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Pauliner Monastery of the Holy Cross (Kirnhalden)

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Pauliner Monastery of the Holy Cross (Kirnhalden)

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    March 29, 2020

    Used a hundred years ago as a hotel and bathing establishment, the Kirnhalden building complex was, after the Second World War, nominally a disease and quarantine station until 2012, which was primarily intended as a reception center for smallpox patients. However, since smallpox has been considered extinct since the early 1980s, the actual purpose was no longer there and the buildings were initially used temporarily by the Bruder-Diakonie as a senior center and for the care of mentally ill people.
    The buildings were finally abandoned as quarantine centers in 2012, just as the epidemic protection association of the Baden city and rural districts was dissolved on this date.
    (Source and further information: regiotrends.de/de/regiomix/index.news.195280.kaeuenftige-use-von-kirnhalden-als-tagungshotel--- Zweckverband-hat-isolier--und-quarantaeaenestation -aufgelaeoest.html)


    Plans to continue using the now decaying building as a conference hotel have obviously not gone beyond the planning stage.

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      January 27, 2018

      Pauline monastery (today Kirnhalde)
      The former Pauline taster "Zum Heiligen Kreuz" in Kirnhalden on the street Bleichheim - Freiamt can be traced back to 1360. In 1806 it was secularized. After that it had different uses. It is to be rebuilt (hotel)

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        August 6, 2025

        Meanwhile, Kirnhalden is full of life again (see Kirnhalden.de). Around 20 people are building a residential and cultural center there.

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          Location: Kenzingen, Landkreis Emmendingen, Freiburg District, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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