Siechenhof (Luxembourg)
Siechenhof ( Luxembourgish Sichenhaff , also: Sichegronn , Seechengrund or Val des Bons-Malades ) is part of the Pfaffenthal district ( Luxembourgish Pafendall ) in the city of Luxembourg in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . Siechenhof is located in the Alzette valley between the old town center of Luxembourg and the Kirchberg plateau .
Siechenhof begins in Pfaffenthal at the Porte des Bons-Malades (also: Luxembourgish Sichepaart ; German Siechentor ) and borders the Eich district . Val des Bons-Malades is also the official name of the road that leads from the cemetery to the Kirchberg.
Name and story
The name Siechenhof goes back to an infirmary ( French: Leproserie , see also: Leprosorium ) that existed outside the Luxembourg fortress from the beginning of the 13th century to around 1770. The exact date on which leprosy was first detected in Luxembourg is unknown. In a document of the Countess Ermesinde of Luxembourg of 1238 was leprosy called. From the 13th century on it can therefore be assumed that leprosy ( leprosy ) was known in Luxembourg. In Luxembourg, too, there was fear of lepers for centuries and the only way to protect against infection was seen to be to permanently isolate sick people from the rest of the population. In addition to the infirmary (Leprosorium) there were other buildings near the cemetery and around today's cemetery chapel (Chapelle Saint-Pierre Martyr). Today it is assumed that these were also the homes of the lepers. From 1514 a brotherhood began to take care of the lepers and took over the administration of the common goods, which came mainly from donations. Helpful people began to sell self-baked egg tarts on Fliederchersdag for the benefit of the lepers.
The cemetery ( French: Cimetière Sichenhaff or Cimetière des Bons Malades ) and the chapel, which today serves as a morgue at the Siechenhof cemetery , are still preserved from this infirmary complex. The cemetery chapel was renovated in 1982. On the other side of the Alzette was the Siechenhof mill ( French Moulin de Siechenhof ). The Siechenhof cemetery is divided by the railway line. In the western part, near the chapel, there are z. For example the tomb of Laurent Menager and of two members of the Paris Commune who died in exile in Luxembourg : François SORDET and Auguste Joseph MARTIN. These were two communards who fled France after the blood week massacres. In the eastern part of the cemetery there is a grave monument to commemorate the French soldiers who perished in Luxembourg in the Franco-Prussian War (1870/1871).
In 2015 , the new Kirchberg-Pfaffenthal station (next to the Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge ) on the Luxembourg - Ulflingen railway line ( Troisvierges in French , Ëlwen in Luxembourg ), together with the valley station of the funicular , was opened in Siechenhof, on Rue Saint-Mathieu ( Descherwee ) Pfaffenthal-Kirchberg built and put into operation in 2017.
In addition to the Siechenhof cemetery, the Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge and the funicular to the Kirchberg with the new railway station are the dominant structures in and above the Siechenhof district.
Lilac Day
On the third Sunday after Easter, Fliederchersdag is celebrated in Siechenhof and Pfaffenthal . The organizers of the event, the interest group Pafendall-Sichenhaff , distribute Eeërfliedercher the day before, on Saturday, after a mass in the cemetery chapel in the cemetery . This tradition was revived in the 1970s.
literature
- M. Pauly (Ed.): De l'Hospice Saint-Jean à l'Hospice bourgeois. 700 years of hospital history in Luxembourg City , 2009, edition mediArt, ISBN 978-99959-635-1-4 .
- E. Friedrich: Siechenhof , Tageblatt, No. 20. of January 1978, p. 10.
- Jean Thoma: Kirchberg: Kirchberg-Seechengrund in earlier times: a documentation on the history of the village and its inhabitants , 2001, ISBN 2-87996-936-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ French Malade iSv ill .
- ↑ Pair in the sense of: gate, gate, city gate (outdated according to the Luxembourg dictionary (LWF) , website of the University of Luxembourg).
- ↑ History of the Lepro Series around Sichenhaff , website of the University of Luxembourg.
- ^ Deventer plan of 1581.
- ↑ B. Weicherding-Görgen: La chapelle du Siechenhof , ons stad 13, 1983, pp. 8–9.
- ↑ Fernand Theato: Fliederchesdag um Sichenhaff , Luxemburger Wort of April 27, 2012, p. 26.
- ↑ Fernand Théato: Siechenhof, Fliederchesdag and Eydtmühle , Luxemburger Wort No. 107 of May 9, 1981, p. 10.
- ↑ Martine Feller: A tradition lives again , Tageblatt of May 10, 2017.
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 '14.23 " N , 6 ° 7' 59.2" E