The establishment and development of St Elizabeth's Hospital as intended by the Teutonic Order at the turn of the 15th century

• Published in: Folia historica Cracoviensia Vol. 6; pp. 29 - 48
• Main Author: Maciej Sadowski
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: German
• Published: The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow 01-12-1999
• Subjects: Gdańsk; Mikołaj von Hohenstein; St Elizabeth's Hospital; Teutonic Order
• ISSN: 0867-8294; 2391-6702
• DOI: 10.15633/fhc.1396

The Teutonic Order exercised a dominant impact on social and religious relations in late 14th-century Gdańsk through taking initiatives in terms of new religious foundations. One such undertaking – St Elizabeth's Hospital – reveals the way in which the co-existence in the city and its monastic lords was eroding. The facts presented in the article demonstrate a crisis in the Order, which compromised itself in terms of its religious function. In the Gdańsk community this might have been one of the stimuli to take a decision to seek liberation from the rule of the Order.