Auguste Viktoria Foundation

This article explains the lung sanatorium of the City of Cologne Auguste Viktoria Foundation in Rosbach (Sieg); for other institutions see Foundations in honor of Augusta Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg .

The former forest hospital

Rosbach, forest hospital

The lung sanatorium of the Auguste Viktoria Foundation was an institution of the city of Cologne in Rosbach (Sieg) , which today belongs to Windeck . The foundation was named after Empress Auguste Viktoria , the wife of Emperor Wilhelm II.

The sanatorium was built between 1900 and 1902 according to a design by the Cologne building officer Johannes Baptist Kleefisch as one of the first lung sanatoriums in Germany and opened on September 13, 1902. It was used to treat male tuberculosis patients . The house later called the Forest Hospital of the City of Cologne belonged to the clinics of the City of Cologne and was a non-operative acute and pulmonary clinic.

The last patients left the hospital on April 30, 2002. A continuation as a forensic clinic was then briefly discussed, but the listed facility remained unused for a long time.

literature

• O. Kieffer: 50 years of the sanatorium of the city of Cologne in Rosbach (Sieg). Cologne 1952.
• Monika Frank: A magic mountain for the poor? The Auguste-Viktoria-Stiftung zu Rosbach an der Sieg in Cologne. In: Monika Frank, Friedrich Moll (ed.): Cologne hospital stories. In the beginning there was Napoleon ... Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-940042-00-5 , pp. 280–321.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 36, 1902, No. 80 (from October 4, 1902), p. 516.
2. ↑ Monika Frank: A magic mountain for the poor? The Auguste-Viktoria-Stiftung zu Rosbach an der Sieg in Cologne.

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 58 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 25"  E