Sea hospice
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Sea hospices are mostly established in the 19th century, which serve the recovery of sick people by staying in a stimulating sea climate . Several sea hospices were founded on the German North and Baltic Sea coasts at the end of the 19th century.
history
At the suggestion of the English physician John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815) was presented Margate (Kent) on the southern English Thames estuary on July 20, 1796 the first Seehospiz The Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary for the relief of the Scrophulous Poor of London and all England opened. At the end of the 19th century, at the instigation of doctors such as the Marburg professor Friedrich Wilhelm Beneke , sea hospices were founded on the North and Baltic Sea coasts.
As a member of the committee for the construction of children's sanatoriums on the North Sea and a committed representative of marine medicine, Beneke bought a plot of land on Norderney as early as 1880 for the later construction of a lake hospice. From September 12, 1881 to March 4, 1882 he wintered with 53 patients aged 3 to 49 years on Norderney and found his suspicion of the strongly health-promoting effects of such a stay in the harsh winter climate of the North Sea confirmed.
On June 1, 1882, the provisional children's lake hospice in Norderney began operations with initially 32 children. A large children's sanatorium was to be built on the acquired property, but the necessary funds were lacking. Kaiser Wilhelm I agreed to pay half of the 500,000 marks required to build the “Great National Model Institute” on Norderney if the association could raise the other half. Thanks to the donation of 100,000 marks from an anonymous German-American and the success of a large lottery with 700,000 tickets, the financing was secured. After two years of construction, the children's hospital Seehospiz Kaiserin Friedrich was opened on June 1, 1886 . It has been sponsored by the Deaconess Mother House Kinderheil e. V. Bad Harzburg and serves the rehabilitation of children. There, children and young people with chronic respiratory and skin diseases as well as obesity are treated all year round.
In the period from 1883 to 1886, other smaller lake hospices were founded in Germany in Groß-Müritz , Wyk auf Föhr and Sopot near Danzig. From 1890, several lake hospices were opened in Norddorf on Amrum by the Bielefeld theologian Friedrich von Bodelschwingh .
See also
literature
- Children's sanctuaries on the German sea coasts . In: The Gazebo . Issue 37, 1885, pp. 605 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Seehospiz Norderney . Seehospiz Norderney GmbH. Retrieved July 8, 2012.