Branitz sanatoriums and nursing homes

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The Branitz sanatoriums and nursing homes were a psychiatric clinic in Branice (German: Branitz). It was part of the Marian pen. Today it is the Samodzielny Wojewódzki Szpital dla Nerwowo i Psychicznie Chorych w Branicach. Today's sponsor is the Milde Foundation St. Marienstift.

history

The institution was founded in 1897 by the then Branitz pastor and later Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Martin Nathan .

On an approximately 10-hectare park-like area there were twelve pavilion-style hospital and care buildings , handicraft and agricultural workshops and businesses, as well as company apartments. At times up to 2000 patients were accommodated. The institution church was built from 1930 to 1933. There was a branch in Dzbańce (Krug).

time of the nationalsocialism

In 1940 the Jewish patients from Leubus, Branitz and Bunzlau were brought together in the Leubus sanatorium , Silesia; from there in two transports on December 17 and 19, 1941, to Cholm and murdered there. In 1940 around 1,600 patients were housed here.

As part of the T4 campaign , 1302 registration forms were completed.

From 1941 a military hospital was set up in part of the Branitz prison building, among other things for mentally ill and lung sick soldiers as well as for members of the SS.

In 1945 there were around 2,000 sick people, 120 women religious, seven doctors and many nurses. Parts of the sanatorium were destroyed in an air raid.

On April 1, 1945, all ambulatory patients had to leave the institution; about 600 sick people and sisters left Branitz in the direction of Freudenthal.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Willy Cohn, Norbert Conrads: No right, nowhere: Breslauer Tagebücher 1933 - 1941.
  2. ↑ Michael Anderheiden: Handbook of dying and human dignity. Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-110-24645-2 , p. 1467 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Astrid Maria Gerhardt: A life for charity. Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-828-86808-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ a b http://www.tenhumbergreinhard.de/1933-1945-lager-1/1933-1945-lager-b/branitz-heil--und-pflegeanstalten.html

Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 14 "  N , 17 ° 47 ′ 46.4"  E