Wilhelmsheim
Wilhelmsheim is a clinic near the hamlet of Schiffrain above Oppenweiler in the Rems-Murr district .
The association for the establishment of public health facilities in Württemberg was founded in 1897. The height above Reichenberg was determined as the location for a new building; the name was undoubtedly chosen after the then ruling King Wilhelm II of Württemberg . On October 11, 1900, the Wilhelmsheim people's sanatorium for men was ceremoniously opened, although the first tuberculosis patients had already been admitted on August 16. By then, a total of 212,867 marks had been received in donations. After just four years, on October 1, 1904, the clinic was sold by the association to the Württemberg State Insurance Institute at cost price of 490,000 marks , since only a few patients were not accommodated at Wilhelmsheim at the expense of the LVA, but received grants from the association. By then, an average of over 600 patients had been cared for with a stay of over 60 days.
Wilhelmsheim served as a lung sanatorium for tuberculosis sufferers until 1979. The General Hospital Society took over the sanatorium in 1980 and has been running it since then as a specialist facility for alcohol and / or drug dependent women and men as well as pathological gamblers.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sylvelyn Hähner-Rombach: Social history of tuberculosis: from the Empire to the end of the Second World War with special consideration of Württemberg , Volume 14 of Medicine, Society and History: Supplement , Franz Steiner Verlag , 2000 ISBN 3515076697 , 404 pages, p. 174 ff.
- ↑ Lutz Reichardt: Place Name Book of the Rems-Murr-Kreis , Volume 128 of publications by the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg, Kohlhammer, 1993, ISBN 3170119672 (the author cited: Hist. Ststätten Baden-Württ., Table p. 921)
- ↑ http://www.ahg.de/AHG/Standorte/Wilhelmsheim/index.html
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Coordinates: 49 ° 0 '26.83 " N , 9 ° 27' 24.8" E