The old maternity hospital
Between 1950 and the late 1980s,
when the old maternity hospital
was replaced by the current one at a
different location, women from the
Primorska region would give birth
here. As no visitors were allowed
here on account of safety reasons,
many women still vividly remember
that relatives would come to the upper, Jamska
Road at an arranged time and wave to the
new mothers who stood at windows, cradling
the newborns. Even before that, from 1908
onwards, the magnificent building housed
a hospital which had taken over the work
of a smaller adjacent building constructed in
1851. Data about the first Postojna hospital
date back to the 18th century, when a small
hospital operated in the abandoned stud farm
of the manor house below Sovič; the hospital
building no longer exists.
Today, both buildings provide space for
the youth and children alike – a Postojna Nursery School unit is housed here, as are
the premises of the Postojna scouts, and
since 2001 the buildings that used to be
part of the Old Maternity Hospital have
also housed the centre of youth culture,
represented by the Club of Students from
the Municipalities of Postojna and Pivka,
and the Postojna Youth Centre.
Come closer and see what's going on in the
area of the old maternity hospital today.