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FROM THE 130TH STATION HOSPITAL
NINE HI CLUB
HEIDELBERG GERMANY
SHINEY "AL" COMPOSITION
c. 1970 +/-
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USAH Heidelberg
7th Medical Command
U.S. Army in Germany from 1945 to 1989
1945 - 1946
(Source: 130th Station Hospital, Heidelberg; installment of the "Our Army Hospitals" series that appeared in the Medical Bulletin published in USFET during the mid 1940s - probably early 1947.)
On 15 July 1945, the 130th Station Hospital, then at Camp Lucky Strike, Le Havre, France, was assigned to the 7th Army for duty with the Army of Occupation. It arrived at Heidelberg, Germany, on 1 August 1945, and proceeded to Rohrbach, Germany, a small village about three miles south of Heidelberg. Here, in the Nachrichten Kaserne, it took over from the 103rd Evacuation Hospital at 0001 hours, 24 August 1945, the mission of providing station hospital facilities (750 beds) for the troops in the Heidelberg area.
The Nachrichten Kaserne was constructed by the Germans during the period from 1937 to 1939. Upon completion in 1939, it was used to house and train Signal Corps 33. At the beginning of the war in September 1939, Signal Corps 33 moved to the front. From then on, the Kaserne was occupied by infantry and other units. In 1941, the Kaserne was changed to a hospital, whch was kept in operation for nine months. After that it was re-constructed to house different units of approximately 1,500 men each. None of these units was medical. The 103rd Evacuation Hospital, together with a few non-medical units, was the first American group to occupy the Kaserne.
The 130th Station hospital operated under practically full field conditions in two large barracks buildings without adequate space and plimbing until the summer of 1946, when a few additional buildings wre completed. The plant, when completed, will consist entirely of renovated buildings and some new construction. The completion date was set originally for October 1946, but shortage of critical material has advanced this date until 31 January 1947. At this writing, it is about 80 percent complete.
The hospital plant consists of 17 buildings connected by enclosed ramps and corridors covering approximately 14 acres of ground. (See map) The buildings are of brick and cement construction. The hospital is heated throughout by four separate sets of low pressure steam boilers. The water supply is obtained from the Heidelberg water system -- an approved source. The hospital sewerage system connects directly with that of the city of Heidelberg.
All administrative offices except post exchange, utilities, special service and motor pool are located on the first floor of the Headquarters building (Bldg P). The second and third floors of this building are utilized as Nurses' quarters. Since the arrival of many dependents, the majority of the bachelor officers are also quartered on the hospital grounds. The officers' club and mess are combined on the second floor of Building O. Another building needing further description is Building D. This rather long building includes a 500-seat theater, special service office, information and education offices, library, public address control system, pressing shop, ice cream bar, post exchange, barber shop, enlisted men's mess, German mess, motor pool and utility office.
The morgue and medical supply warehouse occupy the basement of Building A and linen exchange and unit supply occupy the basement of Building B. The remaining details of the hospital plant are shown in the attached map.
The hospital serves the typical station hospital needs of the Heidelberg Area Command which includes personnel of Headquarters Third Army and many army units. Also, patients are received routinely from other large military areas, such as Karlsruhe and Mannheim. In fact, patients are received from as far away as the French Zone.
The number of persons entitled to medical service in the area is approximately 10,000. Before the arrival of dependents a complete obstetrical service was added to the hospital facilities and at present time approximately 100 women are attending pre-natal clinics. A very attractive nursery is already in full operation.
In November 1946, a 7-chair dental clinic moved into new quarters. The clinic averages about 400 patients a month and approximately 1,200 sittings.
The hospital receives and disposes of approximately 800 patients per month, about 3,000 persons were seen by the outpatient services and 1,000 civilian and military physical examinations are conducted each month. During the last quarter of 1946, the hospital was reduced to 500 beds.
The close of the year found all activities in their permanent houses with the exception of the laboratory, X-ray, physical therapy, orthopedic clinic, EKG and BMR room, and ear, eye, nose and throat clinic.
1980
(Source: USAREUR Medical Bulletin, Vol. 37, No. 9, September 1980)
The 130th Station Hospital of the Heidelberg Medical Department Activity (HMEDDAC) was activated on Sept 25, 1942 at Camp Barkley, Texas. The hospital's mission was to prepare for overseas duty as a 750-bed station hospital in the European Theater of Operation. The remaining months of 1942 and the early months of 1943 were spent in the assembling of the unit's personnel and equipment and in accomplishing their training.
On July 25, 1943, the hospital moved to the New York Port of Embarkation, absorbed additional personnel, and then, at full strength, sailed for England. The station hospital established itself at Camp Chiselden, Wiltshire, located about 70 miles west of London. There, it assumed the mission of providing station medical service to nearby troop units.
After many months of intensive planning and preparation, the Allied Forces, under the command of General Eisenhower, began the invasion of the European continent on June 6, 1944. Nine days later, on June 15, the 130th Station Hospital became a transient hospital in the line of evacuation from the western front.
