Sisters' Home (Cottbus)
The catholic nurses' home "St.-Elisabeth-Haus" is a listed building in the independent city of Cottbus in the state of Brandenburg . The building was initially used as the sister residence of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Elisabeth , today there is a day-care center in the building .
location
The nurses' home is located at Straße der Jugend 24 at the intersection of Blechenstraße in the Cottbus district of Mitte . The Cottbus main station and the federal highway 169 are not far away.
history
In 1878 the city of Cottbus bought a piece of land not far from the Christ Church . Eight years later, a sister establishment was established here and in 1895 construction began on the St. Elisabeth House. The construction was carried out under the direction of the Cottbus master bricklayer Richard Helmke and completed the following year. The building was then taken over by the Sisters of St. Elisabeth moved in, they carried out care for the elderly , welfare and child-rearing there . In 1927 and 1928 the St. Elisabeth House was extended to the north; the design for the extension came from the Cottbus architect Hubert Schmidt.
After completion of the extension, the two lower floors were inaugurated as a play school for around 120 children. The upper and attic floors were used for care and living space for the nuns . In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the St. Elisabeth House was one of the few social institutions in the city of Cottbus. In 1983 the Cottbus Sisters' Union was dissolved. In 1984 the building was renovated . Today the building houses, among other things, a Catholic day-care center as well as the rectory of the neighboring Christ Church in an extension .
architecture
The main building is a six-axis brick building with two floors. It is nine window axes wide, the facade is divided on the street side by a central projecting under a dwelling . The building is covered with a gable roof . Under the second window axis from the left there is an entrance portal with profiled wall panels . On the courtyard side is the three-storey extension under a tent roof that was added in 1927/28 . The Sacred Heart Chapel , which is also a listed building, is integrated into the extension . Until 1984, the extension had dormers , these were removed in the course of the renovation work.
literature
- Monument topography Cottbus, vol. 2.1 . Worms 2001, p. 285 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg , accessed on June 3, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 6.5 ″ N , 14 ° 20 ′ 0.5 ″ E