Renovated Franja Hospital opened
July 2010
The renovated Franja Hospital was opened at the end of May, mitigating at least in part the shock suffered on 18 September 2007 when it was practically destroyed by the great flood that turned the Pasica, the stream that flows past the hospital, into a raging torrent. The Franja Hospital is one of Slovenia's most remarkable historic monuments. In 2000 it was included on the Tentative List for possible inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The repair or reconstruction of equipment in the huts was carried out by Idrija Museum
- Photo: Spletni portal mesta Idrija (http://www.idrija.ws/)
The costs of repairing the hospital, a project assumed by the Slovenian government in the immediate aftermath of the catastrophe in 2007, amounted to €2,375,000, which is actually slightly less than was originally envisaged and earmarked in the national budget. Estimates at the time suggested approximately €4.1 million worth of damage. The repairs did not only concern the main part of the monument represented by the reconstructed historic buildings and their equipment, but also included access to the hospital and regulation of the stream to ensure that a similar disaster will not happen again. The money was provided by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning. The repair or reconstruction of equipment in the huts was carried out by Idrija Museum on the basis of donations and its own resources. The work involved repairs to two original huts, the reconstruction of 11 completely destroyed huts, the restoration of 30 very badly damaged museum items and 80 items that had suffered less damage, and, above all, the acquisition and reconstruction of 650 other museum pieces and items of inventory. It should be pointed out that it was only possible to find and restore 225 of the more than 800 original items, with the result that the majority of pieces in the museum are no longer original. Fortunately, however, the contents of the hospital had been recorded and catalogued down to the last detail, thanks to the outstanding work carried out here by museum staff in the past, which has now paid dividends.
Among the best equipped clandestine partisan hospitals during the Second World War
The partisan hospital, which is named after Dr Franja Bojc Bidovec, operated during the Second World War, from 1943 to 1945. It was built to treat the wounded and seriously ill in the area covered by the 9th Corps of the Slovenian partisan army. While it was open it treated over 1,000 wounded soldiers and other patients, and in the course of almost two years its location was neither discovered by the enemy nor betrayed, as happened in the case of some other partisan hospitals.
From: http://www.slovenia.si
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