Evangelical Forest Hospital Spandau
| Ev. Forest Hospital Spandau | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | Johannesstift Diakonie |
| place | Berlin-Falkenhagener Feld |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 33 '45 " N , 13 ° 9' 27" E |
| beds | 474 |
| Employee | 687 |
| founding | November 1, 1945 |
| Website | Evangelical Forest Hospital Spandau |
The Evangelical Forest Hospital Spandau , EWK for short, is a plan hospital with participation in emergency care according to the hospital plan of the State of Berlin. It is located on the outskirts of the city in the Falkenhagener Feld part of Berlin's Spandau district .
The hospital was built on November 1, 1945 on a plot of around 20,000 square meters in the middle of a forest-like landscape, on which workers' apartments for planned monumental buildings of National Socialism in Berlin had been built from 1939 to 1942 . In the 21st century, the hospital chain Paul Gerhardt Diakonie was the sole shareholder of EWK Spandau Krankenhausbetriebs gGmbH. The EWK is the academic teaching hospital of the Humboldt University of Berlin. On June 11, 2019, the sponsor merged with the Evangelical Johannesstift to form Johannesstift Diakonie gAG .
Around 19,000 inpatients and 40,000 outpatients are treated annually. The EWK employs over 400 medical staff and has annual sales of around 79 million euros . 474 beds are available for inpatient stays for a total of nine departments. A nursing school and a school for occupational therapy, a nursing home with 196 residents and a sports and rehabilitation center for physiotherapy and occupational therapy are connected to the EWK. (Last updated 2012)
history
Workers' town "Great Hall"
From 1939, the workers' town "Great Hall" was to be built on the site of today's forest hospital , in which the workers at the Great Hall planned by the National Socialists in Berlin-Mitte should live. Albert Speer , Armaments Minister and General Building Inspector, designed a building concept for Adolf Hitler that was used to redesign Berlin to become the “ World Capital Germania ”. One element was a 290 meter high dome building in the Spreebogen north of the Reichstag , the Great Hall . For their construction, a workers' town consisting of permanent accommodation - no barracks - for 8,000 construction workers was planned in the pine forest area on the western outskirts of Spandau. The architect Carl Christoph Lörcher developed the concept with 25 U-shaped units for around 320 people each, with two accommodation units and a farm building and sleeping niches for four people each. The stone buildings of the "barracks-like mass accommodation" in the rural-village style with half-timbering and gables in the forest area are partly still there and are now listed. In 1942 the construction of the settlement was stopped due to the war. Only around 35 buildings were completed: houses for 2500 workers, the hospital, the commandant's house and six of the 13 planned double houses for the staff. The construction work on the Great Hall ended in 1943 at the latest , and the residents of the workers' town - from 1941 onwards increasingly also foreign forced laborers - were assigned to the Siemens works, the Heereszeugamt in Spandau and the Deutsche Industriewerken AG in Ruhleben.
The Belgian worker Gaston Franckx, who lived in the workers' town of Große Halle from June 1943 to April 1945 : “My next place of residence was the workers town of Große Halle in Spandau-West. The barracks were in better shape. They weren't made of wood, but of stone. There were even showers. At least 2,000 people lived in the Great Hall , 80 in each barrack. In addition to Belgians, Serbs, Croats, French and Dutch also lived there. - Mr. Peter. He was in command of the workers' city of Great Hall . He was an honest person. After the war, a comrade of mine, who this time returned to Berlin as a military policeman, made sure that he was not punished. "
In April 1945 the camp was cleared. The forced laborers were released, the German personnel fled from the advancing Red Army . The Soviet troops occupied the camp on April 25, 1945. The partially damaged buildings were used as barracks by the Soviet and then by the British allies until July 1945 . In 2004, a sculpture by the artist Ingo Wellmann was erected on the site in front of House 16 as a memorial for the Spandau forced laborers ; A permanent exhibition in the building reminds of the history of the workers' city "Great Hall".
Establishment of the clinic from 1945
On August 1, 1945, the Association for the Establishment of Protestant Hospitals began. V. (since 2009: Paul Gerhardt Diakonie ), with the approval of the British occupation authorities, to set up an orthopedic children's clinic in two of the houses (accommodation units 15 and 16). For this purpose, this area was separated from the barracks area by a fence and made accessible from Radelandstrasse. Pastor Siegert and the deaconry sister Renate Röhricht were responsible. The operation of the “Great Hall Hospital”, as it was initially called, began as early as November 1945 in Building 16 B with 100 patients who had previously been temporarily housed in the Johannesstift . Houses 16 A and 15 B were added in the first few months of 1946. The first chief physician was the doctor Barten thrower, after his death in June 1946 the doctor Rohleder followed. From autumn 1946 the hospital was able to take over the entire site after the British military had withdrawn. The planned expansion of further units was tackled. On April 1, 1947, the children's clinic was converted into a general hospital with the name "Evangelical Forest Hospital Berlin-Spandau". It specialized in orthopedics, surgery, internal medicine, gynecology and obstetrics, and pulmonary tuberculosis, as well as a specialist department for brain injuries and had 16 pavilion-style buildings .
