Empress Elisabeth maternity home
The Empress Elisabeth maternity home of the Lucina Association (Vienna) was a private maternity home. It was located at Knöllgasse 22-24 in Vienna's 10th district of Favoriten . In addition to the function as a building facility, maternity nurses were also trained here.
Because of its historical importance, the complex was included in the Vienna cultural property register. The house is named after Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary .
history
The Empress Elisabeth-Wöchnerinnenheim was built between 1899 and 1901 by the architect Jakob Gartner as a two-storey, late-historical complex with Baroque forms.
In the maternity home opened in 1901 by the Lucina Association, needy wives - regardless of their religion - were taken in free of charge before their birth and cared for during bed . In order to be accepted here, advance registration was necessary. If it was medically necessary, the expectant mothers were picked up from their homes.
In 1908 the capacity of the maternity home was increased from 22 to 40 beds by an extension. The home then had two delivery rooms and an operating room, among other things. By the end of the 1920s, the home already had 70 beds for the expectant mothers and women who have recently given birth. Even before the extension building went into operation, there were around 800 births a year, with overcrowding again and again. During the time of National Socialist rule in Austria , the maternity home was attached to the nearby Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital . The statutes of the “Lucina” association also provided for the function of a training center for postpartum nurses for the home. First, the students received three months of theoretical training, followed by practical training. After two years of use, the postnatal nurses received a certificate.
In his book “Wiener Krankenanstalten”, Eugen Hofmokl assesses the fact that the expectant mothers were not used as teaching objects - as in the birthing center, for example - as well as a positive aspect of the home, as well as the possibility of giving birth in one's own room instead of in the delivery room. In the newspaper Neues Wiener Tagblatt , the social reporter Max Winter published a report on the life of the mothers giving birth here and the Empress Elisabeth maternity home under the title “A visit to the maternity home”.
Prominent Viennese born here are the writer Walter Lindenbaum, born on December 11, 1907, and the writer and journalist Hilde Spiel, born on October 19, 1911 .
Use in the 20th century
Since more and more expectant mothers decided to give birth in a hospital in the 1950s, the building was redesigned in 1958 into a nursing school with 110 training places attached to the Kaiser Franz Joseph Hospital. After the former nursing home was sold in 2005, a private high school with public rights was opened here in 2007.
literature
- Eugen Hofmokl: Wiener Heilanstalten: Representation of the buildings and facilities , Vienna: Hölder 1910.
- Hugo Klein: On the history of the “Lucina” association. Vienna: self-published in 1902
Web links
- In the cultural property register - address entry required
- Inspection in the Vienna City and State Archives
- Short text and illustrations
Individual evidence
- ^ Dehio manual : Vienna. 10th - 19th and 20th - 23rd district. Vienna: Schroll 1996. ISBN 3-7031-0693-X
- ↑ http://www.doew.at/erinnern/biographien/spurensuche/alle-biographischen-skizzen/walter-lindenbaum-1907-1945#lindenbaum
- ↑ http://www.data.matricula.info/php/view.php?ar_id=3670&link=393136314dx5
- ↑ mein district.at , accessed on January 24, 2018.
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 32 ″ N , 16 ° 21 ′ 21 ″ E