftsmen's guild to care for the plague sufferers in front of the mill gate. Later it served as a hostel for travelers and as a retirement home for members of the craftsman families. The hospital with ancillary buildings is located on Mühlenstraße / Jahnstraße / Lohmühlenstraße. It will continue to be used by charities in the 21st century but has retained its historical name. The Sankt-Georgen-Hospital zu Bernau foundation is the oldest foundation in the state of Brandenburg .
history
The Bernau cloth makers and tailors , "[...] who had a numerous and wealthy guild here in the old days", left a small church and a hospital in front of the Mühlentor outside the city on a property they had acquired until 1328 to accommodate and care for plague sufferers . The ensemble was named after St. George , the dragon slayer. It was surrounded by a high brick wall . - After the epidemics were overcome, the house served as accommodation for commercial travelers and as a retirement home . In 1432 the Hussites destroyed both the hospital and the chapel. The hospital chapel was rebuilt in the middle of the 15th century in Gothic brick style with fresh money from the Bernau guild master. To this end, they stipulated in 1466 that “only a person born in [their] guild or in their trade can become a priest at the St. Georgen-Chapel and raise the income of the same, but should be obliged to order mass on Sunday , water and to bless salt [...] and to live in Bernau ”. At the end of the 17th century, the Huguenots , who were expelled from France and settled in Bernau, used the church as a house of prayer. After a few repairs, the chapel was given its present form in 1872. Between 2003 and 2009, the church building was extensively renovated both inside and out. - The current hospital building was built in 1738 as a half-timbered house. It received a massive gable wall in 1809, as can be seen from a corresponding year on the gable. It was also renovated between 2002 and 2005.
St. George Chapel
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The chapel, rebuilt in the 15th century at the old location, is a single-nave , two- bay arched building made of both field stones and bricks. The early Gothic architectural elements can be recognized by the simple buttress and the decorative gables with pinnacles and pointed arches . The building is finished with a steep gable roof on which a bell tower sits as a roof turret. The bronze bell built into it was cast in 1659. Initially there were two entrances, of which the southern one was bricked up for later repairs and renovation measures. A chronicle states that in 1872 major renovations were carried out, during which the "[...] existing wooden gallery was removed, [...] benches, pulpit, altar were rebuilt" inside the church. During the restoration work carried out at the beginning of the 21st century, it was possible to restore the color of the nave, analogous to the designs from 1872. The experts also found older representations (colors and shapes) on some areas that were exposed.
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The altar with a carved crucifixion group is located in the rectangular east choir of the chapel . On the front of the altar there is a memorial plaque with the following inscription:
“In the year after the birth of Christ 1432 on April 23, the Wednesday after Holy: Easter was the day of St. George, the destruction of these chapels and Hoßpitahl Sanct George by the Hussites besieged and stormed Bernau, What an honorable councilor and inhabitant have chased them away with power. "
The candlesticks on the altar table are copies of the oldest candlesticks used in the city of Bernau.
To the left and right of the altar are the figures of St. Stephen and St. Margaret on wall pedestals . Both are dated to around 1500. The choir windows are decorated with colored ornaments, the keystone in the nave contains a relief depicting George fighting the dragon .
use
Today the facility belongs to the Hope Valley Institutions , which have set up an advice center for addicts here. The Caritas has its Bernauer based in St. George's Hospital. The chapel and the hospital are subordinate to the Sankt Georgen Foundation, whose purpose is "the non-profit and selfless promotion of elderly care, health and welfare and the maintenance of the Sankt Georgen hospital chapel as a cultural and historical monument, cultural site and place of worship". The chapel is regularly used by the night concerts that take place on Fridays between May and September.
literature
- Contributions to the history of the city of Bernau. In: Historical political, geographic, statistical and military contributions concerning the royal Prussian and neighboring states. Volume 1, Pauli, 1781
- Flyer on the occasion of the Open Monument Day 2010, published by the Board of Trustees of the Sankt-Georgen-Hospital zu Bernau Foundation
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- St. Georgenhospital on Bernauer-Ansichten.eu
Individual evidence
- ^ Report from the 3rd Brandenburg Foundation Day on June 22, 2010
- ↑ Seiler Chronicle, p. 70; cited in Flyer 2010
- ↑ Quotation from the homepage of the Bernauer Heimatverein ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2005 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. , accessed March 17, 2012
- ^ Seiler Chronicle, pp. 124/125; cited in Flyer 2010
- ^ Website for addiction counseling
- ↑ Quoted in the flyer, 2010
- ^ Announcement of the concerts for the night in the St. Georgen Chapel , newly accessed on January 24, 2016.
