LVR Clinic Bonn

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LVR Clinic Bonn
Sponsorship Regional Association of Rhineland
place Bonn
state North Rhine-Westphalia
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 44 '43 "  N , 7 ° 5' 20"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '43 "  N , 7 ° 5' 20"  E
medical director Markus Banger
Care level Specialized hospital
areas of expertise Neurology
psychiatry
psychotherapy
founding January 1882
Website www.klinik-bonn.lvr.de
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Main entrance to the clinic (left) with the Kaiser-Karl-Ring 20c clinic building (right)

The LVR Clinic Bonn (until 2009 Rheinische Kliniken Bonn , until 1997 Rheinische Landesklinik Bonn ) is a psychiatric clinic in the north of the city , operated by the Rhineland Regional Council. She deals with psychiatry, psychotherapy and neurology for children, adolescents and adults. The original hospital building stand as monument under monument protection .

location

The clinic buildings are located in the Bonn-Castell district on the northwest side of Kaiser-Karl-Ring and the northeast side of Kölnstrasse ( Landesstrasse 300). To the west they are embedded in a park, which is bordered by the Rheindorfer Bach (also Mondorfer Bach ). In the north the area borders on the Kaiser Karl Clinic .

history

The Rhenish Provincial Insane Asylum was established between 1873 and 1882 as one of five sanatoriums and nursing homes in each of the administrative districts of the then Rhine Province under the direction of the master builder Carl Friedrich Dittmar. When it opened in January 1882, it had 300 beds; in 1879, 570 patients were already accommodated here. The Bonn clinic was one of the first in the region to implement the innovation of treating mental illnesses not by isolating patients, but by nursing and convalescing . The first director of the sanatorium was Karl Friedrich Werner Nasse , who was succeeded by Carl Pelman after his death in 1889 . In 1904 Alexander Westphal took over the management of the clinic until 1929. During his term of office, the marriage ban and the "exit" for the nursing staff were relaxed and sisters and carers were given their own bedrooms. In October 1905 the Royal University Clinic for the Mentally Ill and Nervous was founded and in 1908 it was combined with the sanatorium . In 1926, the clinic was expanded to include the first German psychiatric-neurological children's clinic in Germany, the Rhenish Provincial Children's Institute for Mentally Abnormalities . Otto Löwenstein was the founding director of the children's institution . As a Jew, he had to flee after the National Socialists came to power . His successor was the staunch National Socialist Walther Poppelreuter . After his death in 1939, euthanasia continued in Bonn and the doctors in charge at the Bonn institution actively supported the National Socialist racial hygiene .

On October 18, 1944, the clinic was badly damaged by a major attack on Bonn and was almost uninhabitable.

In the euthanasia trials that followed after 1945, all of the accused Bonn hospital doctors were acquitted. Compensation was awarded to the accused physicians for the “suffered” pre-trial detention and impeachment after 1945. The victims of the racial laws, however, received no compensation.

The original clinic buildings, some of them brick buildings , are mirror-symmetrical and clad with clinker brick . The facility comprises a three-story administration building, a ballroom, an institution chapel, the three-story so-called “men's house”, the two-story “women's house” and the “isolation house”. The former chapel of the Rheinische Landesklinik, built in 1885, was consecrated in 1955 and named "Christ the King Church" in 1986. After the Monument Protection Act came into force in 1980, the former clinic buildings were the first monument in the Rhineland to be placed under protection, sold in 1988 and then converted into condominiums. They are the only clinics built in the Rhine Province at the time that have remained unchanged.

From 1974 to 1979 a completely new clinic was built on Kölnstrasse to replace the existing clinic buildings according to plans by architects Heinle, Wischer und Partner and at a cost of 130 million D-Marks : a network-like system of three- to four-story buildings in brickwork and Reinforced concrete skeleton construction that includes two ward buildings with 560 beds, a clinical treatment and social center and a care center for 1400 patients and staff. The embassy of the Republic of Angola was located in the building that now houses the outpatient rooms of the Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Department (Kaiser-Karl-Ring 20c) until the relocation of the seat of government to Berlin in 2001 (→ list of diplomatic missions ).

"The expansion of the regional clinic on Kölnstrasse, which the Stuttgart architects Heinle, Wischer and Partner built 1974–1979, can still be regarded today as an exemplary solution to the building task with its honeycomb structure, which is divided into medical and nursing functional areas and common rooms."

- Andreas Denk (1997)

Museum and memorial

Since 1981 there has been a psychiatric history collection at the LVR Clinic Bonn by a working group concerned with it. From this the museum “Verrückte Zeiten” developed in several stages, which in house 15 of the site shows exhibits on the history of the clinic and psychiatry in eight rooms with many explanatory picture and text panels. The social and cultural foundation of the Rhineland Regional Association funded the construction of this museum, which was expanded in 2014/2015. About 100 meters away there has been a large memorial stone since 1989 and a garden of remembrance since 1996 in memory of the victims of Nazi medicine.

Treatment spectrum

As one of the largest health care providers in the region, the LVR-Klinik Bonn ensures psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and neurological care for the population of the cities of Bonn and Wesseling as well as the Rhein-Sieg district. The wide range of services includes inpatient, day clinic and outpatient diagnostics and treatment of mental, psychosomatic, developmental and neurological diseases or disorders as well as addiction disorders in adults as well as adolescents and children.

Former Rheinische Kliniken Bonn, aerial photo (2014)

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : LVR-Klinik Bonn  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 28, number A 973
  2. klinik-bonn.lvr.de: history , accessed on July 15, 2018
  3. ^ The Priory of Christ the King Bonn , Archdiocese of Cologne
  4. Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Puetz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and the Rhine-Sieg district , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp 32-33.
  5. ^ Jörg Schulze: The Rheinische Landesklinik in Bonn. Reconstruction and repair of the former men's house.
  6. ^ Andreas Denk, Ingeborg Flagge: Architekturführer Bonn .
  7. ^ Eckart Roloff and Karin Henke-Wendt: Psychiatry Museum Verrückte Zeiten in the LVR Clinic Bonn. In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 117–119, ISBN 978-3-7776-2510-2