Kemperhof
| Kemperhof | |
|---|---|
| place | Koblenz |
| state | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 21 '21 " N , 7 ° 33' 52" E |
| executive Director | Melanie Zöller, Karl-Ferdinand von Fürstenberg |
| Care level | Maximum care (hospital network) |
| beds | 520 |
| Employee | 1500 |
| including doctors | 150 |
| areas of expertise | 12 |
| founding | November 13, 1805 |
| Website | Kemperhof Koblenz |
The Kemperhof is a hospital in Koblenz .
The hospital, founded in 1805 in a former Franciscan monastery , has been located in the Moselweiß district at Koblenzer Strasse 115–155 since 1923 and today has eleven specialist departments with a total of 520 beds. It employs around 1,500 people, including around 150 doctors and 600 nurses . More than 25,000 inpatients and 57,000 outpatients are treated annually. Emergency patients transported by rescue helicopter can be brought in quickly via a helicopter landing pad in front of the hospital. The Kemperhof is part of the Mittelrhein Community Clinic, a maximum care clinic network founded in 2014 .
history
Beginnings as a community hospital
The beginnings of a larger hospital in Koblenz go back to a decree by Emperor Napoleon I of October 1, 1804. Up until then there were only a large number of smaller hospitals and charities in the city. The oldest nursing facility was the Nikolaus-Hospital of the St. Florin monastery from 1110. This was followed by the establishment of a hospital of the Teutonic Knight Order next to the Castor Church . Later Trier electors, most recently Clemens Wenzeslaus , tried to merge the individual hospitals into one large hospital, but this repeatedly failed.
It was the Prefect of the Department of Rhin-et-Moselle Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia who finally carried out Napoleon's decree to build a larger hospital. On November 13, 1805, the emperor issued an executive decree. The new hospital with the name “Hospice spécialement destiné au traitement des blessés et des maladies curables” (hospital for the wounded and curable sick) was built in the building of the Franciscan monastery , which was secularized in 1802, in Kastorstrasse, initially with 20 beds. In the beginning, however, it was more of a military hospital . It was gradually enlarged and rebuilt, especially after the hospital was cleared in 1825 and handed over to the Cooperative of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Borromeo .
On July 1, 1871, the administration was transferred to the city administration due to a federal law. This went hand in hand with renewed conversions and expansions of the hospital, now called "Bürgerhospital Koblenz". When smallpox broke out in Koblenz in 1882 , there was no longer any possibility of isolating the smallpox sufferers in the hospital. For this reason, wooden barracks were built on the Moselweisser Feld. The new outer ward was expanded in July 1883 and 70 normal beds, 40 beds for epidemic patients and 6 cots were created.
Relocation to the Kemperhof
After the First World War, the old hospital on Kastorstrasse no longer met the requirements. The city council therefore decided on February 28, 1921, at the instigation of Mayor Karl Russell, to purchase the "Kemperhof", a Cistercian house in Moselweiß. The Hofgut, known as the "Camperhof", had belonged to the Camp Abbey near Kamp-Lintfort since 1200 and was sold to the Carthusians in 1355 . After the secularization , the male order of the Cistercians built an orphanage and a school on the former estate in 1851 according to plans by the Koblenz master builder Adolf Osterhaus. The St. Joseph Chapel was added on the northeast side from 1860–1861. It initially served as an orphanage chapel and from 1923 to 1973 for the Borromean women who worked here as nurses . In the 1870s and 1880s the complex received further extensions. A large hospital was built in this building complex from 1921 to 1923; the inauguration took place on May 5, 1923, and additional extensions were added on the Moselle side.
During the Second World War , the Kemperhof was hit several times in air raids . But it remained the only functioning hospital in the city until the end. For this purpose, two bunkers were built in 1943 and 1944 , which have been preserved to this day. The first post-war mayor, Franz Lanters , stayed in the east bunker of the Kemperhof towards the end of the war, where he had undergone an eye operation. In March 1945 he spoke fluent English to American soldiers and asked them to protect the four Koblenz hospitals and the rest of the city. From here, together with other people, he called on the German soldiers remaining in Koblenz to give up the fighting. After the war, the old Kemperhof building was rebuilt by 1949.
