Cottage sanatorium for nervous and metabolic patients

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The cottage sanatorium for nervous and metabolic patients was a noble sanatorium at Sternwartestrasse 74 in the 18th district of Vienna, Währing .

history

The former cottage sanatorium

Doctor Rudolf Urbantschitsch and the master builder Johann Kazda founded the Cottage Sanatorium for nervous and metabolic patients in 1908.

On the building site provided by the builder Hans Kazda, the sanatorium was built by him in 1907/1908 as an Art Nouveau building , consisting of three connected pavilions. Despite the dimensions of 100 by 40 meters and five storeys, the building only offered space for 76 patient rooms. The rest was used for therapy as well as for entertainment and society (two winter gardens, smoking room, library with magazines and books in three languages, billiard room, music room, writing room and two south-facing glass lounge halls). There were also garages for the patients' cars, tennis courts and an ice rink in winter. The electrical clock system with which the house was equipped was the largest in Vienna in its time.

Medical treatments included physical, electrotherapeutic and hydrotherapeutic cures, hot air and fango treatments, mud, sand and sun baths and so on. In addition, an X-ray institute and chemical-microscopic laboratories were available.

In addition to Doctor Urbantschitsch, who lived in the house, various specialists - including Fritz Wittels as a psychiatrist, internist and neurologist - as well as eight trained and linguistic nurses from well-known families were on duty alongside the house staff.

During the First World War , parts of the sanatorium were reserved for officers, and the wealthy patients stayed away, so that the sanatorium ran into economic difficulties. This led to the sale and the transformation into the Wiener Cottage-Sanatorium Aktiengesellschaft.

After the connection of Austria to the Third Reich , the Vienna Cottage Sanatorium Aktiengesellschaft came the German Empire under provisional management. In 1940 the sanatorium was sold to the hospital for the employees of the Vienna community. Nevertheless, it was reserved for leading members of the National Socialist Party. With the increase in air raids on Germany, the building was increasingly used as a quarter for the families who had fled the Nazis.

Although the restitution proceedings initiated in 1948 were concluded with a positive result and the building was returned to the Wiener Cottage-Sanatoriums Aktiengesellschaft, the American occupation forces still used it as a hotel until 1955 .

In 1956 the desolate building was sold to the USSR, which used it as a school and residence for the diplomatic staff.

Prominent patients

  • Laza Kostić , a Serbian writer, politician and philosopher died here in 1910 while being treated for a lung disease.
  • Sigmund Freud was a patient in the Cottage Sanatorium for four weeks in 1926. He was undergoing heart therapy. In 1910 he had started to analyze the so-called " wolf man " Sergius Pankejeff here .
  • Hermann Broch , an Austrian writer, was hospitalized here in 1916.
  • Adolf Loos was operated on here for stomach ulcers.
  • Julius Korngold , a music critic, was a patient here in 1936.
  • Theodor Kern , a Moravian industrialist and businessman, died here on May 12, 1919.
  • Rudolf Freiherr von Slatin , better known as Slatin Pascha, Austrian adventurer and Africa explorer, died here on October 4th, 1932
  • Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is said to have been treated here for three weeks in 1918

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiener Zeitung : The Adventurer from Ober St. Veit ( Memento from September 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://www.atam.gov.tr/index.php?Page=DergiIcerik&IcerikNo=615 Who can speak Turkish: See the end of the first letter

literature

  • Eugen Hofmokl: Wiener Heilanstalten: Representation of the structural systems and facilities , A. Hölder, 1910, Vienna
  • Heidi Brunnbauer: In the Cottage of Währing / Döbling - Interesting Houses - Interesting People II , Edition Weinviertel, ISBN 978-3-901616-92-1

Web links

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 59 ″  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 59 ″  E