Vivantes Clinic Am Urban

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Vivantes Clinic Am Urban
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Sponsorship Vivantes
place Berlin , GermanyGermanyGermany 
Coordinates 52 ° 29 '39 "  N , 13 ° 24' 31"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '39 "  N , 13 ° 24' 31"  E
Care level Emergency hospital
beds 579
founding 1887
Website www.vivantes.de/kau/
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Clinic Am Urban (2016)

The Am Urban Clinic ( KAU for short , official name Vivantes Am Urban Clinic , colloquially also Urbank Hospital ) is the only hospital in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg and is operated by the state hospital operator Vivantes .

Around 220 doctors and 360 nurses work in twelve medical departments and the central emergency room (as of 2010). The clinic has 579 beds and is an academic teaching hospital of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Around 56,000 patients are treated in the clinic each year, 32,000 of them as outpatients.

The hospital, like the nearby Urbanhafen and the Urbanstraße passing by, is named after an old wetland called Urban , which was drained when the Landwehr Canal was built.

history

Memorial plaque Dieffenbachstrasse 1, Am Urban hospital

Old building

In 1862 Wilhelmine Eleonore Ottilie Beschort (1812–1881), daughter of the singer and actor Friedrich Jonas Beschort , donated 400,000  marks to the city ​​of Berlin for the construction of a hospital. In 1878 the Berlin magistrate decided to build a city hospital on the Urban. When Wilhelmine Eleonore Ottilie Beschort died in 1881, interest had accumulated 600,000 marks in foundation monies, which covered around a fifth of the construction costs. A marble plaque was placed in her honor in the vestibule of the main house . In 1887 with the construction of the III. municipal hospital started. Up until then, Berlin had only two city hospitals ( Friedrichshain hospital since 1874 and Moabit hospital since 1875 ), despite the population of almost 1.6 million at the time , although Prussian legislation had provided cities with more than 5,000 inhabitants since 1835 "a sufficient number of medical and nursing homes on their own ”demanded. The Am Urban hospital was built in an open pavilion design by the architect Hermann Blankenstein by 1890 . The hospital, which has 574 beds, began operations when the first patient was admitted on June 10, 1890. The original complex existed with few changes until the Second World War . In an air raid on November 22, 1943, 20 employees and 29 patients died; around a third of the buildings were destroyed.

On March 11, 1933, the National Socialist SA , led by the later Berlin Police President Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff , stormed the Am Urban hospital and occupied it. The two Jewish directors and several Jewish senior and junior doctors were dismissed, and Jewish employees were arrested and driven out. A memorial plaque at the main entrance at Dieffenbachstrasse  1 has been a reminder of this since 1988 . Due to the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring , forced sterilizations and abortions were carried out between 1933 and 1945 .

Except for one building, the old building area was sold to a private bidding consortium consisting of local residents for 13.5 million euros in 2008 . The old hospital area near the Graefekiez has now been converted into residential, social and commercial space.

New building

In 1966, construction began on the first new construction of a municipal hospital in Berlin after the Second World War, and the then governing mayor Willy Brandt laid the foundation stone on June 15, 1966. On August 28, 1970, the inauguration took place in the presence of the then German President Gustav Heinemann of by the architect Peter Poelzig in reinforced concrete frame construction erected the new building, consisting of a care and treatment tract as well as the nine-story V-shaped bed house. In 1971 the former Gertraudenhospital was transferred to the Am Urban hospital. In 1976 it became the Academic Teaching Hospital of the Free University . In 1981 the new building received an intensive care unit with an operating theater wing as an extension. Extensive renovations and extensions were carried out in 1987. In 1994 a helipad was put into operation, which existed until 2008 and has since been replaced by a green area. In 2001 the state-owned Berlin hospital operator Vivantes took over the hospital.

Personalities who worked at this facility

  • Albert Fraenkel (1848–1916) - discovered the causative agent of pneumonia in 1886 ; from 1890 he was director of the newly built hospital and also headed its internal department.
  • Werner Korte (1853-1937) - made ground-breaking in the fields of bile - and pancreatic - surgery ; he was director of the surgical department from 1889 to 1924.
  • Carl Benda (1857–1932) - was involved in the discovery of the mitochondria (named 1898 by him) and was the first to recognize that acromegaly is related to tumors in the pituitary gland ; from 1896 he headed the Pathological Institute.
  • Leonor Michaelis (1875–1949) - head of the bacteriological laboratory from 1906 to 1922, founded the Michaelis-Menten theory of enzyme kinetics, examined the influence of pH on enzyme reactions, developed suitable methods for staining mitochondria, etc. a.
  • Hermann Zondek (1887–1979) - published in 1923 an important textbook on understanding human hormone production and the treatment of hormonal diseases. From 1926 until his release by the National Socialists he was medical director and head of the internal department.
  • Heinrich Teitge (1900–1970) - had been a member of the NSDAP and SS since 1930. After working as a senior physician at the Moabit Hospital, he was appointed Medical Director of the Am Urban Hospital in 1935, which he held until 1945. One of his numerous functions under National Socialism was the management of the health administration in occupied Poland.
  • Helga Mucke-Wittbrodt (1910–1999) - worked as a doctor in the Am Urban hospital since 1936. After Berlin was conquered by the Red Army, she was temporarily medical director from April 1945. In August 1945 she moved to the Berlin-Tempelhof Municipal Hospital in the same position. In 1948 she moved to East Berlin and took on leading positions in the health system in the GDR.
  • Max Madlener (1898–1989) - chief surgeon from 1950 to 1964
One of the motifs as part of the Festival of Lights 2014

Festival of Lights

As part of the Festival of Lights 2014, the facade of the main building on the harbor side was illuminated with different motifs from the field of medicine. The motifs changed daily and were repeated in a loop until the end of the festival.

literature

  • Fritz Munk: Medical Berlin at the turn of the century. Urban & Schwarzenberg publishing house, Munich / Berlin 1956, ISBN 3-541-02022-9 .
  • Reinhard Bolk: Das Krankenhaus am Urban - Medical-historical investigation of a hospital in the city of Berlin 1887-1945. Westkreuz-Verlag, Berlin / Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-922131-34-4 .
  • Herbert Schwenk: Lexicon of Berlin Urban Development. Haude & Spenersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7759-0472-7 , p. 159.
  • Kathrin Chod: Hospital Am Urban . In: Hans-Jürgen Mende , Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . Luisenstadt educational association . tape 1 : A to O . Haude and Spener / Edition Luisenstadt, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89542-122-7 ( luise-berlin.de - as of October 7, 2009).
  • Matthias Heisig: 125 years of Klinikum Am Urban, 1890–2015. Published by Vivantes Klinikum Am Urban, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050020-6 .

Web links

Commons : Krankenhaus Am Urban  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. scroll down click PDF - Hospital plan 2010 of the State of Berlin (PDF; 4.1 MB).
  2. Chronicle Berlin : Enter Hospital am Urban in the search window ; Retrieved April 17, 2015.
  3. ^ Matthias Heisig: 125 years of the Am Urban Clinic, 1890–2015. Edited by Vivantes Klinikum Am Urban, Berlin 2015, p. 61.
  4. Website of the Graetz Architekten architects' office ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.graetz-architekten.de
  5. ^ W. Hüsten: Prof. Dr. Max Madlener on his 70th birthday. In: Medical World. 25, Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart 1968, p. 2515 f.