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Hospital Interlaken

After the Augustinian monastery, now Interlaken Castle, was secularized in 1532, a “Spittel” was set up in the vacated rooms to accommodate the needy and tramps. In 1823, a hospital room with three beds was set up for injured wild haymakers and woodcutters; it was later expanded to ten beds in the east wing of the castle and in adjacent parts of the building. Two beds were reserved for the Oberhasli district. Little by little, the “Spittel” and an accident ward became a hospital. It was the only one in the canton of Bern that was operated entirely at the expense of the Bernese state until the end of 1881.

When it was transferred to the municipalities in the district, it became a “district hospital”. This was the cornerstone for the founding of the hospital association, which all municipalities in the district later joined. This regulation remained in principle valid for the next 122 years.

Various epidemics such as the plague of 1669, typhus, smallpox and cholera in 1855 and the economic boom caused by the rise of tourism led to planning for a new district hospital beginning in 1900. It should be in an area that is not too densely populated so that it could be isolated in the event of an epidemic. The choice fell on the Mattacker on Weissenaustrasse in Unterseen. Although the Interlaken local council would have liked to see the new building built on its own soil, the extraordinary general meeting on June 25, 1900 decided on the Mattacker in Unterseen as the most suitable building site. For each expansion of the hospital complex, land immediately adjacent to it could be purchased.

The hospital assistant school was put into operation in 1959. The school's first course for general nursing began on May 1, 1966. In 1970 the hospital was expanded to include a hemodialysis ward. Two years later, construction began on a new wing south of the existing main building, which opened on December 15, 1975. Magnetic resonance imaging went into operation in 2001. A year later, the “Spital Interlaken – Interlaken Hospital Foundation” was founded.