Köpenick Hospital

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DRK clinics
Sponsorship German Red Cross
place Berlin-Koepenick
state Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 26 '28 "  N , 13 ° 35' 48"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '28 "  N , 13 ° 35' 48"  E
management • Cornelius Held (replaced Frank Armbrust as administrative director in 2016)
• Matthias Pross (replaced Hartmut Kern as medical director in 2016)
• Astrid Weber (head of nursing)
beds 525 (as of 2016)
Employee 1200 (as of 2014)
including doctors 200 (as of 2016)
areas of expertise look here
founding February 1914
Website www.krankenhaus-koepenick
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In the foreground the original main building from 1914, behind it the renovated first bed block with the lettering and a new building from 2010

The hospital Koepenick is an account opened in 1914 Hospital , the health care of the population in the former district of Teltow was built. When the surrounding communities and old Berlin merged to form Greater Berlin in 1920, the district hospital moved to the newly formed administrative district of Berlin-Köpenick . After several renovations and extensions, medical and administrative reassignments, it has been part of the network of the DRK Kliniken Berlin under the sponsorship of the DRK Sisterhood Berlin since 1992 . The clinic in the Berlin district of Köpenick , Salvador-Allende-Straße  2–8 (main entrance Müggelschlößchenweg), is used for both standard medical care and as an emergency facility . It is also an academic teaching hospital of the Berlin Charité .

The original buildings from 1914 are listed .

history

1912–1945: district hospital

The city ​​of Cöpenick belonged to the Teltow district until 1920 and initially did not have its own hospital . Resident general practitioners took care of the medical care. Around 1910, for example, the district administrator had decided to build a sanatorium on the outskirts of the city on the Amtsfeld near the Kämmereiheide. The building plans were made by the architect Hugo Kinzer , who - as was customary at the time - also directed construction. The foundation stone was laid in 1912 and the facility was opened on January 3, 1914 as “8th Hospital of the Teltow District ”by the district administrator, Adolf von Achenbach . To connect the hospital with traffic, the city of Cöpenick had a new road built, which was given the name Achenbachstrasse “on the occasion of the construction of the Cöpenick district hospital” . (In 1973 it was renamed Salvador-Allende-Strasse .)

Historic main house

The press reports from the opening praised the main building as “the most beautiful hospital in the German Empire ”. In addition to the administration and hospital building with operating rooms , an X-ray room , a pharmacy and an auditorium, an isolation ward, a disinfection and morgue , a house for some employees, a villa for the medical director's family and a casino for the doctors were built. The entire area received a walled enclosure. The architecture of the buildings, mostly three-story plastered buildings with sparse facade decorations, is attributed to the neo-baroque style. The structure of the main building is based on a noble mansion , the side sections of which delimit a courtyard . The middle section is divided into twelve axes, has a porch, a middle risalit and square wall templates. The side wings are designed with four - storey bay-like porches, the gable sides show segmental arches and all parts of the building are closed with mansard roofs . The other first buildings on the approximately 8.4  hectare site are kept in a similar style, but are generally more simply furnished. Medical treatments began with eleven doctors and 30  nurses , 149 beds in large halls were available. The hospital grounds lay between Müggelschlößchenweg (in the north) and Müggelheimer Chaussee (in the south); the parcels had not been numbered until the 1920s.

From 1916, during the First World War , the hospital served as a military hospital , which led to an increase in the number of beds.

From at least 1922 Reinhold Hinz had been the medical director and Richard Schuppenies the administrative inspector who had their apartments on the site. A porter, a material manager and a machine foreman also lived here. The hospital's transport connections improved in 1925 when the first electric tram passed through Achenbachstrasse.

