Eppingen Municipal Hospital
The Eppingen Municipal Hospital was a municipal hospital in Eppingen in the Heilbronn district in northern Baden-Württemberg from 1895 to 2004 .
history
The so-called poor house in the old town accommodated poor local or transient sick people. Since these conditions could not last, the Eppinger municipal council decided on March 31, 1891 to build a city hospital. A hospital fund previously set up for this purpose was supposed to cover some of the costs by looking for donors. The hospital building at Brettener Straße 64, a three-wing sandstone building with a hipped roof and bell tower designed by the Karlsruhe architect Hänsler , was built along Kaiserstraße to match the Eppinger administrative district. Construction began on June 1, 1894, and the inauguration took place on October 15, 1895. With 54 beds, the hospital was big enough for the Eppingen district , which is why it was also referred to as the district hospital. A big achievement for a small town with around 3,000 inhabitants.
The city of Eppingen hired two Red Cross sisters to care for the sick . The contract for this was signed with the Baden Women's Association . A specially established medical association financed the maintenance of the sisters. The membership fee was between 10 pfennigs and 1 mark because nursing in the hospital was free of charge. Years later, Protestant sisters from the Bethlehem Deaconess Mother House in Karlsruhe took care of the sick.
Until March 31, 1961, the hospital worked for Eppingen and the surrounding villages without interruption. At that time, the deaconesses were withdrawn from the mother house, and the Eppinger hospital had to close for a year due to a shortage of nurses throughout Germany. It was reopened on April 25, 1962.
The new carrier was now a special purpose association from the district of Sinsheim and the city of Eppingen. The parties shared the costs, and the association existed until June 30, 1970. Subsequently, the hospital was again run under municipal control until it was closed in 2004. Attending doctors in internal medicine , an ENT specialist and an attending doctor in gynecology worked in the hospital. Renovation work in 1966, 1970 and 1972 should secure the future of the hospital.
With the closure of the maternity ward on December 31, 1980, there were no longer any citizens born in Eppingen, apart from home births. That was the beginning of the slow death of the Eppinger Hospital and it was finally closed in 2004. The listed building was rebuilt and reopened as a health center in 2006.
literature
- Fritz Luz : The Eppingen Municipal Hospital tells us. 85 eventful years in the service of sick people . In: Heilbronner Voice of December 30, 1980.
- Bernd Helber: Municipal Hospital . In: The new Eppingen. 1945–1980 . City of Eppingen, Eppingen 1980, p. 98.
- 25 years of the city of Eppingen . Stadt Eppingen, Eppingen 1997, pp. 32-33.
- Helpers in an emergency - Rescue services in Eppingen - 150 years of the Eppingen Volunteer Fire Brigade. 100 years of the DRK local association Eppingen . Heimatfreunde Eppingen, Eppingen 1997 ( Around the Ottilienberg . Volume 7), p. 28.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Hettich: Health center will be 25 percent more expensive . In: Kraichgau voice . October 26, 2006 ( from Stimme.de [accessed July 19, 2009]).
- ↑ Andreas Waidler: Rescuers lend a hand to create spaces suitable for work . In: Kraichgau voice . January 18, 2007 ( from Stimme.de [accessed July 19, 2009]).
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 7 " N , 8 ° 54 ′ 9.9" E