Geriatric Center Am Wienerwald

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A pavilion in the geriatric center
The nursing home church in the geriatric center
The Josef Wild'sche Stiftungshaus (Pavilion XX)

The Geriatric Center at the Vienna Woods (TMI) to 1994 care home Lainz, closed by 2015, was a 1904 opened geriatric facility in the 13th Viennese district Hietzing (Jagdschloßgasse 59) and was last from the Vienna Hospital Association conducted.

Architecture and construction

The extensive pavilion complex with a monumental church (height of the twin towers 54 m) was planned by the Vienna City Building Department by Rudolf Helmreich and Johann Nepomuk Scheiringer and built in just two years of construction work and, with its historic brick architecture, which is rare in Vienna, forms a landmark ensemble in the west of Vienna. The Lainz care home was inaugurated on June 15, 1904.

When it was fully expanded in 1913, there were 4498 homes in 29 pavilions, mostly in dormitories with 30 beds each. In 1922, the complex was fundamentally modernized for the first time, and the health home and hospital were separated. A nursing school was also attached.

The dormitories remained until well after the Second World War and were only converted into multi-bed rooms in the last few decades. This reduced the number of beds in the geriatric center from over 4,000 to 1,600, and further modernizations by 2008 reduced the number of beds to less than 700.

In the time of National Socialism

During the Second World War the facility was used as a hospital. Before that, many elderly people cared for here were victims of Nazi murders .

In the preparations for the T4 campaign , 346 nurses from the care home were reported to the T4 central office in Berlin. How many were actually evacuated is uncertain. The fosterlings were probably first transferred to the Steinhof , from where they were then transferred to the Hartheim killing center and murdered there.

Elderly care scandal

In the late 1980s, there were heavy criticism in connection with 42 homicides by several nurses at the neighboring hospital.

Closure and re-use

According to the 2004 geriatric concept of the municipality of Vienna, large geriatric facilities should now be abandoned. The step-by-step closure of the GZW by 2015 and the sale of the property to investors were thus also targeted, as reported by the Vienna daily press in February 2007. In its place, a “new district” should be created. As in the similar case of the sales plans at Steinhof , there was also clear criticism of this project from the opposition parties, the Greens and the ÖVP , as well as from the population, for example in a citizens' meeting convened by the Hietzingen district chairman on April 11, 2007 and from groups involved in the protection of monuments. The Hietzing Parkstadt project presented at the end of October 2009 was intended to address these critical concerns.

After the closure, from October 2015 to the end of March 2019, some buildings in the complex were used to accommodate asylum seekers.

On March 2, 2020, the City of Vienna opened a care center with 58 care places for tourists who have been infected with the coronavirus in the former geriatric center . The care center is not a hospital, but only care accommodation that only accommodates cases that have tested positive and have only weak or no symptoms.

Field railway

The geriatric center owned the oldest commercial light railway in Austria. A light railroad with a gauge of 500 mm is rare.

Exhibitions

  • 2005: In the supply - from the supply house Lainz to the geriatric center Am Wienerwald

literature

  • Ingrid Arias, Sonia Horn, Michael Hubenstorf: In the care - From the Lainz care home to the geriatric center “am Wienerwald” , Verlagshaus der Ärzte, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-901488-53-7 .
  • Jakob Dont: The Vienna pension home , memorial, Gerlach, Vienna 1904 ( DNB ). Online at archive.org .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Viennese care home. For today's inauguration. In: Neues Wiener Journal . No. 3821 , June 15, 1904, p. 2 ( online on ANNO ).
  2. ^ Günter Saukel: History of the house. In: www.wienkav.at. KAV , accessed October 28, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Susanne Mende: The Viennese sanatorium “Am Steinhof” during the time of the Nazi regime in Austria. (PDF; 58.6 kB) Manuscript of a lecture that was given on January 30, 1998 in Vienna on the occasion of the scientific symposium “On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna”. In: gedenkstaettesteinhof.at. DÖW , pp. 7–9 , accessed on February 7, 2014 .
  4. ^ ORF Vienna exhibition: Project Stadtquartier Lainz , April 9, 2007.
  5. ^ ÖGB Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald, employee claim points, undated, accessed on March 17, 2009, PDF 996KB.
  6. ↑ Geriatric Center in the Vienna Woods. In: samariterbund.net. ASBÖ , accessed on August 17, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Colette M. Schmidt: Asylum seekers make old bicycles afloat again. In: derstandard.at. Der Standard , July 27, 2017, accessed August 30, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Vienna's largest refugee home closes. In: wien.ORF.at. Retrieved January 20, 2019 .
  9. ^ Cov: Care Center for Tourists. ORF Vienna, March 2, 2020, accessed on March 4, 2020 .
  10. ^ KAV Günter Saukel: Exhibition compilation: In derversorgung - from the Lainz supply house to the Geriatric Center Am Wienerwald, accessed on March 17, 2009.

Web links

Commons : Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 38 ″  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 19 ″  E