GRN care center Weinheim
The GRN care center Weinheim is a care facility in Weinheim , Rhein-Neckar-Kreis . The Rhein-Neckar health centers are responsible for this .
history
The Weinheim district care facility was founded in 1885 as an institution for the Mannheim district in Baden .
In the 1930s, an average of about 400 patients were treated. Frequent diagnoses were schizophrenia , “congenital or acquired dementia”, epilepsy , and age-related physical illnesses.
time of the nationalsocialism
In 1934 the physician Heinz Bock took over the management of the district nursing home. On the basis of the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring , forced sterilizations were carried out on patients at the district nursing home .
At the beginning of the Second World War, the patients and the staff of the district nursing home were transferred to the Gerlachsheim monastery near Lauda for two months to make way for a reserve hospital.
At about the same time, the patients were recorded with registration forms for the T4 campaign . On October 15, 1940, 66 patients were transported to the Grafeneck killing center and murdered. 36 male and 38 female patients were brought to the Wiesloch facility on March 26 and April 2, 1941 , which served as an intermediate facility. From there, 70 of them were transported to the Hadamar killing center on April 30, 1941 . In addition, at least eight other Weinheim patients were brought to the Grafeneck killing center via Sinsheim and to Hadamar via Wiesloch. A total of 144 patients from the Weinheim district care facility were murdered as part of “Aktion T4”.
The Jewish patients were included in the extermination. One of them was murdered in Grafeneck. Six were on 22 October 1940 together with the Baden and Palatinate Saar Jews in the Gurs camp in southern France deported - four of them came in Gurs to a patient was in Auschwitz murdered, a fate remains unknown.
In October 1943 a total of 224 patients were transferred to other Baden district nursing homes. The house served as an alternative hospital for the Mannheim City Clinic.
post war period
A commemorative publication was written for the institution's 75th anniversary in 1960.
Facility
Today, patients who need full inpatient long-term care in accordance with § 72 SGB XI and people with disabilities in accordance with §§ 53-60 SGB XII (integration assistance) are cared for in the facility. There are 124 seats.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Marie-Laura Berger: The district nursing home Weinheim in National Socialism. Dissertation, 2011, 298 pages
- ^ Creation of the Weinheim district care facility, here: construction contracts.
- ↑ Wiki Rhein-Neckar History: Weinheim district care facility.
- ↑ Heinz Bock: Memorandum on the 75th anniversary of the Weinheim / Bergstrasse district nursing home: History of the Mannheim district nursing home from 1885-1960. Beltz, 1960, 24 pages
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 14.8 " N , 8 ° 39 ′ 34.8" E