Elisabethinen Hospital Graz

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Elisabethinen Hospital Graz
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Sponsorship Convent of the Elisabethinen Graz
place Graz
state Styria
Country Austria
Coordinates 47 ° 4 '10 "  N , 15 ° 25' 38"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 4 '10 "  N , 15 ° 25' 38"  E
management Sr. Bonaventura Holzmann OSE,
Christian Lagger
beds 179
Employee 500
founding 1690
Website http://www.elisabethinen.at/krankenhaus/
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Elisabethinen Hospital and Elisabethine Church

The Elisabethinen Hospital is a hospital in the 5th  district of Graz, Gries . It is the teaching hospital for the Medical University of Graz and the FH Joanneum.

history

Maria Theresa, born in Graz as the Princess of Liechtenstein and wife of the Scottish nobleman Count Jakob von Leslie , who was appointed General Field Marshal in 1683 , spent part of her life in Aachen and saw how nuns of the Elisabethinen cared for poor and sick women. When she returned to her hometown, Maria Theresia had the idea of ​​building a hospital in Graz. Jacob de Leslie was against it; nevertheless her plan was approved by the ladies of the Graz Society.

The raging ravages of the plague from June to December 1680 had killed almost 3,500 people in the city, or almost a quarter of the city's population with a population of 15,000. With these impressions, Maria Theresa wrote a letter to Aachen with the request to send some sisters to set up a branch for the Elisabethines in Graz. After some hesitation on the part of the founder and the provision of the sum of 20,000 guilders as well as concerns of the Archbishop of Salzburg about the establishment of the order, the first three sisters arrived in 1690. Sister Josepha de Ruppe was in charge.

Maria Theresa's husband Jakob died in 1692 and the widow married Count Balthasar von Wagensperg, an imperial governor. A year later, the Foundation letter from Salzburg Graz and the approval of Emperor reached Leopold I . Count von Wagensperg died and Maria Theresia bought the Wels'sche house on Mühlgang in Murvorstadt for 3,000 guilders . The initial equipment of the hospital consisted of six beds and a medicine cabinet. In 1808 a new building with 30 beds followed. The hospital was continuously expanded in the following centuries: For example, the surgical department was built in 1925.

In 1938 the monastery was expropriated by the National Socialists and the sisters left the city. A military hospital was set up in the orphaned hospital and the church was used as a Wehrmacht pharmacy. After the end of the Second World War and the withdrawal of the Russians in the summer of 1945, the reconstruction of the bombed and looted monastery and hospital began immediately - it reopened in September 1946. After several smaller extensions and renovations, renovations and extensions were carried out from 1975 to 1993 done on a large scale, which enabled an increase in the number of beds and an expansion and modernization of the individual wards.

Medical institutions

The Elisabethinen Hospital in Graz has departments for internal medicine , surgery , ENT , anesthesia , an intensive care and a palliative ward and an institute for radiology . These are supported by speech therapy , dietology , physiotherapy and psychotherapy . It also has its own pharmacy and an operating theater and simulation center. In addition, the hospital operates the St. Elisabeth hospice and the Vinzidorf hospice for homeless people in St. Leonhard.

Elizabethine Church

Elizabethine Church

Built in 1696, the baroque Roman Catholic house church of the Elisabethinspital, which was dedicated to St. Laurentius is consecrated, soon enlarged and expanded again and again. At the end of the 19th century, the monastery church was almost completely demolished and replaced by a new building in the neo-renaissance style ; only the facade and the tower remained and were integrated into the new building. In the interior , the high altar, built in 1891 according to plans by Robert Mikovics , attracts attention: it contains a wooden sculpture of the patron saint of the church, created by Hans Brandstätter , depicting him as a martyr.

The interior, which was redesigned by Karl Lebwohl in 1960 , contains some late baroque pieces that still come from the previous church, such as a sculpture of St. Elisabeth or a painting that is attributed to the painter Carlo Maratta and shows Mary with the baby Jesus. The tomb of the beneficiary Balthasar Toperzer , which is located on the south wall, is also particularly noteworthy . In 1990 an extended altar area was created.

Today she is the curate beneficiary in the Elisabethinenkloster in Graz , which belongs to the parish Graz-St. Andrä is subordinate to and belongs to the dean's office Graz-Mitte of the city ​​church Graz .

Infrastructure

The hospital is connected to the public transport network by tram lines 1, 3, 6 and 7 (Roseggerhaus stop) and buses 40 and 67 (Roseggerhaus stop) and 32 and 33 (Elisabethinergasse stop).

Trivia

In 2009, the hospital was the central location in the film The Unintentional Abduction of Ms. Elfriede Ott , where it "appeared" as the Graz Mitte regional hospital.

literature

  • Erich Linhardt, Ralf A. Höfer: The Elisabethinen in Graz. A history of the Elisabethinen monastery and hospital in the Styrian capital, as well as notes on this order and its namesake. Elisabethinen Convention, Graz 1995.
  • Alois Kölbl, Wiltraud Resch: Paths to God. The churches and synagogue of Graz. 2nd, expanded and supplemented edition. Styria, Graz 2004, ISBN 3-222-13105-8 , p. 166.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Medical University of Graz: Teaching hospitals. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Robert Engele: A hospital for "poor women". In: Kleine Zeitung (Styria) of April 4, 2010. P. 34f.
  3. ↑ a b c Erich Lienhart, Ralf A. Höfer: The Elisabethinen in Graz. The history of the Elisabethinen monastery and hospital in the Styrian capital as well as notes on this order and its namesake . Ed .: Konvent der Elisabethinen. Graz 1995.
  4. ^ Hospital of the Elisabethinen GmbH: Services of the hospital of the Elisabethinen Graz. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ VinziDorf Hospice. In: VinziDorf-Hospiz Elisabethinen Graz. Elisabethinen Graz GmbH, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
  6. ^ Catholic city church Graz: Parish St. Andrä Graz. Catholic City Church Graz, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
  7. ^ Hospital of Elisabethinen GmbH: Information for referrers. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .