Left below: Document of the opening From hospice to hospital: 1950. | Archive azMof the Sint Annadal hospital, 3 August . 72 Sint Annadal Maastricht architects Cuypers en Swinkels. | RHCLJournal article in 1935 aboutRight:the delay of the building of the newhospital in Maastricht, with a draft of the Oattendance of local, provincial and national new hospital with a capacity of six hundred beds. Constructionhad become outdated and too small by 1920, which was reasonto ask the well-known architect, J.Th.J. Cuypers, to design an 3 August, 1950, the new Sint Annadal hospitalwas ceremoniously opened. Under massive 188 authorities, J.R.H. van Schaik, minister of internal affairs, was planned in the rural area to the west of the town. However, signed the document. The Burgerlijk Armbestuur, which had the plans for new construction were halted by the economic built and paid for the hospital, signed a second document. decline during the first half of the 1920s. In 1933, new plans It referred to the long period of preparation and construction for construction were developed. But this time the plans 'in the spirit of Maastricht for Our Lord and his sick people'. coincided with the severe economic depression of the 1930s. Compared with the fifteen years of preparation and Although the Colijn cabinet provided and advance of 1.4 million construction of Sint Annadal, its existence was very brief: from guilders from the 'Labour fund 1934' as part of its efforts to 1950 until 1986. The once very modern Calvariënberg hospital create work and promote reconstruction, the Burgerlijk Armbestuur, like the municipal council, vacillated in deciding about location, costs and even the need for construction. Forced by the increasing shortage of beds and poor facilities of the Calvariënberg hospital, the Burgerlijk Armbestuur finally decided in March 1935 that new construction would be undertaken on the 'high and dry' Cabergerveld. The miasmal notion concerning the salutary effect of clean air apparently still prevailed. A year later the municipal council approved the plan with twenty votes in favour and twelve against. In 1938, the Maastricht architect ir. A. Swinkels and the Amsterdam architect Ed. Cuypers designed a new plan. In the next year there were lengthy discussions with specialists about how the departments should be designed and equipped. The Second World War followed, with cold winters and a severe shortage of materials. Construction started in 1940 but progress was slow. In 1944, the buildings, which were still under construction, were occupied by the American army. Because of persistent cold weather the entire supply of wood for window frames and scaffolding poles was burned up. More than fifteen years after the first construction plans had been made, the building was finished. It was now time to think about a name and an opening
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