Hôpital Fernand-Widal

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Entrance to the Hôpital Fernand-Widal.

The Hôpital Fernand-Widal is a hospital in Paris . It is located in the 10th arrondissement and is now part of the public hospital association Assistance publique - hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP). The address is 200, rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis. The nearest metro stations are Gare du Nord and La Chapelle on lines 4 and 2 . Today the hospital, named after the doctor Fernand Widal (1862–1929; he worked in the hospital from 1897 to 1902) since 1959 , is a specialist hospital for poisoning.

history

The previous building of the Fernand-Widal Hospital, the Maison municipale de santé , was on the same street, number 110–112 rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis. It had to be demolished for the building of the Boulevard de Strasbourg under the Prefect Haussmann . So between 1853 and 1858 the larger new building of the hospital was built, consisting of two building complexes that are grouped around two right-angled courtyards.

The first inner courtyard opens up after the main portal and consists of a two-storey building that was intended for the administration of the hospital. Only the four-story development of the second courtyard is reserved for patients. Here, too, as with the other hospital buildings in Paris from the 19th century, attempts were made to shield the individual buildings from one another for reasons of hygiene in order to avoid contamination. The plan of the hospital comes from Théodore Labrouste , who was the chief architect of the Paris hospitals from 1845 to 1876.

Current condition

In the course of the 20th century, various new buildings were added that damaged the overall impression. For example, an eight-story building for patients was erected in the rear, a two-story low-rise building was added for the administration and a one-story low-rise building was built for a crèche . The entire building complex today needs a thorough renovation.

literature

  • Laure Beaumont-Mallet: Vie et histoire du Xe arrondissement , Editions Hervas, Paris 1991 (1st edition 1988), ISBN 2-903118-35-3
  • Henry-Gobet Aude: Le 10e arrondissement. Itinéraires d'histoire et d'architecture . Action artistique de la ville de Paris, Paris 2000, ISBN 2913246109
  • Jean Colson / Marie-Christine Lauroa (eds.): Dictionnaire des monuments de Paris . Editions Hervas, Paris 2003 (1st edition 1992), ISBN 2-84334-001-2

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '54 "  N , 2 ° 21' 36"  E