Alice Hospital Darmstadt
| Alice Hospital Darmstadt | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | German Red Cross |
| place | Darmstadt |
| state | Hesse |
| Country |
 Germany
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '39 " N , 8 ° 39' 53" E |
| founding | 1869/1936 |
| Website | Website of the Alice Hospital Darmstadt |
The Alice-Hospital in Darmstadt (also: Alice-Hospital Darmstadt ) is an affiliated hospital sponsored by the Alice-Hospital Foundation of the Red Cross in Darmstadt . In the immediate vicinity of the hospital location in Dieburger Straße 31 on Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt's east district there are other health facilities of various types with which the Alice Hospital cooperates and acts as a joint health center.
The origins of the hospital go to local war hospitals of the 19th century and founded in 1869 women's association for nursing back.
history
Alice Women's Nursing Association
Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland (1843–1878), the second daughter of Queen Victoria (1819–1901) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–1861), came in 1862 as the wife of the Grand Duke's nephew and Heir to the throne Ludwig IV (1837-1892) to Darmstadt. In addition to her motherhood with a total of seven children, Alice in Hessen quickly developed a variety of social activities.
During the German War of 1866 , several military hospitals were set up in Darmstadt. Since Alice had cared for her ailing father until his death in 1861, she had practical experience in nursing and was committed to caring for the many war wounded. On June 1, 1867, she announced her concern with a call to found a women's association for joint action in a spirit of genuine humanity . Together with the women's rights activist and author Luise Büchner (1821–1877), it was founded on September 7, 1869 under the name Alice Women's Association for Nursing in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Alice became the first female president, Luise Büchner vice-president of the association. With her, the women's association had a vice-president who was committed to advocating women's entitlement to education, a job and their own income. Alice and Luise Büchner established the care of the sick as a profession .
Alice Hospital as a barracks hospital
During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 , the Alice Women's Association for Nursing experienced its first practical test in the barracks hospital built in Darmstadt between Eschollbrücker Straße and Schepp Allee. The Alice Hospital was founded in cooperation with the English Aid Association for the Sick and Wounded and with four English doctors. The barracks hospital published a bilingual weekly printed report, German weekly report of the Alice Hospital in Darmstadt , English WEEKLY REPORT OF THE ALICE HOSPITAL . As a result, 16 full-time nurses and 148 nurses were deployed for the duration of the war with short training in 8 field hospitals, 18 reserve hospitals and 10 club hospitals. Nurses according to Florence Nightingale (1820–1910); the term sisters was only introduced later in 1895. A total of 926 sick and wounded soldiers - 234 of them French - were cared for.
Alice-Hospital Mauerstraße 17
In the octagonal building in Darmstadt at Mauerstraße 17 ⊙ there has been a sanatorium for surgery and eye patients , also known as the Wall Hospitals , with an octagonal floor plan since 1854 . The doctors who worked there Hermann Balser, Karl Eigenbrodt , Heinrich Orth, Gustav Simon, Oskar Verdier, Karl Weber, Wilhelm Hohenschild, August Hegar and Carl Tenner, popularly known as the red-backed shrimp, signed a contract with the Alice Women's Association, which included the house an extension building was enlarged, with improved care facilities, with a living area for the nurses, and a nursing school. In 1874 Charlotte Helmsdörfer (1835–1897) took over the management of the hospital and the nursing school. The sudden death of President Alice from diphtheria , at the age of 36 on December 18, 1878, was a severe blow to further development. Alice's seventh four-year-old, Maria Victoria, also died of diphtheria in the same year.
Former Alice-Hospital Dieburger Strasse 21
An Alice Memorial Fund was founded and a hospital was built on Mathildenhöhe with the money collected and inaugurated on December 8, 1883. Princess Viktoria von Hessen-Darmstadt , the first daughter of Alice, became president of the Alice women's association. The hospital at Dieburger Straße 21 ⊙ was built according to the plans and under the construction of the building councilor Heinrich von Hügel of the Hügel family , who waived a fee for the transport of the item. The doctors and nurses moved from Mauerstrasse to Dieburger Strasse by statute of July 13, 1872 and with effect from April 1, 1884; the patients moved on April 21, 1884.
Main building Alice-Hospital Dieburger Straße 31
From 1935 to 1936, today's main building was erected next door at Dieburger Straße 31, which at that time again united the sanatorium itself, the nursing school and the motherhouse of the sisterhood. The hospital, along with other buildings, is an ensemble-protected part of the Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe and was built according to the plans of Georg Markwort and Eugen Seibert and rebuilt after the Second World War according to the plans of the Darmstadt architect Ernst Samesreuther .
present
The Alice Hospital Darmstadt today
Alice Hospital has 141 standard beds and 7 intensive care beds. Twelve affiliated doctor's practices are spread across two medical centers with a center for outpatient cardiological prevention and rehabilitation . It has five stations where the care after nursing model by Monika Krohwinkel works.
The following departments work, such as gastroenterology , cardiology , urology , gynecology , ear, nose and throat medicine , ear, nose and throat surgery, oral and maxillofacial surgery , anesthesia and radiology .
Darmstadt Children's Hospital Princess Margaret
On April 1, 1997, the children's clinic of the Alice Hospital and the children's clinic of the Darmstadt Clinic were merged under the new name of the Darmstadt Children's Clinic Princess Margaret . The children's clinic at Alice Hospital is flower-like ⊙ and is called PriMaFlora based on Margaret Princess of Hesse and near Rhine (1913–1997) . The Alice Hospital building from 1883 on Dieburger Straße 21 was demolished and the children's clinic was supplemented there with a new extension called Stängel based on the plans of the architects Paul Witan (? –2006), Andreas Russ and Diethelm Lang. The architecture takes up the theme of Alice-Hospital Mauerstraße 17 again, where the existing octagonal building for the attending doctors was supplemented with an elongated building with a gable roof for the Alice nurses.
literature
- Sophie von Follenius : Life's work and legacy of the Grand Duchess Alice of Hesse and the Rhine. For the 50th anniversary of the Alice Women's Association , Darmstadt 1917.
- 100 years of the sisterhood of the Red Cross Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1967.
- Manfred Knodt , Ursula Gleimann, Hanna Brückmann, Helga Schmitt, Gergard Stephan, Karl Hofmeister, Hans Jung: 100 years Alice-Hospital Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1983.
Web links
- Website of the Alice Hospital Darmstadt
- Website of the Darmstadt Children's Hospital Princess Margaret
- Website of the Alice Sisterhood in Darmstadt
- Affiliate Center for Heart Health website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Most modern hospital in Europe , Darmstädter Tagblatt , October 10, 1936
- ↑ Monument protection: Monument topography of the Hessian Monument Protection Act , version of September 5, 1986
- ^ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt: Ernst Samesreuther. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Children's clinics in Darmstadt Giving sick children a healthy future, 2nd construction phase on Dieburger Straße 21. (No longer available online.) Darmstädter Echo , February 10, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 25, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )