Brigitta Hospital
The Brigitta Hospital was a maternity hospital at Stromstrasse 34 in the 20th district of Brigittenau in Vienna . Today the building is used as a student hostel.
history
In 1914 from the private " club to justify and construction of a hospital in Vienna's 20th district " on a property of the municipality Vienna established maternity hospital with originally 37 beds was acquired by the City of Vienna because of economic difficulties on 1 June 1924, after a decision taken on 11 November 1924 generously expanded according to plans by Josef Joachim Mayer. The bed capacity was increased to 123 and an outpatient clinic and a maternity advice center were set up. On October 18, 1926, the Brigitta Hospital was reopened as an obstetric and gynecological “maternity home of the City of Vienna-Brigittenau”.
On May 16, 1930, the pianist Friedrich Gulda was born in this hospital .
The new social institutions in Vienna that Julius Tandler had set up were financed by a welfare tax of two percent and then four percent. As the City Councilor for Finance Hugo Breitner explained, the Brigitta-Spital was received from the funds of the welfare tax, which were collected by the hour hotels in Vienna.
Gertraude Marianne Münzel, born here in 1930, became a child star of German film under the name Traudl Stark . After Austria was annexed to the German Reich , Konrad Lorenz's wife , Margarethe Lorenz, became acting head of the children's department. During the Second World War, the Brigitta Hospital was badly damaged by bombs and was subsequently requisitioned by the Soviet occupiers for their own purposes and, as one of the last objects to be confiscated, it was not cleared until 1955.
After that, the building stood empty until it served as a refugee camp for refugees from the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Since there was no need for additional bed capacity for obstetric facilities after the evacuation of the former Brigitta Hospital, the building was no longer used for its original purpose. In March 1958, the Vienna City Council decided to convert the building adjacent to the Winarskyhof - a Viennese municipal building - into a school dormitory for 175 pupils according to a proposal by the then City School Council President Leopold Zechner. The boarding school, opened by Mayor Franz Jonas on October 9, 1959 , was the first in Austria in which boys and girls as well as physically handicapped children and young people were looked after together in one building.
Footnotes
- ^ RP Herold: Brigittenau - From the Au to the residential district
- ↑ Brigitta Hospital. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
- ↑ Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Wiener Zeitung EXTRA Lexicon ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Brigitta Hospital. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
- ^ Vienna City Hall correspondence February 26, 1957
- ^ Vienna City Hall correspondence August 25, 1959
- ↑ Internat Brigittenau ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Brigitta Hospital, Former maternity hospital. In: dasrotewien.at - Web dictionary of the Viennese social democracy. SPÖ Vienna (Ed.)
- Brigittenau boarding school
literature
- Roland P. Herold: Brigittenau - From the Au to the residential district , Mohl Verlag, ISBN 3-900272-43-3
Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 26 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 45" E