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PostSubject: Re: This was a RAF Hospital   This was a RAF Hospital - Page 2 Icon_minitime16/1/2014, 15:33

The Royal Air Force Museum Laarbruch Weeze could get quite a nice model of Wegberg Hospital.
WEGBERG HOSPITAL
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PostSubject: Re: This was a RAF Hospital   This was a RAF Hospital - Page 2 Icon_minitime27/2/2015, 05:40

My sister was born there.


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Hi there,

in ther early nineties I was proud to geht some skills as a medical student from Düsseldorf, Germany Art RAF Hospital Wegberg. I enjoyed this time very mich - being abroad in the neighbourhood!

Hospital was still working, redundency plan has been in preparation and I have learned a lot!

If there is so around from the staff I would be glad to refresh the contact...

Regards,

Ian
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The day before yesterday - on 14th April 2017 - part of RAF Hospital Wegberg was burning.
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Number of posts : 134
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Places Served : Oswestry, Paderborn, Barnard Castle, Catterick, NI, Bristol, Cyprus, Munsterlager, NI,Sennelager , NI , Rge Control/STC Sennelager/ GSU Sennelager as Civvy
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PostSubject: Re: This was a RAF Hospital   This was a RAF Hospital - Page 2 Icon_minitime23/4/2017, 13:44

another site recording RAF WEGBERG among other former locations:


http://www.ace-high-journal.eu/wegberg---hospital.html

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Localisation : Between Hannover and Herford, off all main routes
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Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012)
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PostSubject: Re: This was a RAF Hospital   This was a RAF Hospital - Page 2 Icon_minitime31/10/2018, 00:23

The Hospital has been empty a while. Vandals and scrappies have been in. The premises actually were handed back to the German Government (Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben - BImA, used to be Bundesvermögensamt):

https://www.lost-place.org/objekte/oeffentlicher-dienst/raf-hospital-krankenhaus-der-royal-air-force/
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Places Served : Oswestry 1965, Paderborn to 1971, NE Dist, Munsterlager from 1974, Sennelager (1976 to 2012)
Registration date : 2016-12-16

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PostSubject: First Day Cover - 25 Years RAF Hospital Wegberg   This was a RAF Hospital - Page 2 Icon_minitime3/11/2023, 15:10

RAF HOSPITAL WEGBERG, (WEST) GERMANY, 1953–2010
The image below is taken from a first-day cover issued on 31 May 1978 commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Royal Air Force (RAF) Hospital Wegberg, in (West) Germany. The hospital is pictured beneath an HP Hastings No 505 aircraft.

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The following information about RAF Hospital Wegberg is contained within the envelope.
'Situated only a few miles from the famous German town of Mönchengladbach, Wegberg is about 20 miles West of the Rhine as it flows through Düsseldorf. It was the second British Hospital to be built after the Second World War and was built to an ingenious design. It consists of an outer half-circle of wards, an inner half-circle for departments and administration, and a central kitchen with corridors (wide enough to be used as wards in emergencies) radiating from it . . . It was decided to build the hospital at Wegberg because plans were being made to build the NATO headquarters and Headquarters of the British Forces in Germany only three miles away at Rheindahlen.'

Further information is given about the construction and official opening of the hospital in 1953, and about a significant tree planted in the garden:
'Many visitors to the hospital especially those visiting the Children's Ward have stopped to admire the magnificent Magnolia tree in the garden there. This tree was planted on 31 October 1970 by Mrs T N N Brennan wife of the Principal Medical Officer Royal Air Force Germany. It was a gift from the North Rhine Division of the British Guides in Germany and was presented in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of the Guide Movement.'

The enclosure also provides some statistics about RAF Hospital Wegberg (which was built as a general hospital) in 1978:
'The hospital is responsible for about 46,000 people, including servicemen and women from all three services and their dependants as well as associated civilians. The population is drawn from a large area of some 7,000 square miles from Duisburg and Bonn in the East to Antwerp and Mons in the West. Approximately 6,000 in-patients are admitted annually and some 32,000 out-patients are seen. Over 1,000 babies are born every year in the Maternity Department, attached to which is a modern Special Care Baby Unit. The hospital has a modern and well equipped intensive care unit and well rehearsed contingency plans to meet the demands of an unforeseen disaster. As a further precaution specially trained in-flight nursing teams are constantly on call to accompany patients to England.'

Having had its services scaled down in 1996, RAF Hospital Wegberg was the headquarters of British Forces Germany Health Services (BFGHS) between 1999 and 2010. The premises were formally handed back to the German authorities in October 2010.
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