St. Nicholas in front of the Gelbinger Tor
St. Nikolaus in front of the Gelbinger Tor, outside left in front of the city fortifications, on an engraving by Matthäus Merian (1643)
St. Nikolaus in front of the Gelbinger Tor was a house for lepers in Schwäbisch Hall , a town in northern Baden-Württemberg . Leprosy is one of the few diseases for which infection through physical contact was established in the Middle Ages .
The first reliable mention of the Leper House was in 1296. In 1309/10 the chapel received indulgences . In 1322 the hospital received the first documented foundation . In 1338/39 further donations followed to the Leprosenhaus and the associated chapel. In 1502 Mathis Täfner donated a mass at the Wolfgang altar of the Nikolauskapelle.
literature
- Andreas Maisch, Daniel Stihler: Schwäbisch Hall. History of a city . Published by the Schwäbisch Hall City Archives and the Schwäbisch Hall History Workshop, Swiridoff Verlag, Künzelsau 2006, ISBN 3-89929-078-X , p. 60.