Vincent von Paul Hospital

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Vincent von Paul Hospital
House of St. Vincent of the Vinzenz von Paul Hospital in Rottweil

The Vinzenz-von-Paul-Hospital in Rottweil is responsible for the psychological-neurological care of the districts of Rottweil , Schwarzwald-Baar , Zollernalb and parts of the Tuttlingen district. The sole shareholder is the Order of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul.

history

In 1895, the Order of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vinzenz von Paul the former Cistercian convent Rottenmünster in Rottweil. In 1898 they opened the sanatorium and nursing home St. Vincent with 300 beds. 93 patients were relocated to Rottenmünster from the previous facility, the “Insane, Sanatorium and Nursing Home Sankt Vinzenz” in Schwäbisch Gmünd . During the First World War , an auxiliary hospital was set up in Rottenmünster to take care of wounded soldiers.

During the National Socialist murders, Action T4 , 45 patients from the sanatorium and nursing home (chief physician and medical director was the psychiatrist Josef Wrede, assessor at the Rottweil Hereditary Health Court) were transferred to the Grafeneck killing center for the first time on February 3, 1940 , and there on the same day murdered. There are contradicting data on the total number of those murdered: the hospital itself names a number of 300 patients, while the memorial in Grafeneck is proving to be 178 victims. In Rottenmünster, a military hospital and auxiliary hospital with over 1100 beds were set up from 1941. After the end of the war, the French army took over the hospital until 1954.

In the mid-1970s, the buildings were renovated and the medical and nursing services were restructured. On January 1, 1997, the hospital was converted into a non-profit GmbH and since then has been called "Vinzenz von Paul-Hospital gGmbH Rottweil-Rottenmünster".

In January 2000, a memorial for the victims of euthanasia was inaugurated in the hospital.

Facility

Around 600,000 people live in the supply area. Around 1200 full and part-time employees work at the Vinzenz von Paul Hospital.

The Vinzenz-von-Paul-Hospital includes a clinic for psychiatry , psychotherapy , geriatric psychiatry and neurology with 431 beds and the “Luisenheim” nursing home with 243 places. Day clinics are also operated in Villingen , Balingen and Spaichingen .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Stöckle: Grafeneck 1940. The euthanasia crime in southwest Germany. 2nd edition, Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-87407-507-9 , p. 104.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , p. 332 f.
  3. ^ History of the house , at www.vvph.de , accessed on May 3, 2020
  4. ↑ Stöckle, Grafeneck , p. 138. Stöckle, director of the Grafeneck memorial, emphasizes that the figures are provisional. The figures are based on statistical material from the Grafeneck trial of 1949 and reports from the individual institutions.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. 2001, p. 332 f.

Web links

Commons : Vinzenz-von-Paul-Hospital  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 6.64 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 6.08"  E