Children's Hospital (Leipzig)

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The old main building of the former children's hospital

The children's hospital on Leipziger Oststrasse was a special facility administered by the University of Leipzig for the treatment of sick children and adolescents for over a hundred years .

history

In 1888, the doctors at the University of Leipzig, Robert Hermann Tillmanns and Otto Heubner, founded an "Association for the Establishment and Maintenance of a Children's Hospital in Leipzig". The main parts of the facility were built between 1889 and 1891 and inaugurated on December 6, 1891. Heubner became its first director.

The building site in Leipzig- Reudnitz was made available free of charge by the city from the property of the Johannishospital . It was the square between Oststrasse and Eilenburger Strasse as well as Platzmannstrasse (today Schulze-Boysen-Strasse) and Schwarzenbergstrasse (later Mirbachstrasse, no longer existing today). The architect was Arwed Roßbach . The construction financing came only from voluntary foundations. That was also the reason why the final completion took until 1899.

In its first form, the hospital consisted of a reception building, a main building for uninfected patients, an isolation building for infectious patients, the utility building with kitchen and wash house and the section and disinfection house .

The first extensions took place at the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1920s, the undeveloped area west of Platzmannstrasse was incorporated into the clinic site. The former course of the street can still be seen on the beltline in Oststraße. In 1927, a boiler house was built on Eilenburger Strasse according to plans by city planner Hubert Ritter .

An inglorious chapter of the Leipzig Children's Hospital is the “ children's department ”, which the then director Werner Catel set up in 1940. Such departments were used under the guise of research into child euthanasia . Catel played a leading role in child euthanasia insofar as he was one of the three experts for the entire German Reich who decided on the basis of the files on the life or death of the disabled children reported by the health authorities. After the destruction of the Children's Hospital in East Street, the department in as was alternative hospital used hospital Leipzig-dozing continued until the 1945th

On December 4, 1943, the buildings of the children's clinic were largely destroyed or badly damaged by a bomb attack . During the reconstruction after the war, new buildings were erected that did not take up the old architectural style. The site of the formerly east-facing and completely destroyed Hans Schemm School was included.

The children's hospital already had a children's surgical department when it opened. On October 1, 1958, this became an independent clinic and outpatient department for pediatric surgery at the University of Leipzig. This clinic also had locations outside the Oststraße area (Theresienstraße and Querstraße). With the construction of the Sonnenblume bed house in 1999, all units in Oststraße were brought together again.

In 2002, a Ronald McDonald House of the foundation of the same name was opened on the northeastern part of the site with the Rubensstrasse entrance , in which families of seriously ill children can be accommodated together during hospital treatment in order to reduce the emotional burden for everyone.

In August 2007, the clinic and polyclinic for children and adolescents as well as the clinic for pediatric surgery moved into the newly built center for gynecology and pediatric medicine in the Liebigstrasse clinic complex, giving them a modern and better integrated location. The clinics, together with the pediatric radiology and pediatric anesthesiology departments, form the children's center of the Leipzig University Hospital .

In Oststrasse, parts of the former children's hospital are used by the University of Leipzig for the Institute for Pharmacy and the Institute for Technical Chemistry .

  • Model of the hospital from the time it was built

  • Postcard from 1900

  • Boiler house from 1927 by Hubert Ritter on Eilenburger Strasse

  • New center for women's and children's medicine in Liebigstrasse

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipzig city maps from 1890 and 1928 in the SLUB Dresden

literature

  • Reudnitz - A historical and urban study . PRO LEIPZIG 1997
  • Heinz-Jürgen Böhme , Günter Clemens: Bilderbogen - Leipzig picture postcard series from 1895 to 1945 , PRO LEIPZIG 2010, ISBN 978-3-936508-39-0 , p. 91

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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 57.1 ″  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 1.4 ″  E