State Clinic Sankt Veit im Pongau

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The State Clinic Sankt Veit im Pongau is a hospital in the network of the Salzburg State Clinics  (SALK) in the Grafenhof district of the municipality of Sankt Veit im Pongau . The Paracelsus Medical Private University Salzburg (PMU) uses the clinic as a teaching hospital.

Next to the Cardinal Schwarzenberg Clinic in Schwarzach, it is the second large hospital for the Salzachpongau.

history

The Grafenhof Lung Sanatorium was established in 1913 through the formation of a people's association to combat tuberculosis in the state of Salzburg with Governor and Prelate Alois Winkler as President and Chairman . The hospital, built according to the plans of the architect Schmidhammer, is considered the largest wooden structure in Austria . The writer Thomas Bernhard was a patient in Grafenhof from 1949 to 1951.

State Clinic

The internal medicine made with 70 beds, the largest department of the hospital with a unit for endoscopy and specialty clinics in the disease areas metabolism and diabetes mellitus , hypertension , rheumatology , kidney and peritoneal dialysis , supplemented with the Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine .

The University Clinic for Orthopedics also runs a unit here.

The psychiatry is another focus of the clinic. 40 beds are available for long-term care of chronically mentally ill adults and 20 beds for those with acute mental illnesses from the districts of Pinzgau , Pongau and Lungau . 36 people are admitted for psychiatric rehabilitation , usually lasting six weeks .

Holy Cross Chapel

Holy Cross Chapel (2010)

The listed Holy Cross Chapel with a rectangular nave and a lower, recessed round apse is covered with a multi-segmented wooden shingle roof. The chapel room has a wooden coffered ceiling. In 1927 or 1928 Theodor Kern painted the frescoes, which were later whitewashed with lime and are now exposed again. Single-storey extensions include a vestibule and the sacristy. The roof turret has arched sound windows.

literature

to the Holy Cross Chapel:

  • Dehio Salzburg 1986 . St. Veit im Pongau, Chapel in Grafenhof (lung sanctuary) for the Holy Cross, built in 1913 , p. 385.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 19 ′ 53.2 "  N , 13 ° 9 ′ 43.7"  E