Hospital for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine Schloss Werneck

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Werneck Castle, entire complex

The Hospital for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine Schloss Werneck is a specialist psychiatric hospital in Schloss Werneck , in Werneck in the Schweinfurt district .

history

The Bavarian State Parliament had decided to provide inpatient psychiatric care as widely as possible. King Max II of Bavaria left Werneck Castle to the Lower Franconia district for 155,000 guilders in order to build a mental asylum there. It was opened in 1855. Its first director was Bernhard Gudden . By 1900 the facility had around 800 beds.

Under the National Socialists, 227 patients at the Werneck sanatorium were forcibly sterilized. From October 3 to 6, 1940, the Werneck sanatorium was evacuated by order of the Würzburg district leader Otto Hellmuth as part of the T4 campaign . 777 patients were transferred - the target information “Unbek. Anst. "Each meant the murder of the patient:

In 1957 the clinic was reopened as such.

The senior physician Thomas Schmelter, who has been with the clinic since 1985, has been concerned with the history of the house in the Third Reich since 1990. In 2015, 600 registration forms were rediscovered in the main state archive in Wiesbaden, which helped Schmelter with the reconstruction of the patient's fate.

A memorial designed by Julian Walter was opened to the public on November 24, 1996.

Facility

The hospital now has 290 beds. The acute psychiatry functional area comprises a total of 7 wards.

See also

literature

  • Mathias Lutz: The history of psychiatry since 1850: The institution in Werneck. Munich, 2014. ISBN 978-3656574330 .
  • Thomas Schmelter: The sanatorium and nursing home in Werneck during the time of National Socialism. 1995
  • Thomas Schmelter: National Socialist Psychiatry in Bavaria. The evacuation of the sanatoriums and nursing homes. Deutscher Wissenschaftsverlag, Baden-Baden, 2000. ISBN 978-3935176033 .
  • Michael v. Cranach, Hans-Ludwig Siemen: Psychiatry in National Socialism. The Bavarian sanatorium and nursing home between 1933 and 1945. Chapter: Sanatorium and nursing home Werneck.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.werneck.de/GeschichteKrankenhaus.html
  2. ↑ http://www.psychiatrie-werneck.de/ueberuns/historisches/2423.Geschichte.html
  3. ↑ Michael Cranach: Psychiatry in National Socialism. Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71742-6 , p. 35 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ a b c Christine Jeske: The fate of the patients. In: Main-Post, May 5, 2015
  5. ↑ Mike Dütschke: "Partly transported like cattle". Patients from the psychiatry in Werneck were also sent to killing centers during the National Socialist era. In: Schweinfurter Tagblatt, January 13, 2000
  6. ↑ a b Christine Jeske: Search for the murdered patient. In: Main-Post, June 8, 2017
  7. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/geschichte/nationalsozialismus/erinnerungsorte/74848/erinnerungsorte-detailseite?id=641

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 50.4 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 3.7 ″  E