Bürgerspital (Vienna)

The Viennese Bürgerspital am Schweinemarkt, which was built in the 16th century, was a large building complex that stretched from today's Lobkowitzplatz (formerly: Schweinemarkt ) to Kärntner Strasse .

history

The medieval citizen's hospital in front of the Kärntner Tor , which had grown into a stately complex of buildings over the centuries through donations and bequests, had to be demolished in 1529 for strategic reasons in view of the impending Turkish siege . The inmates were relocated to the practically empty Clara Monastery of the Poor Clares on the pig market, the residents of which had mostly fled from the threat of war. In 1530, after successfully surviving the siege, Archduke Ferdinand donated the nunnery to the city of Vienna, which dedicated it to hospital purposes and as a care home. The complex was gradually expanded and raised. It accommodated up to 3000 people.

Between 1783 and 1790, the complex was turned into an apartment building with 10 courtyards, 20 staircases and 220 apartments, in which numerous artists from the Kärntnertortheater also lived. The previous residents were moved to the Sankt Marx supply house , the orphans to the orphanage on Rennweg . The significant income from the Bürgerspital apartment building benefited the Bürgerspitalfonds.

Location according to the orientation plan from 1867

In December 1873, associated with demolition work began rebuilding the civil hospital, in the framework of Cecilia alley abandoned, which in 1861 (by the deceased on July 24, 1861 Cecilia Kunz has come) to the City of Vienna Maria and Cecilia Kunz's Foundation House (old: 1040 Komödiengasse, new : Cäciliengasse 4) and Maysedergasse (as an extension of Krugerstraße ) was created.

By 1883, the entire complex including the church was demolished by the Allgemeine Österreichische Baugesellschaft (today Porr ) and replaced by new buildings from the Wilhelminian era such as the Kärntner Hof , the Philipphof and the Riunione Adriatica building.

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  Bürgerspital around 1865, photograph of a watercolor by Emil Hütter , on the left the Lobkowitz Palace , above the Capuchin Church and Neuer Markt

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  Location of the Bürgerspital (center), to the right of it the Kärntnertortheater and the Kärntnertore

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  Demolition began on what was then Albrechtsplatz, around 1880, Albrechtsbrunnen on the left

literature

• Felix Czeike (ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien, Vol. 1, p. 512 ff. - Online version: Bürgerspital (main building) in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna, accessed on January 6, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Addendum. Plenary meeting of the parish council on July 30th. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 176/1861, July 31, 1861, p. 2773, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ^ Communal newspaper. The renovation of the citizens' hospital. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 3340/1873, December 12, 1873, p. 5 middle. (Online at ANNO ). .

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 17.6 ″  N , 16 ° 22 ′ 10.2 ″  E