Forest Hospital Bad Düben

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Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 53.3 "  N , 12 ° 34 ′ 49"  E

Forest Hospital at the Kurpark
access road (2017)

The Waldkrankenhaus Bad Duben is a specialized hospital for orthopedics in Bad Duben with attached Rehabilitation Center , run by the MediClin AG .

location

The Bad Düben Forest Hospital is located in the north of the spa town of Bad Düben ( Saxony ) in the Düben Heath Nature Park .

history

A clinic called "Waldkrankenhaus" existed from 1943 to 1995 during the times of the German Empire and then in the GDR and was located in the Hammermühle district . From 1995, the move to a new building followed, the specialist hospital for orthopedics at the current location right next to the rehabilitation center and spa park .

Forest hospital in the Hammermühle district (1943–1995)

Planning and construction

After hospitals in large cities were damaged by bombing in the Second World War or were broken down due to destruction, construction of so-called alternative hospitals for those damaged by bombs began in 1942. Landscapes were planned far from cities threatened by bombs. For camouflage, several interconnected buildings were planned with the greatest possible spacing from one another on spacious building sites at a low height. The hamlet of Hammermühle in Bad Düben (at that time still Düben) was suitable because the location was in the forest and was therefore surrounded by tall trees. The approximately 74,000 m² facility, which was planned with an average bed capacity of 400 beds, consisted of semicircular building barracks, which were connected to each other by a 350 meter long general corridor (reception, administration, treatment rooms, wards, X-ray, operating room, kitchen wing, craftsman area ) were connected. There were 23 such hospitals across Germany, 4 of them in the area of ​​the later GDR ( Bad Saarow , Beelitz , Düben and Eisenberg ). Objects at the General Commissioner for Sanitary and Health Care in Berlin-Hohengatow were designed and managed by the “ Aktion Brandt ” department, named after Karl Brandt , a former personal physician of Hitler . The construction work was carried out on behalf of the Supreme Reich Authority at the headquarters of the Todt Organization. The alternative hospital for bomb victims in the cities of Aachen , Cologne and Leipzig with a bed capacity of 400 beds in Düben was opened in the summer of 1943. The name "Forest Hospital" was added later.

General Hospital (1943-1946)

From the opening in 1943 to June 1946, the hospital existed as a makeshift facility. In June 1946 the declaration was made to a “general hospital with surgical and internal department”, there was also a gynecological ward with obstetrics. Treatment of tuberculosis sufferers began as early as 1945. From June 1946 the name "Forest Hospital" officially existed.

Specialized Hospital for Lung Diseases (1946–1971)

From 1946 onwards, in addition to inpatient treatment, the first outpatient treatments were carried out in the fight against the developing widespread disease tuberculosis . The Düben Forest Hospital was set up as a TB welfare center. The Düben hospital was developed into a specialist hospital and declared a state TB sanatorium for Saxony-Anhalt. Despite intensive treatment (500 beds, 180 employees), 138 patients died of tuberculosis in 1949 alone. The disease was pushed back in subsequent years and then eradicated as a widespread disease. The name of the facility was then " Waldkrankenhaus Bad Düben - sanatorium and clinic for lung diseases ".

Specialist hospital for orthopedics (1971–1995)

The orthopedic held in 1971 with the opening of an orthopedic department in catchment Waldkrankenhaus and 1975, the facility became a " specialized hospital for orthopedics explained". Since then, the house has enjoyed a very good reputation throughout Germany, and many well-known athletes have had operations here. In 1995 the old location in the Hammermühle was closed and the newly built forest hospital at Dübener Kurpark was opened. The buildings have been empty since the move and are gradually being demolished. The demolition and disposal costs are estimated at around 90,000 euros. In 2008 the site was sold for 15,000 euros, and Ferienfreizeiten GmbH from Dinslaken has been the owner of the site since 2009 . In 2011 an investor planned to create areas for residential development along Reinharzer Strasse between the Neubert company and the existing single-row residential development. At the moment, the demolition work has stalled because the investor fears that the ruins will be demolished for a lot of money and then no building permit will be obtained.

