Duke Carl Theodor Eye Clinic
| Duke Carl Theodor Eye Clinic | |
|---|---|
| place | Munich - Maxvorstadt |
| state |
 Bavaria
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| Country |
 Germany
|
| Coordinates | 48 ° 8 '54 " N , 11 ° 33' 6" E |
| medical administration | Christos Haritoglou |
| beds | 52 |
| Employee | 90 |
| including doctors | 14th |
| founding | 1895 |
| Website | www.augenklinik-muenchen.de |
The Department of Ophthalmology, Duke Carl Theodor is a specialist clinic for ophthalmology in Munich district Maxvorstadt . It is one of the oldest eye clinics in Bavaria.
history
In 1895, Duke Carl Theodor founded an eye clinic in Munich in Bavaria . The ophthalmologist and brother of Empress Elisabeth of Austria bought the house at Nymphenburger Strasse 43 in Munich on the initiative of his wife Marie-José , a born Infanta from Portugal . This hospital, which was founded primarily for poor eye patients, was opened under the name Charity Institute for Unprofitable Eye Sick People. With its 56 beds, the Duke's eye clinic was the largest such facility in Munich and even surpassed the Munich university clinic. As before in his ordinations in Tegernsee and Meran, the duke treated poor patients free of charge. Carl Theodor financed the renovation and costly maintenance of the clinic from his private assets. At the time the eye clinic in Nymphenburger Strasse was set up, Duke Carl Theodor was already known as an ophthalmologist far beyond the borders of Bavaria and was in contact with authorities in the field of ophthalmology.
Marie-José , the Duke's second wife, supported Carl Theodor in his medical work. She assisted him in his operations and managed the organization of the house. By establishing the Herzog Carl Theodor Eye Clinic Foundation, she ensured that the clinic continued to exist after the Duke's death. In the years after the First World War , the clinic's financial situation deteriorated. Money for patient care was scarce and the number of paying patients continued to decline due to inflation and general hardship. Financial relief was only brought about by a supply contract with social and health insurance in the 1920s.
During the Second World War the building was used as a military hospital again , this time as an eye hospital. The clinic was badly damaged by bombing. In the 1960s, consideration was given to selling the property and building a new building elsewhere. However, these plans were not implemented.
In the 1980s, on the initiative of the head doctor Bernhard von Barsewisch, the eye clinic was fundamentally redesigned and redesigned. Under his leadership, the Herzog Carl Theodor Eye Clinic developed into a modern hospital in terms of construction, organization and therapy. In 1993, Bernhard von Barsewisch left the clinic to set up a new eye clinic in his native Brandenburg.
In 1999 the foundation was able to buy the former Munich III registry office at Nymphenburger Straße 45 from the city. The property used to belong to the Duchess and was used by the clinic from 1914 to 1918. In 1938 she sold it to the city of Munich, probably also in order to be able to support the clinic financially. The registry office was extensively renovated and won the Munich Facade Prize in 2002.
Today the clinic has 52 beds and 90 employees. The 14 attending physicians performed over 11,000 operations in 2011. Of these, 4,000 were inpatients and over 7,000 were outpatients (as of 2011).
The clinic is a participant in Ökoprofit as part of the Bavarian environmental pact .
building
The four-storey plastered building with polygonal corner tower cores in neo-Renaissance shapes was designed by Hans Hartl in 1891 as a tenement house. In 1895 it was expanded into a clinic. After 1945 the building was renovated. In the 1980s and 1990s, the clinic was completely renovated taking into account the preservation of historical monuments and is registered as a historical building. The chapel furnishings date from 1895.
Clinic management
- 1895–1909: Duke Carl Theodor
- 1909–1943: Heinrich Zenker
- 1943–1978: Carl Zenker
- 1978–1993: Bernhard von Barsewisch
- since 1993: Klaus G. Riedel
literature
- Max Oppel (Red.): 100 years of the Duke Carl Theodor Eye Clinic. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Herzog Carl Theodor Eye Clinic in Munich . Herzog Carl Theodor Eye Clinic Foundation, Munich 1995.