Königstein Clinic of the KVB
| Königstein Clinic of the KVB | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | Health care for Federal Railroad officials |
| place | Königstein im Taunus |
| state | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 10 '25 " N , 8 ° 28' 31" E |
| Head Doctor | Gerhard Toepel |
| beds | 184 |
| areas of expertise | 6th |
| founding | 1929 |
| Website | kvb-klinik.de |
The Königstein Clinic of the KVB is a hospital for the health care of the federal railway officials (KVB) in Königstein im Taunus .
history
The Grand Hotel Koenigstein
On July 5, 1907, the "Grand-Hotel Königstein" was opened in the health resort of Königstein by the Frankfurt hotelier Eduard Stern. Construction was completed in just 11 months. The spa town experienced rapid growth in the second half of the 19th century, in which Stein wanted to participate with his luxury hotel. The imposing building, erected on a hill in front of the city limits below the Hardtberg , immediately became the first house on the site.
The hotel was connected to the town of Königstein on foot via what was then Sodener Chaussee. The street had electric lighting (which was still very unusual at the time) and connected the hotel to the Königstein train station, built in 1902.
The hotel also offered all the luxury of the time: Electric light, central heating and even elevators were clearly superior equipment at the time. In addition to over 100 rooms, a number of suites were offered. The guest lists also prove the frequent visits of industrialists and people of the high nobility.
The First World War and the consequences
However, with the First World War in 1914, tourism collapsed. In 1914 the hotel was renamed "Hotell Königsteiner Hof" and later a hospital was set up for war wounded. Although the war ended in 1918, Königstein was incorporated into an occupied zone ("Brückenkopf Mainz") as part of the Königstein district and cut off from the rest of the empire. Barracks for the 700 Allied soldiers who occupied the city until 1925 were built between the hotel and the city.
An economical operation of the hotel was out of the question under these circumstances. The hotel reopened on August 23, 1919. In 1927, however, Stern's son Carl Stern had to close the hotel and sell it in November 1928.
Railway workers' home
The buyer was the social fund of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the Reichsbahnbeamten Krankenversorgung (RKV). This set up a clinic for railway employees in the building. The first patients were admitted in July 1929.
With the beginning of the Second World War , the clinic was confiscated by the Wehrmacht in 1939, who operated a reserve hospital there. After the war the house was used as a prisoner-of-war hospital until April 1947. In 1947, the building was handed over to the Hessen State Insurance Institute, which set up a pulmonary sanatorium for tuberculosis patients there. This use met with massive resistance from the Königsteiners, who feared for the health resort in Königstein.
Ten years later, the city's wishes were heard. The building was given the current owner, the KVB, and was extensively rebuilt. In August 1958 the clinic was reopened with a focus on cardiovascular diseases. The house now had 84 rooms for 200 patients.
In 1974 and 1975 a staff building was built, and in 1984 a new bed wing was built. The changeover to single rooms was then completed.
In 1992 the facility was expanded to include a therapy center with a swimming pool and sports hall. In the same year the clinic was awarded the Georg Pingler plaque from the city of Königstein for its services to spa and tourism.
From 2007 to 2009 the clinic was extensively refurbished for 8 million euros.
Today's clinic
Today the KVB clinic with 184 beds (136 of which in the main building) is the largest clinic in Königstein. It is not only open to those insured by the KVB, but also to those of other insurances (above all the Bahn-BKK and the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See ). The focus is on heart and circulatory diseases as well as metabolism, obesity, diabetes and orthopedics. On August 1, 2012, Gerhard Toepel took over the position of chief physician at the Königstein Clinic as the successor to Arno Schöneberger.
literature
- Not only railway officials welcome . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 29, 2009, p. 54 .
- Beate Großmann-Hofmann: Königstein's most powerful advertising monument… In: Yearbook of the Hochtaunuskreis . 2007, ISBN 3-7973-1001-3 , pp. 265-269 .
- Clinic Königstein of the KVB: 80 years Clinic Königstein - 100 years Grand Hotel Königstein . ( kvb-klinik.de - brochure of the Königstein Clinic with pictures).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ A heart of the KVB says goodbye . In: FNP . August 3, 2012. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: fnp.de ) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
