Viktoriastift
| Viktoriastift | ||
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 Villa Viktoriastift in 2012 |
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| place | Finkenbach-Gersweiler | |
| architect | August Greifzu | |
| Client | Heinrich Lieser | |
| Architectural style | New baroque, sandstone block construction | |
| Construction year | 1919-1922 | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 41 '8.4 " N , 7 ° 44' 51" E | |
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The Viktoriastift in Finkenbach-Gersweiler is a large estate in the Donnersberg district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located at the northern exit of the village in the direction of Schiersfeld an der Moschel , at the foot of the Hahnscheides. The formerly splendid estate of the Finkenbach merchant Heinrich Lieser and later a children's recreation home, NSV mothers' convalescent home, state retraining center as well as old people's home and infirmary , today only gives an idea of its former glory.
description
The castle-like, generous three-wing building, was built between 1919-1922 according to the plans of the Ludwigshafen architect August Greifzu for the native Finkenbach-Gersweilerer merchant Heinrich Lieser in neo-Baroque style built. The building consists of two functional agricultural buildings, on the left a large barn with high-level antennas that can be accessed on the mountain side, on the right a large administration building with extensive stables and a slaughterhouse, as well as the higher-lying mansion overlooking everything. The manor house combines style elements from the historicist era in a classic way . A baroque hexagonal roof turret dominates the whole building with a third of the total height and shapes the appearance. The veranda measures several hundred square meters. It was once adorned with a sandstone parapet with a flower basin and vase crown.
The portal with an oak door, set back a little in the front of the building and emphasized and structured by an open vestibule with four storey-high half-columns, is visually highlighted by a narrow overhanging balcony and its effect is enhanced by a baroque curved gable. Inside the villa there is a two-story high reception hall, which is paneled with oak on the back and sides, with rich stucco work and an imitation sandstone fireplace. Four neo-baroque round columns under two vaults absorb the weight of the attic. A look up showed a stucco ceiling with ornaments and a chandelier. A wooden staircase leads to the first floor. There are grouped around the hall, the individual rooms decorated with wooden coffered ceilings and parquet floors.
history
Heinrich Lieser , the builder of the estate, born in December 1891 as the son of poor day laborers in Finkenbach-Gersweiler, made a large fortune as a hardware dealer , which enabled him to buy around 120 days of Feld's work in Finkenbach and to build his farm on it. In 1926 Lieser went bankrupt and the estate was sold to the children's sanatorium in Bad Kreuznach .
Children's home
The estate now served as a branch of Bad Kreuznach, where children were housed for follow-up treatment. The children's rest home had 80 beds. Terraces with deck chairs, playgrounds, parks and forest paths were used to carry out a climatic sun treatment. There were bedrooms with five to six beds with running water, bathrooms and showers with paddling pools and spring water pipes. The management of the farm with modern agricultural machinery and equipment and the keeping of 50 cows, 100 pigs and a chicken farm with around 500 chickens supplied the main home in Bad Kreuznach as well as the rest home. During the summer, children between the ages of four and 14 in need of relaxation, mostly from the Koblenz area, spent four weeks at a cure. They spent 14 days in Bad Kreuznach and 14 days in Finkenbach.
In September 1928 the administration and stables building burned to the ground in a large fire and was rebuilt. In 1933 the children's home was closed.
Maternal convalescence home
In June 1934, an NSV convalescent home for mothers was established in the villa . A rest home for around 120 Reichsbahn children was built on the upper floor of the administration building. Before the start of the western campaign, the monastery served briefly as a headquarters for troops moving through and, after the collapse of the western front, as a reception camp for the returning soldiers. In 1943 another change followed. A state retraining yard for young boys was set up in the administration building, where they were trained in agriculture until 1957. The maternal convalescent home in the manor house was closed and turned into a nursing home and infirmary.
Old people's home
The old people's home was a branch of the Viktoriastiftes in Bad Kreuznach. The number of receipts was always between 50 and 85 people. The fosterlings were accommodated in two large shared dormitories in the lower left corner of the villa. The nursing staff lived on the upper floor of the building. Two deaconesses and other nursing staff were available to care for the elderly. It was very difficult to take care of, as the home was poor and often did not know how to organize meals. On average, six to ten inmates died each year. From the 1950s onwards, seven to eight women in Bad Kreuznach helped with garden and kitchen work on weekdays.
In 1957 the farm buildings of the Landesumschulungshof were closed due to unprofitability. The war-related economic conditions had stabilized to such an extent that the country no longer had to introduce young men to agriculture. The functional agricultural buildings were leased.
In 1970 the old people's home hit the headlines when the home manager was accused of torturing and abusing the residents for six years. The prosecution investigated and the director was suspended. The retirement home was closed at the end of 1971. The reason was Finkenbach's seclusion, the cost of renewing the sanitary facilities and building maintenance, as well as the lack of nursing staff. The foster children were distributed to the old people's and nursing homes in Heidesheim, Klingenmünster-Landeck and Dierdorf.
resolution
After the retirement home was closed, the farm was sold in 1972, along with over 60 hectares of land. The buildings have been a listed building since the early 1990s. Since then, various renovation and building security measures have been carried out, which were carried out in accordance with the specifications and in coordination with the Upper and Lower Monument Protection Authority. The mansion received a completely new slate roof and new gutters. In 2003, parts of the roof of the administrator's building were completely rebuilt, all damaged areas on the beams were replaced and the gutters were completely renewed. The third building, the so-called barn, was then the subject of building security measures in 2005, in the course of which a load-bearing wall and a large proportion of the beams and the central roof section were completely rebuilt. The State Office for Monument Protection also supported these measures financially.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article from the commemorative publication on the 100th anniversary of the Viktoriastiftes Bad Kreuznach ( memento of the original from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
