Kaiserin Augusta Hospital

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The Augusta Hospital in Berlin (around 1873)
Reconstructed memorial for the nurses of the Augusta Hospital at the Invalidenfriedhof Berlin (status 2013)

The former Augusta-Hospital , sometimes also called Kaiserin-Augusta-Hospital , is located in Berlin-Mitte on the property at Scharnhorststraße 3. The clinic was built from 1869 to 1870 according to plans by Hermann Blankenstein in the northern part of the Invalidenpark for 1868 under the protectorate of Queen Augusta founded the Women's Lazareth Association as a small hospital (85 beds). Extension buildings followed until 1883. In 1913 a new building was built for the clinic on Scharnhorststrasse. When the German Red Cross was founded in 1921, its Patriotic Women's Association took over the clinic, and from 1934 to 1945 the DRK Reichsfrauenbund .

During the Second World War, the buildings were badly damaged and then only repaired, but not historically reconstructed. The original building was demolished. The nearby Charité took over the civilian hospital operations in 1945 and had the orthopedic department there until 1982. In 1982 the house was converted into an office and warehouse building for the Charité.

The memorial for the hospital's nurses was rebuilt in 1998 in the Invalidenfriedhof opposite .

The building, which has been vacant since 1995, was to be renovated in 2007 and converted into a hotel by the Meermann / Chamartin group. In 2010 it was sold by Chamartín Meermann Immobilien to the medical technology company Karl Storz Endoskope in Baden-Württemberg . Storz extensively renovated the building and in October 2013 opened his Berlin representative office with a visitor and training center here.

Eminent doctors

From 1871 Ernst Küster headed the barracks hospital and the surgical department in the Augusta Hospital that had evolved from it until 1890. From 1921 the internist Karl Schlayer was the medical director of the Kaiserin-Augusta-Hospital, who, together with the diet nurse Johanna Kunath, took on a pioneering role in the training to become a diet nurse or today's dietician. Schlayer set up a diet kitchen.

literature

  • CH Esse: The Augusta Hospital and the associated asylum for nurses in Berlin . Published by Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin, Berlin 1873 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Ernst Küster: Five years in the Augusta Hospital . Verlag von August Hirschwald, Berlin 1877 ( full text in the Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Kaiserin-Augusta-Hospital  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ in Pantzer, P. (translator and editor): Kume Kunitake: The Iwakura mission 1873 P. 72: Visit of the hospital
  2. ↑ Fatherland. Women's Association (Augustahospital) . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1921, Part 3, p. 744.
  3. ^ DRK, Reichsfrauenbund, Augusta-Hospital . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1935, part 4, p. 724.
  4. ↑ Hotel guests move to a former clinic. Die Welt, November 9, 2006, accessed November 22, 2006 .
  5. ^ Historical hospital in Berlin-Mitte comes to life again. Chamartín Meermann Immobilien, April 16, 2010, archived from the original on March 3, 2012 ; Retrieved July 22, 2012 (press release).
  6. ^ Opening of the visitor and training center in Berlin in the historic Kaiserin-Augusta-Hospital. Karl Storz Endoskope, October 10, 2013, accessed on April 14, 2014 (press release).

Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 55 "  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 23"  E