On 14 August 1260, Hildeborg, elaborately identified as “the magistra of the convent of nuns of the hospital in Mainz,” on behalf of the community, made over to the hospital the house which the sisters owned “in the courtyard of the hospital, next to the cookhouse.” Temporary residence on hospital property could have been an attempt to satisfy civic and ecclesiastical authorities, without suddenly depriving the hospital of a significant number of its staff; or, indeed, a concession to the women as they sought a new place of residence. In the charter of 1260, the sisters still appear closely connected with the hospital. Six members of the community witness the charter: Godesman, the provisor, two hospital priests, and three lay brothers. This degree of specification concerning the roles of the men within the hospital is itself unusual; in documents of practice, the status of healthy and sick, staff and patients, are usually less distinct than in regulations. Despite the de jure separation, Hildeborg refers to the image of the Dove of the Holy Spirit, pressed into red wax, as “our seal,” used to affirm that the sale is permanent, and that the rights of the brothers must be undisputed. The division of Mainz's hospital staff along gendered lines was a response to increasing suspicion of mixed-gender religious communities, and marked the beginning of the sisters’ efforts to form a new community, managing a new hospital.