Catholic Hospital Erfurt
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| Sponsorship | Catholic Hospital Association Thuringia gGmbH |
| place | Erfurt |
| state | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '50 " N , 11 ° 5' 6" E |
| Chief physician | Jörg Pertschy |
| beds | 420 |
| founding | 1735 |
| Website | www.kkh-erfurt.de |
The Catholic Hospital “St. Johann Nepomuk “Erfurt is a hospital in Erfurt . From the middle of the 19th century to 2003 it was located in the city center on Kartäuserstraße and Puschkinstraße. Since 2003 the Catholic Hospital has been housed in a new building designed for 420 beds in the Erfurt district of Melchendorf . It is the academic teaching hospital of the Jena University Hospital .
history
founding
The origin of the hospital goes back to a foundation initiated on June 16, 1735, which was noted by the then cathedral sexton Johannes Konrad Würschmitt. It says that a "friend who wants to be unknown ... would be willing to start a foundation here to comfort poor sick and helpless Catholic people" . The money was used to purchase the house "Zum rothen Kreuz" in Brühl on the bridge of today's Gorkistraße over the Walkstrom to set up the "Hospital S. Joannis Nepomuceni". The first patient was admitted on August 1, 1736. For a long time, the facility was a mixture of hospital, poor, old people and spinning house . Until the middle of the 19th century, care was in the hands of a "nurse" with a maid.
Development in the 19th and early 20th centuries
In 1843 an Elisabeth Foundation was established by Erfurt citizens, in which the Lucius family was particularly involved, and the Queen of Prussia also donated.
In 1844, Sisters of Charity were called by St. Vincent von Paul from the Fulda motherhouse, which was founded in 1834, to Erfurt to take over care and management of the hospital. The successful entrepreneur from Erfurt, Sebastian Lucius, and his wife Marianne, b. Lever, founded the Lucius Lever Foundation for a Catholic old people's home on Kartäuser Strasse. Above all, however, they donated several acres of building land to the Catholic Church on Hopfenberg and the Carthusian monastery ("the bleach"), as well as 5,000 thalers for a new Catholic hospital. Several members of the Lucius family, other citizens of Erfurt and the King of Prussia also made generous donations. From 1854 to 1857, the front half of the later so-called "White House" could be built on the property at Kartäuserstraße 64. The chapel was added to this in 1868.
At the end of the 1880s the house was brought to its present size. This gave it a capacity of 125 beds. Stables, utility rooms, a laundry and an insulating barrack were added later. The complex underwent a major expansion in 1902 when the so-called “Red House” (made of bricks and with artfully designed chimneys) with modern operating theaters, several 12-bed rooms, a kitchen and a physiotherapy room was built. The number of beds grew to 225. Shortly before 1914, the "Gray House" was added to the site, which had been acquired on Viktoria-Strasse (today Puschkin-Strasse).
After the First World War , in which the hospital also served as a military hospital, the statutes were adapted to modern requirements in 1922. In 1924 the structural situation was reorganized according to modern hygienic and functional knowledge by the Erfurt architect Karl Meinhardt . First, the old building was renovated and expanded. The construction of a central boiler room posed a considerable challenge, as one came across an underground arm of the Gera . In 1925/26, a new private clinic with large balconies in front of the rooms was built above the heating system on Viktoria-Strasse. After expansion and renovations, the Catholic Hospital had 300 beds at the end of the 1920s, which could be expanded to 350 beds.
time of the nationalsocialism
In 1934/35 the insulating house was built according to the most modern hygienic standards and in the New Objectivity style. In 1935 the Catholic Hospital employed: two senior doctors, three specialists, six assistant doctors and 48 nurses. A small nursing school was also run. During the Second World War , the house had to take over the tasks of a hospital again.
