Saxon Hospital Großschweidnitz
| Saxon Hospital Großschweidnitz | |
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| Sponsorship | Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection |
| place | Großschweidnitz |
| state | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 4 '32 " N , 14 ° 38' 39" E |
| beds | 419 (379 fully inpatient, 120 day clinic) |
| Employee | over 650 |
| areas of expertise | Psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy |
| founding | 1902 |
| Website | www.skh-grossschweidnitz.sachsen.de |
The Saxon Hospital Großschweidnitz is a psychiatric hospital in Großschweidnitz , Görlitz district , Saxony .
history
Due to an increasing overload of psychiatric facilities in the Kingdom of Saxony, the construction of the Royal Saxon State Institution Gross-Schweidnitz near Löbau in Saxony began in 1898 . The institution, initially with 34 buildings, was opened on April 1, 1902 and offered space for 524 people with curable and incurable mental illnesses. The first director was Dr. Med. Max Krell (1855–1912), who managed the institution until his death. As early as 1912 it became necessary to erect another 4 buildings to meet the increasing demand. Now 734 people have received medical care. During the First World War, there was a significant undersupply of patients, which increased the death rate in the hospital. After the war, more and more investments were made in newer technology and therapies, which increased the standard of care.
time of the nationalsocialism
On May 1, 1939, Alfred Schulz was appointed director. For the T4 campaign , the institution under Director Schulz served as an intermediate institution for the Pirna-Sonnenstein killing institution . For example, on July 9, 1941, 272 patients from the Kortau Provincial Sanatorium and Nursing Home were transferred to Großschweidnitz, of which 131 patients were transferred to Pirna-Sonnenstein on July 22, 92 on July 28 and another 5 on August 14 murdered there. From December 1943 there was a so-called “ children's department ” under the direction of Arthur Mittag .
In the course of the war Großschweidnitz became one of the last intact locations of a mental hospital in the country. Many seriously ill patients were moved here from other facilities. As a result, the system was massively overloaded. This increased the pressure on doctors and the prison management, which resulted in the death of more patients with drug overdoses, food restrictions, hypothermia and demobilization.
Between mid-1943 and September 1944 alone, around 2,400 patients were killed in Großschweidnitz. A total of over 5,000 people were murdered between 1939 and 1945. Doctors and nursing staff were either aware of or involved.
post war period
After 1945 the entire facility was disinfected and converted back into a psychiatric clinic.
In 1947 2 doctors and 5 senior nurses were sentenced to several years in prison.
As early as 1949, the clinic facility again accommodated 1520 patients. After the political change in 1989, the hospital was extensively renovated and modernized.
From 1967 the institution was called "Specialist Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology".
In 2012, the Großschweidnitz Memorial Association was founded, which deals with the processing of crimes in the clinic during National Socialism.
Facility
The house currently (as of 2017) has 419 beds.
Großschweidnitz Institution Church
Administration building of the Saxon Hospital Großschweidnitz
Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry, Station 28
Rear view of the social center, cafeteria
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See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boris Böhm, Hagen Markwardt, Ulrich Rottleb: "Will be transferred to a state sanatorium and nursing home in Saxony today" - the murder of East Prussian patients in the National Socialist killing center in Pirna-Sonnenstein in 1941 . Ed .: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. 2015, ISBN 978-3-86583-976-3 , pp. 92 .
- ↑ Gerald Hacke; Birgit Sack (Ed.): Münchner Platz, Dresden. Saxon Memorials Foundation in memory of the victims of political tyranny , 2001, p. 137.
- ↑ Commemoration in Großschweidnitz (website of the memorial association)
- ↑ skh-grossschweidnitz.sachsen.de
- ↑ Gedenkstaette-grossschweidnitz.org