Insane asylum Siegburg

The insane asylum in Siegburg was the psychiatric clinic for the Prussian Rhine Province from 1825 to 1877 .

history

The first madhouses were built at the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries. While the concept of the Vienna Narrenturm (1784) still focused on safe custody, the retreat (1796) focused on the well-being of the residents. In Germany, early foundings were made in Sonnenstein (Saxony) and Schleswig in 1820.

In Prussia , too , plans were made to set up a sanatorium for the Rhine Province based on these models. The concept of the mental hospital was program: only patients who were classified as curable should be admitted, incurable patients should only be admitted if and as long as there were free places. The institution should have a capacity of 200 places. In 1820, Minister Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein commissioned the medical councilor Maximilian Jacobi to plan the mental hospital. Bensberg Castle and the buildings of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Michael in Siegburg , which was abolished in the course of secularization in 1803, were discussed as locations . In autumn 1822, the decision was made to go to Siegburg. After the necessary renovations, the sanatorium opened on January 1, 1825.

In the 1860s, the sanatorium had not only become too small, it also had structural defects. In 1865 the provincial parliament therefore passed a resolution according to which an insane asylum with a capacity of 200 places was to be created in each of the five administrative districts of the Rhine Province. As a provincial insane asylum, these should be subject to the administration of the province. This plan was implemented over the next 17 years and the following provincial insane asylum was rebuilt. In 1878 the last patients were moved from Siegburg.

Surname	place	Establishment date	image
Grafenberg Provincial Insane Asylum	Grafenberg	1876
Provincial Insane Asylum Bonn	Bonn	1882
Provincial Insane Asylum Andernach	Then after	1876
Provincial lunatic asylum Düren	Düren	1878
Rhenish provincial insane asylum in Merzig	Merzig	1876-1998

ladder

• Max Jacobi (1825-1858)
• Willing (1858-1859)
• Fr. Hoffmann (1859–1863)
• Richarz (1863)
• Nasse (1863–1878)

See also

• History of Psychiatry

literature

• The provincial insane, blind and deaf-mute institutions of the Rhine Province in their formation, development and constitution. Shown On the basis of a resolution of the 26th Rhineland Provincial Parliament of May 3, 1879, Düsseldorf: Voss 1880, digitized .

Individual evidence

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