Welfare House (Zgorzelec)

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Welfare house
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place Zgorzelec
architect Alfred Hentschel
Construction year 1929
Coordinates 51 ° 9 '37.8 "  N , 14 ° 59' 40.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '37.8 "  N , 14 ° 59' 40.8"  E

The welfare house (also deaconess house ) was a building in the city of Zgorzelec in the Polish Upper Lusatia . Today's town of Zgorzelec was Görlitz's eastern town until 1945 and was added to Poland after the Potsdam Agreement . In the 1920s, social hardship increased in Görlitz as well. A large number of poor and sick people as well as many young people whose mothers had to go to work to ensure the livelihood of the family lived especially in the old town, the Protestant parish of the Holy Trinity and St. The construction of a welfare house approached in the late 1920s. On November 18, 1927, the Diakonie was able to acquire the property at An der Wasserpforte 5 (today: ulica Nadbrzeżna 5 ) near the Bleichen and start construction despite poor financial conditions. The construction company took over the construction work from Franz Grunert.

The house was completed on April 1, 1929 and handed over to its use. It belonged to the Bethanien Deaconess House . The building housed a household school, an infant home with 30 places, a crèche with 30 places, a kindergarten with 60 places and a day care center with 40 places. The elongated building had strikingly curved gables on the north and south sides and five balconies were set into the facade on the first and second floors in the direction of the Neisse. At the south gable there was a terrace above the ground floor and the first floor. As early as 1941, under the National Socialists , it had to be sold to the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV). When the Wehrmacht blew up the pedestrian bridge on Nikolaigraben, also known as the gas pipe overpass, on the evening of May 7, 1945, numerous windows and the gable of the house were destroyed.

After the end of the Second World War , the house was used as a hospital by the Polish state. In June 1945, a working group was set up to renovate the building. In the beginning, numerous Germans also worked in the hospital. However, in the following months they were replaced by Polish employees. On November 17, 1945, the welfare house converted into a hospital was inaugurated.

After the new construction of the district hospital on Lubańska Street, the former welfare house increasingly lost its importance and was finally abandoned and stood empty. In 1992 the building burned down. The burned-out ruins of the former welfare house were left to decay and nature took possession of them. The ruins were probably demolished at the end of 2009, following an order from the Zgorzelec building supervisory authority. The demolition cost 43,000  zloty .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b diakonie-goerlitz.de: Planning and construction of the welfare house . Retrieved May 31, 2012 .
  2. ↑ goerlitz-einstundjetzt.npage.de: Public Buildings - Oststadt . Retrieved May 31, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b c d The welfare house, built in 1928, fell victim to the flames . In: Saxon newspaper . July 19, 2008 ( online ).
  4. ^ Quotation from "Mój Zgorzelec" by Jan Bohdan Gliński. Retrieved July 6, 2012 .
  5. ↑ zgorzelec.naszemiasto.pl: Rozebrali ruiny szpitala przy ul. Nabrzeżnej (Polish). Retrieved July 6, 2012 .