LVR Clinic Düren

LVR Clinic Düren
Sponsorship	Regional Association of Rhineland
place	Düren
state	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 49 '0 "  N , 6 ° 28' 57"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '0 "  N , 6 ° 28' 57"  E
medical director	Ulrike Beginn-Göbel
Care level	Specialized hospital
beds	768
Employee	1,036
areas of expertise	Psychiatry psychotherapy forensic psychiatry social rehabilitation
founding	1873
Website	www.klinik-dueren.lvr.de

Düren, Meckerstraße (84)

The LVR-Klinik Düren is a specialist clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy , forensic psychiatry and social rehabilitation in the north of Düren . After the LVR clinic Bedburg-Hau, it is the second largest clinic in this field in North Rhine-Westphalia. The clinic is operated by the Rhineland Regional Council.

The hospital currently employs 1,036 people.

history

In 1873 the construction of a provincial sanatorium and nursing home for 400 sick people began on the site in the north . On May 1, 1878, Düren replaced the previous, dissolved institution in Siegburg .

The area of ​​responsibility for the Düren Clinic in 1878 included:

• Administrative district of Aachen , except for Schleiden and Bergheim (Erft) districts ,
• Cologne district
• Left of the Rhine part of the Düsseldorf administrative district , except for Neuss and Kleve districts .

This area later changed.

On August 7, 1900, the “First Rhenish Preservation House for 48 criminal male mentally ill” was opened in Düren. The number of hospital beds rose to 700 over the years (1911). during the First World War the hospital was used as a military hospital .

In 1930 the Hommelsheim state estate between Eschweiler via Feld and Frauwüllesheim was purchased. Around 100 mentally handicapped people work on the 127 hectare estate and provide the clinics with agricultural products.

In 1937, 1,579 people were housed.

Many patients were systematically murdered during the Nazi regime in what became known as Aktion T4 .

After the bombing raids on Düren on November 16, 1944 (see air raids on Düren ) the house was evacuated. Some patients returned on June 17, 1945.

In 1951 the "Provincial Sanatorium and Nursing Institution" was renamed "Landesheilanstalten". The occupancy had risen again to 800 patients. From 1959, branch offices with living and working options for additional patients were set up in Rödingen and Wollersheim ( Gödersheim Castle ). In 1963 the "State Hospitals" were renamed "State Hospital".

After the new admission clinic was built in 1966 and additional wards, the number of patients rose to 1,743 in 1970. In 1975, a first practice apartment was moved into in front of the clinic gates. Later on, shared apartments were set up in Düren and the surrounding areas. In 1978 it was renamed "Rheinische Landeskliniken". The branches in Hommelsheim, Wollersheim and Rödingen as well as the residential communities were spun off into an independent curative education home in 1980 .

In April 1986, the new building for the forensic psychiatry department was completed right next to the clinic . The area secured by a wall has a village structure (individual houses, market square, walking paths, etc.). Mentally ill offenders are accommodated here. In 2016 there were 140 patients in forensics. The department has 236 beds.

In 1996, the first decentralized day clinic for the Aachen district was opened in Alsdorf . More followed. In 1997 the clinics were renamed "Rheinische Kliniken". Since 2009 the facility has been called "LVR-Klinik Düren".

Historic Buildings

It is a large complex, consisting of buildings with various uses. The individual hospital buildings, which were originally strictly separated according to the “men's side” and “women's side”, are grouped in mirror symmetry to a central axis that is formed from the church, the administration building and various farm buildings. The former director's residence, the morgue, house 5 (the former so-called preservation house) and the servants' houses on Heerweg are off the beaten track.

The entire complex forms a monumental ensemble. However, since the buildings have been modernized to different degrees and have partly identical design features, House 8, which has largely been preserved in its original state, was described as representative of the hospital buildings (Houses 1 to 3, 7 and 9).

• Administrative building
• Former director's residence
• church
• House 1
• House 2
• House 3
• House 5
• House 7
• House 8
• House 9
• Workshop construction
• Engine house with water tower
• Morgue
• Servant houses at Heerweg 2 to 12
• Servant houses Heerweg 14 to 22

The catchment area today

• Aachen district , except for the city of Monschau , the communities of Roetgen and Simmerath ,
• District of Düren
• Rhein-Erft-Kreis , except cities Erftstadt , Hürth , Brühl and Wesseling .

Others

The clinic gained notoriety, especially forensics, through the outbreak (liberation by an accomplice during a dentist's consultation outside the secure forensic department in the grounds of the general psychiatry of the LVR clinic) of the violent criminal Bernd Büch in 1998.

See also

• List of psychiatric hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia

Web links

• Website of the LVR Clinic Düren

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/stufe-fuer-stufe-freiheiten-einraeumen-1.1423391
2. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/stufe-fuer-stufe-freiheiten-einraeumen-1.1423391
3. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/mord-im-zeichen-des-aeskulapstabes-1.1141795
4. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/stufe-fuer-stufe-freiheiten-einraeumen-1.1423391