Ancient surgery

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Facade of the building before the renovation with the inscription VULNERANDO SANAMUS

The old surgery or former surgical clinic is a listed building in the clinic district on the Gießener Seltersberg, which has been the Medical Teaching Center (MLZ) of the Justus Liebig University Gießen since 2016 and includes teaching rooms and the dean's office of the medical department. The building with the address Klinikstraße 29, which can be assigned to the Art Nouveau period , dates from 1907.

history

The surgery building complex was originally laid out axially symmetrically like a baroque palace and aligned with the central axis of the eye clinic. The historicizing main building is a two-story building on the sides and three-story building in the middle section with a high slated mansard roof. There are stylistic references to baroque and classicism. The continuous plinth made of irregularly large lung stones rises above the floor plan, which has now been partially changed. The bright plastered surfaces are interrupted by reddish sandstone pilaster strips. The windows are of different sizes and divided by bars. The entrance area is particularly striking, with the central arched window framed by climbing ornaments dominating. Above it is the sentence “VULNERANDO SANAMUS” (We heal by wounding) in art nouveau letters. The ensemble is a cultural monument "for artistic, urban planning and university-historical reasons".

Seal of the medical faculty

modification

In January 2014, the conversion of the clinical building into a medical teaching center (MLZ) with functional and administrative use began. After that, the gross floor area was 10,558 m², the gross volume 42,938 m³. The construction costs amounted to 18.265 million euros, to which an initial installation in the amount of 0.93 million euros came. They were largely financed from the "HEUREKA" program of the State of Hesse, with the University Hospital Gießen and Marburg (UKGM) contributing EUR 3.35 million. The project was completed in July / August 2016 and initially occupied by the dean's office. Teaching began at the beginning of the 2016/17 winter semester. On a usable area of ​​4,420 square meters, in addition to lounge areas and seminar rooms, rooms for self-study, simulation intervention rooms and rooms for students in the practical year were accommodated. Two lecture halls have been added to accommodate 200 and 320 students respectively. The aim of concentrating the teaching and dean's office space in one building is to shorten the distances to the medical subjects, the “Research Building Medicine” and the UGKM building complex.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Press release from Justus Liebig University Giessen, October 17, 2016
  2. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse: DenkXweb

literature

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Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 33.3 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 54"  E