Karl Jaspers Clinic Wehnen
The Karl-Jaspers-Klinik (formerly Lower Saxony State Hospital Wehnen ) is a hospital for psychiatry , psychotherapy and psychosomatics in the Bad Zwischenahn district of Wehnen . The clinic is run by the Psychiatrieverbund Oldenburger Land gGmbH.
history
The Karl Jaspers Clinic was opened on March 15, 1858 under the name "Insane Asylum in Wehnen", initially designed for 80 patients. The first director was Franz Ludwig Anton Kelp . In 1903 the name was changed to "Heil- und Pflegehaus Wehnen".
By the turn of the century, the number of patients had risen to 225 and by 1911 to 310, so that additional hospital wards and farm buildings were needed, which were built in the pavilion style in the following years .
time of the nationalsocialism
In the time of National Socialism , patients were also killed in Wehnen as part of the Nazi murders through systematic starvation and medical neglect. For this purpose, patients from other clinics in the Wesermarsch were also transferred to the house. The doctor Kurt Mönch was the pioneer of this thinking in the clinic .
According to studies by the historian Ingo Harms, at least 1,500 patients were killed. The prosecution's investigations were later quickly closed.
The film I will not be silent by Esther Gronenborn from 2017 takes up the topic.
post war period
In 1974 the Oldenburg district association took over the sponsorship of the clinic from the state social welfare association, and in 1975 the state of Lower Saxony.
Since 2004 an exhibition in the old pathology , which is located on the clinic premises, commemorates the victims in the time of National Socialism.
The hospital, which is sponsored by the State of Lower Saxony, changed its sponsor on July 1, 2007, and the Psychiatrieverbund Oldenburger Land gGmbH became the sponsor. As part of the change in the carrier on August 1, 2007, the house was named after the Oldenburg philosopher and psychiatrist Karl Jaspers .
Facility
The clinic has 591 beds in the fully inpatient area and 84 places in the partial inpatient area, and it employs around 980 people (as of 2018).
The clinic has the security order for the inpatient psychiatric care of the districts Ammerland, Vechta, Oldenburg, Cloppenburg, Wittmund and Wesermarsch, as well as the cities of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg.
In addition to two general psychiatric functional areas, the range of treatments includes the areas of psychosomatics, geriatric psychiatry, psychotherapy and addiction, as well as forensic psychiatry (youth forensics ). There is also a day clinic and ambulance on the hospital premises, as well as day clinics in the cities of Cloppenburg , Delmenhorst , Bad Zwischenahn , Westerstede and Brake (Unterweser) .
With the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, the Karl Jaspers Clinic is part of the medical campus of the University of Oldenburg and is an academic teaching hospital of the University of Oldenburg.
The Karl Jaspers Clinic has been cooperating with the European Medical School since it was founded in 2012.
literature
- L. Kelp: The Großherzoglich Oldenburgische Insane Asylum in Wehnen shown in its entire facility: together with an appendix and a tarpaulin. Verlag G. Stalling, Oldenburg 1861. [1]
- Paul Kollmann: The mentally ill population in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg: according to the results of the census of December 1, 1880, as well as in comparison with those of earlier recordings. Communication from the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Statistical Bureau. Berlin 1883. [2]
- M. Roth: Essays on the history of medicine in the Duchy of Oldenburg. Littmann, Oldenburg 1921, VIII [3]
- Christel Maeder: Founding history of the Lower Saxony State Hospital Wehnen near Oldenburg. Rösemeier, Bad Zwischenahn-Ofen 1991. [4]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Karl Jaspers Clinic. From the foundation to the turn of the century: 1858-1900. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
- ^ Kelp, Franz Ludwig Anton. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 366-367 ( online ).
- ↑ From the turn of the century to the Weimar Republic: 1900 - 1933. Accessed July 8, 2019.
- ↑ Alfred Fleßner and Ingo Harms: The Oldenburg Nazi "euthanasia" and their victims. (PDF; 2.7 MB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 7, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.weser-kurier.de/region/die-norddeutsche_artikel,-Die-meisten-Aerzte-wischen-was-sie-taten-_arid,1277658.html
- ↑ Wehnen Memorial | Memorial Circle Wehnen eV | Wehnen Memorial. Retrieved on February 28, 2020 (German).
- ↑ a b http://www.ndr.de/kultur/geschichte/Heil-und-Pflegeanstalt-Wehnen,wehnen124.html
- ↑ Ingo Harms: The fate of foreign patients in the sanatorium and nursing home in Wehnen during National Socialism. (PDF; 168 kB)
- ↑ Ingo Harms: "Wat mööt wi smachten ..." - starvation and "euthanasia" in the sanatorium in Wehnen in the "Third Reich". Printing and Publishing Cooperative , 1997, ISBN 3-925713-25-5
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 '12 " N , 8 ° 8' 14.3" E