Nursing and care home Ortenau Klinikum
The Ortenau Klinikum nursing and care home is a nursing facility in the Fußbach district of Gengenbach . The Ortenaukreis is responsible for this .
history
The district assembly decided in 1873 to set up a district nursing home on the Seldeneck estate, which had been bought for 12,500 guilders. It was opened on July 15, 1874 as a district nursing home for the Offenburg district. The house had its own farm. New buildings and a cemetery were added.
In 1923 the Sisters of the Holy Cross from Bingen started their work; they stayed in Fußbach until 1993. In 1926 the number of patients reached about 300.
Due to the Sterilization Act that came into force in 1934 , mentally ill, mentally and physically disabled men and women were sterilized in Fußbach. A total of 137 residents were transported to Nazi killing centers as part of the T4 campaign and murdered there, particularly to the Grafeneck killing center .
After the end of the war, 550 patients were accommodated in the house.
The house has been sponsored by the Ortenaukreis since 1973.
Facility
The facility now has 336 places for the elderly and those in need of care as well as for the mentally handicapped, mentally ill and alcoholic people. The facility includes residential buildings, an event hall, café, doctor's offices, rooms for physiotherapy and hairdressing, a home church and the small “Historikstüble” museum. A pond belongs to the park-like facility.
literature
- Tobias Wöhrle: On the history of the former Fußbach district care facility. In: Die Ortenau , Volume 79, 1999, pp. 602–616
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '49.2 " N , 8 ° 1' 9.3" E