Elisabethinen Hospital Linz

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Ordensklinikum Linz GmbH Elisabethinen
Sponsorship Convent of the Elisabethinen Linz-Vienna
place Fadingerstraße 1, 4020 Linz
state Upper Austria
Country Austria
management Raimund Kaplinger , Stefan Meusburger
Care level Specialty hospital
beds around 480
Employee around 1450
areas of expertise 11 medical departments, 7 institutes
founding 1745
Website https://www.ordensklinikum.at/de/
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The Elisabethinen Hospital Linz was the oldest independent religious order hospital in Linz and has been one of the two locations of the Linz Order Clinic named Ordensklinikum Linz GmbH Elisabethinen since January 1, 2017 . Before the merger with the hospital of the Barmherzigen Schwestern Linz , the hospital had 481 beds and employed 1,458 people.

history

In 1745 the Elisabethinen convent was founded by the Viennese court pharmacist daughter Ernestine von Sternegg (1711–1762), who invested her inheritance in the establishment of the non-profit institute. The three locations Brno , Olomouc and Linz were available, with the lot falling on the Upper Austrian capital. For the future monastery building, a garden plot was chosen that had previously belonged to the Linz Citizens Hospital. On May 17, 1745, the Elisabethinen leased the Kirchstetterhaus in Kapuzinerfeld (Herrenstrasse 35, since 1841 Sisters of Mercy) for four years so that the nuns would have a temporary place to stay until a monastery was completed. On July 3, 1745, Ernstine Sternberg arrived in Linz with the first four sisters by ship. The donor received permission to build a monastery and a church "for the purpose of preparing a refuge for servants who are sick and others, especially those affected by contagious diseases," through a sovereign ordinance. On September 1, 1745, the superior of the Jesuits from nearby Nordico laid the foundation stone for the new Elizabethin convent . Four years later, on April 22, 1749, the new monastery with 24 cells and a hospital ward could already be occupied. The number of sisters grew rapidly, with young women from all crown lands applying, especially many from Tyrol and Vienna. The initial skepticism of the Linzers towards the immigrants soon turned into sympathy through the loving treatment of the sick by the sisters.

In 1756 another piece of land from the citizens' hospital was purchased. The Elisabethinenkirche was built between 1764 and 1768 according to plans by the Viennese master builder Paul Ulrich Trientl, with Bartholomäus Altomonte doing the frescoes in the dome and lantern. The new cemetery order of 1786 determined the closure of the cemeteries of the Elizabethines and Brothers of Mercy. During his visit to Linz in October 1786, however, Emperor Joseph II was satisfied with the work of the two monastic hospitals and spoke out against their dissolution, which District Administrator Joseph Valentin Eybel and District President Heinrich Franz von Rottenhan had repeatedly sought.

In July 1926 the Elisabethinen Hospital was granted public rights, which gave the hospital the right to collect the usual subsistence fees from well-to-do patients. The previous devaluation of money had devalued the old foundations so that the order was no longer able to pay for the maintenance of the hospital and for the food of the sick from its own resources.

In 1957 the first construction outside the monastery started. With the opening of today's A-building on December 1, 1959, the number of beds in the hospital could be increased from 110 to 240. In 1967, construction began on the 13-story B-building, which was occupied from January 1972. The hospital thus had 485 beds in fully air-conditioned rooms. In the years 1991–1997 the C-Building was realized on the last garden plot of the convent. In 2005 the new four-storey D-building was completed on the area of ​​the former medical center. In the same year, the renovation of the B-building was completed, with the newly designed facade being pulled forward by three meters in order to be able to supply all hospital rooms with wet cells. Another construction phase was completed in 2011. The Elisabethinen hospital presented itself as one of the most modern hospitals in the country.

In April 2016 it was announced that the Elisabethinen Hospital will merge with the Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy Linz to form the Linz Ordensklinikum (merger on January 1, 2017).

Departments

  • Acute geriatrics
  • surgery
  • dermatology
  • Internal 1 - hemato-oncology
  • Internal 2 - Cardiology, Angiology & Internal Intensive Care Medicine
  • Internal 3 - kidney and hypertensive diseases, transplant medicine, rheumatology
  • Internal 4 - Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Metabolic & Nutritional Medicine, Endocrinology
  • Palliative care
  • Pulmonology
  • urology

Institutes

  • Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine
  • Hygiene, microbiology & tropical medicine
  • Competence center for molecular biology & genetics
  • Medical and chemical laboratory diagnostics
  • Nuclear Medicine & Endocrinology
  • Physical medicine & rehabilitation
  • radiology

art

On the ground floor there are three works by the Swedish artist Bengt Olof Kilder: the 4.8 meter high and 2 meter wide mosaic Saint Elisabeth from 1976 in front of the main entrance, the 160 × 195 cm mosaic Bird Sermon of St. Francis from 1979 at the end of the corridor and the 25 meter long and up to 2.5 meter wide mosaic Der Sonnengesang from 1979/1980 in the festival room Palmenhaus .

literature

  • Convent of the Elisabethinen Linz-Vienna (ed.), Lydia Breitschopf (editor): ELISABETHINEN LINZ since 1745. Linz 2006, 148 pages.
  • Rudolf Ardelt : History of the convent and hospital of the Elisabethinen in Linz. In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Linz 1978. Linz 1979, pp. 95–146, part 1 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, part 2 (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at, picture panels (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.

Web links

Commons : Elisabethinenkirche und -kloster (Linz)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ardelt 1979, p. 97.
  2. ↑ Ardelt 1979, p. 98.
  3. ↑ a b Ardelt 1979, p. 102.
  4. ↑ a b Ardelt 1979, p. 104.
  5. ↑ a b c Breitschopf 2006, p. 12.
  6. ↑ a b Ardelt 1979, p. 106.
  7. ↑ a b Ardelt 1979, p. 109.
  8. ↑ a b Ardelt 1979, p. 112.
  9. ↑ Ardelt 1979, p. 131.
  10. ↑ Ardelt 1979, p. 130.
  11. ↑ a b Ardelt 1979, p. 139.
  12. ↑ http://ooe.orf.at/news/stories/2766609/ Neue Spitalsehe in Linz, orf.at April 4, 2016, accessed April 4, 2016.