St. Vinzenz Zams Hospital
| St. Vincent Hospital | |
|---|---|
| place | Zams |
| state | Tyrol |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 9 '42 " N , 10 ° 35' 37" E |
| beds | 328 |
| Employee | 800 |
| founding | 1811 |
| Website | www.khzams.at |
The St. Vinzenz Hospital is a hospital in Zams . It belongs to the monastery of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in Zams. It provides medical care for the population and tourists of the Tyrolean Oberland in the Imst and Landeck districts . The house has 328 beds and employs around 800 people
history
From 1350 there was a small hostel in Zams for the poor and needy, which offered protection and help to the sick, helpless and those traveling through. With the impoverishment of the once prosperous village, the small hospital on the outskirts also fell into disrepair and was used for other tasks. Nikolaus Tolentin Schuler, pastor and dean in Zams since 1805, decided in view of the dramatic situation of the poor and sick to build a new hospital. Since the community did not support the plan, he had a two-story building with 15 rooms for around fifty sick people built from his own resources.
First of all, girls and women from the area cared for the patients. When it became clear that long-term trained nurses were needed, Katharina Lins , who had worked in the house from the start, was sent to the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent von Paul in Strasbourg , where she was trained as a nurse and into the community of the Sisters of Mercy. In Zams she was joined by other nurses and in 1826 the community of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent von Paul officially recognized in Zams .
In 1870 the hospital was completely destroyed by arson. The then General Superior Borgias Aloys had a mother house built on the valley floor and a new hospital at the original location, which was opened in 1881 as the “General Public Hospital St. Vincent de Paul”. It was heavily used during the construction of the Arlbergbahn from 1880 to 1884 and during the First World War , when it was also used as a military hospital .
From 1930 to 1934, an insulating building and several extensions were built according to plans by Willibald Braun . During the Second World War , a large part of the hospital was again used as a military hospital. To protect against air raids, a large tunnel was dug into the rock behind, where the injured were taken to when there was an air raid.
In the post-war period, the range of medical services was expanded and a nursing school with a dormitory was built. Further buildings were added in 1950 and 1990.
building
The building, rebuilt after the fire in 1870, was expanded from 1908 to 1910 by an extension, and from 1930 to 1934 the north wing was built according to plans by Willibald Braun . The U-shaped layout encloses an inner courtyard; the original main building from 1910 forms the north-eastern wing, which in 1934 was connected to the newly constructed south-western bed wing by a right-angled connecting wing. This is an elongated, slightly curved, four-storey building with a flat roof; to the north it is closed off by five-storey tower-like risalits with a hipped roof and roof houses. In 1950 and 1990 further wings were added.
The chapel wing with tower adjoining the north wing to the south was also built around 1934 according to plans by Willibald Braun. The chapel is a three-axis structured room with a raised central axis with a concrete beam ceiling. The designs for the stained glass windows and the mural of St. Vinzenz come from Carl Rieder .
The bed and chapel wing as well as wing A and B are under monument protection .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hospital St. Vinzenz Zams: The history of our house. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Gruber, Schmid-Pittl: Hospital and Sanatorium of the Merciful Sisters. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved June 1, 2017 .
- ^ Gruber, Schmid-Pittl: hospital chapel . In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved June 1, 2017 .