Center for Psychiatry Emmendingen
The Center for Psychiatry Emmendingen is a psychiatric hospital in Emmendingen . Its catchment area is southern and central Baden . Among other things, it is an academic teaching hospital of the medical faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in addition to the district hospital Emmendingen . It is a public law institution and belongs to the Baden-Württemberg NDT group .
history
The house was founded in September 1889. The sanatorium and nursing home was built according to plans by Heinrich Schüle , then director of the Illenau nursing home near Achern.
From November 1939, the patients were initially recorded on registration forms as part of the Nazi “euthanasia” campaign T4 , then 1002 of them were taken between March 1940 and June 1941 in a total of 19 transports of the Gemeinnützige Krankentransportgesellschaft GmbH to Grafeneck , later Hadamar , where they were taken to most of them were murdered.
Facilities
The hospital now has 533 beds. It is subdivided into the four specialist areas of psychiatry and psychotherapy, affective disorders and psychosomatic medicine, geriatric psychiatry and psychotherapy, and addiction medicine.
See also
literature
- Heinz Faulstich : From care for the insane to “euthanasia”. History of psychiatry in Baden until 1945. Lambertus, Freiburg im Breisgau 1993, ISBN 3-7841-0664-1 .
- Monika Ankele: Everyday life and appropriation in psychiatric hospitals around 1900: Self-testimonies from women from the Prinzhorn collection. Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 2009
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richter, Gabriel (ed.): Die Fahrt ins Graue (n). The Emmendingen sanatorium and nursing home 1933–1945 and afterwards , Emmendingen, Center for Psychiatry 2002.
Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '56.4 " N , 7 ° 52' 6.8" E