Alfried Krupp Hospital Rüttenscheid

Alfried Krupp Hospital Rüttenscheid
Sponsorship	Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation
place	Essen - Rüttenscheid
state	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 25 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 24"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 24"  E
management	Günther Flämig, Sabine Kisselbach
beds	573 (Rüttenscheid), 320 (Steele)
Employee	over 2200 at both houses
areas of expertise	Anesthesia , surgery , gynecology , ENT , cardiology , nephrology , neurosurgery , neurology , orthopedics , radiology , neuroradiology , radiation oncology
founding	Origin: 1872
Website	www.krupp-krankenhaus.de

The Alfried Krupp Hospital in the Rüttenscheid district of Essen was rebuilt on the initiative of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation in 1980 and is now an academic teaching hospital of the University of Duisburg-Essen . Its development from the history of the Krupp company is significant in terms of urban history and is now part of theme route 5 of the Route of Industrial Culture .

history

First hospital

Alfried Krupp Hospital, Rüttenscheid

Due to the two previous hospitals in the fast-growing industrial city of Essen ( Huyssens Foundation and Elisabeth Hospital ), not all of the wounded could be treated. That is why Alfred Krupp had a simple hospital set up in a workers' dormitory right next to the cast steel factory in the summer of 1870, at the time of the Franco-German War (1870/1871) . At the same time, on his initiative, a barrack hospital with around 100 beds was built nearby, on today's Lazarettstrasse. It went into operation in November 1870 and consisted of three parallel buildings modeled on the hospital barracks of the American Civil War . There was an elongated ward for 34 patients, for whom there was a smoking and a dining room. The three buildings included the gatehouse, administration building and a wash house. As early as November 16, 1870, the barracks hospital was fully occupied for the first time.

Hospital and rest house

In 1872, Friedrich Krupp AG officially received the license from the Prussian government to operate a hospital for the workers in the cast steel factory in the buildings of the former military hospital. On December 22, 1886, the license was granted for an extended hospital for women and children. On February 12 of the following year, a contract was signed between the Cooperative of the Sisters of Mercy and Friedrich Krupp AG on the care of women and children, for which two pavilions with 52 beds were built shortly afterwards. Soon the hospital gradually received a spa, surgery and in 1896 an X-ray machine .

In 1897, in addition to the company hospital , Friedrich Alfred Krupp had a rest house built for convalescents at the Altenhof settlement , which has been built since then , near the beneficiary houses that are still preserved today . With the consent of Empress Victoria , it was named Kaiserin-Auguste-Viktoria-Erholungshaus . In February 1906 Margarethe Krupp donated one million marks for the extension of the recreation house , so that women and children were also taken in here. The former community school on Lazarettstrasse, not far from the local hospitals, was purchased in 1907 and converted for hospital purposes. In 1912 the Arnoldhaus was built as a maternity hospital at Altenhof.

In 1920, the Krupp Hospital came into being as a merger of the hospital buildings in Lazarettstrasse and the maternity clinic at Altenhof. From now on, these hospitals also served non-factory workers. The former catholic chapel of the old Krupp settlement Altenhof is now the rebuilt hospital chapel . In 1937 the hospital on Lazarettstrasse was given a new administration building, which is still partially preserved today with the gatehouse. A year later, the women's recreation house at Altenhof and other recreation buildings were converted into reserve hospitals, as there was no longer enough space for the wounded in the Essen hospitals during the First World War .

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  Empress Auguste Viktoria rest house with cath. Church (today hospital chapel) in Altenhof around 1915

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  Operating theater of the Krupp Hospital on Lazarettstrasse around 1929

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  Gatehouse at the Lazarettstraße, 1937 by Emil Jung built

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  Torhaus on Lazarettstrasse 2012

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  Reliefs on the gatehouse, in the middle the Aesculapian staff with the three Krupp rings

Second World War and the aftermath

During the Second World War , the hospitals had to move to downtown Essen (north of Hachestrasse, between Hindenburgstrasse and the main post office ), because the Allied air raids in 1944 on the neighboring cast steel factory, which produced many armaments, bombed the hospital on Lazarettstrasse and could not be rebuilt become. The rest houses in Altenhof also served as makeshift hospitals during the war and could be rebuilt or renovated after partial destruction. In the post-war years, no more than a makeshift operation could be maintained because the medical equipment and hygiene were no longer up to modern requirements.

