Lewenberg Clinic

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The former Lewenberg Clinic in Schwerin , Lewenberg district , Wismarsche Straße 298, is a monument in Schwerin . Today there is a retirement home, a daycare center as well as health and social facilities here.

history

Basedow memorial at Klinikum Sachsenberg (formerly in Park Lewenberg)

The disabled pedagogue Johann Basedow was a teacher at the Grand Ducal Insane Asylum on the Sachsenberg near Schwerin. In 1867 he persuaded Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II to found the educational and nursing institution for mentally weak children on the Lewenberg . Basedow ran the institute until 1899 (†). The so-called Basedowhaus, the three nursing homes, the utility building with ice cellar, the gatehouse and the park belonged to the complex. Lewenberg came to Schwerin in 1875.

The children's home was Lewenberg 1941 as a so-called Children's Ward in the mental hospital Sachsenbergstraße relocated (today Carl Friedrich Flemming Clinic ). Around 300 mentally and physically handicapped children were killed by active or passive killing by the end of the war in 1945.

The area of ​​the children's home was used by the district hospital after 1945 and was later named Klinikum Lewenberg .

Today (2020) there are:

  • The senior citizens' home in the two- and three-storey 20-axis clinkered listed building from 1867 with the central risalit with stepped gable in the Wilhelminian style , supplemented by a newer building,
  • the PASSENGER care and support services in a single-story house on the street
  • the three children's living groups (298c) and
  • the Parkcafé am Lewenberg (298c) in a two- and three-story building
  • the drug monitoring and testing center in the gatehouse,
  • the DRK state association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in a newer four-story building on the street with the Institute for Transfusion Medicine Schwerin from the DRK blood donation service,
  • the Schwerin hospice on Aubach in a newer single-storey house.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 565 .
  • Karl-Heinz Oldag: Basedow, Johann Joachim Heinrich . In: Unforgotten , 1996.

Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 42.3 "  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 23.5"  E