Bürgerhospital (Frankfurt am Main)
| Citizen Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | Bürgerhospital and Clementine Kinderhospital gGmbH |
| place | Frankfurt am Main |
| state | Hesse |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 7 '50 " N , 8 ° 41' 10" E |
| medical director | Oliver Schwenn, Kay Latta |
| beds | 320 |
| Employee | over 1000 |
| areas of expertise | 14th |
| Affiliation | Frankfurt foundation hospitals |
| founding | 1771 |
| Website | Website of the community hospital |
The Bürgerhospital is a hospital in Frankfurt am Main . Its location has been in the densely populated Nordend district on Nibelungenallee , not far from the German National Library , since 1903 . It was the first hospital in Frankfurt am Main that also treated local residents. The original building complex was built between 1771 and 1779 southeast of the Eschenheimer Tor by the Dr. Senckenberg Foundation established. The Hospital of the Holy Spirit , which was first mentioned in a document in 1267 and also still exists today, had previously existed in Frankfurt, but it was only open to the accommodation of strangers, pilgrims, traveling companions, servants and the poor. Sick Frankfurt citizens, on the other hand, had to get medical care and care at home.
The Bürgerhospital has been an academic teaching hospital of the Goethe University since 2002 and the clinic with the highest birth rates in Hesse since 2007.
The Senckenberg Hospital at Eschenheimer Tor
The foundation put the doctor and founder of Dr. Senckenberg Foundation, Johann Christian Senckenberg , in the early evening of July 9, 1771 on the corner of Hinter der Schlimmen Mauer and Radgasse , today 30 Stiftstrasse.
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However, the founder did not live to see the opening of the hospital: On the afternoon of November 15, 1772, Senckenberg climbed the scaffolding to take a close look at the recently completed clock tower on the north wing of the building. Shortly before four o'clock, neighbors on the construction site heard a loud rumble and, when they investigated the cause, found Senckenberg, unconscious and bleeding profusely from the back of the head; he had already complained of dizziness the morning after getting up. Senckenberg died at 8 p.m. without having regained consciousness.
The Bürgerhospital had played a major role in the visions of Johann Christian Senckenberg: until it was founded, hospitals in Frankfurt had a reputation for being nothing more than “a gate to death” . On the other hand, he gave the Bürgerhospital the task - which is taken for granted today - that the sick should be healed or at least their suffering alleviated. It was therefore expressly laid down in the first doctor's service contract that he had to “restore the sick person to their lost health” . In fact, which was unusual at the time, in the first year after its opening (1779) almost a third of the patients could be discharged as cured.
The hospital was Senckenberg's last work, and he had consciously had his foundation set up the other institutions he wanted: the medical institute, anatomy, the library and Frankfurt's first botanical garden : “If death should surprise me before mine If the work is completely completed, the hospital will not suffer, but the sooner one would like to forget that I wanted to build a temple for science. ” The hospital, so he assumed, would be built by the Frankfurt citizens without his personal intervention. However, his clever plan almost failed because the foundation had taken on itself financially with the construction of the hospital. Only generous donations from other citizens contributed to the completion of the community hospital after Senckenberg's death.
In 1779 the hospital was opened with initially six beds. By 1783, thanks to generous donations, the capacity was increased to thirty beds. By 1802 Frankfurt citizens bequeathed a total of 281,000 guilders to the foundation. In 1812 it was also possible to set up an own beneficiary foundation from a legacy of Senator Johann Carl Brönner (beneficiary refers to the inmates of an old people's home).
In addition to the first, self-inflicted crisis, there were repeated political crises. For example, during the First Coalition War in 1796 , French troops shelled the city with cannons and hit the hospital in the process. Later the French occupiers of Dr. Senckenberg Foundation on a war tax.
