Auxiliary Hospital Wedel
The Wedel auxiliary hospital was the largest facility of its kind in Germany. It is located as an underground bunker below the local high school in Wedel in the Pinneberg district , Schleswig-Holstein .
Construction and use
Together with the Johann-Rist-Gymnasium , the Wedel auxiliary hospital was built in several phases between 1964 and 1975 with funds from the federal budget. For this purpose, an underground bunker was first built, on which the school was then built. In order to be protected from the dangers of biological and chemical warfare agents and atomic radiation, the ceiling of the bunker was built 35 cm and the walls up to 50 cm thick from reinforced concrete. The cost of construction amounted to 5.6 million D-Marks , the cost of the equipment to one million D-Mark.
In an emergency, both building units would have formed a hospital with 1,694 patient beds (710 underground in the bunker and 984 above ground in the classrooms). In addition, the complex had 210 beds for technical and medical staff, including 16 doctors. The sports field right next to the back entrance would have served as a helicopter landing pad, emergency patients would have been spotted in the gym so that they could be operated on in the underground bunker if necessary. The Hamburg-Rissen General Hospital acted as the assigned parent hospital , and later the Hamburg-Altona General Hospital ; these hospitals also provided the medical staff. The hospital would have been operational within 48 hours. It was planned that with this equipment and with the help of supplies, the hospital could be kept in operation for three weeks independently of the outside world. In the event of a disaster or defense, not only the underground rooms but also the school building would have been used for medical purposes.
The auxiliary hospital was never used for its actual purpose, apart from an exercise in 1975. However, in 1976 it served as emergency shelter after the January storm flood and as quarters for visitors to the Church Congress. It was also used by the police as a practice area for house-to-house fighting in nested unknown objects. In 1977, 1980 and 1981 police officers from other federal states were accommodated in the rooms, who were assigned to reinforce operations for demonstrations at the Brokdorf nuclear power plant and in Hamburg's Hafenstrasse to northern Germany.
The auxiliary hospital was administered by the Hamburg health authority and, from April 1998, by the civil protection office of the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of the Interior.
In 2014, part of the system was renovated by Grassau Storage & Service UG and set up for various purposes, but primarily as a warehouse.
Between September 2015 and April 2017, large parts of the bunker were used as a storage location for goods donated in the course of the refugee crisis from the clothing store exhibition halls, later Hanseatic Help eV .
Furnishing
- 1,694 patient beds, 34 of which were recently operated
- Emergency kitchen for 1,000 meals a day
- 156 rooms
- two wells for water supply
- two independent power grids, two emergency diesel engines with 144 hp each
When the facility was closed in 1992, the stock of materials stored consisted of 2,311 blankets, 3,850 towels, 135 slippers, 120 sippy cups, 88 rubber aprons and 6 baby bathtubs.
Web links
- Article about the Wedel auxiliary hospital
- Tour through the bunker of Hamburger Unterwelten eV
- Report from the alumni magazine everrist
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Jan Grobys, Kai Raudzus: A ghostly bunker labyrinth . In: Circle of alumni and friends of the Johann-Rist-Gymnasium Wedel eV (Ed.): Everrist . tape 2 , 1998, p. 118-122 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Katy Krause: Wedeler hoarding relief supplies for refugees in Hamburg. September 8, 2015, accessed December 27, 2018 .
- ^ Hanseatic Help - Facebook post. March 31, 2017, accessed August 15, 2018 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 10 ″ N , 9 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ E