Clinic in Friedrichshain

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Vivantes Clinic in Friedrichshain
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Sponsorship Vivantes (State of Berlin)
place Berlin-Friedrichshain and Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
Coordinates 52 ° 31 '30 "  N , 13 ° 26' 21"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '30 "  N , 13 ° 26' 21"  E
management Andrea Bronner ( Managing Director )
Dag Moskopp ( Medical Director )
Bernward Schneider ( Nursing Director )
Care level Maximum care hospital, emergency center
beds 1,000 (2018)
Employee 1164.7 ( full-time equivalent , 2015)
including doctors 357.8
areas of expertise see Medical Significance
founding 1874
Website www.vivantes.de/kfh
Historic entrance gate to the hospital with the years 1870 and 1874 on the cast iron gate leaves. On the right is the white background of a protective symbol (Red Cross) applied during World War II .

The City Hospital Am Friedrichshain (KFH) was the first city hospital in Berlin . Inaugurated in 1874, it is located in Berlin-Friedrichshain , on Landsberger Allee on the edge of the Volkspark Friedrichshain . As a clinic in Friedrichshain, the hospital has belonged to the municipal hospital operator Vivantes (sole shareholder: State of Berlin) since 2001 . The facility is a listed building ensemble.

In 2015, 43,901 patients were treated as fully inpatients, 1,198 partially inpatients and 79,010 outpatients. The KFH is an academic teaching hospital of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin .

history

Commemorative plaque for the donation

The hospital was founded on the initiative of Heinrich Kochhann and Rudolf Virchow and with the help of a five-year legacy from the merchant Jean Jacques Fasquel of 50,000 thalers . The condition was that no women with their inherent ailments and no syphilitics should be treated in the house.

In autumn 1866, the Berlin magistrate commissioned the architects Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden to plan a municipal hospital for a total of 600 patients, which was to be built on an area of ​​95,500 m² to be separated from the Friedrichshain park . With the substantial technical cooperation of Rudolf Virchow and the management of the work on site by the building inspector Viktor von Weltzien (1836-1927) as well as the direct construction management by the architects Gropius and Schmieden, one and two-story pavilions, an insulating building for operations, a steam engine house as well the main entrance with the attached reception buildings and officials' houses. The division into small pavilions incorporated experiences from England, North America and France with the pavilion style , which at the end of the 19th century was considered exemplary for hospitals for reasons of hygiene. At the same time, the new access road was created under the responsibility of the architects, which initially kept the address Landsberger Chaussee.

Administration buildings, farm buildings, a laundry and other buildings for departments were added at a later point in time (1876, 1882, 1887), the plans of which Gropius and Schmieden had already worked out. After the foundation stone was laid just ahead of the expiry of the Legatsfrist end of 1868, the construction of the first houses in the style lasted brick Gothic , now made of masonry and facing clinkers designed from 1870 to 1874. The representative entrance at Landsberger Chaussee was propyläenartig designed. The gold-plated dates 1870 and 1874 are recorded in the wrought-iron archway. For public buildings in Berlin, the Berlin Building Deputation in the 19th century had specified red bricks with yellow brick stripes for the facade design, glazed decorative ribbons and some historicizing details as a terracotta facade loosened up the buildings. A marble plaque was dedicated to the founder in the archway.

The first patient was admitted for treatment on October 8, 1874, until then only the Charité hospital was available in Berlin . The Volkspark Friedrichshain was expanded to the northeast as a later compensation measure for the loss of space due to the hospital building.

Up until the 1920s and 1930s, further conversions and extensions followed, such as the Röntgenhaus and the women's clinic based on designs by the Magistrate's senior building officer, Franz Meurer . A chapel co-projected by Gropius and Schmieden in the first development plan was not realized.

Because Horst Wessel, who died in this hospital in February 1930, had been elevated to a martyr by the NSDAP , the hospital was renamed Horst Wessel Hospital at the beginning of October 1933 . Since the Friedrichshain district had also been renamed, it was now in the Horst-Wessel-Stadt district .

