Midwifery School

The school, called in full Catholic Nursery School for Midwives, started in 1913 on the Akerstraat and was founded because of the high infant mortality rate in Limburg at the time. One of the initiators was Mr. Peter Joseph Savelberg.
The school was directly adjacent to the former Sint-Jozef Hospital. The school soon became too small, all the more so because a transit house for unwed mothers was also established next to the building.
Jan Stuyt designed a new building on the Zandweg, near the Sint-Elisabethgesticht. This building was opened in 1923 by Queen Wilhelmina. The complex, in neoclassical style, included an elongated residence building with a gatehouse, and in 1934 a chapel in the same style was added.
In 1993 the Midwifery School moved to Kerkrade and nowadays the training is housed at the Academic Hospital Maastricht. The building is a national monument and has been used as an apartment complex for the elderly since 1998 and is called Parc Imstenrade.
Attached to the building is a plaque commemorating the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, who was born there in 1931.

Tourist Board South Limburg (Visit Zuid-Limburg)