Johanniter Hospital (Genthin)
The Johanniter Hospital is a partially listed hospital complex in Genthin in Saxony-Anhalt . The hospital has not been operational since 2017.
location
It is located at the address Karower Straße 1–3, on the eastern edge of the Genthiner old town, in a triangle formed by Karower Straße in the south and Berliner Chaussee in the north.
Architecture and history
On September 18, 1866, the Knight's Day of the Order of St. John concluded the construction of the hospital in Genthin, which began in 1867.
The Johanniter Hospital opened on July 15, 1868, initially with 30 beds. In 1908 an insulated house with ten beds was built. The bed capacity had now grown to 54 beds. An extension financed by the Inner Mission Genthin and Jerichow made it possible to provide 90 beds from 1926. By 1938 the number of beds had risen to 170. During the Second World War one as a reserve created on the hospital grounds hospital used barrack.
In 1945 150 deaconesses displaced from Gdansk came to the hospital. From May to June 1945 the notorious former concentration camp guard Erika Bergmann worked briefly as an auxiliary nurse in the house. In 1947 a nursing school was established. With the ban on the Order of St. John in the Soviet occupation zone , the Evangelical Church took over the hospital as its sponsor.
On April 1, 1977, a department for anesthesia and intensive care medicine was established as the new chief physician division. In 1981 an interdisciplinary intensive care unit was opened.
On May 5, 1991, the hospital was transferred back from the Protestant Church to the Order of St. John. Major modernizations and investments followed. On November 13, 1993, the construction of a new functional building began. A new ward block was also inaugurated. The start-up of the functional building including the central reception, emergency room, operating area and treatment rooms took place on January 13, 1996. In the same month an ENT department was set up. The surgical clinics were renovated in December 1997. From March 1999 there was a diabetes training and treatment area in the internal clinic. In 2001 it was recognized as a diabetes therapy facility. In January 2002 a dialysis practice was set up on the hospital premises.
In 2002 the hospital operated by the Johanniter merged with the Johanniter hospital in Stendal to form the Johanniter hospital Genthin-Stendal. From February 2004 orthopedic services were offered, the management for this being in Stendal. An Emotion Duo computed tomograph was put into operation on February 24, 2010.
In the early summer of 2017, it was announced that the Genthin site, which had 60 beds at last, would be closed at the end of 2017. The reason given was financial losses. Due to personnel problems then the closure was brought forward to September 29, 2017 and the remaining 43 employees were released.
The further use of the property was open. Johanniter announced that the area was to be ready for building. The demolition of buildings is necessary in order to enable later new developments. At the initiative of the alliance green city council Lutz Nitz, with the aim of preventing the demolition, an on-site meeting with the Genthiner mayor Matthias Günther and the alliance green member of the state parliament Olaf Meister took place on July 9, 2018 . Meister spoke out in favor of clarifying the question of whether parts of the complex should be classified as a monument. At his request, a short-term review was carried out by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology of Saxony-Anhalt, with the result that the old building, the extensions from 1908 and 1926, as well as the gatehouse and the laundry are listed. On July 17, 2018, they were entered in the monument register under registration number 107 65013 as a monument . The intended demolition of the historical parts of the building was prevented.
The search for a re-use concept continues. (As of 2018)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mike Fleske: Hospital closes on September 29th in the Volksstimme, published online on September 7th, 2017
- ↑ Simone Pötschke: The demolition of the clinic is picking up speed in the Volksstimme, published online on June 15, 2018
- ↑ Simone Pötschke: Hospital and no end in the Volksstimme, published online on July 12, 2018
- ↑ Simone Pötschke: Stop for demolition plans in the Volksstimme, published online on July 17, 2018
- ↑ Simone Pötschke: Genthiner call for alternatives in the Volksstimme, published online on September 15, 2018
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 21.1 ″ N , 12 ° 9 ′ 57 ″ E