The Martin Gropius Krankenhaus is a neuro-psychiatric hospital in Eberswalde

Eberswalde

Eberswalde is a major town and the administrative seat of the district Barnim in the German Federal State of Brandenburg, about 50 km northeast of Berlin. Population 42144 , geographical location . The town is often called Waldstadt , because of the large forests around it, including the...

, Germany

Germany

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. It was built from 1862–1865 by architect Martin Gropius

Martin Gropius

Martin Carl Philipp Gropius was a German architect.- Life :Gropius studied at the Bauakademie in Berlin and after graduation worked as a private architect...

 from Berlin

Berlin

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. It was commissioned by the Estates

Estates of the realm

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 of the then-Prussian Province of Brandenburg

Province of Brandenburg

The Province of Brandenburg was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1815 to 1946.-History:The first people who are known to have inhabited Brandenburg were the Suevi. They were succeeded by the Slavonians, whom Henry II conquered and converted to Christianity in...

 as an insane asylum.

The commissioners had installed an advisory board of psychiatrists. The various tracts were built to the needs of patients with specific disorders and for specific therapies. This design mirrored the developing medical specialization.

The complex continued to house an asylum of the Province of Brandenburg until 1945. Then, the Red Army

Red Army

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 used it until 1994 as an army hospital. The psychiatric hospital was placed in auxiliary buildings. From 1997, the building was renovated. Since 2002, the neuro-psychiatric hospital is again housed in the main building. It is now jointly owned by the districts of Barnim

Barnim

Barnim is a district in Brandenburg, Germany. It is bounded by Poland, the district of Märkisch-Oderland, the city state of Berlin and the districts of Oberhavel and Uckermark.- History :...

 and Uckermark

Uckermark

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 and the town of Eberswalde. Since 2006, it carries the name of its architect.

The hospital now runs departments of Neurology

Neurology

Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue,...

, Sleep Medicine

Sleep medicine

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 and various sub-specialized Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...

 centers including Child and adolescent psychiatry

Child and adolescent psychiatry

The branch of psychiatry that specializes in the study, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of psychopathological disorders of children, adolescents, and their families, child and adolescent psychiatry encompasses the clinical investigation of phenomenology, biologic factors, psychosocial factors,...

, Psychosomatic Medicine, Geriatric Psychiatry

Geriatric psychiatry

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 and Forensic Psychiatry

Forensic psychiatry

Forensic psychiatry is a sub-speciality of psychiatry and an auxiliar science of criminology. It encompasses the interface between law and psychiatry...

.

Literature

• Martin Gropius: Die Provinzial-Irren-Anstalt zu Neustadt-Eberswalde. Ernst & Korn, Berlin, 1869.

Facsimile in:

Landesklinik Eberswalde (Hrsg.): Der Martin-Gropius-Bau der Landesklinik Eberswalde. be.bra Verlag, Berlin, 2002, ISBN 978-3-89809-036-0.

• Jens Fehlauer: Architektur für den Wahnsinn. Die „Land-Irren-Anstalt Neustadt-Eberswalde“. be.bra Verlag, Berlin, 2005, ISBN 978-3-937233-22-2.

External links

• Website of the Martin Gropius Krankenhauses (in German only)