Auxiliary Hospital Bonn-Beuel

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The Bonn-Beuel auxiliary hospital was the 14th auxiliary hospital in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located as an underground bunker under the gym of the Integrated Comprehensive School Bonn-Beuel .

Construction and use

The first planning for the construction of the auxiliary hospital began in 1978, it was built in four and a half years in several construction phases. The interior work was completed in 1983. The auxiliary hospital was put into operation as part of a ceremony in the spring of 1984, during which it was also handed over by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to the then federal capital, Bonn .

With the handover, the federal capital Bonn took a leading position in the field of civil protection in the Federal Republic of Germany. Whereas in 1984 there were shelter spaces for 3% of the population in the Federal Republic of Germany, the then federal capital had shelter for 13% of the population (Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger of May 8, 1984).

The underground, radiation-protected auxiliary hospital was supposed to offer protection from radioactive precipitation and biological warfare, for this reason it was provided with 60 cm thick outer walls. The costs for the auxiliary hospital amounted to 9 million DM, it was financed by the State Ministry for Health and Social Affairs with direct grants from the Federal Office for Civil Protection.

The building has an area of ​​approx. 2900 m² and has nine hospital wards and four operating rooms on two floors with all the necessary laboratory, sterilization, X-ray and ambulance facilities. In addition, there is a kitchen, staff rooms for 126 employees and, directly at the main entrance, a lock with a detoxification section and radiation-protected clothes drop in the building. In addition to the main entrance and exit, in the form of a long ramp, the auxiliary hospital also has three emergency exits. Two of these emergency exits are stairs with a width of 1.30 meters. The third exit is in the form of a ladder.

If necessary, the auxiliary hospital was able to accept 463 patients. The auxiliary hospital was never activated because emergency care on such a scale was never required. Especially since every clinic in Bonn is set up to step in to a limited extent in the event of sudden emergencies and only when its capacity is no longer sufficient should the auxiliary hospital be activated. In the event of a defense or disaster, however, the patients and staff could have lived and worked for 3–4 weeks without outside help.

According to the State Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, the responsible medical group for hospital operations should be provided by the Bonn District Association of the Red Cross . The Bonn University Clinic was proposed as the parent hospital by the city of Bonn . If necessary, the equipment should be delivered from the drug and equipment store of the civil defense in Drabenderhöhe . This was rehearsed as part of an exercise on May 4 and May 5, 1984, when it was handed over to the city of Bonn, with demonstrations among the population.

use

The building was used twice to accommodate people. On the one hand, around 600 police officers were housed there for ten days at the World Economic Summit in 1985 , and on the other hand, in 1989, the Federal Ministry of the Interior housed around 300 GDR emigrants.

In 2016, the city of Bonn checked whether the building could be used to accommodate refugees (as part of the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 ).

Furnishing

  • 463 patient beds, including 25 special beds and 20 children's beds
  • 4 operating rooms
  • 9 stations
  • Decontamination lock
  • Emergency kitchen
  • Well for water supply
  • Emergency diesel

swell

  • The emergency hospital stands - but the doctors are missing . In: Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger . May 8, 1984.
  • Survive bunker clinic with stew . In: Express . May 7, 1984.
  • A hospital just in case . In: Bonner Rundschau . May 7, 1984.
  • Columns of trucks brought supplies and medicine to the bunker clinic . In: Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger . May 7, 1984.
  • Bonn emergency clinic underground . In: Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger . May 1, 1984.
  • The Beueler auxiliary hospital is only used on D-Day . In: Bonner Rundschau . March 2, 1984.
  • Disaster clinic with three emergency exits . In: General-Anzeiger . January 28, 1982.
  • Emergency hospital equipped for emergencies . In: Bonner Rundschau . January 27, 1982.
  • Only one exit for disaster clinic . In: General-Anzeiger . January 27, 1982.
  • The radioactive rays stay in the poison lock . In: Rhein-Sieg-Anzeiger . July 18, 1980.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ^ Andreas Dyck: Refuge in the Beuel bunker. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. February 2, 2016, accessed on February 2, 2016 (with numerous photos of the bunker).

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 1.7 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 51.1 ″  E