Duala General Hospital
The General Hospital of Duala or Nachtigal Hospital of Duala is a building in the Cameroonian port city of Duala that was erected during the German colonial era and still exists today .
The building was designed by the German architect Henri Drees and built and completed from 1896 on the initiative of the doctor Albert Plehn . It was initially named after the German Africa explorer in Duala, Gustav Nachtigal .
The French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline also stayed in the General Hospital of Duala in 1916, which was still German-speaking , and processed his short stay in the Dualaner Hospital in an excerpt from his book Reise zum Ende der Nacht .
Today the General Hospital houses the Police Department and the Delegation for Culture of the Littoral Region . The police department was formerly located in the Duala police station .
See also
- Nachtigal Hospital (Sebbe) , historical hospital in Togo
Individual evidence
- ^ Former general Hospital of Douala. (No longer available online.) In: Douala Ville d'art et d'histoire. doual'art, 2006, archived from the original on February 8, 2015 ; Retrieved February 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 4 ° 2 ′ 26.5 ″ N , 9 ° 41 ′ 4.1 ″ E