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  Krupp hospitals 1960, gatehouse

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  Midwives, sisters with babies on the maternity ward at Krupp Hospital, 1960

New hospital building in Rüttenscheid

Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , the last sole owner of the Krupp company, commissioned the planning for the new building of a hospital in 1963. However, these plans did not come true because he died in 1967. The project was then suspended until 1969 , when Berthold Beitz , chairman of the board of trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation , decided to build a new building based on the latest medical knowledge at Altenhof. As early as 1971, the sponsorship of the Krupp company was transferred to the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation. In 1977 the foundation stone was laid for the new building that went into operation on August 20, 1980. It started with almost 800 employees in a building with 560 beds and eleven clinics. The architecture of the hospital came from the Frankfurt office of Wörner + Partner .

Today's hospital operations

Medical center, built in 2008

In the Alfried Krupp Hospital as an academic teaching hospital of the University of Duisburg-Essen there are a total of 19 medical clinics at two hospitals in Essen-Rüttenscheid and Essen-Steele, which specialize in anesthesia , general and visceral surgery , vascular medicine, gynecology , ear, nose and throat ( ENT ), hematology and oncology, cardiology , nephrology , neurosurgery , neurology , orthopedics , pulmonology, plastic surgery, radiology and neuroradiology , radiation oncology , trauma surgery and urology.

573 beds are counted in Rüttenscheid and 320 in Steele. In 2015, over 26,000 inpatients were treated in the house in Rüttenscheid and around 118,000 outpatient treatments were carried out. In 2015 there were over 13,000 inpatient and over 34,000 outpatient cases in the house in Essen Steele. Today around 2,200 employees look after the medical service, nursing, medical technology, supply service, technology, administration and a day-care center with around 100 childcare places. Apprenticeship positions are offered in the three training centers nursing school, OTA school and physiotherapy school. In addition to a nurses' home, the hospital also has 86 rental apartments.

The Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation is the sole shareholder of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Hospital gGmbH .

Association with the Luther Hospital Steele

The Alfried Krupp Hospital in Rüttenscheid and the Lutherhaus Evangelical Hospital in Steele have been cooperating since November 2004 . Both houses remained legally independent, but medically and economically they are growing together.

On January 1, 2008, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Krankenhaus gGmbH acquired all shares in the Evangelisches Krankenhaus Lutherhaus gGmbH in Steele. The association of both hospitals was initially given the name Alfried Krupp Klinikum Essen , with both previous clinic names being added as an addition.

Since October 1, 2008, the uniform name for both clinics has been Alfried Krupp Hospital , with the districts in which the clinics are located as an addition to the name: Alfried Krupp Hospital Rüttenscheid and Alfried Krupp Hospital Steele . Legally, the two hospital operators will continue to exist as independent companies.

literature

• Franz-Josef Brüggemeier : The Krupp'schen hospitals (1870-1914). Herzogenrath 1990, ISBN 3-921801-53-2 .
• Regine Hauch, Timm Rautert : In the hospital. The patient between technology and care. Pictures from the Alfried Krupp Hospital . Ernst & Sohn , Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-433-02470-7 .

Web links

Commons : Alfried Krupp Hospital  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Alfried Krupp Hospital's website
• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~5~10512

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Quality Report Rüttenscheid 2015 (PDF; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Quality Report Steele 2015
3. ↑ Holger Krüssmann: Architecture in Essen 1900–1960 . Ed .: Berger Bergmann and Peter Brdenk. Klartext, Essen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8375-0246-6 .
4. ↑ Uta Winterhager: Getting old: Alfried Krupp Hospital in Essen , in: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Issue 02, 2012, accessed on January 15, 2020.
5. ^ New building of the Krupp hospital in Essen, in: Bauwelt 23, 1974, pp. 840–842.
6. ^ Job portal of the Alfried Krupp Hospital. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on June 4, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.