Uchtspringe Specialist Hospital

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The Uchtspringe Specialist Clinic, formerly the Uchtspringe State Healing Institution , is a hospital run by Salus gGmbH (operating company for socially oriented institutions in the state of Saxony-Anhalt) in the Stendal district of Uchtspringe in the Altmark . It is listed as a special care provider for psychiatry in the hospital plan of the state of Saxony-Anhalt .

history

Illustration from 1901

In 1892, the state parliament of the Prussian province of Saxony decided to build a new sanatorium and nursing home, because the existing institutions in Nietleben near Halle and Altscherbitz could not provide enough for the needy. When choosing the plot of land for the construction, one was “guided by the consideration that it must fully meet all hygienic requirements, above all have excellent air and plenty of good drinking water and, moreover, should not be without scenic attractions”. With the Modderkuhl estate near Börgitz between Stendal and Gardelegen, a job was found that met these requirements and also came into question in terms of size and price. The area was 200 hectares, of which 75 hectares were arable land, ten hectares were meadow and the rest was forest, heather and moor. An area of ​​350 meters × 320 meters (about twelve hectares), which was located directly on the Berlin-Lehrter Railway, was selected for the construction of the structural facilities . In 1892, two years before the establishment was commissioned, the station was inaugurated, thereby realizing one of the most important conditions for the establishment's operation. As a substitute for the name Modderkuhl ( Schlammkuhle ), which did not sound good, the name Uchtspringe was chosen for the location and train station , as the river Uchte rises in the immediate vicinity . The name Provinzial-Epileptischen- und Stupid-Anstalt was intended for the institution , but the first director Konrad Alt turned against this prejudicial term and so the name Landes-Heil- und Pflege-Anstalt was chosen. On October 1, 1894, the institution was opened by Konrad Alt. It was planned to accommodate 500 patients, an expansion to 1000 patients was planned.

Under the direction of Konrad Alt, the institution's development took a positive course. The state hospital Uchtspringe was, as it was called in a commemorative publication published in 1914 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary, a "sanctuary for all forms of nervous and mental illnesses, a center for medical and scientific research into these diseases, a place from which far beyond the borders of Germany there was also instruction and stimulation in all questions affecting these areas ”.

time of the nationalsocialism

From 1940 the facility served as an "intermediate facility" for " Aktion T4 " for the Brandenburg and Bernburg killing centers . On August 15, 1941, 196 patients from the Kortau Provincial Sanatorium and in February 1942 349 patients from the Tapiau Provincial Sanatorium were transferred to Uchtspringe. In addition, there was a “ children's department ” of the Reich Committee for the scientific recording of severe genetic and genetic illnesses under the direction of Director Ernst Beese with the killing doctors Hermann Wesse , Hildegard Wesse and Gerhard Wenzel involved since June 1941.

post war period

In 1952, the itinerant preacher and life reformer Gustaf Nagel died in the clinic.

In 1955 there were 1,800 patients in the institution, for whom seven doctors were available. By 1997 the number had dropped to 287 beds, with just over 20 doctors.

Since 2001, the clinic has been organizing a series of events under the title Celebrities for Psychiatry. Right in the middle, under the patronage of Herbert Grönemeyer , at the u. a. Günter Grass , Katrin Sass and Manfred Bofinger took part. The series is intended to reduce reservations about psychiatry. The medical director is Michaela Poley.

Today the specialist clinic has six clinics, which supply the two districts of Stendal and Altmarkkreis Salzwedel , but are also responsible for some of the nationwide. This includes the Uchtspringe educational-psychiatric center for young people and children. The clinic has 296 fully inpatient beds (as of 2014) and operates several branch offices for outpatient care, including in Salzwedel , Stendal and Seehausen .

Others

Uchtspringe is also home to care facilities for the elderly and the disabled as well as the State Hospital for Forensic Psychiatry with a total of 292 places, including 80 places in the Lochow branch . They also belong to Salus gGmbH.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appendix 1 to the 2011 hospital plan of the State of Saxony-Anhalt ( Memento from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Kriemhild Synder: The Uchtspringe State Sanatorium and its involvement in National Socialist crimes. P. 75
  3. ↑ Kriemhild Synder: The Uchtspringe State Sanatorium and its involvement in National Socialist crimes. P. 76
  4. ^ Sascha Topp, Petra Fuchs, Gerrit Hohendorf, Paul Richter, Maike Rotzoll: The Province of East Prussia and the National Socialist "Euthanasia": SS - "Aktion Lange" and "Aktion T4" (=  Medical History Journal 43 ). 2008, p. 39 ff .
  5. ↑ Sascha Topp: The "Reich Committee for the Scientific Recording of Hereditary and Constitutional Severe Sufferings". On the organization of the murder of sick minors 1939-1945. In: Thomas Beddies / Kristina Hübener (ed.): Children in the Nazi psychiatry. Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-937233-14-8 , p. 34
  6. ↑ a b On the chronology of history (from the exhibition "From Gut Modderkuhl to SALUS-Fachklinikum Uchtspringe") ( Memento from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Salus- Fachklinikum Uchtspringe (PDF)
  7. ↑ www.rp-online.de: Günter Grass exhibition in psychiatry, accessed on March 7, 2014
  8. ^ Official website of the Uchtspringe specialist clinic , accessed on March 10, 2014
  9. ↑ State Hospital for Forensic Psychiatry at salus-lsa.de, accessed on April 9, 2018

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 19.7 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 42.4"  E