The move to the north end
In 1903, Dr. Under pressure from the city of Frankfurt am Main, the Senckenberg Foundation signed a contract with the City of Frankfurt am Main for a site swap: The traditional area of the Senckenberg facilities at Eschenheimer Tor was abandoned and a new building for the hospital was instead built on the outskirts of the city. Large parts of the facade and also the clock tower were taken with them during this move and rebuilt at the new location on Nibelungenallee . The remains of the donor, who found his last resting place to date in a crypt on the outside of the community hospital, directly next to the hospital chapel, were also reburied.
The hospital's financial situation deteriorated dramatically in the inflation of 1923 , in which most of the foundations in Germany perished due to the rapid dwindling of capital. The Bürgerhospital was constantly threatened with insolvency, so the beneficiary's house was evacuated and consideration was given to closing the entire hospital for some time. In 1924, two valuable portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon from the foundation's picture collection had to be sold in order to finance a new heating system. The “opening gold balance sheet” of April 1, 1925 showed assets of just over a million gold marks , of which 838,000 marks were fixed in land and buildings.
During the Second World War , the Bürgerhospital was badly damaged by aerial bombs in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main . After the war, Dr. Senckenbergische Stiftung embarked on an ambitious construction program: the old building was to be redesigned, an eight-story bed block built and a residential building built for the staff. The city granted a guarantee for five million German marks, which the foundation was supposed to secure through a land register debt. The increasing debt increased the risk that the city would have gained access to the foundation's assets. In order to rule this out, the Bürgerhospital was converted into a registered association in 1955 and thus economically outsourced. However, the management remained with Dr. Senckenberg Foundation, whose chairman also ran the Bürgerhospital eV.
Todays situation
The academic teaching hospital of the University Hospital in Frankfurt operates one of the highest birth gynecological clinics in Germany and has, among other things, a neonatal children's intensive care unit and a pediatric surgery and care especially expectant mothers with multiple pregnancies. The clinic is also known throughout the country for its specialization in thyroid surgery, and since 1997 it has also operated one of the few German heroin outpatient clinics.
There are also treatment rooms for the emergency medical service on the premises.
On January 1, 2009, the Bürgerhospital merged with the Clementine Children's Hospital to form the Frankfurter Stiftungskrankenhäuser eV association , which at that time had a total of 365 beds according to its own information. In 2014 the name was changed to Bürgerhospital und Clementine Kinderhospital gGmbH with around 320 beds (as of spring 2018).
In 2019, after a four-year construction period, a new building was put into operation on Richard-Wagner-Straße. On the area of the demolished beneficiary's house, a six-storey building was built which, in addition to the central operating room and the associated processing unit for medical products, also houses seven delivery rooms and two wards.
Clinics and specialist departments
- Dependency Disorders and Consultant Psychiatry
- General and visceral surgery
- Clinic for anesthesia and pediatric anesthesia
- Eye clinic with orbital center
- Diabetology and nutritional medicine
- Diagnostic and interventional radiology (with open MRI)
- Endocrine surgery with thermal ablation dissection
- Women's Clinic
- Pediatric ophthalmology, strabismus treatment and plastic-reconstructive eyelid surgery
- Neonatal, Pediatric Surgery and Urology
- Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine
- Retinal diseases
- Orthopedics and trauma surgery
- Pneumology, cardiology and respiratory medicine with a gastroenterology section
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse (Ed.): Bürgerhospital In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
- Website of the community hospital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Illustration of the community hospital at the original location
- ↑ Thomas Bauer: "Building a temple for science." Johann Christian Senckenberg and his foundation. Publication of the Dr. Senckenberg Foundation, Frankfurt am Main, 2007
- ↑ Sebastian Alexander Scheidel: History of Dr. Senckenberg monastery houses. Frankfurt am Main, 1867, p. 51
- ↑ The citizen hospital of Dr. Senckenberg Foundation - My gateway to life. Publication by the Bürgerhospital Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, 2007
- ↑ Structured Quality Report 2010 ( Memento from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), as of July 1, 2011
- ↑ The Bürgerhospital: data and facts. As of April 3, 2018
