LVR Clinic Langenfeld

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LVR Clinic Langenfeld
Sponsorship Regional Association of Rhineland
place Langenfeld
state North Rhine-Westphalia
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 5 '36 "  N , 6 ° 57' 36"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '36 "  N , 6 ° 57' 36"  E
Medical Director Jutta Muysers
Care level Specialized hospital
Employee 800
areas of expertise Neurology
Psychiatry
Forensic Psychiatry
founding March 1, 1900
Website www.klinik-langenfeld.lvr.de
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Main building of the LVR clinic in Langenfeld

The LVR Clinic Langenfeld (Rheinland) is located in the district Reusrath belonging local situation Galkhausen from Langenfeld (Rheinland) . It is a clinic for psychiatry and neurology, it also includes a forensic psychiatry. The Rhineland Regional Council is responsible for this .

history

Galkhausen is home to one of the large LVR clinics in North Rhine-Westphalia , where psychological and neurological diseases are treated. The former “Provincial Sanatorium and Nursing Home Galkhausen” was opened essentially on the site of the former Galkhausen estate of the Counts of Mirbach zu Harff. The size of the site opened up the possibility for the first time in the history of the institution building to distribute the buildings loosely across the site, which at the time was perceived as not only progressive but also revolutionary. Construction work on the clinic began in April 1897 and the first patients moved in on March 1, 1900 . Full program occupancy of 800 beds was achieved after construction work was completed in autumn 1904 with the construction of the last five villas. The following pictures may give an impression of the construction of the clinic, which is accessed by a street with the asylum church in the center .

Clinic building in villa style
Institute outpatient department of the clinics
LVR Clinic, House 3
LVR Clinic, House 4

The hospital was initially planned for the care of mentally ill people from the city of Cologne , but has a different catchment area today. The new type of institution implemented here was the so-called “colonial sanatorium and nursing home” with no majestic, centralized large buildings or superfluous safeguards and coercive measures. The atmosphere of the institution was loosened up by building hospital pavilions in the historical villa style in a village-like grouping. The first director, Herting, came from the Altscherbitz institution, which served as a model. He later moved to the Grafenberg asylum. The agricultural activity, which was considered to be beneficial, could be implemented therapeutically in the estate belonging to the institution .

From the eventful history, the establishment of a "club hospital " in 1914 during World War I can be reported, in addition the establishment of a reserve hospital in 1916. On December 1, 1918, English occupation troops occupied the building and in 1923 set up a general hospital , which was until the withdrawal of the troops existed on December 28, 1925. At the same time, there were occasional wards in the houses for people with lung disease and the blind , and from 1922 to 1928 there was also an auxiliary school home run by clergymen . In 1926 the institution was restored to its original purpose. In 1927, the lived reformatory Bernhardshof 320 young people, and the number of patients was 480 people.

time of the nationalsocialism

In 1933 the number of patients rose to 983. Of these, 667 were classified as so-called “hereditary diseases” in 1933 according to the notorious “ Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases ”. 478 people had been forcibly sterilized by March 1, 1936 . For 1941 the number of 233 men and 141 women killed in the Nazi killing center in Hadamar is guaranteed. In 1943 and 1944, Galkhausen was also regarded as a stopover for patients from other institutions before they were “transferred to Hadamar”, so that the number of patients who came from Galkhausen or who were transferred from there and finally gassed can only be estimated.

Transports went in particular to the intermediate facilities and killing sites

post war period

In 1946 there were again 842 patients living in the institution, in 1948 there were already 1167 mentally ill people.

The doctors Felix Weissenfeld and Max Rhode were acquitted in the euthanasia trial in Düsseldorf in 1950 .

In 1973 the estate was closed as an agricultural operation and reopened in 1983 under Hartmut Hohm (head of occupational and occupational therapy) and Konrad Neuberger (head of AT-Gutshof) as work therapy-biodynamic horticulture

Facility

Nowadays, the former type of institution has been partially canceled by the construction of the curative educational home in 1980, a facility for the care of mentally handicapped people, as well as the establishment of a modern forensic department with currently 170 places, in accordance with the current security requirements.

In addition to general psychiatric treatments and forensic psychiatry, occupational therapy, geriatric psychiatry (geriatric psychiatry) and neurology, as well as various outpatient special offers (e.g. outpatient clinic for migrants) and the treatment of addictions are also offered.

The number of employees is currently (2009) given as 800 employees .

The patients come mainly from Langenfeld , Monheim , Hilden , Haan , Mettmann , Erkrath , Burscheid , Leichlingen (Rhineland) , Leverkusen , Solingen and the northern Cologne districts of Chorweiler and Nippes .

In 2010 the LVR-Klinik Langenfeld was recertified according to KTQ for the second time .

See also

literature

  • Matthias Leipert (Ed.): Relocated to unknown. Sterilization and euthanasia in Galkhausen 1933-1945 . Cologne: Rheinland − Verlag, 1987 ISBN 3-7927-0939-2
  • LG Düsseldorf, January 27, 1950 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, Vol. VI, edited by Adelheid L. Rüter-Ehlermann, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1971, No. 191, pp. 1-68. Proceedings against C., Walter; Pa., Friedrich; P., Kurt; R., Max; We., Felix; Subject: Administrative measures as part of the 'euthanasia program' in the former Rhine province: Participation in meetings of the 'Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für Heil- und Pflegeenstalten' in Berlin, assessment of registration forms, selection of patients, who then, partly directly, partly via 'intermediate institutions', were taken to the killing centers; Establishment of the 'Children's Department' Waldniel, in which 'Reich Committee Children' were killed using Luminal or Morphine ( court decision )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rhenish provincial sanatorium and nursing home in Galkhausen. Cologne 1904.
  2. ^ A b c Rolf Müller: City History Langenfeld Rhineland. Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld, 1992.
  3. ↑ Environmental Protection and Beautification Association Langenfeld eV: A guide through the built history of Langenfeld.
  4. ↑ Hartmut Hohm: Mentally ill on the estate. In: Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation. Issue 5/1988, pp. 272-278.
  5. ↑ Hartmut Hohm: Concept for primarily therapeutic use ... unpublished manuscript, 1982.
  6. ↑ Konrad Neuberger: Getting ground under your feet. In: Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation. Issue 6/1988, pp. 348-351.
  7. ^ Konrad Neuberger: Horticultural therapy in a psychiatric hospital: Picking the fruit. In: Diane Relf (Ed.): The Role of Horticulture in Human Well-Being and Social Development: A National Symposium. Portland, Oregon 1992, pp. 185-188.