Old hospitals Altona

Hospital on Koenigstrasse

The old hospitals in Altona were the Danish and Prussian forerunners of the Altona General Hospital , which was established in Othmarschen from 1961 .

history

Main entrance to the hospital on Max-Brauer-Allee

With city taxes and donations , five sick rooms were set up in the penitentiary in 1760 . In 1764 the midwifery center with maternity ward was established . On December 27, 1784, the first hospital with 60 beds was opened on Königstrasse . In 1799 the Altonaic Support Institute was founded, which in 1803 was given an outbuilding for the mentally ill . In 1840 the house had 100 beds, but it was already too small. In 1854 the New Hospital Commission awarded the building drawing for a new building in the Allee (today Max-Brauer-Allee), which was approved by the Magistrate and the Ministry in Copenhagen in 1859 . The new building, which opened on September 1, 1861, had 180 beds. After Altona fell to the Kingdom of Prussia in the German-Danish War in 1864 , an operating theater was opened in an annex in 1889 . In 1900 the house had 500 beds. When the cholera epidemic broke out in Hamburg in 1892 , the disinfection house was built. In 1896 the surgery got an X-ray system . In 1914, before the outbreak of World War I , the number of beds had already risen to 996. In the same year a morgue with a prosecution was set up. In addition, a laboratory , a boiler house and an animal shed were built. Dermatology found its way into a large hospital block. In 1916 a farm building with an institution kitchen and wash house was built.

In 1919, after the First World War , a gynecological department was set up and the gynecological clinic in Bülowstrasse was added. In 1921 the house got its own pharmacy . In 1923 the municipal Altona sisterhood was founded. The ophthalmological department was established in 1934 and the ENT department in 1935 . In 1938 Altona came to Hamburg through the Greater Hamburg Law . In Operation Gomorrah Altona was destroyed in 1943 and the hospital severely damaged. When poliomyelitis was rampant in 1947 , the Altona Hospital used the first iron lung .

In 1961 the foundation stone was laid for a new hospital in Othmarschen , which opened ten years later. A large part of the buildings, which are now a listed building including a public park, were saved from demolition in the 1980s. They are used partly for school (main building), partly for residential (Jenckelhaus) and partly for public needs (houses 2, 3 and 7, including a district center and a daycare center).

doctors

• Willi Gottfried Schultz (1900–1965), head of gynecology from 1952 to 1965
• Reinhard Aschenbrenner (1906–2008), internist, from 1946 to 1971 medical director
• Carl Bruck (1879–1944), dermatologist
• Adolf Jenckel (1870–1958), surgeon
• Fritz König (1866–1952), surgeon, neurosurgeon
• Fedor Krause (1857–1937), neurosurgeon, senior physician 1890–1892
• Leopold Lichtwitz (1876–1943), internist, director until 1931

See also

• Asklepios Clinic Altona

literature

• Peter Willers Jessen : The abdominal typhus in the Altona hospital in the epidemic of 1868, 1869 . 1869. GoogleBooks
• Oswald Müller-Plathe: From the history of the Altona hospital: Asklepios Klinik Altona. From 1784 to the present . Husum 2011, ISBN 978-3-89876-564-0 .
• Jörg Stendel: The history of surgery at the Altona hospital . Dissertation, University of Hamburg 1971.

Web links

• Former Altona Hospital. In: hamburg.de. Retrieved January 24, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '25.1 "  N , 9 ° 56" 48.2 "  E