Red Cross Hospital Lübeck

Entire hospital including the integrated villa

The patrician villa at Marlistraße 10 planned by Karl von Großheim , now part of the hospital

The Rotes Kreuz hospital in Lübeck is a specialist hospital for geriatrics and, with over 144 inpatient beds and 24 day clinics, is one of the three largest acute geriatric clinics in Germany. Since February 1, 2010, the hospital has been an academic teaching hospital of the University of Lübeck .

history

The Red Cross Hospital in Lübeck was opened in 1938 as an affiliated hospital instead of the previous hospital in Moltkestrasse . A nurses' school for the training of DRK sisters was attached. The old building has served as the motherhouse of the DRK sisterhood since 1935 . In the last two years of the Second World War, several hundreds of “refugee sisters” from eastern Germany were taken in and given medical care. After the end of the Second World War, the hospital was initially requisitioned by the British Army until 1949 and used as a hospital for displaced persons . The civil law transfer back to the DRK district association Lübeck as the legal successor to the Vaterländischer Frauenverein according to the DRK law of 1937 took place in 1951. At that time there was a capacity of 70 beds. In 1959, the DRK district association sold the hospital to the DRK sisterhood in Lübeck. In 1985 the parent company was expanded.

In July 2011, the Geriatrics research group was founded at the Red Cross Hospital, together with the Center for Population Medicine and Health Services Research at the University of Lübeck. The aim of this research group, headed by chief physician Martin Willkomm, is to further develop geriatric care for the Lübeck population and the surrounding regions.

Building

The patrician villa Marlistraße 10 of the Lübeck wine merchant Carl Tesdorpf, planned in the neo-renaissance style in 1884 by the architect Karl von Großheim , is included in the complex of the brick building of the hospital built in 1936 . He sold the property on the Wakenitz in 1900 to the shipowner Franz Horn ( Horn-Linie ), who had moved from Schleswig around 1900 and who owned the largest freighter shipping company in the German Reich as early as 1910. In 1931 the Guttempler -Loge became the owner of the house, before it was converted into a nurses' home in 1936. The hospital built as part of this was inaugurated in 1938.

literature

• Uwe Müller: St. Gertrud . (Small booklets on city history), ed. from the archive of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck , No. 2, Lübeck 1986. (on the history of the DRK hospital) ISBN 3-7950-3300-4
• Jan Zimmermann: St. Gertrud 1860–1945. A photographic foray. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2007, p. 77 (on the old building from Marlistraße 10) ISBN 978-3-86108-891-2 .

Web links

Commons : Hospital Rotes Kreuz Lübeck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• German Red Cross Hospital - Geriatric Center - History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] Official website of the Red Cross Hospital Lübeck -Geriatriezentrum-
2. ↑ In the service of the elderly . In: Lübecker Nachrichten of September 8, 2012, p. 11
3. ^ [2] Academic teaching hospitals of the University of Lübeck
4. ↑ In the service of the elderly . In: Lübecker Nachrichten of September 8, 2012, p. 11
5. ^ History of the DRK sisterhood in Lübeck
6. ↑ Müller, Lit., p. 67
7. ↑ Müller, Lit., p. 72
8. ↑ Müller, Lit., p. 72
9. ^ [3] Center for Population Medicine and Health Services Research - Geriatrics Research Group

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 23.5 "  N , 10 ° 42 ′ 30.2"  E