Empress Elisabeth Hospital

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The Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (2007)

The Empress Elisabeth Hospital was recently the Vienna Hospital Association -run hospital in the Huglgasse 1-3 in the 15th district Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus .

It existed from 1890 to 2012 and had an even older predecessor nearby. In the course of the hospital reform with a reduction in the total number of large hospitals, the employees were divided between other hospitals and some of them were expanded. The complex was demolished and a nursing home was built on the site.

history

First hospital

Memorial plaque for Father Anton Schwartz and at the same time for the Sechshauser District Hospital

After various epidemics, which were caused by the poor sanitary conditions, a branch hospital was built in Rustendorf No. 3 (later Neugasse 32, now Reichsapfelgasse) in 1832 and in Fünfhaus in 1847. The first hospital in what is now the 15th district of Vienna was financed by the then suburbs of Sechshaus , Fünfhaus , Braunhirschen , Gaudenzdorf , Reindorf , Untermeidling , Obermeidling and Rustendorf , which were united in a judicial district. In 1857, houses 58, 59 and 60 in what was then Sechshauser Hauptstrasse were purchased for 29,500 guilders. By decree of the Imperial and Royal Lower Austrian Lieutenancy of September 15, 1857, the hospital was granted public rights and was registered as a general public district hospital in Sechshaus . The number of beds rose over time from 80 to over 320, but was reduced to 291 in 1880 for sanitary reasons. The hospital in today's Sechshauser Strasse was one of the largest in the suburbs. In the buildings that had not been built as hospitals, however, despite all the efforts of those responsible and the forbearance of the medical authorities, problems arose so great that a new building had to be built. The Sechshauser Hospital was closed in 1891 after the Kaiser Franz Joseph Hospital in Rudolfsheim was completed in November 1890. On the site of the hospital building in Sechshauser Strasse 69-71, a building, now a listed building, was erected in 1902 for a secondary school in Vienna. For several years now, it has housed a new middle school with a focus on computer science .

The old district hospital was looked after by the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of Saint Vincent de Paul , who also run the Sisters of Mercy Hospital in Mariahilf . The sisters also moved to the new hospital in Rudolfsheim. The shortage of women who entered the order forced the order's leadership to withdraw 30 sisters from the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital on December 31, 1960 and place them in their own hospitals. Since June 30, 1973, only secular sisters have worked at the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital.

Second hospital

Empress Elisabeth bust

After the plan to build the new hospital on the old hospital premises had been rejected, it was decided on October 23, 1883 to purchase a building site south of today's Kardinal-Rauscher-Platz near the Schmelz water reservoir (now Meiselmarkt ). The purchase itself was only reported to the Imperial and Royal Lower Austrian Lieutenancy on March 23, 1886 . The plan of those responsible to break the first sod for the building complex planned by Eugen Sehnal on December 2, 1888 - on the 40th anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I - failed. Construction work finally began in spring 1889 and was completed on November 1, 1890.

On November 25, 1890, the new 468-bed hospital opened under the name Kaiser-Franz-Joseph-Krankenanstalt in Rudolfsheim . At the same time, the sick were moved here from the old hospital on Sechshauser Strasse. By a very high resolution on January 23, 1892, the hospital was renamed the Imperial and Royal Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital . The bust of Emperor Franz Joseph I in the first courtyard was removed and replaced by a bust of Empress Elisabeth designed by Viktor Tilgner .

After a short time the new hospital became too small. Thereupon the Imperial and Royal Lower Austrian governor Erich Graf Kielmansegg suggested selling the former hospital on Sechshauser Strasse in the municipality of Vienna and in return to buy a piece of land south of the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital owned by the municipality of Vienna. On this property, a donation from Baron Albert Salomon Anselm von Rothschild in the amount of 1,100,000 kroner was used to build the Bettina Pavilion for 60 sick women between 1894 and 1896 in memory of his wife, who died of breast cancer . An administration building and a house for the spiritual sisters were added later.

Due to an agreement between the municipality of Vienna and the state of Lower Austria dated December 1, 1891, 1892

taken over by the city of Vienna.

1938, after the successful " connection " of Austria to the German Reich , the Empress Elisabeth Hospital was in Peter Frank -Hospital renamed. During the Second World War , the hospital suffered from frequent air raids on the neighboring Westbahnhof . The sick were housed in air-raid shelter, and surgical care was provided in an operating bunker at the Huglgasse / Felberstrasse intersection. Three bomb hits on February 21, 1945 severely damaged the hospital, but people were not harmed. From April 8, 1945, the hospital was used as a military hospital by the Red Army during the Battle of Vienna . Only after the wounded soldiers had been transferred to the Purkersdorf sanatorium could it be used for civilian purposes again.

In the post-war period, planning began for a new building for the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital. A T-shaped, seven-story building was planned, which was to be erected in three construction phases so as not to interfere with regular hospital operations. The funds necessary for the first phase of construction were already provided for in the budget for 1963. The new incumbent city councilor for health care and social affairs, Alois Stacher , stopped the plans because the west of Vienna was oversupplied with hospitals, while there was only one hospital in the up-and-coming districts of Floridsdorf and Donaustadt on the other side of the Danube .

In November 2006 the 1st Medical Department of the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital received the “Golden Helix Award” from the Association of Hospital Directors of Germany for the project “Home instead of home - implemented reactivating care in an interdisciplinary context”. The content of the project was to mobilize very old patients in such a way that they could be discharged back to their usual home and not to a home.

