Bundeswehr Hospital Detmold

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Bundeswehr Hospital Detmold
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Sponsorship Central medical service of the Bundeswehr
place Detmold
Coordinates 51 ° 56 '0 "  N , 8 ° 53' 17"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '0 "  N , 8 ° 53' 17"  E
Chief physician Heinz-Peter Weibel
beds 156
Employee 470
Affiliation Coat of arms Medical Office of the Bundeswehr (old) .jpg Medical Office of the Bundeswehr
founding 1957
Website
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The Bundeswehr Hospital Detmold was one of the former 15 Bundeswehr hospitals , existed as an office from 1957 to 1993 and was located on Heldmannstrasse in the Detmold-Nord district . At the time, it had the largest ENT department of all Bundeswehr hospitals. The property, which is still partly used for military purposes, is still called the military hospital by the citizens of Detmold to this day .

history

Bundeswehr Hospital Detmold with the Werre barracks, later used as a Bundeswehr pharmacy (light building, front left) and the building of the medical school company (flat building on the right), aerial view from the south in 1969

The Bundeswehr hospital was built from 1936 to 1938 as an on-site hospital for the Wehrmacht at the time, right next to the penal institution, which was used as Werre barracks at the time, in the parallel Georg Weerth- Strasse. During the Second World War , the property of the later Bundeswehr hospital served as a reserve hospital. After the end of the war, it was taken over by the then newly founded regional association Lippe , which used it as regional hospital II. In 1954 the regional association handed over its hospitals to what was then the Detmold district , with the military hospital becoming a branch of the district hospital. In 1957, the eastern part of the building was initially approved for use by the Bundeswehr until the entire Heldmanstrasse building was handed over to the Bundeswehr in 1968. On October 14, 1981, the Werre barracks, which had meanwhile been used as a refugee camp and was released by the British armed forces in 1977, was inaugurated as a Bundeswehr pharmacy, which was also spatially integrated into the premises of the Bundeswehr hospital.

At the beginning of the 1990s, as part of the troop reduction, the decision was made to give up the Detmold Bundeswehr Hospital in favor of the Hamm Bundeswehr Hospital. The Bundeswehr Hospital Detmold was dissolved on November 1, 1993 as part of the adoption of the organizational structure "ZSanDBw 370". The former Bundeswehr pharmacy was sold and is now used by the Pharmaceutical Technology Department of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences .

East wing of the former BWK, photo from the northeast from 2010
West wing of the former BWK, photo from the northwest from 2010

The middle section and east wing of the main hospital building, as well as the administration building and the accommodation building, were in the meantime intended for subsequent use by other Bundeswehr departments ( VBK 35 , KWEA Detmold), which, however, have since been closed. It was also planned to be used as a psychiatry or as part of the Detmold University of Music . Since these projects were not implemented either, there has been no real estate development here to date, which is unusual with such a real estate location and such a long period of time. The parts of the building are sporadically used by the Bundeswehr, police and THW as a training area.

Four outpatient specialist groups ( dermatology , ENT and ophthalmology , surgery and orthopedics ) as well as physiotherapy, an X-ray department and a laboratory remained in the west wing, which comprises around 30% of the main building . They were combined to form a newly established specialist medical center for the Bundeswehr, which functioned as its branch until the Bundeswehr hospital in Hamm was closed, and was then transferred as a sub-unit to the Augustdorf specialist medical center . Today, the range of services provided by the specialist group of the Augustdorf Medical Center includes specialist examinations in the areas of internal medicine , dermatology, ophthalmology and surgery / orthopedics as well as physiotherapy and an X-ray department. The medical center between the main building and the former Bundeswehr pharmacy also remained in use, namely as an accommodation building. The parts of the building that were in use were renovated in 1998 and have since differed significantly from the area that is no longer in use. As part of the concentration of Bundeswehr services on large locations, it was initially planned to relocate the specialist group to Augustdorf in 2011. However, this was not implemented, so that the current situation will continue for the time being. The building cleaning for the building was tendered for a period from 2010 to 2014.

In June 2013 it was announced that the Detmold entrepreneur Horst Wortmann had bought the entire site and plans to build houses on it.

coat of arms

The coat of arms essentially corresponded to that of the Lippe district and showed in silver (white) a red five-petalled rose with golden (yellow) sepals (see Lippe rose ), but in the late Gothic form typical for association badges of the Bundeswehr . The golden (yellow) slug of the Lippe rose was replaced by the logo of the Central Medical Service of the Bundeswehr. In addition, the modification of the coat of arms shown on the left was supplemented with the words "Detmold Bundeswehr-Krankenhaus".

Chief physicians

No. Surname Start of use End of use Rank
1 Customs head July 1957 September 1957 Chief Medical Officer
2 Karnuth October 1957 September 1959 Senior Field Physician
3 Ansorge October 1959 March 1962 Chief physician
4th Kawan April 1962 March 1963 Senior Field Physician
5 Johann-Friedrich von der Heide April 1963 September 1973 Chief physician
6th Kurt Schmahl October 1973 March 1974 Chief physician
7th Bodo Ahmling April 1974 September 1980 Chief physician
8th Bjorn Mirow October 1980 March 1986 Chief physician
9 Heinz-Peter Weibel April 1986 November 1993 Chief physician

literature

  • Festschrift for the inauguration of the new Bundeswehr pharmacy in Detmold . Weidmann / Triebe, Detmold 1981, 1st reprint 1986.
  • History of the German ear, nose and throat clinics in the 20th century . Tilman Brusis, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2001.

Web links

Commons : Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Detmold  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Tilman Brusis, History of the German Ear, Nose and Throat Clinics in the 20th Century, p. 6
  2. Weidmann / Triebe: Festschrift for the inauguration of the new Bundeswehr pharmacy in Detmold , p. 17
  3. Organization order No. 15/93 -ZSanDBw- of May 13, 1993.
  4. Tender for building cleaning for the period 2010 to 2014 ( Memento from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Wortmann buys former Bundeswehr hospital , Lippische Landes-Zeitung from June 19, 2013, accessed on February 10, 2014