Kleinwachau Epilepsy Center

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Specialist clinic for neurology with epilepsy outpatient department
The so-called "Brunnenhaus" with the administration, the kitchen and a church hall

The Epilepsy Center Kleinwachau is an institution of the Diaconal Work of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony in the Radeberg district of Liegau-Augustusbad , 15 km northeast of Dresden .

The center consists of a specialist clinic for neurology , workshops, care and residential facilities for people with epilepsy and people with disabilities, as well as a special school and a daycare center.

history

The facility was founded on October 1, 1889 by the State Association for Inner Mission in the Kingdom of Saxony as an “institution for epileptics”, and on December 2, 1889, two deaconesses began caring for twelve children with seizures in a house. From 1889 until his death in 1923 , Karl von Brühl-Renard, the last lord of the Seifersdorfer castle, played a decisive role in the development as co-founder and chairman of the board. In the following years there was a steady expansion to 81 places in 1904 and 110 in 1910, divided into several houses: the girls' house (opening: December 2, 1889), the mountain house (opening: October 20, 1891), the forest house (11. July 1893, burned down on March 6, 1901), the valley house (October 23, 1903) and the representative Brunnenhaus (August 7, 1910).

During the National Socialist era , the authorities confiscated the facility and continued to run it under the name of the Landesjugendhof for those difficult to educate . Many residents of the facility were victims of euthanasia . Today a memorial on the site, inaugurated on October 19, 1995, commemorates the victims of the National Socialist racial policy.

From 1949 onwards, regular work in the facility was resumed. On October 1, 1950, the "Kleinwachau Special School" opened. In 1971, Kleinwachau was given its own pastor's office, and in the same year the keys to the Bodelschwinghhaus were handed over on December 6th .

After reunification , the facility was developed into a modern epilepsy center, and accordingly on June 15, 1991 it was renamed "Epilepsy Center Kleinwachau" and a sponsoring association was founded. On September 15, 1991, the meadow house and the first mixed residential group opened. The special school was officially recognized on January 1, 1993. On December 3, 1999 the new workshop for disabled people was inaugurated.

Today it has a specialist neurology clinic with an intensive monitoring station (since September 1, 2004), workshops and the special needs school for children with mental or physical disabilities have been added or expanded. The "Epilepsy Counseling Center Dresden", which opened on September 1, 2005, is affiliated. The Epilepsy Center has been operating as a non-profit company since January 1, 2007, and the intensive care monitoring station began operations on October 6 of the same year. On March 1, 2009, the MVZ Dresden followed at Lahmannring. Since 2010 there has been an entrepreneurial spin-off as a subsidiary of the Epilepsy Center: the company "paso doble" . It is also based on the site in Kleinwachau and is the first cross-sponsoring inclusion company in Central Germany. In addition to the Epilepsy Center, the Diakonie Stadtmission Dresden and Volkssolidarität Dresden are also responsible for this. The Christian day care center "Baumhaus" in Radeberg became the sponsorship of the Epilepsy Center Kleinwachau in 2016. The new clinic building (or extension) was inaugurated on March 31, 2017, and on January 3, 2018 Kleinwachau opened the first “Medical Center for Adult People with Disabilities” (MZEB) in Saxony.

organization

Around 600 people live and work in Kleinwachau. The facility consists of over 20 buildings in which the various departments are housed. The specialist clinic has 47 beds for disabled and non-disabled patients; Thomas Mayer is the chief physician . The workshops offer 210 jobs for people with disabilities. The special needs school teaches children and young people with intellectual disabilities at all grade levels, including residents of the center. In addition, patients from the children's ward in all types of schools are taught in the hospital school. Another large area of ​​work is living with care with 200 places in the shared apartments. The "Baumhaus" daycare center in Radeberg offers 18 crèche places, 46 kindergarten places and 21 day care places. In addition, there are a total of 8 integration spaces. Children are accepted from the age of 1 regardless of their denomination. The prerequisite is that the parents support the institution's Christian orientation.

Monument protection

The fountain house (now called Schadeberghaus ), the valley house , the barn behind the forest house and the garden house of the Kleinwachau complex are listed as historical monuments . The protected buildings were erected between 1890 and 1910.

literature

  • The epileptic sanatorium and nursing home in Kleinwachau by Walter Schadeberg, Regional Association for Inner Mission, 1940
  • Kleinwachau, Saxon Epilepsy Center Radeberg. Kleinwachau 125 years. The story of Kleinwachau . Radeberg, Saxon Epilepsy Center 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Get to know Kleinwachau , accessed on August 2, 2018.
  2. ↑ Laehr H .: The institutions for the mentally ill, nervous, feeble-minded, epileptic, drunkards, etc. in Germany, Austria and Switzerland including the psychiatric and neurological scientific institutes. 9th edition. W. de Gruyter & Co. 1937: 59, Berlin - Leipzig 1937, p. 59 .
  3. ↑ New ideas for Radeberg - inclusion soon in vocational training too? - There are plans for this at the Kleinwachau epilepsy center. In: Sächsische.de. DDV Mediengruppe GmbH & Co. KG, February 21, 2017, accessed on August 11, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Inclusion company paso doble "About us". Retrieved on August 11, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ New carrier for the “Baumhaus” daycare center. In: Sächsische.de. DDV Mediengruppe GmbH & Co. KG, October 16, 2016, accessed on August 11, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Interactive history of Kleinwachau , accessed on August 2, 2018.
  7. ↑ Site plan and overview of the houses , accessed on August 2, 2018.
  8. ↑ Förderschule Kleinwachau , accessed on August 2, 2018.
  9. ↑ Living with supervision , accessed on August 2, 2018.
  10. ↑ Little Bird | Christian day care center and family education center "tree house". Retrieved August 11, 2020 .
  11. ^ List of cultural monuments in the city of Radeberg (page 2/3). (PDF; 113 kB) Retrieved on August 2, 2018 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 27.9 ″  N , 13 ° 54 ′ 1 ″  E