Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital

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Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital
Entrance area of ​​the former hospital

Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital ( PFL for short ) is a former hospital in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) . It was built between 1838 and 1841 and was based on plans from the 1820s. It is named after Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig , appointed in 1823 , who had many classicist buildings built in Oldenburg during his reign . The PFL and the Elisabeth Children's Hospital , together with the midwifery training institute, made Peterstrasse the city's medical center, so to speak. In the meantime, the PFL has developed into one of the city's cultural centers.

history

First municipal hospital

In the 18th century, the hospital system in Central Europe continued to develop. There were also people within the Oldenburg Society who intended to support the care of “poor house-sick people” and founded an “institute” in 1784 (at Waffenplatz). In this first “municipal hospital”, the poor and the sick were housed and fed in former military barracks, but medical treatment was only provided to a limited extent. Over time, the conditions in the barracks became more and more untenable, especially in terms of hygiene and personnel. Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig also recognized that medical care in the city of Oldenburg urgently needed improvement. However, he lacked the financial means to put the idea of ​​founding a hospital into practice himself. However, in 1826 the "Oldenburg Hospital Fund" was founded, the start-up capital of which came from part of the penal and confiscation funds that had been collected during the French occupation.

Start of construction and execution

Only after the Duke's death was the sum sufficient through interest income and with the help of advances (including from the military coffers) to start building the hospital. Grand Duke Paul Friedrich August , the son of Peter Friedrich Ludwig, received the first draft for the new hospital building from building officer Otto Lasius in 1833 , which was followed by more until construction began in 1838 on a site in front of the city's ramparts. The classicist facade, which has similarities with the Mariinsky Hospital in St. Petersburg, built in 1803, and with Wörlitz Palace , was designed by Heinrich Strack , a cousin of Johann Heinrich Strack .

When it opened on October 8, 1841, there were 138 beds in around 30 rooms on two floors, twelve of which were for "separated" patients, an operating room, kitchens, pantries and pantries as well as living rooms for the staff. The morgue and a gate through which one could get to the fenced-in area was located on Wilhelmstrasse. The building's garden was divided into two areas for men and women. A well in the courtyard ensured the water supply. Until the connection to the sewer system in 1901, faeces had to be disposed of in pits or via Heidelberg bins.

Conditions for registration

In the new hospital, according to the provisions of the commission appointed, adult “sick people of all kinds” were admitted, children only in “emergency cases”, “mentally ill people only exceptionally [...] for a very short time”. According to the instructions, the elderly and chronically ill, but also heavily pregnant, were not admitted. For each day of boarding, the sick had to pay a certain amount of money to the hospital fund for medical care, clothing, food and baths. Medicines had to be paid for additionally.

organization structure

The hospital management consisted of the senior physician and the mayor of the city of Oldenburg. Care and nursing was done by nurses .

Further extensions and conversions

Two former lounge pavilions
Former morgue and chapel
Former infection barrack from 1915

19th century

In 1843 - six meters from the north wing - a separate "smallpox house" was built, in which two sickrooms were located. Due to the proliferation of infectious diseases , a special infection department with a veranda was built on the south wing in 1876. Barely twenty years later this was no longer sufficient, so that the smallpox house, which had not been used since 1871, was demolished and in 1896 a larger building, further away from the main house, was opened as an insulating house.

20th century

The top floor was expanded between 1907 and 1910, and a passenger elevator was installed. The number of beds had meanwhile increased to around 200. In place of the morgue, a larger morgue with an autopsy room and chapel was built; In the garden compartments, which are still separated by gender, open lounge pavilions were created.

After the outbreak of World War I, the number of infectious patients increased again, which necessitated the construction of another isolation ward. For this purpose, a barrack was built in 1915 on a plot of land on what was then Wilhelmsstrasse (No. 13). In 1916, after the purchase of the former Baptist chapel at Wilhelmstrasse 17, it was converted into an infection house; In 1917, house No. 9 was bought and redesigned for the same purpose. After the end of the war, infectious diseases such as diphtheria and scarlet fever occurred less and less, so that the isolation house from 1896 could be made available to the dermatological department from 1936. Later on, the Infection House at Wilhelmstrasse 17 served as a blood donation center and institute for laboratory medicine from 1958 onwards.

