[gelöst] Was bedeutet Hospital im 18. Jahrhundert?

[donaldaskey]

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I have an ancestor whose occupation was listed as Hospitalmeistari in Friedrichroda, Thüringen, in the 1700s. What exactly was a hospital then? What population did it serve?

[donaldaskey]

1750-1790
Sachsen

[Gastonian]

Hi Donald:


Back then a hospital was generally what we might call a hospice, or a home for the aged, sick, and poor - in other words, a place where the community/municipality was hospitable to those who could not take care of themselves.


--Carl-Henry