Hôpital Rothschild

The Hôpital Rothschild is a hospital located at 33 Boulevard de Picpus in the 12th arrondissement of Paris . It stretches along rue Santerre to rue de Picpus. The nearest metro stations are Picpus and Bel Air on line 6 .

history

In 1852 the first Jewish hospital , a hospital and retirement home, was inaugurated in Paris at 76 Rue de Picpus . It was founded by Baron James de Rothschild , who entrusted the architect Alexandre Thierry (1810-1890) with the construction. Baron Rothschild commissioned the same architect to rebuild the synagogue on Rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth . The hospital should care for Jewish patients according to their religion and enable them to adhere to their dietary requirements . It was equipped with a small synagogue and took in sick, incurable and old people.

After an expansion in 1877, a new hospital was built on the initiative of Edmond de Rothschild between 1912 and 1914, which was supposed to meet the knowledge and requirements of modern medicine. Baron Rothschild commissioned the architect Lucien Bechmann , who had familiarized himself with modern hospital architecture while traveling in England , Germany and Austria in 1907 and 1908 , as well as the doctor Léon Zadoc Kahn , who was the hospital's chief doctor until his deportation in 1942, with the planning .

During the First World War , the Hôpital Rothschild became a military hospital . During the Second World War , it was used as a prison under the German occupation, in which the sick from the Drancy assembly camp were housed before they were transported to the extermination camps .

In 1954 Guy de Rothschild donated the hospital to the Assistance Publique . In the 1970s the hospital was modernized and expanded. Today the Hôpital Rothschild belongs to the hospital association Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) under the name Rothschild Groupement hospitalier universitaire Est . It has 310 beds and 29 day care places. The completion of a further building with 180 beds is planned for 2010.

architecture

The hospital consists of individual smaller pavilions , which are intended to isolate the sick and reduce the risk of infection. In the western part of the hospital, which is adjacent to a school, the administration and the apartments for the nurses are located. An isolated, fenced pavilion at the entrance was originally intended for the terminally ill. Tree-lined avenues connect the individual pavilions, which are surrounded by wide green spaces. The whole complex gives the impression of a large park or a garden city with its buildings made of natural stone and brick , the roofs of which are covered with roof tiles.

literature

Jean Colson and Marie-Christine Lauroa (eds.): Dictionnaire des Monuments de Paris . Paris 2003 (1st edition 1992), ISBN 2-84334-001-2 , p. 647.
Dominique Jarrassé: Guide du Patrimoine Juif Parisien . Parigrams, Paris 2003, ISBN 978-2-84096-247-2 , p. 178.

Web links

Commons : Hôpital Rothschild - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Hôpital Rothschild (French)

Individual evidence

↑ Ahlrich Meyer : perpetrators in interrogation. The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in France 1940–1944 . Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-17564-6 , p. 253. See also the diary of Hélène Berr , who worked at the Hôpital Rothschild ( Pariser Tagebuch 1942–1944 ). Foreword by Patrick Modiano. Translated by Elisabeth Edl. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23268-6 .

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[1] Ahlrich Meyer : perpetrators in interrogation. The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in France 1940–1944 . Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-17564-6 , p. 253. See also the diary of Hélène Berr , who worked at the Hôpital Rothschild ( Pariser Tagebuch 1942–1944 ). Foreword by Patrick Modiano. Translated by Elisabeth Edl. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23268-6 .