Air strikes and other fighting destroyed large parts of the hospital grounds during World War II . It was not until 1948 that repairs and reconstruction work began under the responsibility of the surgeon Heinrich Klose, who was appointed medical director . According to plans by the construction atelier Kamps, a six-storey multi-wing complex was built between 1950 and 1955 as a bed block and operating wing, which combined some of the earlier single houses in a U-shape, a new entrance area with a polyclinic and other functional buildings. The destroyed side wings on the original gate building were replaced by simple, unadorned gray plastered houses with the same external dimensions. At the beginning of the 1960s, the Central Rescue and Intensive Therapy Department (ZRI) opened, where specialists had all the options for immediate diagnosis and therapy available day and night.

After German reunification , until September 2002, the fourth wing along Landsberger Allee (as the former Chaussee was now called), which had not been built in the 1950s, was completed in brick optics with a new reception area designed by Stephan Höhne , which the former polyclinic had to give way. Earlier parts of the building have been renovated or partially reconstructed. In the 2010s, too, the Vivantes Klinikum in Friedrichshain received additional buildings and extensive renovations and redesigns of the open spaces.

A major structural change is the wing that was added to the previous central section of the complex on both sides from the mid-2010s. Urgent treatment options could be accommodated here. In addition, a spacious underground car park was created under the previous area facing Ernst-Zinna-Weg . This can also be used by visitors to the facility, the first 20 minutes are even free.

meaning

Entrance area with polyclinic (1953)

The Friedrichshain hospital has been one of the leading hospitals in Berlin since it was founded. Important medical professionals worked here, including Franz Büchner , Alexander von Domarus , Carl Friedländer , Paul Fürbringer , Hans Christian Gram , Heinrich Otto Kalk , Moritz Katzenstein , Moritz Mebel , Ludwig Pick , Willibald Pschyrembel , Max Schede , Fritz Schiff , Friedrich Trendelenburg , Hans Wildegans and Alfred Wolff-Eisner . An X-ray cabinet was set up as early as 1897, and in 1969 the first kidney transplant center in the GDR.

In the 21st century, the Friedrichshain Clinic is one of the most important and largest clinics of the Vivantes Network for Health GmbH . 18 departments, two centers and an institute are integrated in the Friedrichshain Clinic. These include the operative clinics for neurosurgery , ENT , visceral surgery , trauma surgery , vascular and thoracic surgery , orthopedics , dermatology , urology , gynecology and obstetrics , the clinics for internal medicine ( angiology , gastroenterology , cardiology , nephrology ) and the clinic for children - and adolescent medicine, the clinic for anesthesia and the clinic for neurology . The clinic also has a center for vascular medicine and an outpatient clinic for coagulation disorders.

The center for oxygen therapy and diving medicine has the only hyperbaric chamber in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. It is one of six pressure chambers in Germany that is ready for use around the clock. In 2016 around 700 patients, including around 200 emergencies, were treated with, for example, smoke gas poisoning , sudden hearing loss , problem wounds or diving accidents . In November 2016 a new pressure chamber was delivered for commissioning in 2017.

In 2007, a psychiatric day clinic opened on the clinic premises , and in 2008 the structural and technical renovation of the women's clinic was completed.

The facility is an accident-focused clinic for the Berlin-Mitte supply area , which is why there is a dedicated landing pad for rescue helicopters on the clinic premises and an emergency vehicle from the Berlin fire department is stationed. The rescue center integrated in the fourth wing at the end of the 1990s was completely rebuilt in 2010/2011 and equipped with the latest diagnostic technology. Since this emergency center with maximum care went into operation , an annual average of 50,000 patients have been treated, around a third of whom had to be hospitalized.

Prenzlauer Berg location

Since April 1, 2010 the Vivantes Klinikum Prenzlauer Berg , formerly Hospital Prenzlauer Berg , located on the corner of Prenzlauer Allee and Danziger Straße in the Pankow district , has been connected to the Vivantes Klinikum in Friedrichshain as a Prenzlauer Berg location .

