DRK North Sea Spa Center Friesland
The DRK North Sea Kurzentrum Friesland has been a health care facility for prevention and rehabilitation of the DRK regional association Oldenburg in Schillig , municipality of Wangerland , since 1951 .
Previous military use of the site
The military expansion of the city of Wilhelmshaven , the associated war-important Imperial Shipyard in Wilhelmshaven and the First World War made it imperative to secure the entrance routes of the Jade Bus. For this purpose u. a. In Schillig and Horumersiel a total of four defense batteries were built, the so-called Siel, Watt, Dike and Meadow batteries. The accommodations of the soldiers and officers, including an officers' mess, were located on the present-day grounds of the DRK North Sea Spa Center in Friesland. The supply of material and weapons to these defensive positions was provided by the Hohenkirchen – Schillig naval railway . Later the area with the accommodation barracks was used by the Wehrmacht until the end of the Second World War . From the summer of 1946, the former Wehrmacht barracks were used to receive refugees .
History of the DRK North Sea Spa Center Friesland
First of all, the DRK district association Friesland looked after a large number of orphans in former naval shelters in a DRK children's home with 1,000 beds in Breddewarden (now a district of Wilhelmshaven ) since 1946 . In May 1947 this camp was occupied by 700 people (mainly " recovery children from all parts of the British zone , from orphans and children in homes and old people from the east who were displaced by war "). The number of these orphaned children rose rapidly to over 500, of which 300 could be brought back to their parents in the course of the next few years, while 200 were orphans who were permanent home children. 1948 " Breddewarden is one of the largest children's homes in Germany ". After the care by the DRK district association was no longer possible for financial reasons (deficit in 1949: 74,000 DM), the DRK regional association in Oldenburg decided to continue looking after the children. At this point in time (1950), 180 regular children, 60 old refugees and holiday children in the summer were cared for.
The regional association received the approval to set up a children's home on the site of the former Wehrmacht camp Schillig. The opening took place in April 1951. Initially 120 children were looked after; an expansion to 500 children was already planned at the opening. This expansion should be done through the McCloy Fund. Towards the end of the 1950s, the home for orphans was converted into the Friesland children's recreation home .
Since the Federal Republic of Germany remained the owner of the property and it was not yet clear whether the newly established Bundeswehr would need the facility again, everything that was rebuilt or modernized here remained a temporary solution. In lengthy and difficult negotiations, which the then President of the DRK Regional Association Oldenburg, State Secretary a. D. Ekhard Koch , who led the federal authorities, concluded a contract in July 1968, through which the almost 32,000 m² site in Schillig became the property of the Oldenburg regional association for 250,000 DM .
In 1969, parts of the old barracks were demolished and replaced with new buildings. In 1972 a new, dreigeschössiges disabled could Kurmittelhaus with sun hall and a bath house with sea water - swimming pools are opened. 2.2 million DM were invested in these new buildings and extensions. The occupancy options have thus been extended to 120 disabled and 100 healthy children. Joint cures for handicapped and non-handicapped children helped to reduce prejudice against handicapped people. The high number of spa treatments carried out made repairs and renovations necessary in the following years. The course focus shifted further to obese , as well as children with breathing and skin problems.
Major renovations took place in 1976/1977 and 1981/1982; In particular, a handicapped-accessible daycare center and twelve further mother-child apartments were built for a total of over DM 2 million.
Indications
The Kurzentrum is a mother / child cure facility for prevention and rehabilitation. The main indications for maternal rehabilitation are psychosomatic and psycho-vegetative diseases. In the area of preventive care for mothers, there are diseases of the respiratory organs, degenerative-rheumatic diseases and metabolic diseases.
The main precautionary indications for children are metabolic and skin diseases as well as diseases of the respiratory organs. Focus offers and measures are offered for children with disabilities, families with a migration background and for large families.
Vegetarian or vegan, gluten-free food, medical special diets as well as religious diets and, if necessary or indicated, reduced diets are offered as special diets.
While 675 people took part in a mother-child cure in Schillig in 1978, there were 902 mothers with a total of 1,638 children in 2013; this corresponds to 50,662 occupancy days.
The cures are mainly covered by the statutory health insurance . The Oldenburgische Rotkreuzstiftung " Dieter Holzapfel " can provide support in the event of financial difficulties .
Officers' mess
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The building (built in 1915), which was previously used as the officers' mess of the Imperial Navy , served various functions over the years. So initially after the end of the First World War as an infirmary.
At Pentecost 1947, a church service room in the former casino was consecrated by the episcopal official Johannes Pohlschneider . The tabernacle and urgently needed chairs of this makeshift church came from the Schillig sponsor community of Lutten ( district of Vechta ), which declared its gifts as a potato consignment and sent it to Schillig. The first service was carried out on June 29, 1948 by pastor Hugo Springer, who had been expelled from Upper Silesia . Further church services were held there regularly until the inauguration of the DRK children's home in 1951; later only occasionally on special occasions.
In the 1970s and 1980s, the casino was also used as a home manager's apartment. After major renovations in the 1980s and 2010s, the former casino is now used as a clinic school. Children of all ages are educated here with qualified school lessons from a primary and secondary school teacher . Internal training and further education measures of the DRK regional association in Oldenburg also take place here in the training center .
Surroundings
The Schillig Youth Hostel , the AWO Holiday and Recreation Center Schillig and the Wiesenbatterie Schillig landscape protection area are in the immediate vicinity of the spa center .
literature
- Holger Frerichs : Between military service and welfare. The Red Cross in Friesland 1870 to 1955. A chronicle of the beginnings of the Red Cross in Jeverland and Varel / Friesische Wehde up to the rebuilding after World War II. Lüers, Jever 1999, ISBN 3-9806885-1-8 .
- Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 9: Lower Saxony 1 - Between Weser and Ems . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 3-88255-668-4 .
- Annemarie Kozlowski: Seebadeverein Horumersiel Schillig: 100 years of club history 1900-2000 . Brune-Mettcker Druck- und Verlag 2000, page 33 (with a picture of the former barracks camp)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see here: Minsen's military past in the world wars
- ↑ Gerd Wolff, 2005, page 143 ff.
- ^ Nordwest-Zeitung, December 10, 1946
- ^ Nordwestdeutsche Rundschau, May 20, 1947
- ^ Nordwest-Zeitung, October 26, 1948
- ↑ Holger Frerichs, 1999, page 349
- ^ Jeversches Wochenblatt, October 28, 1950
- ^ Nordwest-Zeitung, April 26, 1947
- ↑ Jeversches Wochenblatt, May 21, 1951: occupancy 200 people (staff and children), an increase to 300 children is planned
- ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung, No. 146, June 27, 1972
- ↑ Der Oldenburger Bürger, Vol. 24, No. 6, June 1979
- ^ DRK-Landesverband Oldenburg eV: Annual report 2010 to 2013 . Oldenburg 2014, page 90
- ↑ Oldenburg Red Cross Foundation "Dieter Holzapfel"
- ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung, June 25, 2016
- ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung, No. 77, March 31, 2006
- ↑ A Church History
- ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung, March 26, 1984
- ↑ Clinic school ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
