St. Antoni Foundation
The Protestant St. Anthony's Foundation in Quakenbrück is a foundation under civil law, which consists of a founded in 1348 Hospital emerged.
The reason for the establishment of a hospital by the City Council of Quakenbrück was a plague that spread to the north of Osnabrück in 1348 and raged in Quakenbrück and the surrounding area. The city chronicler Hinrick van Glandorpe reports:
- "Anno domini, it was in the year 1350, there was the great death, and it was as great and pestilential as has ever been there and you have heard that the dead could no longer be buried ..."
The old hospital , originally a hostel for pilgrims and travelers, was relocated from the city center in front of the city gates ("buten der planken") to the other side of the Kleine Hase and a domus hospitalis was built on Steinstrasse as its patron saint Saint Anthony , the protector against plague and other diseases, was appointed. In this way, the name St. Antoniort of today's Quakenbrücker district became common.
On March 12, 1354, Bishop Johannes von Osnabrück confirmed the establishment of a chapel near the hospital, and in 1400 a vicarie was built at the chapel. The facility was transformed over time from one hospital to hospice , were housed in the needy sick for life. From the 19th century onwards, the name poor house appeared for the facility, which had developed into a senior citizens' residential home since the 1960s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heiko Bockstiegel, Gudrun Kuhlmann: The Protestant St. Antoni Foundation in Quakenbrück. Stadtmuseum Quakenbrück, Quakenbrück 1985, p. 11.
literature
- Heiko Bockstiegel, Gudrun Kuhlmann: The Protestant St. Antoni Foundation in Quakenbrück. Quakenbrück City Museum, Quakenbrück 1985.