Parking garage at the Evangelical Hospital, Hagen-Haspe

When you’re visiting a loved one in the hospital or going to an appointment for some scans or a therapy session, the endless hunt for a parking space can really try your patience. The parking situation around the clinic and adjacent retirement and nursing home in Hagen-Haspe has been getting steadily worse over the years. In 2021, an additional 100 parking spaces were finally made available to address the situation when our Münster branch constructed a multi-storey parking garage with 265 parking spaces on the site of the existing 3,300m² carpark at the Evangelical Hospital.

In Hagen, you go to the Mops 

The city district in which the Hagen-Haspe Evangelical Hospital is happily situated on an idyllic green hillside is officially known as Spielbrink. The locals, however, like to call it Mops, and this nickname is also applied to the clinic. The site was originally opened in 1889 as a care facility for the sick, elderly, orphans and infants, and the charitable organisation is a subsidiary of the Evangelical Foundation Volmarstein. The hospital of today contains more than 300 beds and nine specialist departments. The hospital is connected to the adjacent retirement home via an underground passage,

and the increasing flood of visitors in both directions each year has continuously exacerbated the shortage of space.

Parking garage with four offset levels

A temporary carpark for patients, visitors and hospital staff was constructed before the first stage in the construction of the new facility – levelling the existing parking area – got underway. The slight slope of the site necessitated a design based on four offset levels, connected via six access ramps. A staircase with a suspended glass façade provides pedestrian access to the various levels of the garage.

The supporting structure was manufactured using the steel composite method. The ceiling slab consists of semi-prefabricated elements manufactured with in-situ concrete, supported by a steel structure. The lower floors feature a paved surface. The two above-ground levels are open to the weather, and they along with the connecting ramps were surfaced with poured asphalt. Once the new parking garage was complete and in operation, the temporary carpark was demolished.