When the forest hospital ran into major financial difficulties in the spring of 1952, an industrialist friend of the chief physician Hermann Fleischhauer arranged a short conversation between representatives of the forest hospital and Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. The Chancellor issued a letter of recommendation with which the chief physician in New York solicited donations, albeit not in the amount with the desired success. The background to this was the Federal Government's fear that the GDR might exploit the closure of the clinic, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the border, for propaganda purposes.
From 1963 the buildings were modernized one after the other and supplemented with new buildings that better met the functional requirements. An energy center, residential buildings for medical staff, a kitchen, a pharmacy and a laundry moved into their premises between 1968 and 1973. In 1978 the construction of the church with large picture windows by the artist Paul Corazolla on the clinic premises was completed, and the specialties offered expanded, among other things about radiology , the laboratory and geriatrics . At the end of the eighties, a new building for orthopedics, the pharmacy, other operating rooms, as well as rooms for physical and occupational therapy was built. The entrance area with sales kiosk, hairdresser and bistro, patient center and patient library dates from the 1990s. The medical offer was expanded to include the neonatology ward in 1992 and the pediatric and adolescent medicine department in 1998. Eight buildings were preserved in the style of the “workers' town” and are now a listed building .
Departments
The specialist departments are made up of eight different clinics and a total of twelve medical centers.
The focus of the Clinic for Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Interdisciplinary Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine is local anesthesia (local or partial anesthesia) for smaller treatments in the outpatient operation center, general anesthesia for surgical interventions and pain therapy.
The Clinic for Internal Medicine I includes the special areas of gastroenterology, hematology, oncology and cardiology. Diseases in the digestive tract (esophagus, stomach and intestines, pancreas, liver and biliary tract) are treated in gastroenterology or in the intestinal center. In hematology , blood diseases are in the foreground, while the doctors in the Center for Oncology have specialized in tumor diseases and early cancer detection in the Center for Outpatient Oncology. The cardiovascular system is treated in cardiology . Respiratory and lung diseases as well as internal intensive medicine are also part of the care area of the Clinic for Internal Medicine I.
In the Clinic for Internal Medicine II, treatments for general internal medicine and geriatrics are carried out. In the area of acute geriatrics, 84 beds are available, with older stroke patients in particular being cared for on the special ward.
The Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine and Neonatology provides medical care for premature babies and sick newborns. Particular emphasis is placed on pediatric intensive care medicine and neonatology. The perinatal center covers all aspects of childbirth. The gynecological clinic has a birth center and a gynecological cancer and breast center.
General, vascular and visceral surgery with the Berlin-Brandenburg Vascular Center ensures basic and standard surgical care for the population in Spandau, Falkensee and the surrounding area. Among other things, acute and chronic circulatory disorders , widening and narrowing of arteries and inflamed vessels are treated here . Furthermore, patients with varicose veins, leg ulcers, diabetic foot syndromes, vascular malformations and lymphedema are treated.
The clinic for orthopedics and trauma surgery in the EWK, teaching hospital of the Humboldt University Berlin for the focus areas endoprosthetics, spine, shoulder and tumor surgery as well as sports traumatology, has 140 beds, a guard station, facilities for comprehensive diagnostics and physical therapy. The center for children and adolescents orthopedics offers a special area of expertise .
Web links
- Homepage (at pgdiakonie.de)
- History of the Evangelical Forest Hospital Spandau (self-presentation)
literature
- Helmut Bräutigam: “Great Hall” workers' town. To the unknown story on the grounds of the Evangelical Forest Hospital Spandau. Ed .: Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Spandau, Berlin-Spandau; Booklet accompanying the exhibition, 1997.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hospital plan 2010 of the State of Berlin. (scroll down, click PDF)
- ↑ ktq.de (PDF) EWK, quality report , A 5.
- ↑ pgdiakonie.de: New brand after merger: Johannesstift Diakonie gAG unites Evangelisches Johannesstift and Paul Gerhardt Diakonie , accessed on November 21, 2019.
- ↑ Helmut Bräutigam: Workers' city "Great Hall". To the unknown story on the grounds of the Evangelical Forest Hospital Spandau. Ed .: Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Spandau, Berlin-Spandau 1997, p. 7.
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↑ Ev. Forest Hospital Spandau - history. pgdiakonie.de
Helmut Bräutigam: Workers' town "Great Hall". To the unknown story on the grounds of the Evangelical Forest Hospital Spandau. Ed .: Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Spandau, Berlin-Spandau 1997, p. 7.15 f. - ^ Editor: Stichting Holländerei - Friends of the Hendrik Kraemer Haus e. V./Netherlands Ecumenical Congregation: Dutch and Flemish people in Berlin 1940–1945 - concentration camp prisoners, prisoners, prisoners of war and forced laborers. Berlin 1996, pp. 313, 315-316.
- ↑ Helmut Bräutigam: Workers' city "Great Hall". To the unknown story on the grounds of the Evangelical Forest Hospital Spandau. Ed .: Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Spandau, Berlin-Spandau 1997, p. 21.53.
- ↑ a b Ev. Forest Hospital Spandau - history. pgdiakonie.de
- ^ Karl HP Bienek: Spandau hospitals. The Spandau health system in the past and present. ERS-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-928577-15-8 , p. 66. Helmut Bräutigam: Workers' city "Great Hall". To the unknown story on the grounds of the Evangelical Forest Hospital Spandau. Ed .: Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Spandau, Berlin-Spandau 1997, p. 53 f.