Free visit of the park of the public mental health establishment of Flanders (EPSM)

Name: Visita libre al parque del establecimiento público de salud mental de Flandes (EPSM)
Start: 2022-09-18T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: EPSM des Flandres

Discover this magnificent garden of this psychiatric institution created in 1863.

Domingo 18 septiembre 2022, 10:00Passed

Ville de Bailleul

Types d'événement

Visite libre

Thème 2022

Patrimoine durable

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

About the location

EPSM des Flandres

790 route de Locre Établissement - 59270 Bailleul

Nord
Hauts-de-France

Built in 1863 on a land of 32 hectares (which was the site of the convent of the Antonins disappeared at the Revolution), the psychiatric hospital of Bailleul was formerly called Asylum of alienated women of the department of North. The law of 1838 had forced the creation of an asylum by department but the importance of the population of the North led to the construction of two establishments, one in Armentières for men, the other in Bailleul for women). At the announcement of the German offensive, evacuated and destroyed in April 1918, like the rest of the city. Very quickly after the war rebuilt in the same location, on the old foundations. The deliberate adoption of quality architecture that sometimes came close to that of fashionable «cottages» in the 1930s, the introduction of picturesque elements (such as the entrance pavilion), contribute to break the image of confinement to which the notion of Maison de Santé could still be associated.