After treating 30,000 patients over the next 10 months, it relocated at Le Havre, France, and provided dispensary medical care to troops deploying to the United States.
With the end of the war and the occupation of Germany, the unit transferred in July 1945 to Nachrichten Kaserne in the small town of Rohrbach, about three miles south of Heidelberg. The hospital was then in its permanent home with the mission of providing medical support to the occupation forces.
Nachrichten Kaserne had been built in 1934-1936 to house a German signal battalion of approximately 500 troops.
Of historical note, General George S. Patton died at the 130th Station Hospital on Dec 21, 1945 as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Mannheim, Germany.
Today, the 130th Station Hospital is the parent unit of the Heidelberg MEDDAC whose health service area encompasses 3,700 square miles and has the mission of providing medical, veterinary, and preventive medicine support through the hospital and its several organizational clinics and medical detachments. The MEDDAC provides medical support to approximately 62,000 military members and their dependents living in the Mannheim, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, and Worms area of Germany.
The HMEDDAC has within its area of responsibility the Headquarters, United States Army Europe and Seventh Army, and the Headquarters, 7th Medical Command which is also a tenant unit on Nachrichten Kaserne.
The 130th Station Hospital provides a full range of major medical specialties including internal medicine, pediatrics, dermatology, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, opthalmology, otolaryngology, obstetrics/synecology, anesthesiology, psychiatry, radiology, and pathology.
Veterinary services which are provided by the 487th Medical Detachment include veterinary food inspection activities and care and treatment of small animals.
The Preventive Medicine Division provides essential preventive medicine, environmental sanitation, and community health nursing support throughout the MEDDAC's area of responsibility. Large health clinics are located in the Mannheim and Karlsruhe communities, and smaller clinics are located in Worms; Germersheim Army Depot; Coleman Barracks, Mannheim; and Gerszewski Barracks, Karlsruhe. Two medical detachments augment the Heidelberg Hospital and Mannheim dispensary.
Major backup support for specialty services is provided by the 2nd General Hospital at Landstuhl, the 97th General Hospital at Frankfurt, and the University of Heidelberg Hospital.
At present, the 130th Station Hospital has 125 operating beds with an average daily census of 75 patients. Approximately 900-1,000 patients are seen daily on an outpatient basis. Renovation has recently been completed on the troop billets, dining facility, and the clinic building. The main hospital building is scheduled for renovation in the near future. Renovation of the Mannheim and Karlsruhe clinics is scheduled to begin in the coming months.
To perform its mission, the HMEDDAC has an authorized strength of 116 officers, 383 enlisted personnel and 425 civilian employees. The officers include 42 Medical Corps officers, 2 Veterinary Corps officers, 30 Medical Service Corps offi'cers, 35 Army Nurse Corps officers, four Army Medical Specialist Corps officers, two warrant officers and one chaplain.
All 924 staff members are dedicated to the MEDDAC's motto: "We Will Serve."
The U.S. Army Garrison Heidelberg was made up of a number of United States military installations in and around Heidelberg, Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg, along with Germersheim Depot in the neighboring German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition, some NATO facilities were present on the installations. In June 2010, USAG Heidelberg was inactivated and consolidated into its parent unit, U.S. Army Garrison Baden-Wuerttemberg. This was a preparatory move for a complete relocation away from Heidelberg: From 2012 to 2015 the relocation of all U.S. military units (many to Wiesbaden, Germany) marked an end point in the history of the U.S. Army Garrison Heidelberg. The U.S. Army, Europe (USAREUR) headquarters, located in Heidelberg since 1952 as part of the garrison, was moved to Wiesbaden to a newly built installation at Lucius D. Clay Kaserne in 2012. All military installations in Heidelberg were handed over to the German state by 2015 for conversion to civilian use.
Installations of U.S. Army Garrison Heidelberg included Campbell Barracks (the former Wehrmacht Großdeutschland-Kaserne) where headquarters for several units were located until 2013, including U.S. Army, Europe (USAREUR). Campbell Barracks and Mark Twain Village were both located in Heidelberg-Südstadt; Patton Barracks in nearby Heidelberg-Kirchheim was home to the U.S. Army Garrison Baden-Württemberg. Nachrichten Kaserne in Heidelberg-Rohrbach [de] was home to the former 130th Station Hospital, later designated the Heidelberg Health Center, and Headquarters, Seventh Medical Command (HQ, 7th MEDCOM), which was the parent unit to 264 subordinate US and NATO medical, dental and veterinary units located from Norway to the Mediterranean Sea, from Spain to Germany. Patrick Henry Village, the largest U.S. military housing area in the Heidelberg area, was located west of Heidelberg-Kirchheim. Tompkins Barracks and Kilbourne Kaserne were located in Schwetzingen. The former U.S. Army Air Field (Heidelberg AAF) was later converted to a heliport.
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