New building and clinic merger
Today's modern clinic building was built between 1968 and 1973 on the grounds of the old Kemperhof. The inauguration took place on July 1, 1973. In the following period the hospital was further expanded, the last time a building with new operating theaters was completed in 1998. The old building now houses administration and management as well as a nursing school.
On July 19, 2005, the Kemperhof merged with the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Mayen to form the “Kemperhof Koblenz Community Hospital - St. Elisabeth Mayen”. The clinic network was expanded in 2014 to include the St. Martin Evangelical Monastery in Koblenz, the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Boppard and the Paulinenstift in Nastätten . The new and larger clinic network is called the Mittelrhein Community Clinic .
Today the Kemperhof is the seat of the management as well as the main central administrative departments of the whole group.
In 2017, the plans of the management and the shareholders to give up the second clinic location in Koblenz, the Evangelical Abbey of St. Martin, in the medium term and to merge all departments at the Kemperhof location for economic reasons. The prerequisite for this is appropriate financial support from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for the necessary construction work and a re-use concept for the previous location.
Medical departments
The hospital has the following clinics:
- Internal medicine - cardiology
- Internal medicine - gastroenterology , diabetology , endocrinology
- Internal medicine - nephrology , infectious diseases
- General and visceral surgery
- Orthopedics , trauma surgery , hand and reconstructive surgery
- Vascular surgery and phlebology
- Urology and Pediatric Urology
- Gynecology and Obstetrics
- Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
- Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
- Anesthesia , intensive and emergency medicine , pain therapy
- Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
- Radiation Oncology and Radiation Therapy
The following centers also exist:
- Colon Cancer Center
- Diabetes Center
- Vascular Center Middle Rhine
- Prostate Cancer Center
- Breast center
- Tumor center
- Trauma center
- Center for Pain Medicine
Old building and chapel of the Kemperhof
The old Kemperhof building ( 50 ° 21 ′ 23 ″ N , 7 ° 33 ′ 48.7 ″ E ) is located on the northwest side of today's clinic area. The two-story quarry stone building on the east side is the oldest part. It is structured with arched walls made of basalt , friezes made of brick under the eaves and a dwelling above the entrance.
The St. Josef Chapel is a long hall building on four axes with a final 5/8 choir . The exposed quarry stone building has stepped buttresses and two-lane tracery windows with quatrefoil closure. The roof structure including the roof turrets had to be replaced after the fire on September 11, 2008. Inside, the chapel is vaulted with ribs and has an organ loft with an organ and a neo-Gothic prospect . The furnishings include a crucifixion group above the altar , a copy of the crucifix from St. Gereon in Cologne , a Mother of God with child (18th century) on the right-hand arch and a historicizing statue of Joseph by the Koblenz sculptor Helwegen from 1926.
The St. Josef Chapel to the right of the old building from 1851
The interior of the Chapel of St. Joseph
The interior with the organ
The bell that was destroyed in the 2008 fire
Monument protection
The old building of the Kemperhof from 1851 with the St. Josef chapel is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Moselweiß at (near) Koblenzer Straße 115 - 157 .
literature
- 200 years of service to people. Community Hospital Koblenz-Mayen. Kemperhof location. 2 volumes, Garwain-Verlag Koblenz 2005/2007
- Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
- Vol. 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X
- Vol. 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5
- Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Speech by the mayor of Koblenz on the 200th anniversary of the Kemperhof ( memento of the original from January 21, 2016 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. (PDF; 23.4 kB), November 18, 2005
- ↑ Clinic merger between the Mittelrhein Foundation Clinic and the Koblenz-Mayen Community Clinic has now been completed in: Rhein-Zeitung , July 25, 2014
- ↑ www.rhein-zeitung.de: The merger of Stift and Kemperhof is almost certain , accessed on January 12, 2018.
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz (PDF; 1.5 MB), Koblenz 2013
