Thonberg private institution
The private institution Thonberg was founded in 1839 by Eduard Wilhelm Güntz in Thonberg , today Leipzig , as a psychiatric institution for members of the wealthy social classes. It was surrounded by a spacious park. The management was continued in 1863 by his son-in-law Justus Theobald Güntz. The institution was taken over by the Johannishospital in 1888 .
For the year 1903 the general journal for psychiatry and psycho-judicial medicine reported: “In the mental hospital in Leipzig-Thonberg (65 beds) 88 (46 marks, 42 francs) were fed, 79 mentally ill, 3 alcoholics, 6 Nervous patients. "
In 1920 the facility was closed. Up until then, around 2500 patients had been cared for in it.
The Güntz-Park reminds of the facility today. In the park is the Güntz tower, which was built over one of the institute's own water supply wells. A file inventory of 19.58 meters of shelf space has been preserved from the clinic .
literature
- Eduard Wilhelm Güntz: The insane, healing and care institution Thonberg in the first quarter of a century of its effectiveness. Reclam, 1861 ( bsb-muenchen.de ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Alma Kreuter: German-speaking neurologists and psychiatrists. Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 978-3-110-96165-2 , p. 876 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ http://www.psychiatriemuseum.de/newsletter3_08.html
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 15.9 ″ N , 12 ° 24 ′ 42.2 ″ E