Ecumenical Hainich Clinic Mühlhausen
| Ecumenical Hainich Clinic Mühlhausen | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | Ecumenical Hainich Klinikum gGmbH |
| place | Mühlhausen / Thuringia |
| state | Thuringia |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 12 '30 " N , 10 ° 24' 11" E |
| medical director | Fritz Handerer |
| beds | 496 |
| Employee | approx. 1,000 |
| including doctors | 59 full-time employees |
| founding | 1912 |
| Website | oehk.de |
The Ökumenische Hainich Klinikum (ÖHK) gGmbH is a non-profit specialist hospital for neurology , child and youth psychiatry , psychiatry and psychotherapy in the Pfafferode district of Mühlhausen / Thuringia . The clinic was founded in 1912 as a Prussian state hospital and nursing home and is now the largest psychiatric facility in Thuringia .
history
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Prussian province of Saxony was looking for a location for a third “ insane asylum ”. The choice fell on the village of Pfafferode near Mühlhausen, which at that time belonged to the province of Saxony. An institution with 800 places in the pavilion style was built on the grounds of the Pfafferode estate . On December 2, 1912, the institution was opened with the admission of the first 20 patients. It was gradually expanded. At the end of the First World War , the number of patients fell to 378. Then it rose again until there were 1,200 beds in 1929.
Between 1911 and 1965 there was a branch line of the Mühlhausen tram , which, in addition to transporting people, also served to transport coal and other goods to the nursing home.
time of the nationalsocialism
On January 1, 1934, the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring came into force, with which mentally ill people were discriminated against. From 1939 the clinic was involved in the implementation of the National Socialist Action T4 . On July 25, 1940, the first of the "gray buses" of the Gekrat appeared , with which presumably 27 patients were brought to the Altscherbitz intermediate institution , from where they were driven to the Brandenburg killing center . Later, the patients from Pfafferode were taken to the state sanatorium and nursing home in Bernburg , where they were murdered in a gas chamber . In total, at least 313 inmates of the institution in Pfafferode were murdered in the course of Action T4.
From 1 April 1942 to the end of the Second World War led Theodor Steinmeyer the institution. Under his leadership, the death rate in Pfafferode was higher than ever before. Patients put on the "death list" by Steinmeyer were transferred to death houses 17 and 18, where they received high doses of sleeping pills and sedatives. Many patients died shortly after they were moved. Among other things, Steinmeyer himself injected the patient with a high dose of the pain reliever veronal . 2,841 patients died in Pfafferode between 1939 and 1945; the death rate rose from 13.5% to 49.3% during this period. 1,976 of the dead are counted as Nazi victims.
post war period
On August 1, 1946, was Landesheil- and nursing home Pfafferode in State Regional Hospital Pfafferode renamed. Patients with other than psychiatric symptoms were now also treated. From 1963 the facility was called the District Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology in Mühlhausen . After the fall of the Berlin Wall it became the Thuringian State Hospital . From 1999 the hospital was privatized and sold in 2002 so that it became the Ecumenical Hainich Clinic.
Since 2000, a memorial stone in the administration building has been commemorating the Mühlhausen euthanasia victims.
structure
Caritas and Diakonie are responsible for the clinic . The clinic is run in the legal form of a non-profit GmbH . The ÖHK acts as the academic teaching hospital of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . In 2010, 7,132 inpatients and 11,190 outpatients were treated. In the 6th Thuringian Hospital Plan 2013, the Hainich Clinic was included with 366 beds in the field of psychiatry and with 71 beds in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry .
The Ecumenical Hainich Clinic looks after the following areas:
- Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
- Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychotherapy
- Department of Neurology
- Forensic Psychiatry Clinic
Day clinics are located in:
- Heilbad Heiligenstadt
- Day clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry / psychotherapy, Eisenach
- Day clinics and outpatient clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry / psychotherapy Bad Salzungen
- Day clinics and outpatient department for child and adolescent psychiatry / psychotherapy in Gotha
- Day clinic and outpatient clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy Bad Frankenhausen
- Day clinic and outpatient clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy Bad Langensalza
See also
literature
- Lothar Adler, Kathleen Dützmann, Elisabeth Goethe (Eds.): 100 Years Pfafferode 1912–2012, From the Prussian State Healing and Nursing Institution to the Ecumenical Hainich Clinic gGmbH . Rene Burkhardt Verlag, Erfurt 2012. (online)
Web links
- Website of the Ecumenical Hainich Clinic
- Structured Quality Report 2010 of the Ecumenical Hainich Clinic (PDF; 1.8 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Wuggazer: Norbert Dahmen is no longer managing director of the Hainich Clinic . In: Thuringian General . November 21, 2018 ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed December 3, 2018]).
- ↑ History of ÖHKs website of the Ecumenical Hainich Hospital, accessed on May 27, 2013.
- ↑ 100 years Pfafferode p. 66 f.
- ↑ 100 years Pfafferode, p. 70. Online version of the book: https://www.oehk.de/buch/files/mobile/70.jpg
- ↑ http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/leben/detail/-/specific/Euthanasie-Geschichte-die-weh-tut-2029319484
- ↑ Structured Quality Report 2010, p. 13.
- ↑ 7. Thuringian Hospital Plan 2018, p. 28 (PDF; 2.9 MB)
