Specialized hospital for psychiatry, psychotherapy and neurology
The specialist hospital for psychiatry, psychotherapy and neurology is a specialist hospital in Zschadraß , district of Leipzig . The Diakoniewerk Zschadraß is responsible for this. Today the house has 140 beds and 60 day clinic places.
history
The institution was founded in 1868 by Friedrich August Hermann Voppel (1813–1885), psychiatrist and director of the state supply institution (“lunatic asylum”) at Colditz Castle , as an “agricole colony”.
From 1929 to 1944 Max Alwin Liebers was director of the institute, who was also director of the nearby Colditz state institute in 1938/39 . At the time of National Socialism , the house served as an intermediate facility for patients who were murdered in the Pirna-Sonnenstein and Brandenburg killing centers .
In 1942, the institution was re-profiled as a lung sanatorium with a psychiatric department and from then on was called Hainberg Lung Healing Center . From 1946 onwards, tuberculosis patients were admitted and treated .
On January 1st, 1999 the clinic was taken over by the Diakoniewerk Zschadrass.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.diakoniezschadrass.de/startseite/
- ↑ http://www.diakoniezschadrass.de/infos-und-services/geschichte/
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 20 ″ N , 12 ° 49 ′ 8.2 ″ E