Wittmund Hospital

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Wittmund Hospital
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Sponsorship Wittmund hospital gGmbH
place Wittmund
state Lower Saxony
Coordinates 53 ° 34 '19 "  N , 7 ° 47' 18"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '19 "  N , 7 ° 47' 18"  E
executive Director Alfred Siebolds
beds 152
Employee 248 full-time employees
including doctors 39
areas of expertise 4th
founding 1903
Website kh-wtm.de

The hospital Wittmund is an acute care hospital in public ownership of the district Wittmund in Wittmund in East Friesland . It has 152 beds and is one of the largest employers in the city with 389 employees.

history

Main entrance
Hospital Chapel: Room of Silence

Around 1900, 55,430 people lived in the district, 2116 of whom lived in 356 houses in what was then Wittmund. Hospital visits were only possible via bad roads to Jever or Wilhelmshaven .

In 1887, the district committee of the Wittmund district dealt with the idea of ​​building a district hospital in Esens . For lack of money, which was also needed for road construction, they refrained from doing so. In 1898 construction and cost plans were obtained and the first profitability calculations were made.

In November 1902 the district committee decided to build a hospital in Esens and Wittmund. The donation from Pastor A. was decisive for the construction of both hospitals. D. Peter Friedrich Ludwig Hoffmann. The son of a North pharmacist, who had been pastor in Buttforde since 1865 , devoted himself to art in retirement and also painted himself. He donated 50,000  gold marks to build both hospitals. The donation was notarized on March 31, 1903. Hoffmann died on October 29, 1904. In his deed of donation, he determined the company carrying out the construction and also that the hospital in Esens should be named after him as the Peter-Friedrich-Ludwig-Stift . With the donation one could buy two stately farms at that time.

The hospitals were built in 1903 and 1904. The former Schlossplatz, which until then had served as Schützenplatz, was chosen as the building plot in Wittmund. The hospitals were almost identical; the Wittmund house had 23 beds, the Esenser 21 beds. The Wittmund hospital was structured as follows: The women's ward with seven beds was on the ground floor. There was also a bathroom, a laundry room, a living room and bedroom for the nurse and a room for the doctor. Minor operations should also be performed in the latter room. On the first floor was the men's ward with 11 beds, two bathrooms, a nurses bedroom and a larger "scabies cell", in which whole families could be accommodated. In the attic there was a large drying floor, a storage room, a bathroom and four small sick rooms with another 5 beds.

The construction and equipment costs of the two hospitals amounted to 183,378 marks and 84 pfennigs. This was paid for by a donation from Pastor Hoffmann and by the sale of shares, grass, a loan from the Ostfriesische Sparkasse Aurich and the state treasury. Wittmund Hospital was opened on January 15, 1905. The first senior physician was Tjarks, who died in 1908. His successor Eduard Zunker stayed until 1951. The first X-ray machine was purchased under his leadership in 1914. The patients registered in the hospital showed that the hospital was becoming increasingly busy. While there were between 90 and 100 patients per year in the first 3 years, this number rose sharply by 150 per year from 1908. In 1947 there were 872 (55 births, 30 deaths). One of the reasons for the rise in patient numbers after the war years was the frequent diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases and the large number of births (including miscarriages). In 1944, 44 births by Polish and Russian farm workers were registered.

Under the head of Wolfgang Schwerk (1951 to 1969) the hospital was expanded by 40 beds in 1953; more departments were set up and doctors hired. In 1958 that was no longer sufficient; however, no further extensions were made. Today the building is used as the administrative building of the Wittmund district.

With the state of Lower Saxony participating in the costs of 40%, construction of the new hospital in the south-east of Wittmund began in 1965. The T-shaped building (100 meters long, 18 meters wide and 10 meters high) was completed in 1968. The original cost plan (5.425 million DM) was exceeded by far. The finished hospital cost DM 11,293,463, due to the high groundwater level with aggressive bog water, with the result that the entire bed wing had to be built with a cellar. Under the direction of Roland Marchand (1969 to 1988), the great-great-grandson of the East Frisian professor Johann Christian Reil , the hospital was expanded in 1983 for 9.5 million DM.

In 1979 the occupancy rate of the hospital fell to 77.03%. Restructuring measures resulted in an average occupancy rate of 87% in 1983.

structure

Wittmund Hospital has had 152 beds since 2014 (increase from 142 to 152 beds) in two specialist departments and three occupancy departments. In 2010, 7,578 (2013: 8,472) inpatients and over 10,000 (2013: 12,800) outpatients were treated. Around 450 babies are delivered each year in the gynecological and obstetric department. The Wittmund district is the sole shareholder of the Wittmund hospital gGmbH . The Friends of the Wittmund Hospital e. V. supports the Wittmund Hospital ideally, materially and financially.

areas of expertise

Special feature of Low German

The Wittmund Hospital is an active supporter of the Low German language and already refers to the bilingualism maintained in the house on the home page of its website. Low German is officially recognized and protected in Germany under the Language Charter of the Council of Europe . In Germany, the relevant regulations came into force in 1999. Since 2008 most of the municipalities of East Frisia have had a Low German representative. As part of the “Plattdüütsch för d 'Arbeid in the Wittmund district” campaign, the importance of the Low German language in the world of work was determined. A survey was then carried out at the Wittmund hospital on the staff's knowledge of Low German. The results of the survey showed that 71% of employees can speak Low German and 90% can understand it. In other publications, the importance of cultivated bilingualism was underlined. The patients and their relatives appreciate it when you can talk to the nursing staff in Low German.

literature

  • Dorothee Jostes: Wittmund District Hospital , origin and development from 1905 to 1989 , Wittmund 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numbers and facts. Wittmund Hospital, at KH-Wtm.de, accessed on August 25, 2019.
  2. ^ Wittmund District Hospital, Origin and Development from 1905 to 1989 (Dorothee Jostes), Wittmund 1989
  3. ^ Hospital Wittmund - About us - Figures and facts , accessed on October 1, 2014
  4. ^ Hospital Wittmund - About us , accessed on August 8, 2011
  5. ↑ Friends of the Wittmunder Clinic donates an incubator , accessed on September 25, 2018
  6. ↑ Wittmund Hospital website - updates , accessed on August 7, 2011
  7. ^ Annual report 2009 of the East Frisian Landscape - Low German Office ( Memento from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ Who can speak Plattdütsk? / Who can speak Low German? , accessed August 7, 2011
  9. ↑ Anzeiger für Harlingerland: Current section - Low German is like medicine , edition of October 30, 2010