Forest hospital on the
west side of the spa park with operating theater (2017)

Forest Hospital am Kurpark (since 1995)

After the new construction of the clinic with an attached rehabilitation center , the move from the Hammermühle district to the urban area at the spa park took place in 1995 .

Special Clinic for Orthopedics (since 1995)

The operator MediClin AG has been running the clinic since then as a specialist clinic for orthopedics and, in addition to the treatment of all orthopedic diseases, has specialized in the areas of traumatology , hand surgery and rheumatology . Spinal surgery has been performed since 1994. In the future, the forest hospital is to develop into a final prosthesis center. Numerous athletes were treated in the specialist orthopedic clinic, including over 250 European champions, 150 world champions and Olympic champions. Among the patients were, for example, Germany's most successful figure skater Katharina Witt or the Olympic champion and Maxi Gnauck , multiple world and European champion in artistic gymnastics.

facts and figures

  • MediClin has been a stock corporation since 2000 and has owned 52.73% of the Asklepios Group and 35% of the Ergo Group since 2011.
  • Since 1973, over 30,000 prostheses have been processed in the forest hospital, in around 10% of all cases there are replacement operations due to wear and tear after many years.
  • Every year around 4,500 operations and around 12,000 outpatient treatments are carried out in the forest hospital.
  • The forest hospital has 135 beds in 3 wards as well as 4 operating theaters and a large X-ray department.
  • In 2013 the forest hospital employed 188 people, including 27 doctors and specialists.
  • In the 2012 financial year, 16 million euros were generated, around 10% of which was invested in e.g. B. for new medical equipment in the forest hospital.

Personalities

Chief physicians

Surname function Period
Dieter Jungmichel Head of the Orthopedic Department September 1, 1972 to December 31, 1998
Christian Melzer Chief physician of the forest hospital January 1, 1999 to August 31, 2015
Albrecht Forster Head Physician Center for Special Joint Diseases 1995 to March 29, 2018
Detlef Bulst Chief Physician Center for Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine since 2001
Jacqueline Repmann Head of the Center for Endoprosthetics and Medical Director since September 1, 2015
Joachim Bleeck Head of the Center for Spinal Diseases and Traumatology since April 1, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Dübener Wochenspiegel - 71 years ago (from August 20, 2014, accessed on September 2, 2017) ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duebener-wochenspiegel.de
  2. ↑ Dübener Wochenspiegel from June 22nd, 2011: Old Forest Hospital: Residential development planned. Retrieved September 28, 2017 .
  3. ^ Nico Fliegner: Ex-Waldkrankenhaus: City council threatens substitute execution. Leipziger Volkszeitung, April 10, 2014, accessed on October 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Read with us 10 years ago. Dübener Wochenspiegel, May 9, 2018, p. 2 , accessed on June 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Mediclin - Information for Patients (accessed on September 2, 2017)
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g Dübener Wochenspiegel: Waldkrankenhaus: New structures for better treatment methods. February 13, 2013, accessed October 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Mediclin Forest Hospital Bad Düben: Forest Hospital Bad Düben receives FC International Leipzig. January 12, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b Ärzteblatt Sachsen 7/2006: Dr. med. Dieter Jungmichel on his 75th birthday. Retrieved October 3, 2017 .
  9. ↑ a b Mediclin Forest Hospital Bad Düben: MediClin Forest Hospital Bad Düben: Dr. Jacqueline Repmann appointed managing chief physician. September 28, 2015, accessed October 3, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Mediclin Forest Hospital Bad Düben: Forest Hospital Bad Düben receives FC International Leipzig. January 12, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2017 .
  11. ↑ MediClin press release: Senior physician for many years is retiring. MediClin, March 29, 2018, accessed on July 12, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Mediclin Forest Hospital Bad Düben: Double honor for chief physician for anesthesia at MediClin Forest Hospital Bad Düben. March 10, 2017. Retrieved October 3, 2017 .
  13. ^ Mediclin Waldkrankenhaus Bad Düben: New chief physician at MediClin Waldkrankenhaus Bad Düben. April 13, 2016, accessed October 3, 2017 .