Orthopedic University Clinic Friedrichsheim

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The Orthopedic University Clinic Friedrichsheim in Frankfurt am Main is a specialist clinic for diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system . Friedrichsheim emerged from the "Association for Cripple Care" founded in 1909.

history

Association for Cripple Welfare

In 1906, a nationwide official census of physically disabled people, who were then referred to as cripples , showed supply deficits. This was followed by numerous activities in the care of the cripple. This included the establishment of the "Association for Cripple Welfare for the Wiesbaden-Frankfurt / Main District" on March 21, 1909 in Wiesbaden . From then on, the association supported affected people not only with surgical-orthopedic help, but also with school lessons and technical training and served as a home. An important supporter of the association was Elisabeth König, who donated six acres of land in Wiesbaden as well as 200,000 marks for the establishment of an institution for the care of cripples.

Creation of the Friedrichsheim

The association promoted the “Friedrichsheim” project, named in honor of the deceased husband of the founder, Friedrich König. The plans to build an institution on the donated property in the Wiesbaden villa district came to a halt. The residents feared that the institution would devalue their neighborhood. A property swap should solve the problem. In 1912, the city of Frankfurt made a property on Schleusenweg - today Marienburger Straße - available to the association. The site was far from the city center, but close to the new city hospital. The “Friedrichsheim” clinic began its work on October 17, 1914, initially as a military reserve hospital with almost 100 beds. At the same time, the newly founded University of Frankfurt am Main awarded the "Friedrichsheim" the title of "Orthopedic University Clinic" in order to use the facility itself from now on. Karl Ludloff became the first medical director .

Friedrichsheim from 1918 to 1944

Gettenbach hunting lodge

Since December 1918, the Friedrichsheim was no longer used as a reserve hospital. Due to the association's lack of financial resources and the coal shortage, the existence of the clinic was threatened. Subsidies from the city of Frankfurt could not improve the situation significantly either. Only the support of the Ministry of Welfare was able to ensure the continued existence of the association and clinic. In the years that followed, the clinic was expanded and gained international renown through scientific work. As a result, Friedrichsheim initially survived National Socialist rule relatively unscathed . On October 1, 1930, Georg Hohmann was appointed to the chair of orthopedics and at the same time medical director, which he remained until 1946. The air raids on Frankfurt am Main during World War II destroyed large parts of the clinic. As early as 1944, part of the clinic (150 beds) was relocated to the former hunting lodge of the Counts of Ysenburg and Büdingen in Meerholz in Gettenbach in the Büdinger Forest ; only in 1954 was this part of the clinic moved back to Frankfurt am Main.

Friedrichsheim from 1945 to 1972

After the end of the Second World War, the reconstruction of the Friedrichsheim began in 1947, so that parts of the clinical operations could be resumed at the end of 1948. Eduard Güntz has been running the clinic since 1951. In 1952, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University gave funds to expand and equip the lecture hall. This made the clinic again a place for teaching and research. The reconstruction of Friedrichsheim was completed in the same year. Extensions to the clinic began as early as 1955. In the 1960s, the specialization of the clinic required the creation of specialist areas. From 1969 to 1991 Wolfgang Heipertz was full professor for orthopedics and medical director of the clinic.

Friedrichsheim from 1973 until today

At the beginning of the 1970s it became clear that the clinic's legal form as a registered association was no longer up to date. That is why the Friedrichsheim Association decided in December 1973 to transfer its work to a “Friedrichsheim Foundation”. The Hessian Ministry of the Interior approved the conversion in November 1974. The association itself remained as the foundation's support association . In 1981 a new functional wing was put into operation, in the summer of 1989 a new therapy building. From the beginning of 1992 until his retirement in March 2007, Ludwig Zichner headed the clinic. On January 1, 2007, the clinic and the school for physiotherapy with all facilities, equipment and staff were transferred from the foundation to the Orthopädische Universitätsklinik Friedrichsheim gGmbH . Andrea Meurer has been Medical Director since March 2009. On June 28, 2014, the clinic celebrated its centenary with an academic ceremony.

Orthopedics Museum

The only orthopedic museum in Germany was founded in 1959 at the suggestion of Georg Hohmann in Würzburg . From 1930 to 1946 Hohmann was head of the Orthopedic University Clinic in Friedrichsheim. Due to lack of space, the museum moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1998, where the Friedrichsheim Foundation made spacious rooms available. It bears the name "German Orthopedic History and Research Museum" and is open to the public. Its task is to present clinical pictures and therapy concepts in the course of time and to preserve historically relevant exhibits.

From the perspective of paleopathology , for example, the collection presents diseases that appeared thousands of years ago, such as osteoporosis , bone tuberculosis , rickets and dislocations . Early modern images show how orthopedic surgeons healed broken bones and adjusted shoulders. You can also see which misalignments on the spine, hips, legs and feet could be more and more fully or partially compensated at the beginning of the 20th century.

It is also recognized how medicine and mechanics have worked together for a long time and the progress that can be made with gymnastics , light therapy , therapeutic gymnastics and physiotherapy . The exhibits include an extensive collection of corsets and prostheses . After all , the museum shows what endoprosthetics can do by replacing artificial joints.

A specialist library is available to those interested.

Departments

  • Special orthopedics, orthopedic surgery and rheumatic orthopedics: focus on endoprosthetics / revision endoprosthetics, pediatric orthopedics, tumor orthopedics, rheumatoid orthopedics, sports medicine, foot surgery, ligament reconstruction / plastics, reconstructive joint surgery, septic bone surgery, arthroscopic operations (joint reflections). Friedrichsheim has had a gait laboratory for analyzing motion sequences since 2010.
  • Spinal orthopedics: focus on spinal surgery, pain therapy, multimodal pain therapy, pain management
  • Reconstructive trauma, hand and reconstructive surgery
  • Anaesthesiology, intensive care and pain medicine
  • Radiology and Interventional Radiology
  • Rheumatological day clinic

literature

  • Hans-Otto Schembs: 75 years of the Orthopedic University Clinic Friedrichsheim in Frankfurt am Main . Friedrichsheim Foundation Frankfurt am Main 1989.
  • Annette Heller: From the Krüppelheim to the university clinic . Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery Announcements and News June 2014, pp. 283–284.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans-Otto Schembs: 75 years of the Orthopedic University Clinic Friedrichsheim in Frankfurt am Main. Friedrichsheim Foundation, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
  2. ↑ www.orthopaedische-uniklinik.de Clinic history
  3. ↑ www.orthopaedische-uniklinik.de , Clinic History
  4. ↑ From the Krüppelanstalt to the Orthopedic University Clinic , in: FAZ from June 28, 2014, p. 39.
  5. ↑ www.orthopaedie-museum.de Orthopädie Museum
  6. ↑ Eckart Roloff , Karin Henke-Wendt: Medicine plus mechanics with hand and foot (The German Orthopedic History and Research Museum). In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. Volume 2, Southern Germany. Verlag S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-7776-2511-9 , pp. 185-187.
  7. ↑ a b Orthopedic University Clinic Friedrichsheim: Service areas ( Memento of the original dated December 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orthopaedische-uniklinik.de
  8. ↑ A rarity in Germany , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 7, 2009.
  9. ↑ On upright gait , Frankfurter Rundschau, March 13, 2010.

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 34 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 55.6"  E