Haina Psychiatry Museum

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The Haina Psychiatry Museum is located in the former Cistercian monastery in Haina . It opened in 1992. The museum is located in the former "Brüdersaal" ( Parlatorium ) of the monastery.

exhibition

The exhibits include a forced chair and the “ hollow wheel ” for restless patients, the invention of which goes along with the name of the doctor and psychiatrist Christian August Fürchtegott Hayner . In addition to the historical buildings that have been inhabited since the time of the monastery, the museum gains further importance through numerous exhibits, documents and objects from the history of psychiatry since the early 16th century. As a memorial , it is attached to the sponsor, the Vitos Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Haina . The focus of the exhibition is the everyday life, order and care of the patients in the former hospital and later hospital, with the intention of "... making a contribution to the understanding of the historical dealings with the" mentally ill "." .

All artifacts, documents and exhibits come from the hospital archive (a branch of the archive of the State Welfare Association of Hesse ).

history

The impetus for the establishment of a psychiatry museum was the great public response and immense interest in the material, which until then existed only as a collection, which was presented to the public in a special exhibition "800 years of Haina - monastery - hospital - forest" on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the monastery in 1988 has been. As a result, the hospital authorities and the State Welfare Association of Hesse decided to set up this historic psychiatric site. After its completion, it will present written, objective and visual documents on the treatment of psychiatric patients over the past 400 years in four departments with different topics.

See also

Web links

literature

  • Christina Vanja: Haina Psychiatry Museum / Haina Psychiatry Museum. Historical series of publications of the State Welfare Association of Hesse catalogs volume 3. ISBN 978-3-86568-552-0
  • Axel Eierdanz: Everyday life and work of the wardens in the insane care in the Haina Hospital - Psychiatric care in the 19th century . Diploma thesis 2008. ISBN 978-3-65635-973-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckart Roloff and Karin Henke-Wendt: A monastery hospital for "mad people" and "crazy people in the main". In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. Volume 2, Southern Germany. Verlag S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 193-195, ISBN 978-3-7776-2511-9
  2. ↑ Helmut Siefert: The forced chair. An example of how the mentally ill were dealt with in Haina in the 19th century. In: W. Heinemeyer, T. Plünder (Ed.): 450 years of psychiatry in Hesse. Publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse (47). Elwert publishing house. Marburg 1983, pp. 309-320.
  3. ↑ Adolph Carl Peter Callisen: Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists, and naturalists of all educated peoples, volumes 17-18 . Publisher: Printed in Königl. Deaf-mute institute of Schleswig, 1833. Page 271.
  4. ↑ General German biography, Wikisource - Hayner, Christian August Fürchtegott
  5. ^ Psychiatry museum in the former Haina monastery. Impeller and forced chair: How restless mentally ill people were treated in the past. In: HNA , April 21, 2017
  6. ↑ Gesa Coordes: Haina Psychiatry Museum: “Raging people” in chains and in the “hollow wheel”. In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , 1996; 93 (44): A-2886 / B-2454 / C-2298
  7. ^ A b Vitos Haina non-profit GmbH
  8. ↑ About us. In: lwv-hessen.de. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 46.9 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 35.4 ″  E