Post-war period up to the turn of the millennium
During the GDR era, the house could remain under church sponsorship and was supported with financial means and technology from West Germany. The “KKH” often had more modern equipment than the Erfurt Medical Academy . The first department for intensive therapy in the Erfurt district was established at the Catholic Hospital. This department, together with the operating wing, was given a modern extension to the Red House in the 1970s with West German funding. Also SED -Politiker and officials took -although them from a certain level of prohibited was- the good quality of medical treatment and care in the Catholic hospital like to complete.
After the reunification of Germany, the “St. Johann Nepomuk ”realigned. In 1998 she also took over the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Lengenfeld unterm Stein , a specialist clinic for geriatrics with 75 beds and 10 day clinic places. In 1999 a Caritas house was set up in Government Street 55, where the Erfurt regional office of Caritas offers social advisory services, a daytime meeting point with soup kitchen and warming room for socially disadvantaged and homeless people and a clothing store.
After the turn of the millennium
At the end of the 1990s, planning began for a new building with 420 beds and a nursing school on a plot of land outside the city center on Haarbergstrasse in Melchendorf . After an architectural competition, construction began in May 2000 according to plans by HDR TMK planning company from Düsseldorf. The foundation stone was laid on October 6, 2000. On August 22, 2003, Bishop Joachim Wanke was able to inaugurate the new hospital.
The new building consists of two areas: a compact 3-storey block building with a recessed technical floor along Haarbergstrasse, which shields the bed wards from traffic, and a comb-like component for the care area that opens up towards the park.
New uses were sought for the old buildings. After several unsuccessful efforts by LEG , the future of the former hospital complex on Karthuser and Puschkin Strasse was secured in 2012 with various investors as the "St. Nepomuk residential park" . Contrary to earlier plans and demolition permits from the city administration, almost all houses will be preserved. Only the large annex to the Red House for the operating wing and anesthesia / intensive therapy, as well as a few other buildings without architectural value, were removed. The "Lucius-Hebel-Stift" (from 1854/57) in Kartäuserstraße, the "Red House" made of bricks (from 1902) with its characteristic chimneys, the "Green House" (from 1925) and the "Iso" are preserved -Haus "in the style of New Objectivity (1934/35). With the conversion, the green has become a "colorful" (six-colored) house. As a result, the sculptures on its facade have lost their impact. These buildings are under monument protection. The "White House" with its architecturally remarkable, expressionist staircase with an attached chapel and the "Gray House" were also preserved and rebuilt for residential purposes. Only one new building is being built instead of the demolished new building from the 1970s. In addition, underground garages and green spaces are being built.
Facility
The following departments belong to the house:
- General, visceral and vascular surgery (55 beds)
- Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (10 beds)
- Gynecology and Obstetrics (30 beds)
- Internal medicine , one department with a focus on gastroenterology , the other with a focus on cardiology (146 beds in total)
- Psychiatry , psychotherapy and psychosomatics (100 beds)
- Trauma surgery and orthopedics (46 beds)
- Urology and Pediatric Urology (30 beds)
All departments have an ambulance .
See also
literature
- M. Hannappel (Cathedral Vicar ): The Catholic Hospital of St. John Nepomuk - 1735-1935 . Erfurt, 1936
- Ulrich Völkel: Together for one another. The Catholic Hospital St. Johann Nepomuk in Erfurt . Rene Burkhardt-Verlag, Erfurt 2010. ISBN 978-3-937981-51-2
- Mark Escherich: Urban Self-Images and Structural Representation , Erfurt 2010.
- Vera Dähnert: Valuable building fabric must give way , in: Thüringer Allgemeine from March 16, 2010
- Thüringer Allgemeine: Founded as a poor hospital , Erfurt, June 15, 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Robert von Lucius: The Erfurt family Lucius. Erfurt Heimatbrief No. 37, 1978, pp. 30-32.
- ↑ Hartmut Schwarz: posterity remains. Despite the approval, the brick house, "White House" and chapel annex are not demolished . Thuringian regional newspaper, July 9, 2011
- ↑ Information on site from the conservationist Mark Escherich on the Day of the Open Monument on September 9, 2012