Lehe Hospital
The Lehe Hospital in Bremerhaven - Lehe , Wurster Strasse 49 / Eckernfeldstrasse 5, was a hospital from 1906 to 1976 and then became the seat of the health department and later of other municipal departments.
history
prehistory
In the district town of Lehe there was very poor health care until the beginning of the 20th century. The sick were cared for in the poor houses , first on Leher Markt in 1865, then in 1872 on Wurster Strasse on the outskirts of Kösters Höhren (today Marie-von-Seggern-Heim ). The stay cost 15 groschen a day. In 1887 only 61 sick people could be cared for. Sick people had to move to the hospital built in 1882 on Bogenstrasse in Bremerhaven.
New clinic building
In 1892 an expansion of the hospital or a new building was considered. The spots Lehe had but 1905 already 31,826 inhabitants until 1904 to 1906 was built the hospital Lehe to plans by the municipal architect Heinrich Lagershausen and opened on September 1, 1906th The first medical director was Dr. Adolf Hess. Almost at the same time, a community hospital was built in Geestemünde (1905) and the Catholic St. Joseph Hospital (1904) in Bremerhaven .
The two-wing hospital with three main floors was built for 120 beds. The building was set back from the street in a park landscape that continued at the rear. The building in the style of historicism is structured by numerous projections and recesses, which provided plenty of light and good ventilation. A simple design with a change between plastered and red brick surfaces ensures the structure. Übergiebelte risalits in the style Maerkisch Gothic Revival , which are set in the eaves of Rotsteinbögen, increased the design.
Separated from the main building for hygienic reasons, the single-storey insulated house was located on Eckernfeldstrasse and was increased by one storey from 1908 to 1909. The neighboring laundry room with disinfection and the morgue were on Abbestrasse. The morgue, with a tracery rose in the gable, has a sacred touch and was previously decorated with stained glass windows.
In 1906 the hospital still stood apart from the residential areas on Flötenkiel . There were only a few houses on Wurster Strasse . The housing estate on Eckernfeld and the small villa district on Wurster Strasse were not built until the clinic was built.
In 1909, after the isolation house was enlarged, the number of beds increased to 150. The hospital was surrounded by a garden park with a continuous circular path.
Further development
In 1929, the main building was extended considerably by the Röntgen Institute, based on plans by city building officer Wilhelm Kunz. The extension from the interwar period is also designed very objectively. Two entrance portals have a classicistic design language. The new main entrance to Wurster Straße has a group of figures in dark brown majolica . In the vestibule (vestibule) there are well-preserved, high-quality tile fittings.
The construction of a single-storey eye clinic, which has since been demolished, followed in 1972.
New use
The hospital was closed in 1976 after the city opened the Reinkenheide Central Hospital (now the Bremerhaven Clinic ). The hospital building became the seat of the health department and then other municipal departments such as the environmental protection department.
Monument protection
In 2010 the Lehe hospital and the group of buildings were placed under monument protection as an ensemble .
literature
- Gerhard Dörks: The public health system. In: Bremerhaven today. 1964.
- Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries. (Volumes I to III from 1827 to 1991.) Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 / ISBN 3-927857-37-8 / ISBN 3-927857-22-X .
- Ernst Beplate: The French Hospital in Lehe. In: Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt , No. 637 (2003).
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 30.3 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 28.8" E