Metadata: State hospital of Osnabrück
Collection
- Country:
- Germany
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Lower Saxony - Osnabrück Branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv - Standort Osnabrück
- Postal address:
- Schlossstraße 29, 49074 Osnabrück
- Phone number:
- +49 531 33162 0
- Reference number:
- Rep. 727
- Title:
- State hospital of Osnabrück
- Title (official language):
- Landeskrankenhaus Osnabrück
- Creator/accumulator:
- State hospital of Osnabrück
- Date(s):
- 1825/1999
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 12,300 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains documents regarding accommodation of custodians in the State "Sanatorium and Nursing Home" Osnabrück and transfers to other hospitals, list of inmates proposed for sterilisation and of transferred mental patients in the home. Among the patients' files are also files of Jewish patients.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- To improve the care of mentally disabled people in the Kingdom of Hannover from 1860, the construction of two new asylums was planned in Göttingen and Osnabrück. The Osnabrück Anstalt (Osnabrück Asylum) was built on the site of the former monastery of Gertrudenberg. The result was an impressive spacious building complex, to which the renovated monastery buildings were later added. On 1 April 1868 the "lunatic asylum”, now sponsored by the provincial association of the Prussian Province of Hannover, was able to start work. The first director, Georg Meyer, led the house until 1899 according to modern scientific methods, with the establishment of small patient groups and the offer of meaningful occupations for the inmates. For this purpose, he also took over a farm which existed until 1976. At the beginning of the 20th century, the hospital, which now bore the designation of provincial sanatorium and nursing home, accommodated up to 500 patients. In the Weimar Republic, occupational therapy was expanded and began in Osnabrück with "open mental health care”. Hundreds of patients were forcibly sterilised in the Osnabrück institution as a result of National Socialist policies. Hundreds were deported. In addition, forced labourers and bombed-out persons were accommodated in the buildings.
- Access points: locations:
- Osnabrück
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system or arrangement. The material is kept in order of accession.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is partially closed.
- Finding aids:
- A database is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.arcinsys.niedersachsen.de/arcinsys/start.action?oldNodeid=
- Yerusha Network member:
- Institute for the History of German Jews
- Author of the description:
- Meike Buck
