Confraternität private clinic

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Confraternität private clinic (main entrance)

The Confraternität private clinic is a privately run Viennese hospital in Skodagasse in the 8th district of Josefstadt .

history

Confraternität private clinic (Front Skodagasse)

In 1729, seven trading assistants formed a religious community in order to care for sick and needy members of the middle-class trade in Vienna . The so-called Confraternität (brotherhood) did not initially have its own hospital, but was active in rented rooms between 1747 and 1835 (from 1747 with the Barmherzigen Brothers, from 1764 in the Spanish Hospital ( Boltzmanngasse 9), from 1776 at the request of Emperor Joseph II. in the kk Universalkrankenhaus ( General Hospital )). The first own hospital was moved into a former umbrella factory in what was then Alsergasse (today Skodagasse 32) in 1835, and had 5 sick rooms and 18 beds. The sick were looked after by two nurses and doctors.

The altarpiece for the hospital chapel, consecrated in 1835, which showed Saint Joseph , came from Leopold Kupelwieser . Before the chapel was demolished in 1994, this picture was transferred to the Minorite Convent in Alser Strasse. In 1890, nuns from the monastery of the “Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus” were appointed nurses. In 1976 the sisters had to stop nursing due to a lack of staff. An extension built in 1892 was designed by the architect Josef Schmalzhofer . In 1909 the hospital got its own operating theater. Due to economic difficulties in the interwar period , the originally religious brotherhood became a private hospital in 1920, which was open to all for a fee.

Villa Hauschka, from 1898 retirement home of the Confraternity

In 1898 a retirement home was opened in Khevenhüllerstraße 18 ( 19th district of Vienna ), which was converted in 1929/30 convalescent home. The home was originally the private villa of the businessman Ferdinand Hauschka. He had it built in 1885 by the architect Otto Hieser . Ferdinand Hauschka donated the villa and garden to the Confraternity shortly before his death. In 1929 a chapel dedicated to Saint Joseph was built into the home . The whole facility was closed in 2007 and has been empty since then.

In 1938 the National Socialists dissolved the association and confiscated its assets. Doctors and other donors then joined forces to buy the hospital and keep it running. The Confraternität hospital was re-approved in 1946. After the Second World War , the Confraternität private clinic changed hands several times until it was taken over by HUMANOMED Hospital Management in 1994. Today it is part of the PremiQaMed Group.

Furnishing

The oldest private hospital in Vienna today has 96 beds as well as numerous medical departments, institutes and other medical facilities:

Departments

  • General and vascular surgery
  • Anesthesiology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Non-invasive cardiology and angiology
  • neurology
  • urology

Institutes

  • Gastroenterological endoscopy
  • Computed Tomography

Medical competence centers

  • Heart center
  • Andrology and men's diseases
  • Ophthalmology
  • Mouth, jaw, and facial surgery
  • Parkinson's
  • Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery
  • Proctology
  • Pain therapy
  • Metabolic diseases
  • Thoracic surgery
  • Urodynamics and incontinence

Other medical facilities and affiliated institutions

  • EEG laboratory
  • Interventional Team Confraternity
  • Pulmonary function laboratory and sleep laboratory
  • Oncological day clinic
  • Ordination center at the Confraternity
  • Preventive care center

The technical equipment includes u. a. a cardiological computer tomograph , which was the first of its kind in Vienna in 2005.

Web links

Commons : Confraternität Privatklinik Josefstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. Private Clinic Confraternität History of the private clinic Confraternität.
  2. ^ A b c Felix Czeike: Historical Lexicon of the City of Vienna.
  3. ^ City of Vienna - sacred buildings in the 8th district.
  4. ^ Josef Schmalzhofer. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
  5. Confraternität - living with care
  6. Architecture Lexicon - Otto Hieser
  7. Confraternität - living with care
  8. Confraternität Private Clinic About the Confraternität Private Clinic
  9. Confraternität private clinic Preventive care center of the Confraternität private clinic
  10. First cardiological computer tomograph in Vienna ( Memento from November 11, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 52 "  N , 16 ° 20 ′ 56"  E