Clemenshospital Münster

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Front view of the Clemens Hospital with the attached health center on the left in the picture.

The Clemenshospital in the Westphalian city ​​of Münster is a hospital with 405 beds and around 1,100 employees. The clinic is an academic teaching hospital of the University of Münster . It is operated by the Catholic Alexianer GmbH and the Order of the Clement Sisters .

history

The Clemenshospital goes back to a foundation of the Münster prince-bishop Clemens August I of Bavaria in the year 1732, which he brought to life with a starting capital of 100,000 guilders. With this money, a provisional hospital was initially moved into at today's Schlossplatz in 1733 . The Brothers of Mercy of St. John of God took care of the sick. However, the location on Schlossplatz was unsuitable for building a monastery. So the brothers from the Münster cathedral chapter acquired the property of the Niesing-Freiheit , which was also called St.-Pauli-Freiheit . It was in the Stubengasse area .

The hospital, known as Clemenshospital from 1818, of which only the Clemenskirche has survived , was built on this site over a nine-year construction period . It was designed by Johann Conrad Schlaun , who was also responsible for the castle and the Erbdrostenhof , among other things . The hospital itself was completed in 1754 and consisted of 16 beds. However, only male patients who had hope of recovery were admitted. Apparently terminally ill and contagious patients were not included. The admitted patients, however, were treated free of charge, which led to a deterioration in the monastery finances. Because of this, the silver device of the attached Clemenskirche had to be sold in 1814.

After the Clemenshospital was handed over to the city of Münster by a decree of Napoleon I in 1811 , the Brothers of Mercy withdrew due to difficulties in running the house, among other things because they were now too old. When the Rings and Verspoel monasteries and the St. Martini guest house and madhouse were closed in 1818 , the Clemenshospital received their still available capital, which eased the financial situation. Since then, female patients have also been treated in the hospital. However, since there was still a shortage of staff available to care for the patients, Johann Hermann Hüffer transferred the care of the Clement Sisters on behalf of the city of Münster in 1820 . At the end of August 1842, the Prussian royal couple Friedrich Wilhelm IV and Elisabeth visited Westphalia. Queen Elisabeth (1801–1873), a born Princess of Bavaria, laid the foundation stone for a new building in the dilapidated Clemens Hospital in Münster. She was also the protector of three Berlin hospitals, of all women's associations in all of Prussia and of many foundations.

Thanks to the efforts of the sisters, the building with 20 beds was gradually transformed into a prestigious hospital with 396 beds, so that two extension wings were built in 1899. In 1938 the Clemenshospital had become one of the largest and best-known hospitals in the Münsterland region , not least because of the instruments and treatment methods that were modern for the time. The Second World War should initially mean the end of the Clemens Hospital. Due to the Allied air raids, it had to be evacuated twice between 1943 and 1944, before it had to be completely abandoned on October 10, 1943 due to severe bomb damage. A multi-year odyssey through Münster followed, before the architects Stevens and Weischer began planning a new building in 1957. Previously, the city of Münster had transferred the sponsorship to the Clement Sisters in 1952.

Aerial view of the Clemens Hospital

In 1958, construction work began on the new hospital on Düesbergweg in the south of the city. The last buildings of the former Haus Geist on the site were demolished. Due to the structure of the ground, the entire building was built on a total of 600 piles, each of which was driven eight to twelve meters deep into the ground. In 1962 the new Clemenshospital was completed and could be occupied. It has been changed and expanded several times since then.

At the end of 2015, the sponsoring company Misericordia GmbH merged with Alexianer GmbH to form Alexianer Misericordia GmbH. Since then, the three clinics of the Alexianer Misericordia GmbH, the Raphaelsklinik Münster , the Clemenshospital Münster and the Augustahospital in Anholt have been part of the Alexianer, who have around 15,000 employees across Germany.

Supraregional importance

In May 2010 the clinic for pulmonary and bronchial medicine at the Clemens Hospital was certified by OncoZert as the 13th lung cancer center in Germany. This means that the Clemenshospital plays an important role in the treatment of lung cancer nationwide .

Medical departments

The hospital consists of the following medical departments:

Other facilities

The Clemenshospital also offers other services. In the area of ​​nursing, this includes an outpatient nursing service as well as the option of short-term care and physiotherapy . Accordingly, a nursing school is attached to the hospital. A pastoral service is available for the social aspects. Along with the Münster University Clinic in the Westphalia area, the Clemenshospital is the only neurological specialist clinic with care for the seriously injured.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Klötzer: For Eternal Times? Amalgamation and dissolution of social foundations in Münster . In: Franz-Josef Jakobi, Ralf Klötzer, Hannes Lambacher (eds.): Structural change in poor welfare and the realities of the foundation in Münster over the centuries (= sources and research on the history of the city of Münster, NF Vol. 17.4). Aschendorff, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-402-06635-1 , pp. 351-410, here p. 399.
  2. ↑ Hedwig Schwanitz: Illness - Poverty - Old Age. Health care and medicine in Münster during the 19th century . Aschendorff, Münster 1990, ISBN 3-402-06631-9 , p. 75.
  3. ↑ Clemens August von Droste zu Vischering : About the cooperatives of the merciful sisters, in particular about the establishment of one of them, and their services in Münster . Aschendorff, Münster 1833.
  4. ↑ Martin Kalitschke: Archaeologists uncover ancient noble residence , Westfälische Nachrichten online, November 9, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 57.5 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 52.5 ″  E