Old Hospital (Düren)
The old Düren hospital was in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia , on Roonstrasse. Today the parking lot and parking garage of the new Düren hospital are located there .
prehistory
In 1417, a hospital in Düren was first mentioned in the will of the Cologne mayor Lambert van Duren , who bequeathed a Mark Cologne pagament to him. It was probably the Agatha Hospital, which, according to the pictures by Wenzel Hollar, was on the corner of Weierstrasse and Wilhelmstrasse . This building was destroyed in the big city fire in 1543 and the magistrate designated a building on the site of today's Peschschule as a new "inn". From 1651 the order of the Elisabethinnen from Aachen took over the nursing on behalf of the city in the inn. In 1665 the new inn in Weierstrasse, in 1864 the Maria-Hilf-Hospital, the former Franciscan monastery next to the Marienkirche .
history
The Düren city architect Heinrich Dauer planned the hospital that had become necessary, which was then built in the Wilhelmine style from 1904 to 1909 after a long planning phase . At the same time as the new water tower , the house was inaugurated on October 27, 1909.
The construction of the hospital in 1909 cost a total of 1.33 million marks. 195 beds were available for the departments for internal diseases , surgery , ear, nose and throat , eye and skin diseases . With the later construction of an infection house in 1925 and a maternity home (house for obstetrics ) with 19 beds in 1936, the hospital was enlarged to 400 beds before the Second World War . (Location of the maternity home) . Today (2015) the later extension to the maternity home is still preserved. The Düren emergency practice is located there .
During the war, a makeshift operating theater was set up in the basement. The room had a 60 cm wide brick protection wall with a 20 cm high gap for air and light to enter. Despite the huge red crosses that were laid out and marked on all fronts of the hospitals, on all roofs and in the courtyard, the hospital was bombed on November 16, 1944 . The hospital survived the attack as one of the few public buildings, albeit badly damaged. The next morning the city and hospital were evacuated.
In May 1945 the first sick were treated again in the badly damaged hospital, but they were moved to the less damaged hospitals in Stolberg and Birkesdorf just a few weeks later for repair work .
In 1947 a nursing school was opened. On November 10, 1950, the city council decided to set up a children's ward. In 1952 a urology department was added. In September 1967 one of the first independent anesthesia departments was set up.
Due to the rapidly growing city, an expansion of the hospital was considered as early as 1959. But it was decided to build a new building, the planning of which began shortly afterwards.
In June 1967 the city with its hospital and the district of Düren with the district hospital in Langerwehe founded the hospital association .
On October 19, 1970, the groundbreaking ceremony took place for a new hospital right next to the old building, which was opened in 1976. On January 2, 1977, the old hospital building was demolished. A part of its representative sandstone blocks , its wrought iron railings and other components were used to renovate Burgau Castle .
The clock on the facade of the old hospital hangs in the foyer of the new hospital and, with the set time, reminds of the air raid on November 16, 1944, in which several thousand people were killed.
swell
- City archive Düren: documents, wills and guest house bills .
- Historical archive of the city of Cologne
- Hans Otto Brans: Hospitals, infirmaries and hospitals in the former administrative district of Aachen from the beginning until 1971, Vol. 1: Hospitals, infirmary until the end of the 18th century (studies on the history of the hospital system; Vol. 37). Murken-Altrogge, Herzogenrath 1995, ISBN 3-921801-80-X .
- Gottfried Ruland: History of the medical system in the city of Düren up to 1910 . Hamel publishing house, Düren 1939 (also dissertation, University of Düsseldorf 1940).
- Yearbook of the Düren district , 1974, p. 36 ff.
- Yearbook of the district of Düren , 2006, p. 142 ff., ISBN 3-927312-72-X .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 31.7 ″ N , 6 ° 29 ′ 52.9 ″ E