War Hospital (Wiener Neustadt)
The war hospital in Wiener Neustadt was a hospital settlement at the time of the First World War . It was in 1915 at the Pottendorferstraße built and consisted of several wooden barracks , including a church barracks from which the later church Heart of Mary emerged.
history
Wiener Neustadt was during the war years 1914-1918 garrison town and center of officer training with dense military infrastructure. Many soldiers were trained and sent to the front . Wounded soldiers had to receive medical care. To this end, several hospitals were built, of which the war hospital in the north of the city was the most important. 1650 people could be accommodated here. Rails were laid in the barracks so that specially made roll-away beds could be pushed onto them by hand to transport the soldiers. Soldiers who died in the war hospital were buried in the city cemetery .
Todays situation
Today only the street Am Kriegsspital indicates the former hospital town. The area is built on with the Döttelbachsiedlung / Döttelbacher Siedlung, which belongs to the Josefstadt district. The designation of the apartments there as “in the war hospital” or the area itself as “war hospital” is still common.
Web links
- Kriegsspital on the website of contemporary history Wiener Neustadt
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b War Hospital in the First World War on the Contemporary History Wiener Neustadt website. Retrieved February 8, 2016 .
- ^ Period of the First World War on the contemporary history of Wiener Neustadt website. Retrieved February 8, 2016 .
- ^ Article on the website of the Niederösterreichische Nachrichten. Retrieved February 8, 2016 .
- ↑ Article on the website of the newspaper Today. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 52.9 " N , 16 ° 15 ′ 47.3" E