Hospital of the Five Wounds

The Hospital of the Five Wounds is a half-timbered house in the city of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is in the southern part of the old city center, opposite St. Godehard and behind St. Nicolai's Chapel.

In 1770, a large half-timbered house was built in Hildesheim to house two different hospitals which had already been founded several centuries before. The ground floor was given to the Hospital zu den Fünf Wunden and the upper floors to the Hospital Sankt Nicolai . Later, both hospitals were united to form the Vereinigte Hospitäler . The building, however, kept the name Hospital zu den Fünf Wunden. The name derives from devotion to the holy wounds inflicted on Jesus during the crucifixion, a pious practice traditionally associated with works of mercy and social justice . From the 19th century on, the building was used by a nearby Catholic hospital which still exists today.

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