Wilhelmsruhe (Sontheim)
The Wilhelmsruhe building, inaugurated in 1907 at Hermann-Wolf-Straße 11 in today's Heilbronn district of Sontheim, has served as a Jewish retirement home, gynecological clinic and aftercare clinic over the course of its eventful history. Today the building houses the Alice Salomon School for children with special educational needs.
history
The building was inaugurated in 1907 as a Jewish retirement home. The four-storey building with a clear basement stands on an area of 1160 ares. Initially it had room for 32 people. The living rooms, 20 single rooms and 6 double rooms, were on the 1st and 2nd floor. In 1932 the open verandas at the back were converted into rooms, so that the number of residents increased from 32 to 48. In the years 1936/37, another extension took place, which brought in 30 new single rooms. In November 1940, the asylum residents were deported or resettled.
For the history of the building as a Jewish retirement home, see Israelitisches Asyl Sontheim .
From 1941 families of severely disabled people were housed in the house, later also forced laborers deported from Yugoslavia. From 1946 the building was the seat of the municipal gynecological clinic and was later extended to the east and west by further panels in panel construction, so that the building was spatially connected to the older extension building to the west of it. From January 1977 the facility served as the Sontheim aftercare clinic , which was unexpectedly closed in 1991 in order to use the nursing staff to resolve a personnel emergency in the municipal Jägerhaus hospital. The panels were later torn down again. After ten years of vacancy, the Wilhelmsruhe was converted into the Alice Salomon School for Educational Aid in 2001 .
description
The Jewish old people's home Wilhelmsruhe is located at Hermann-Wolf-Straße 11 and today houses the Alice-Salomon-School. The building was built in 1907 by the Stuttgart architects Carl Heim and Jacob Früh in the neo-baroque style. A significant expansion of the building (by 30 single rooms) took place in 1936–1937 by the Stuttgart architect Oskar Bloch . After Bloch died on 6 January 1937, the project was continued by his former agency partners Ernst Guggenheimer, as a local site manager served the deposed by the Nazis former Heilbronner Mayor Emil Beutinger who had built as an architect in Heilbronn already numerous other buildings including the house for Henry Grunwald or the department store of the Brothers Landauer .
Exterior
The building with a height of three and a half storeys speaks completely the language of forms of the neo-baroque . In the middle of the building a central projecting protrudes with a high curved segment gable . A mansard hipped roof can be seen in the background of the high, curved baroque gable . In 1932 the open verandas at the back were converted into rooms, so that the number of residents increased from 32 to 48.
Interior
The four-storey building with a clear basement stands on an area of 1160 ares. Initially it had room for 32 people. The living rooms, 20 single rooms and 6 double rooms, were on the 1st and 2nd floor. The rooms were in bright corridors and had, in addition to a comfortable bed with duvets, a cupboard, a table, two chairs, a bedside table, a comfortable wicker chair and a stool. Each resident had a second closet in the corridor. Common rooms were the reading room, the dining room and the Jewish prayer room with a glass window.
Prayer room
The original prayer room of the Israelite Asylum was located in the Wilhelmsruhe building completed in 1907. The second and larger prayer room was built within the complex that was expanded in 1937, with the first prayer room from 1907 being added to it. The new prayer room of the Israelite Asylum was built in the style of New Building (as an architectural variant of New Objectivity ).
The prayer room was reached through the hall of the new Israelite Asylum building. The prayer room is said to have been "a special highlight of the new building". It could be enlarged by a sliding door on the high feast days, when relatives of the residents also arrived. The Aron ha'kodesch (Hebrew: ארון הקודש, German: “Holy Ark”) was kept in “light, warm wood tones” and preserved Torah scrolls that had been donated by the “Israelite State Asylum and Support Association”. The founders included Sulzbacher, David Stern, Strauss, Tänzer and Grailsamer.
In the large glass window was the Hebrew inscription "Praise my soul to the Eternal, and do not forget all his favors" .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gertrud Schubert: Suddenly it was over . In: Heilbronn voice . April 1, 2011 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on May 22, 2011]).
- ↑ Spelling according to the entry on Carl Heim in the historical register of architects “archthek” , last accessed on February 2, 2011
- ^ First name after entry on Jacob Früh in the historical register of architects "archthek" , last accessed on February 2, 2011
- ↑ Hans Franke : History and Fate of the Jews in Heilbronn. From the Middle Ages to the time of the National Socialist persecution (1050–1945). Heilbronn City Archives, Heilbronn 1963, ISBN 3-928990-04-7 , p. 176 ( PDF, 1.2 MB )
- ↑ Franke (see previous individual references), p. 233
- ^ Community newspaper of October 1, 1937
- ↑ Ps 103.2 ELB
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Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 54.6 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 33.2 ″ E