Pinnapå: Lasarettsområdet

Where the bridge over the river Lagan is today, was a popular bathing place in the early 1900s. Not on the Enehagen side because that was too deep, but on the other side where the old hospital was. Here it was shallow and safe to bathe for the whole family.

Värnamo hospital opened in 1923. The old isolation hospital on Vallgatan 1 was built in the same year. The facade is ochre brown rough-cast with white rendered quoins and a curb roof with dormer windows.

“Hope” was the name of the hospital dispensary. The building is located on Lagastigen and was built in 1951, as shown from the year in pattern brickwork on the yellow brick facade.

“Love” was the name of the hospital staff accommodation. The block of flats closest to the bridge at Lagastigen was built in 1952 for orderlies and assistant nurses. When the new hospital opened in 1976, activities relocated here, although long-term care and rehabilitation remained until the mid-1990s.