Ludwig Noll Hospital

Ludwig Noll Hospital
Sponsorship	City of Kassel
place	kassel
state	Hesse
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 16 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 19 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 21 ″  N , 9 ° 29 ′ 19 ″  E
Clinic Director	Martin Ohlmeier
Care level	Specialized hospital
beds	94
areas of expertise	Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Affiliation	Kassel Clinic
founding	1965
Website	www.klinikum-kassel.de

The Ludwig Noll Hospital is a psychiatric clinic of the Kassel Clinic located in Kassel ( Hessen , Germany ) , which is named after the anthroposophical doctor Ludwig Noll .

history

The history of the facility goes back to the 19th century. At that time, an institution for the accommodation of the mentally ill was set up on the “Neue Mühle” area on the southern outskirts of Kassel. This served its purpose with interruptions until the Second World War. From 1936 to 1939 the institution was run as the “Sanatorium Neue Mühle” by Kurt Westphal (1902-1939), who received his habilitation on June 26, 1934 in Marburg. Westphal was a Sturmbannarzt of the SA and the NSDAP . During the Second World War, the Wehrmacht's Reserve Lazarett II Kassel was located in the buildings .

In 1965 the association "Ludwig-Noll-Krankenhaus eV" was founded, which set itself the goal of using the vacant buildings of the former psychiatric institution "Neue Mühle" for the construction of a general hospital based on the principles of anthroposophic medicine. The name should be remembered from the Kassel doctor Ludwig Noll. Noll belonged to the circle of friends and colleagues of the founder of the anthroposophical movement Rudolf Steiner and worked on the development of natural remedies and anthroposophical medicine. At the same time, with this new name, the bad reputation of the "New Mill" anchored in the Kassel population was to be removed and a new view of psychiatric help offers to be conveyed as something positive and valuable.

The new clinic, which opened in 1967, initially had two separate departments for internal medicine and neurology / psychiatry , in which physicians practicing anthroposophic and naturopathic medicine could treat their patients on an outpatient and inpatient basis. The medical focus was on the treatment of diseases of the elderly.

As part of a new bed requirement plan for Kassel, those responsible decided in 1972 to use the hospital again as a psychiatric clinic in the future. In 1978 the restructuring began with the appointment of the psychiatrist Johannes Kipp as the clinic's chief physician. The existing internal department with 34 beds at last was closed in 1984. The remaining 94 beds have been used exclusively for psychiatric patients since then. In the following year, the clinic took over the mandatory care for part of the Kassel city area. On January 1, 1986, the association handed over responsibility for the hospital to the former municipal clinics. In 1992 these were merged with other municipal health care facilities to form the Kassel Clinic . The name "Ludwig Noll Hospital", which has now become naturalized, will still be retained.

present

As part of the Kassel Clinic, the hospital fulfills the compulsory care for 2/3 of the city area of ​​Kassel (city districts: south , center , west , east , north-east ). Citizens from these districts have priority at admission. A care obligation also arises if there is a briefing under the Hessian Deprivation of Liberty Act or the Care Act .

As a clinic with a community psychiatric concept, it is responsible for all acute and chronic mental illnesses for adults and offers the corresponding psychiatric and psychotherapeutic therapy options. It has five nursing wards with a total of 94 beds at the Dennhäuser Strasse location. Admission together with babies is possible for mothers who suffer from postpartum psychosis after having a child. In 2009 a station for qualified withdrawal treatment for alcohol, medication and drug addiction was set up with 14 inpatient treatment places. There is also a general psychiatric day clinic, an institute outpatient department for psychiatry and psychotherapy and a special ADHD outpatient department.

building

The clinic area is located in a park-like area on the southern outskirts of Kassel near the Fulda . Two older buildings are used, in which the wards are located, as well as a modern low-rise building with offices for the administration as well as the areas of occupational therapy , physiotherapy , art therapy and psychological diagnostics . In addition, there is the forest house used for occupational and exercise therapy treatments, another part of the building for the institute's outpatient clinic and the day clinic .

There is a second location on the campus of the Kassel Clinic in Mönchebergstrasse with a geriatric psychiatric center, a day clinic for psychogeriatry and a counseling and crisis service for psychiatry and psychosomatics. A special psycho-oncological service is also located there.

swell

• Ulrich Wichmann-Jentzen: History of the Ludwig-Noll-Verein Online - accessed on April 30, 2013
• Website of the Ludwig Noll Hospital - accessed on May 4, 2013

Web links

Homepage of the Ludwig Noll Hospital

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anne Christine Nagel, Ulrich Sieg: The Philipps University of Marburg in National Socialism - documents on its history , Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000, page 244, page 549
2. ↑ http://www.klinikum-kassel.de/index.php?parent=7512
3. ^ Withdrawal treatment at the Ludwig Noll Hospital, Kassel Clinic