Marien Hospital Erftstadt-Frauenthal Foundation
Today's foundation Marien-Hospital Erftstadt-Frauenthal was founded by the married couple Adolf (born September 26, 1804 in Lechenich ; † March 21, 1877 in Cologne ) and Helene Münch, born Offermann (* 1802 ; † April 29, 1877 in Cologne ), formerly also known as the Münch Foundation for short , goes back to her foundation for the establishment of a hospital for the poor in Frauenthal . The current hospital in Erftstadt , the Marienhospital, and other facilities have developed from it.
Acquisition of the Frauenthal estate
In 1851 the wealthy but childless married couple Adolf and Helene Münch, wine merchants from Cologne, bought the former cloister courtyard in Frauenthal, including a chapel in need of restoration. The couple had the residential and farm buildings rebuilt and the chapel adjoining the other buildings , of which only “the massive outer walls and a perforated roof” remained, restored so that worship could take place there again. The couple confirmed their wish for mass celebrations in the chapel through a mass foundation of 13 acres of farmland. After the notarial certification of this donation , the approval for the divine service was given by the Vicariate General in Cologne. On July 2, 1861, at the request of the couple , the chapel in Frauenthal was consecrated under the title of the Immaculate Virgin Mary .
In the following year, the Münch couple had a crossroads built on the access road to the chapel , which is now a listed building.
Helene Münch b. Offermann, co-founder of the Marienhospital
Adolf Münch, founder of the Marienhospital in Frauenthal
Cross of the ways of the couple Münch
Foundation of the Marienhospital
Over the next few years, the Münch couple endeavored to establish a hospital for the poor sick and infirm of the mayor's offices in Lechenich and Liblar , in order to provide “relief for the helpless and destitute poor sick”.
In the deed of foundation of December 24, 1867, the financial and administrative bases for the hospital were laid down. The couple transferred the “Gütchen Frauenthal located in the mayor's office of Lechenich near Liblar” with all its accessories as property to the hospital they had founded, the “Marien-Spital”. They also donated a capital of 15,000 thaler from its yield poor sick and infirm of all denominations from the mayors Lechenich and Liblar should be free of charge maintained. The hospital was set up in the existing buildings used for housing and agriculture, and both the poor and the nursing staff were accommodated. The income from the transferred land was used to feed the poor sick people who were admitted, the staff and the people entrusted with the management of the land, as well as to pay wages. Sick people from other mayor's offices had to pay reasonable meals.
According to the statutes, the supervision of the Marienhospital and the administration of the property was carried out by a board of directors whose members consisted of the pastor of Lechenich, the mayor of Lechenich and another five members from the two mayor's offices. In the approval document of the Prussian authority, which did not want a purely ecclesiastical institution, it was specified that the hospital should serve the civic sickness care. Therefore, representatives of the municipalities also belonged to the administrative board. The state authorities retained overall supervision.
The tasks of the board of directors included the admission and discharge of the foster people, the supervision of their meals in the hospital, the appointment of an attending doctor and the nurses. The board of directors, which met for the first time in 1868, appointed Breuer from Liblar as attending physician, who also worked there as a doctor for the poor. After lengthy efforts to find suitable foster sisters, negotiations with the mother house of the Vincentian Sisters in Cologne-Nippes were successful. At the end of 1869, the first nuns moved in. Because of the construction work, they did not begin their work in nursing until the summer of 1870 with the first two sick patients. Some soldiers wounded in the war of 1870–71 were also cared for for two weeks. After the construction work was completed, the contract between the Board of Directors and the Vincentian Sisters was signed on May 4, 1871 to take over care in the Marienhospital. It stipulated that around 9 to 10 sick and weak people of both sexes would be admitted, but because of the lack of space, no sick people with infectious diseases .
The Münch couple, who had undertaken to continue to maintain the chapel, donated 5,000 thalers to the employment of a spiritual rector , who took over the pastoral care and worship for the sisters working in the Marienhospital, the foster children and the neighboring residents. A house of his own was built for him and was ready to move into in 1871.
How urgent the need for medical care and nursing was in this hospital is shown by the applications received from the blind, poor sick people without a place to stay and other people in need of care.
Foundation and today's Marienhospital
Today's Marienhospital in Erftstadt-Frauenthal, a local supply hospital, is of great importance for the population of Erftstadt and the surrounding area. To this day it is based on the Münch couple's foundation and is operated as a church hospital. In accordance with the will of the founders, it is still managed by a board of directors whose natural members include the pastor of St. Kilian in Lechenich and the mayor of Erftstadt as successor to the mayor of Lechenich. The other members of the board are elected for a limited time.
In the spirit of the donors, the foundation has been operating a geriatric care center that is organizationally separated from the hospital since 1995 .
Together with the Hospiz im Rhein-Erft-Kreis gGmbH, the foundation has been operating the Haus Erftaue hospice at the location of the hospital and geriatric care center since 2006 .
Commemoration
With its name “Münchstift”, the geriatric care center belonging to the foundation is reminiscent of the original establishment of a “poor hospital” by the Münch couple. The access road to Frauenthal Hospital is named after the donors "Münchweg".
literature
- Karl Stommel : Frauenthal - from the Cistercian convent to the Marienhospital . In: Monasteries and monasteries in the Erftkreis. Ed .: Erftkreis. Pulheim-Brauweiler. 1988. ISBN 3-7927-1044-7
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Karl Stommel: Frauenthal - from the Cistercian monastery to the Marienhospital. In: Monasteries and monasteries in the Erftkreis. Pp. 177-187.
- ^ Frank Bartsch: Continuity and change in the country. The Rhenish Prussian mayor of Lechenich in the 19th and early 20th centuries (1815–1914) Weilerswist 2012. (History in Euskirchen district, vol. 26). P. 261.
- ^ Parish archives St. Kilian Lechenich Part I Section I Volume 4: Frauenthal.