St. Johannes Hospital (Bonn)

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St. Johannes Hospital (2012)

The St. Johannes Hospital (long form: Bürgerhospital zum St. John the Baptist ) was a hospital in the Bonn district of Bonn-Castell , which existed from 1849 to 2005. It is considered the oldest hospital in the city. The building in the style of neo-Gothic stands as a monument under monument protection .

location

The St. Johannes Hospital building is located on the northern edge of Bonn city center and extends to the northeast of Wilhelmsplatz on the east side of Kölnstrasse (house number 54) and the north side of Wachsbleiche .

history

prehistory

On June 3, 1842, on the initiative of the municipal poor administration to build a hospital, the originally non - denominational Bonn Hospital Association was founded , whose statutes were approved by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV on May 30, 1843 by handwriting. The institution should be directed by the Sisters of Mercy of St. Karl Borromeo , a Catholic religious order. Serious disputes over the pastoral care of non-Catholic patients had already occurred in the run-up to the foundation of the association, as a result of which the Protestant and Jewish forces withdrew, but continued to support the project through the poor administration. The foundation of the association was made up of donations from the citizens, and Professor Ferdinand Walter was elected President. In December 1844, he acquired the three Magdeburg acres (around 80,000 ares ) planned for the construction of the hospital on the corner of Kölnstrasse and Wachsbleiche on the outskirts of Bonn. At the beginning of 1846, the association decided to operate the new building without the involvement of the poor administration - which was originally to become the owner of the completed hospital.

St. John's Hospital (1878)

Construction and operation of the hospital

On June 22, 1846, the foundation stone was laid for the new building in the presence of Archbishop Johannes . It was created according to plans by the Bonn master builder Christian von der Emden (1796–1869), who prepared the design free of charge, and was financed entirely from private funds. Craftsmen volunteered to take part in it, creating furnishings for nursing, among other things. During the construction phase, three other clubs, were founded to support the project sociable , the brotherhood and the werkthätige . At the beginning of 1848 the original hospital association finally terminated its cooperation with the poor administration after they refused to forward their donation contributions from the Protestants. In response, an independent foundation ( Foundation Bürgerhospital zum St. John the Baptist ) was established, which was granted corporation rights on March 7, 1849 . In August 1849 the hospital association transferred the property to the newly established foundation.

The hospital was inaugurated on November 19, 1849. A three-wing complex with red brickwork had been created , the western side wing contained a chapel. It was one of the first Catholic hospitals in the Rhineland. At the beginning it had 70 beds and was divided into medical-internal and surgical- external departments. The Sisters of Mercy of St. Karl Borromeo took over the nursing and internal administration under the leadership of Amalie von Lasaulx . The institution was maintained by the Bürgerhospital Foundation, whose board of trustees included eight Catholic members, as well as two members of the poor administration, one Protestant and one Jewish member. From 1877 to 1879, according to plans by Julius Raschdorff , the hospital was expanded to include a Gothic-style extension at right angles to the old building, with a new chapel connected to the old one at the southwest corner.

At the end of the Second World War , 80% of the hospital was destroyed in the Allied air war in three air raids, one of which was the most devastating on October 18, 1944 , except for the outer walls and basement rooms. In the year of the end of the war, the reconstruction began in partly simplified forms (without square plaster , in the middle part without roof structures), supported by the Sparkasse Bonn with a loan and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with a grant. At the end of 1946, 100 beds could be occupied again, in 1948 150 beds. In the course of the reconstruction, a hospital chapel in neo-Gothic style was (again) built onto the hospital . In 1953, a third floor was added to the building according to plans by the architects Toni Kleefisch (1888–1975) and Carl Leyers, and the entire complex was re-plastered. In 1980 the Sisters of Charity of St. Borromeo stopped working in the Johanneshospital due to a lack of young people, they were replaced by the Sisterhood of the German Red Cross .

Closure of the hospital

In 2002 the St. Johannes Hospital joined the Bonn Community Hospital , of which the Bürgerhospital Foundation has been a partner ever since. At that time it comprised the surgery, vascular surgery and internal affairs departments and served as an acute clinic for the north of Bonn. At the end of 2005 the facility, with 200 beds the city's smallest hospital, was closed due to insufficient occupancy and income. The property still belonged to the original foundation. In November 2009, after extensive renovation and renovation work, the “St. Johannes Hospital” opened on the premises of the former hospital, where various doctors and therapists, retail businesses, a branch of the LVR clinic and, since July 2010, an outpatient operation center are located. In the course of the conversion to a health center, the concrete wall closing off the property from the street was also removed.

Web links

Commons : St.-Johannes-Hospital (Bonn)  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 32, number A 2338
  2. ^ Renate Kaiser: The political currents in the districts of Bonn and Rheinbach 1848–1878 (= Publications of the Bonn City Archives , ISSN  0524-0352 , Volume 1). Ludwig Röhrscheid Verlag, Bonn 1963, p. 26. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 1961)
  3. ^ A b Sudhoffs Archiv , issues 5/6, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1966, p. 201.
  4. ^ Edith Ennen, Dietrich Höroldt : Little History of the City of Bonn (= Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Stadtarchiv Bonn: Bonner Geschichtsblätter: Jahrbuch des Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , ISSN  0068-0052 , Volume 20, 1966). Stollfuss, Bonn 1967, p. 172.
  5. ↑ a b Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Puetz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and the Rhine-Sieg district . Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , p. 50.
  6. ↑ a b c d e Sabine Harling: "The honor of Bonn". The establishment of the community hospital for St. John the Baptist
  7. ↑ a b c d War fates of German architecture. Loss - damage - reconstruction. Documentation for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 1: Nord , Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1988, ISBN 3-529-02685-9 , p. 387.
  8. ^ August Franzen: The Catholic-Theological Faculty Bonn in the dispute over the First Vatican Council: at the same time a contribution to the history of the origins of Old Catholicism on the Lower Rhine . In: Bonn Contributions to Church History , Volume 6, Böhlau, 1974, p. 53.
  9. ^ Anja Ostrowitzki: Amalie (Sr. Augustine) von Lassaulx (1815-1872), Borromean, first superior of the Bonn Johanneshospital , December 6, 2013
  10. ^ The St. Johannes Hospital will be closed , Kölnische Rundschau, September 24, 2005
  11. ^ Bonn Johannes Hospital will be closed after all , General-Anzeiger , September 24, 2005
  12. ↑ Modern practices in old walls , General-Anzeiger, July 20, 2010
  13. ↑ Conversion to a health center cost eight million euros , General-Anzeiger, April 25, 2013

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '27.7 "  N , 7 ° 5' 57.5"  E