Stanggaß health clinic

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Empty building parts of the former clinic in Stanggaß (2018)

The Kurklinik Stanggaß (also: Klinik in der Stanggaß Berchtesgaden ) is a hospital built between 1938 and 1942 according to plans by Edgar Berge in the district of Stanggaß in the municipality of Bischofswiesen in the Berchtesgadener Land district . The hospital was used as a rehabilitation clinic from 1974 until it closed in 1996 . Named after Dietrich Eckart in Dietrich-Eckart Hospital , it was during the 1942 World War II as a Wehrmacht hospital opened. After the end of the war, it was used from June 2, 1945 under the name New Hospital , later supply hospital , from 1945 to 1973 as a "disabled hospital" for lung patients. From 1974 in private hands under the name Kurklinik , the operator went bankrupt in 1996 . Since then, the entire facility has been lying idle and neglected.

history

The old Berchtesgaden district hospital (from 1939 "district hospital") suffered from constant overcrowding since the 1930s due to the large-scale buildings initiated during the Nazi era on Obersalzberg and the redesign of the Berchtesgaden station district. Adolf Hitler therefore asked for an additional "new hospital corresponding to the importance of the country" in the vicinity of his Reich Chancellery in Berchtesgaden . The foundation stone was laid on May 6, 1938 in the presence of Erich Hilgenfeldt , the head of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV). Although the topping-out ceremony was celebrated on December 15, 1939, the Gauleiter of Munich Upper Bavaria and Bavarian Interior Minister Adolf Wagner did not open the new Dietrich Eckart Hospital until June 13, 1942. The NSV paid for the construction costs and provided the nursing staff and owners however, the market town of Berchtesgaden became . Praised as "one of the most modern Nazi sanatoriums ", the hospital was put into operation as a Wehrmacht hospital. A planned NS nurses' school to complement the facility was no longer implemented.

After the end of the war, it was used from June 2, 1945 under the name Neues Krankenhaus , later a supply hospital until 1973 as a "disabled hospital" for lung patients, then with a private operator under the name Kurklinik Stanggaß as a rehabilitation clinic, in the first few years especially for war victims with cardiac, Circulatory and bronchial metabolic diseases.

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In 1996 the operator of the hospital went bankrupt and the facility has been empty since then. Despite the barbed wire fencing, the destruction continued in the building. In 2019 it was said that there were preliminary plans for a new use of the site.

architecture

The architect of the hospital was construction officer Edgar Berge. The low building was designed for 200 patients. The sickrooms all faced south and had balconies so that the beds could be pushed into the sun.

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In an unrealized project description by the architect Andrés Kunze-Sanzana for a conversion of the clinic into a “wellness and spa hotel” from 2010, it says about the original equipment: “The spacious building has the typical features of representative architecture of its time, such as a swimming pool, a library, hand paintings and an elaborate entrance hall, which was built from red Untersberg marble . It adapts to the regional architectural style and offers an impressive view of the mountain panorama. "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markus Schüssler: Green light for special area , article from February 20, 2014 in Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , online at berchtesgadener-anzeiger.de
  2. ↑ a b Hellmut Schöner : The Berchtesgadener Land through the ages. Supplementary Volume I, Munich 1982, p. 275
  3. ↑ a b c d e Hellmut Schöner: The Berchtesgadener Land through the ages. Supplementary Volume I, Munich 1982, p. 270
  4. ↑ a b c d e GA: 1945: “Denazifierung” von Straßen , page of the local history association Berchtesgaden eV , online at heimatkundeverein-berchtesgaden.de
  5. ↑ a b c d e Albert A. Feiber, Daniela Steffgen: 850 Years of Bischofswiesen - 1155–2005 Festschrift ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), PDF file, p. 16 of 65 pages online at gemeinde.bischofswiesen. de
  6. ↑ a b Barbed wire fence has no effect , article from August 1, 2017 in Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , online at berchtesgadener-anzeiger.de
  7. ↑ We are a Berchtesgaden company , article from June 14, 2019 in the Berchtesgadener Anzeiger, online at berchtesgadener-anzeiger.de
  8. ↑ Albert A. Feiber, Daniela Steffgen: 850 years Bischofswiesen - 1155–2005 Festschrift ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), PDF file, p. 16, 42 of 65 pages online at gemeinde.bischofswiesen.de
  9. ↑ Wellness and spa hotel in Stanggass , description of an unrealized construction project for the Stanggaß spa clinic by Andrés Kunze Sanzana (architect), online at halligsanzana.com , accessed on August 1, 2020.

Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ′ 52.6 ″  N , 12 ° 59 ′ 8.2 ″  E