LWL Clinic Münster

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The LWL-Klinik Münster , Friedrich-Wilhelm-Weber-Straße 30, 48147 Münster, is an institution of the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe in Münster for psychiatry , psychotherapy , psychosomatics and internal medicine . On the one hand, it consists of the actual hospital area for the acute treatment of psychiatric illnesses with around 450 beds. On the other hand, the clinic includes a residential association for assisted living for chronically mentally ill patients with around 120 places and a nursing home with around 60 places for geriatric psychiatric patients. The LWL-Klinik Münster offers both inpatient and semi-inpatient therapies.

The supply area of ​​the LWL-Klinik includes the city of Münster, large parts of the Borken district as well as addicts and severely mentally handicapped patients from the city of Hamm .

history

The history of the clinic goes back to 1856. In that year, a women's order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from Warendorf , who had settled there in 1852 with the permission of the Münster bishop Johann Georg Müller , acquired the approximately 12 hectare site of the Niehoff estate north of Münster. Between 1864 and 1866 this order built a monastery complex on the estate called "Marienthal". However, the order was banned only seven years later, so that the monastery had to be given up and passed into the possession of Baron Clemens von Twickel .

In 1877, the predecessor association of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association, the Westphalia Provincial Association, bought the former monastery and set up the “Westphalian Provincial and Care Institution Marienthal” in order to relieve the clinics in Lengerich and Marsberg , which had reached their capacity limits . The first patients were admitted to the new clinic in the following year. If at that time it was open to patients of any denomination, from 1896 onwards only Catholics were accepted. Between 1878 and 1911 the facility was headed by Heinrich Gerlach .

In the meantime, the clinic was expanded to include additional buildings before parts of it were confiscated during the Nazi era, among other things for the army base administration. Like large parts of the city of Münster, the clinic was largely destroyed in bomb attacks in 1944 , including the monastery originally built by Emil von Manger , and was rebuilt in the post-war years.

National Socialism and Euthanasia Program

The clinic is of particular importance in the context of the National Socialists' euthanasia program . Since 1941, as in other institutions of this type, lists of patients who were to be transported to extermination camps were compiled . However, these could not be kept secret from the Clement Sisters, who were also responsible for caring for the patients. It should be thanks to the Dutch nun Laudeberta, who informed the then Bishop of Münster, Clemens August Graf von Galen , on the advice of the Münster pastor Rensing . The latter then publicly denounced this fact in his sermon on August 3, 1941 in St. Lamberti , which ultimately led to “ Operation T4 ” being interrupted for the time being.

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  1. ↑ Clement sister Laudeberta informed von Galen - reference for the sermon on www.bistum-muenster.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 42 ″  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  E