Anna Children's Hospital
The Anna Children's Hospital was a children's hospital in Graz , which was the second oldest children's hospital in Austria-Hungary after the St. Anna Children's Hospital in Vienna .
The Children's Hospital Association , founded in Graz in 1842, built a small makeshift children's hospital with eight beds in two rooms the following year. As was customary at the time, these institutions were under the patronage of well-known women. In this case it was Anna Plochl , who later became Anna Freiin von Brandhofen, wife of Archduke Johann . The hospital was in Klosterwiesgasse.
As early as 1846, the hospital was able to move into a new building, a one-story house on Mozartgasse in Geidorf . It took until July 1877 for the Anna Children's Hospital ("der Allgemeine Sparkasse") to go into operation on a large scale. This time it also got the name of its patroness, Anna Plochl, who had meanwhile been raised by Metternich to Countess Anna of Meran. The 9-axis building had a kitchen with a sideboard and dining room, a laundry room and an ice cellar in the basement .
In addition to a medical and a surgical-oculistic department, there was an infection department. The head of the surgery was the Slovenian doctor Benjamin Ipavec , who was also known as a composer. The hospital developed significantly under Theodor Escherich . In addition to an isolated wing, it was given an auditorium, as Escherich was a university professor at the Karl-Franzens University in Graz and the hospital was granted the status of a kuk university clinic in 1880 . In 1905, Hans Spitzy and in 1913 Philipp Erlacher were his successors in the surgical-orthopedic department. In 1906, according to records, 686 operations with 252 anesthetics were performed.
It was not until 1969 that the hospital moved to the area of the LKH University Hospital , where it was further developed as a university hospital. The underlying pediatric surgery remained at this location for another 20 years until it was also rebuilt next to the children's clinic in the LKH. In the former hospital building on Mozartgasse, which today belongs to the University of Graz , a plaque commemorates the original use of the house. The old pediatric surgery was empty for a long time, and the Center for Molecular Biosciences (ZMB) was only completed and opened in 2007.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Children's Clinic through the ages ... ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Medical University of Graz, accessed on February 1, 2016
Web links
- Room plan of the Anna Children's Hospital (requested on February 28, 2010)
- History of pediatric surgery in Austria on KidDocs by Alexander Rokitansky
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 45.2 " N , 15 ° 26 ′ 52.6" E