Hospital Neuhausen zu Horchheim Foundation

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The Foundation Hospital Neuhausen zu Horchheim is a foundation under civil law based in the Horchheim district of Worms . The foundation founded in 1729 by Bishop Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg was originally the sponsor of a hospital for orphans in Neuhausen . Today she supports people in need in eleven places on the left bank of the Rhine in the former diocese of Worms .

history

The Bishop of Worms, Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg , founded a hospital for poor orphans on August 24, 1729, in the legal form of a church foundation. It was equipped with land and funds from the possession of the Worms monastery , in particular the former Cyriakus monastery in Neuhausen, and from the bishop's private assets. In 1730 the bishop bought the estate and former monastery of Liebenau from his own fortune for 12,000 guilders and commissioned Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Groenesteyn to build the hospital building. Before his death in 1732, Bishop Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg bequeathed a substantial part of his fortune to the Hospital Foundation in order to promote the completion of the building. However, due to disputes over competence with the Worms cathedral chapter , the first orphans could not be admitted until 1749.

The main purpose of the foundation was to support orphans. As a rule, twelve children, six boys and six girls each, were admitted each year. After attending school, the boys were placed in an apprenticeship at the age of fourteen, during which the foundation paid the tuition fees and food costs. The foundation was looking for a job for the girls. In addition, widows with children and disabled and frail people were constantly cared for. Those affected by acute emergencies such as crop failures received loans from the foundation's assets.

In 1778 the Neuhausen hospital was merged with the Dirmstein hospital ; the orphans were transferred to Dirmstein. The Neuhauser hospital building was converted into an emeritus and corrigendum house. In 1789 the hospital was completely closed and the children were placed elsewhere. From 1773 to 1797 Gottfried Neumayer, father of General Maximilian Georg Joseph Neumayer , was administrator of the hospital foundation on behalf of the diocese of Worms.

In the first coalition war , the hospital buildings were destroyed. After the permanent French occupation of the Rhineland, a state hospital was established in 1798 from the assets of the Neuhausen Hospital, which was merged with the other hospitals in the canton of Pfeddersheim . It became independent again in 1801 through a decree of the Speyer sub-prefect, which determined the name "Hospital Neuhausen" and the administrative seat Horchheim. The ordinance also determined the fourteen towns of the former Worms monastery, whose needy residents were allowed to be supported by the foundation: Beindersheim , Bobenheim , Dirmstein , Hettenheim and Leidelheim (from 1828: Hettenleidelheim), Horchheim, Laumersheim , Mörsch , Neuhausen, Neuleiningen , Rheindürkheim , Roxheim , Weinsheim and Wiesoppenheim . Neuhausen left this association in 1898 when it was incorporated into Worms; the city of Worms as the legal successor to the community of Neuhausen was compensated with land from the foundation's assets.

The foundation's archives are mainly located in the Worms city archive ; a smaller collection of files is stored in the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt .

organization

Today, after the departure of Neuhausen and the merger of Bobenheim and Roxheim to Bobenheim-Roxheim , the foundation is supported by eleven local communities and districts called “member communities” . It is headed by an administrative commission whose chairman must be a resident of Worms-Horchheim. The second chairman is always the mayor or an alderman of Bobenheim-Roxheim as the most populous municipality.

Every year before Christmas , the administrative commission allocates the member communities a share of the foundation's income stipulated in the statutes, which is paid out by them to people who receive support under SGB ​​XII . Primarily orphans and half-orphans and persons unable to work are to be considered. If there are still funds left after supporting these groups, these can be paid out to charitable institutions.

The foundation's assets mainly consist of agricultural land in twenty communities in the left bank of the Rhine area of ​​the former diocese of Worms.

literature

  • Friedhelm Jürgensmeier (ed.): The diocese of Worms. From Roman times to its dissolution in 1801. Würzburg 1997 (Contributions to Mainz Church History 5), p. 242 f.
  • Otto Hermann Albert Penn: The legal nature of the Neuhausen hospital in Horchheim. A historical and comparative legal study of the former collegiate monastery St. Cyriakus and its successors in Worms-Neuhausen am Rhein. Dissertation. Mainz 1970.
  • Hermann Schmitt: Gottfried Neumayer, the last episcopal administrator of the hospital in Neuhausen near Worms (1773–97). In: Festschrift for Alois Thomas. Trier 1967, pp. 373-383.
  • Joseph Sprißler: Contributions to the history of Neuleiningen: Die Pfründnerstiftung Neuhausen bei Worms , in: Frankenthaler Geschichtsblätter - monthly journal of the Frankenthaler Altertumsverein , 46th year, No. 2, February 1938

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 18,000 euros for those in need. In: Wormser Zeitung , January 17, 2012.
  2. ^ Worms City Archives, Department 61
  3. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, Department C 1 B and Department G 11, holdings 85/21