Hostel Berlin Backpacker

1907

beginning of the constructional planning by Clemens August Kardinal von Galen: church & journey house for journeymen and craftsmen (208 beds for durable accupants, 2 dormitories, each dorm with 18 beds, for temporary guests

1910

official laying of the foundation stone, despite that the journey house was already built up to the 3^rd floor

1916-1918

auxilary military hospital for 200 wounded soldiers during the 1^st world war

1924-1925

several reconstructions – complex: multiple residential buildings (285 rooms), classrooms, among others on the 3^rd yard; St. Clemens church with a nunnery section on the 2^nd yard; rectory on 1^st yard

1942

Gestapo hogs the property and the building because of ‘anti-state activities of the clergy’ > SS home for the companionship

03.02.1945

partial destruction of the complex, depredation and desruction of the church, journey house as far as possible undamaged

after 1945

transit camp for refugees, displaced persons and homecomer (app. 90.000 people)

1950

john’s nuns moving into the building > supporting elderly people and refugees, but also guest

1974

massive reconstructions, i.e. class rooms and chapel on ground floor, renovation of the sanitary facilities

since 1973

(moving in/ moving out): 

of the Croatian catholic mission,
of a day nursery,
of a migration center belonging to the charity.

since April 2006