In 1930 the two executives were still in office (at Hinz there was now the addition "Anst.Direktor", at Schuppenies it was called "Verw.Amtm."), A head nurse and a driver were now also living on the premises. It was not until 1933 that the hospital grounds were given house numbers 2-8, the previous numbering along the street was thus invalid. When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the Jewish employees - from the auxiliary staff to the nurses and specialist doctors - were fired. Thanks to the personal courage of long-time medical director Reinhold Hinz, the hospital treated the victims of the Köpenick Blood Week in 1933. Hinz had even dared to recommend Joseph Goebbels to “visit the victims”. From 1936 the head of the institution received support from a senior physician (E. Hildebrandt), now P. Richter was appointed as administrative director. Reinhold Hinz remained in his office until the end of the war, while doctors (senior physician, senior physician, assistant physician) and the administrative manager changed hands.

After the outbreak of World War II , the hospital was turned into a military hospital again. When the war returned to the German capital in 1944 with daily air raids, the air raid shelter built on the site served as an operating theater. Some medical facilities have been relocated to buildings outside the hospital premises on Oberspreestrasse. When a bomb was dropped on July 21, 1944, an air mine destroyed the north wing and the administration building, killing six people.

1945–1990: Municipal Hospital

Immediately after the end of the war, the hospital had to be upgraded again, so first and foremost the destroyed buildings had to be rebuilt, beds, medicines and treatment material had to be procured, and doctors and auxiliary staff had to be hired. The division of Berlin into the various sectors of occupation , however, also led to the emigration of doctors. In spite of this, the clinic, which was now officially called the “Städtisches Krankenhaus Köpenick”, performed its medical tasks better and better.

The obstetrics were in 1952 in buildings in the district Friedrichshagen , Müggelseedamm 288-292. There were further branches in Schmöckwitz (Erlengrund) and Oberschöneweide (Zeppelinstraße: Surgical Clinic).

In 1950 the municipal authorities handed over 100 new hospital beds to the Köpenick Municipal Hospital.

By 1950 the north wing of the main building was rebuilt and lengthened, the large hospital wards were made smaller by inserting partition walls.

In 1956, the telephone book identified the Schmöckwitz facility as a polyclinic , and there was now a polyclinic on the hospital grounds in Köpenick (in the extension of the main building).

The medical equipment could be gradually adapted to the increasing requirements - the operating theater was expanded, new X-ray equipment was purchased. The environment for the employees has also improved thanks to the opening of two nurses' homes and a new kitchen wing.

The 1960s brought increasing specialization of the hospital's departments and the takeover of various specialist outpatient departments in the former Köpenick districts of Friedrichshagen, Hessenwinkel, Grünau, Hirschgarten, Rahnsdorf, Schmöckwitz and Wilhelmshagen.

As of 1969, the medical facilities not located on the hospital premises were no longer under the administration of the Köpenick Hospital. In 1973, the Köpenick Municipal Hospital was the first to implant cardiac pacemakers in East Berlin .

After the coup in Chile with the assassination of the first socialist president Salvador Allende , the hospital was named “Dr. Salvador Allende Hospital ”in honor of the doctor, as well as the adjacent street and the entire new residential area in the immediate vicinity (officially Allende district). The hospital address has now changed to Salvador-Allende-Straße 2–8.

In the same year (1983), a new ward block was opened, which had been built in an unadorned panel construction. The first main building thus became a ward building.

In the late 1980s, the East Berlin magistrate, together with the Köpenick district office , planned to create a "foreign exchange station" with a luxurious new building on the site. With the medical treatment of rich foreigners, the administration wanted to collect foreign currency . However, these plans did not come to fruition until the political turning point .

Since 1990

The German and Berlin reunification in October 1990 led to a completely new economic situation for the facility. The hospital, owned by the city of Berlin from 1924 to 1992, now needed a new provider in accordance with the German Hospital Act. The hospital's administrative structure had to be completely turned inside out and its own accounting system introduced. The previous assignments of facilities in other districts have been given up. In this situation, the management succeeded in agreeing with the Berlin Senate on individual funding of 14 million marks , which was urgently needed for the construction of an extension building. Finally, a new operator was found in the not-for-profit DRK sisterhood in Berlin. Some principles of the sisterhood were adopted, such as that the nursing directors are on an equal footing with the chief physicians. The agreed new building lasted until 2010; it stands out from the other gray and brick-colored buildings with its white facade and seven floors.