"Goiter Hospital"

At the beginning of the 1930s, Primarius Fritz Kaspar began with thyroid operations (goiter operations, "goiter") under general anesthesia. Since then, over 70,000 (as of 2001) such operations have been carried out in the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital. Around 50 percent of all goiter operations carried out in a hospital in the City of Vienna were carried out here. Every year around 20,000 people visit the nuclear medicine ambulance to have thyroid diseases checked up. The Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Thyroid Diseases at the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital had existed since January 1st, 2001. The departments of surgery, nuclear medicine, laboratory and pathology worked on it.

From hospital to nursing home

On March 17, 2011 , under the title “More Quality. Fewer houses. ” Health Councilor Sonja Wehsely is aware of the planned hospital reform . It stipulated that the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital should become a nursing home with social medical care by 2015/2016, which would continue the care from the geriatric center in the SMZ Sophienspital. The surgery of the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital (with a focus on the thyroid gland) moved to the Rudolf Foundation in December 2012 . Because of the move, the internal and surgical outpatient department (emergency department) was closed from the beginning of October 2012, and the thyroid center operated until November 29th.

Friday, November 30, 2012, was closing day and the employees were at their new workplaces from Monday, December 3, 2012.

statistics

In 2006 the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital had 279 beds and 655 employees. There were 8,857 inpatient admissions and 71,713 outpatient cases to be treated. For comparison: In 1874 there were 240 beds and 36 + 17 people in the hospital in Sechshauser.

Furnishing

Departments, institutes and outpatient departments

The Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital had one of the largest surgical departments in Vienna with over 100 employees and around 80 beds. More than 2,000 operations were carried out here every year (as of 2001).

Bettina Pavilion
Pavilion 4
  • Departments
1. Medical department with intensive care unit
2. Medical department
Department of anesthesia
Surgical Department
  • Institutes
Institute of Nuclear Medicine
Institute for Physical Medicine
Pathological-Bacteriological Institute
Central laboratory
Central X-ray Institute
  • Ambulances
Diet and nutritional advice service
Speech therapy
1. Medical ambulance
2. Medical ambulance
Surgical outpatient department
Interdisciplinary first aid / emergency ambulance (24-hour operation)
Dermatological outpatient department
Urological outpatient clinic
Consultation clinic eyes
Gynecological outpatient clinic
ENT consultancy outpatient department
Neurological outpatient clinic
Clinical Psychology - Psychotherapy

School for general health and nursing care at the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital

Nursing School Building

At the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital there had been a three-year school for general health and nursing care in its last form since 1973 for training in the higher service for health and nursing with a total of 180 training places.

With the closure of the hospital, lessons at the school will also expire. No applications for the three-year training have been accepted since June 1, 2010. On September 8, 2010, the school for general health and nursing care at SMZ-Süd ( Sozialmedizinisches Zentrum Süd - Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital ) was opened, and it will go into full operation in 2013.

Johannes Bischko Institute for Acupuncture

The Kaiserin Elisabeth Hospital was the location of the Johannes Bischko Institute for Acupuncture, founded in 2005 and named after Johannes Bischko . This institute was brought into being in cooperation with the Vienna Hospital Association KAV, because the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Acupuncture was to be closed. This should ensure the continuation of teaching and research in the field of acupuncture and related techniques and the ambulance.

literature

  • Kurt Keminger: The Kropfspital in Rudolfsheim - Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital 1890 - 1990 . Publishing house for medical sciences Wilhelm Maudrich, Vienna, ISBN 3-85175-529-4 .
  • Welles, Eva Anna, The old falls, time changes, and new life blossoms from the ruins , History of the Empress Elisabeth Hospital, Vienna 1914, ISBN 978-3-9502415-7-0 .
  • Echsel, Franz, Rudolfsheim . Historical-topographical representation of the place together with a look back at the historical development of the communities Reindorf, Braunhirschen and Rustendorf, Vienna 1888, which were united twenty-five years ago to form the local community.

Web links

Commons : Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keminger: The Goiter Hospital
  2. ↑ Golden Helix Award for the Vienna Hospital Association . Archive report of the town hall correspondence from November 16, 2006.
  3. ↑ a b New operating theater in the Kaiserin Elisabeth Hospital . Archive report of the town hall correspondence from March 19, 2001.
  4. ↑ The new Vienna hospital concept . wien.at TV (video).
  5. ^ Vienna reduces the number of hospitals . orf.at.
  6. ↑ wienkav.at
  7. ↑ Last day in the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital , wien.orf.at, November 30, 2012
  8. ↑ a b Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital . Website of the Vienna Hospital Association.
  9. ↑ Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital: Medical offices . Website of the Vienna Hospital Association.
  10. ^ School for general health and nursing care at the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital . Website of the Vienna Hospital Association.
  11. ^ Supplementary sheet for training locations , created on August 5, 2010; Version of September 27, 2011: without Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Spital
  12. ↑ Training locations, version dated November 30, 2012 with the note "Please send applications to other KAV school locations."
  13. ↑ Information sheet : Beware of new applications!
  14. ↑ school folder
  15. ↑ Johannes Bischko Institute for Acupuncture . Website of the Austrian Society for Acupuncture.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '45.97 "  N , 16 ° 19' 29.37"  O