However, according to a resolution passed in 2008 by the Berlin Senate and Vivantes management, the Prenzlauer Berg location is to be closed, which means that the clinic in Friedrichshain at the Landsberger Allee location will have to be expanded. However, the extension on Landsberger Allee could not be put into operation in 2014. In October 2016, the Vivantes spokeswoman announced that the first stations would move from Prenzlauer Berg to Friedrichshain. A degree was planned for 2018.

Statistics (selection)

- in brackets the respective year -

  • Bed capacity: 600 (1874), 1010 (1914), 680 (2004), 668 (2006), 900 (end of 2011)
  • Number of treatments: 24,111 (2004), 29,954 (2006), 103,000 (2011)
  • Number of doctors: 247 (2004), 233 (2006), 266 (2008), 460 (2012)
  • Number of nurses: 548 (2004), 408 (2006), 650 (2012)
  • Total number of employees: 1,022 (2008)
  • Inpatient treatments per year: 29,505, 40,000 (2012)
  • outpatient treatments per year: 48,678 (2006), 60,000 (2012)

art

When strolling through the green spaces of the hospital grounds, you will notice a number of very different types of art in the park and inside the building. In 2008, the sculpture Orbit I by Bernhard Heiliger was still on loan from the Berlinische Galerie under Art in the main building, and was dismantled and stored in 2014. Other metal sculptures come from the artists Achim Pahle and Hartmut Sy. The following series of images gives a small impression; a photo collection of the exhibited works is under Commons .

  • Selection of works of art

  • Abstract metal sculpture

  • Mural in front of the children's clinic

literature

Web links

Commons : Klinikum im Friedrichshain  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Management of the house . ( Memento from November 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain - Landsberger Allee, accessed on September 6, 2018.
  2. ^ Hospital plan 2016 of the State of Berlin. (PDF; 3.7 MB) November 2015, pp. 59–60 , accessed on July 6, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Vivantes homepage with data on 2018. In: vivantes.de. Retrieved September 6, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Reference report on the 2015 quality report  ( 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. for the Vivantes Clinic in Friedrichshain, accessed on July 6, 2017 (PDF).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vivantes.de  
  5. ^ Heinrich Klose: The ethos of the nursing profession , in which: Legacy of 55 years of medical experience . The German Health Service - Journal of Medicine 13 (1958), pp. 915–923.
  6. ↑ Final area according to information from the ZS für Bauwesen 1876, Book I (continuation of the publication by Gropius and Schmieden on the Städt. Allgemeine Krankenhaus in Berlin).
  7. ^ Heinrich Schmieden: On the 90th birthday of Viktor von Weltzien In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung (43), booklet, p. 483 .; Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  8. ^ A b Gropius, Schmieden: The municipal general hospital in Berlin in Friedrichshain . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , 25 (1875) I – III; Verlag Ernst & Sohn, p. 131ff. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
  9. ↑ Meurer, Franz . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1925, part 1, p. 2901.
  10. ↑ Vivantes Annual Report 2016, p. 22; Pressure chamber lists of the Society for Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine as of December 1, 2016, accessed on gtuem.org on July 6, 2017.
  11. ↑ Vivantes gets a new hyperbaric chamber. In: Berliner Zeitung. November 30, 2016. Retrieved July 6, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Vivantes annual report for 2007  ( 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. (PDF) accessed on March 6, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vivantes.de  
  13. ^ Health for Berlin's new center. State-of-the-art rescue center in the Vivantes Clinic in Friedrichshain . In: Berlin Week for Lichtenberg-Nordost, March 21, 2012.
  14. ↑ Klinik Prenzlauer Berg moves to Friedrichshain . In: BZ , October 7, 2011.
  15. ↑ Vivantes wants to invest millions . In: Der Tagesspiegel , October 7, 2011.
  16. ↑ Quality report of the Vivantes Klinikum Friedrichshain as of December 31, 2006  ( 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. (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vivantes.de  
  17. ↑ Homepage of Hartmut Sy with a presentation of his works ( Memento of the original of April 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hartmut-sy.de