The former main building has been partially converted into a medical center. In addition, an outpatient operation center for general, vascular and trauma surgery and, in 2014, a geriatric clinic were built . A magnetic resonance tomograph (MRT) was purchased in 2012. In addition to an optional service station ("comfort station"), apartments are offered in the so-called "delivery room hotel " that can be occupied by family members on the occasion of a birth. Among other things, the opening of a palliative care unit is planned for the following years . The hospice opened in 2017. It offers 16 single rooms for the terminally ill.

Facilities

According to its own information, there are 15 specialist departments and three specialist centers on the premises of the Köpenick Hospital. Among them are (status: end of 2014):

Emergency room for adults, children and adolescents, physical and rehabilitation medicine, angiology (vascular center south) with vascular surgery, general surgery, trauma surgery and orthopedics , obstetrics and gynecology with a breast center, diagnostic departments with radiology, anesthesiology and intensive medicine, internal medicine with a geriatric center, intestinal center and neurology with a stroke unit . In the neighboring medical center on Erwin-Bock-Straße there is a kidney center with dialysis that cooperates with the DRK clinics.

Compact data & facts

1986: Intensive care unit for cardiovascular diseases
year Number of
beds		 doctors Nursing staff Total employees Total treatments per year (a), of
which outpatient (b)		 Remarks
1914 149 011 30 sisters 81
1916 275 hospital
1971 560
1978 620 (a) 10,300
(b) 09,000
1983 686 new ward block completed; Renaming to
"Dr. Salvador Allende Hospital "
2004 543 147 358 (a) 47.285
(b) 29.014		 2002: new carrier, new name
2014 510 (a) 65,000
(b) 48,000
2016 525 200 374 (a) 44,782
(b) 21,871
Sources: Homepage of the DRK-Kliniken Köpenick with the chronicle and further information on sub-pages, as of 2014

Transport links

Tram stop at Hospital Köpenick

The tram line between the Köpenick S-Bahn station , the historic city center and the hospital, which was opened in the 1920s, was retained. Modern trams carry visitors to the facility. In addition, two BVG bus lines end directly at the main entrance.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hospital Köpenick  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Structured Quality Report, Klinik Köpenick 2016. (PDF) DRK Kliniken, accessed on April 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Architectural monument complex of the hospital in Köpenick, Salvador-Allende-Straße 2–8: administration and hospital building with a later extension, farm building, isolation house, disinfection and morgue, parts of the enclosure and villa, 1912/1913 by Hugo Kinzer
  3. ↑ a b c d e Chronicle of Krh.Köpenick ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Treichel: The East-West Laboratory. In: Berliner Zeitung . 2014.
  5. ↑ Achenbachstrasse . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  6. ↑ a b c Historical review on drk-kliniken-berlin.de
  7. ↑ Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-II . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 315 .
  8. ↑ Achenbachstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1922, IV, Cöpenick, p. 1659 (Cöpenick (in the spelling with "C") was first included in the Berlin address book in 1922).
  9. ↑ Achenbachstrasse . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1930, IV, Cöpenick, S. 1967.
  10. ↑ Achenbachstrasse 2 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1936, IV, Köpenick, S. 2015. “Hospital Köpenick”.
  11. ↑ Köpenick Hospital . In: Official telephone book for Berlin , 1945, p. 116.
  12. ^ Hospital Köpenick, Städt. In: Official telephone book for Berlin , 1952, p. 308.
  13. ^ Hospitals in Greater Berlin . In: Business directory for Greater Berlin (GDR), 1956.
  14. ↑ Healthcare . In: Business telephone book to the telephone book for the capital of the GDR , 1964, Appendix I, p. 263.
  15. ^ Medicine. Facilities . In: Telephone book for the capital of the GDR , 1986, p. 318. “Dr. Salvador Allende Hospital”.
  16. ↑ Köpenick gets the first hospice. In: Berliner Zeitung . September 14, 2016, p. 15.
  17. ↑ Numbers and dates as well as chronicle. Krh.Köpenick; accessed on March 28, 2015.
  18. ^ Homepage Kidney Center , accessed on March 29, 2015.