Unfortunately, the precise dates between which the building was used as a hospital are unknown. On the city map of 1884, it is shown as such, while the site plan from 1800 shows a smaller house with the designation “smithy residence” at this point. The small house next to it was the smithy, or forge. Both houses were on the old path, which was only changed after the construction of the earth dam in 1848 and the construction of the new forge in 1851.

The historical photo shows a building that apparently consists of two construction phases. The rear part with different windows is probably the smithy residence on the site plan from 1800. Between 1840 and 1850 it was extended in its own mirror image towards the monastery. Both the older and newer parts of the building were built in brick over a high granite-clad base that balanced the sloping terrain. The basement is almost at ground level on the lake side. The photo shows the house from the street. With the two adjacent entrance doors, the adjoining pairs of windows in the heated rooms, and the subsequent individual windows in the unheated (bed) chambers, it can be assumed that the house was not initially built as a hospital, but as a residential building. It probably housed four families. The arrangement of the window openings on the lake side suggests a similar sequence of rooms as for the original constellation on the street-facing side.

Today, the window and door openings, as well as the roof covering, have changed. However, the granite base and the fine brick masonry are still recognizable. Window shapes have been preserved on a lakeside extension to the stable building, which suggests that the architect Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel (1796-1869) was also instrumental in the extension of this building, which was later used as a hospital, and even in the extension to the stable. The shaped stones of the sills correspond to those that were used on all buildings of the monastery in the middle of the 19th century. When the new smithy was built in 1851, the extended house remained the smith’s residence.

The historical photo shows a building that apparently consists of two construction phases. The rear part with different windows is probably the smithy residence on the site plan from 1800. Between 1840 and 1850 it was extended in its own mirror image towards the monastery. Both the older and newer parts of the building were built in brick over a high granite-clad base that balanced the sloping terrain. The basement is almost at ground level on the lake side. The photo shows the house from the street. With the two adjacent entrance doors, the adjoining pairs of windows in the heated rooms, and the subsequent individual windows in the unheated (bed) chambers, it can be assumed that the house was not initially built as a hospital, but as a residential building. It probably housed four families. The arrangement of the window openings on the lake side suggests a similar sequence of rooms as for the original constellation on the street-facing side.

Today, the window and door openings, as well as the roof covering, have changed. However, the granite base and the fine brick masonry are still recognizable. Window shapes have been preserved on a lakeside extension to the stable building, which suggests that the architect Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel (1796-1869) was also instrumental in the extension of this building, which was later used as a hospital, and even in the extension to the stable. The shaped stones of the sills correspond to those that were used on all buildings of the monastery in the middle of the 19th century. When the new smithy was built in 1851, the extended house remained the smith’s residence.