Departments

Initially, the hospital had the surgical and internal departments. The surgical department was soon divided into general and trauma surgery, followed by oral, maxillofacial, and plastic surgery. The interior comprised the disciplines of gastroenterology , cardiology , nephrology and, from 1982, oncology . The first specialist-led department was that of ophthalmology in 1895, which existed until 1920. A dermatological department was located in the isolation house from 1932 to 1974.

In 1950 the surgical and urological departments moved into the building of the former Kreyenbrück hospital, only the maxillofacial surgery remained with the internal department in the PFL. The vacancy of the premises could u. a. enlarge the intensive care unit of the PFL.

Younger story

Marble sculpture in front of the PFL: "Protection of Life" by Chodja Ahmad Sediq (1979)

During the time of National Socialism, at least 269 forced sterilizations were carried out in the PFL .

In 1967 the building was the backdrop for a five-part documentary film by ZDF about the October Revolution . The PFL was chosen as the location for a street battle because of its similarity to the Tauride Palace in Saint Petersburg . In the same film, the Great House of the Oldenburg State Theater was also used as a location and took on the "role" of the Bolshoi Theater . The director of the film was Wolfgang Schleif .

Until 1984 the hospital housed the internal department of the Oldenburg City Clinics (today Oldenburg Clinic ), then this too moved from the old rooms to the new Kreyenbrück building. After a few years of vacancy, the world's first hospital museum was opened in “Peter” in 1992, but it was closed again after a short time.

Todays use

Today the main building of the PFL houses the Oldenburg City Library (since 1992), the city's cultural office with the nickname “ Bridge of Nations ” and a cultural center where events such as KIBUM , the “Oldenburg Children's and Youth Book Fair” take place. On the top floor of the north wing has been the Umwelthaus Oldenburg since 1994, in which the ADFC , the BUND and the “Oldenburg Coffee” project maintain information stores and offices and most of the Oldenburg nature and environmental protection associations hold meetings and events. The extension, which contained the first infection department, now houses the music school of the city of Oldenburg. The former infection house and institute for laboratory medicine Leo-Trepp-Straße 17 is today the synagogue of the Jewish community in Oldenburg . For several years there was a private puppet theater in the insulating barracks at Leo-Trepp-Straße 13; Today there is the Wilhelm13 - Music and Literature House Oldenburg . The name is derived from Wilhelmstrasse , which today's Leo-Trepp-Strasse carried until 2013.

Web links

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 34 "  N , 8 ° 12 ′ 27"  E

literature

  • Michael W. Brandt: Dedicated to the well-being of Oldenburg - The Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital as a social institution and state representative building . In: Jörgen Welp (Red.): Dedicated to the well-being of Oldenburg: Aspects of the cultural and social work of the House of Oldenburg, 1773–1918 (= publications of the Oldenburg landscape . Vol. 9). Published by the Oldenburg landscape, Isensee, Oldenburg 2004, ISBN 3-89995-142-5 , p. 75 ff.
  • Peter Tornow: 150 years of the Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital . Holzberg, Oldenburg 1991, ISBN 3-87358-367-4 .
  • Neumann-Gäßler, Sybille: Oldenburg in old views (Volume 2). Zaltbommel 1997.
  • M. Roth, P. Tornow: Essays on the medical history of the city of Oldenburg. Isensee, Oldenburg 1999 ISBN 3-89598-539-2
  • City of Oldenburg, Department of Culture (ed.): History of the City of Oldenburg (Volume 2: 1830-1995). Oldenburg 1996.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ City of Oldenburg, Department of Culture (ed.): History of the City of Oldenburg (Volume 2: 1830–1995), Oldenburg 1996, p. 64.
  2. ↑ City of Oldenburg, Department of Culture (ed.): History of the City of Oldenburg (Volume 2: 1830–1995), Oldenburg 1996, p. 68.
  3. ^ Journal of and for Germany . Volume 2, 1785, pp. 213–215
  4. ^ A b Leo Brat, Peter Tornow: The history of the Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital. Oldenburg 1984, p. 12
  5. ^ A b Leo Brat, Peter Tornow: The history of the Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital. Oldenburg 1984, p. 14
  6. ^ Leo Brat, Peter Tornow: The history of the Peter Friedrich Ludwigs Hospital. Oldenburg 1984, pp. 16-18
  7. ↑ P. Tornow: The history of the Oldenburg Clinic since 1784. Isensee, Oldenburg 2009, p. 20
  8. ↑ Historical exhibition at the Klinikum Oldenburg , accessed on June 19, 2011
  9. ↑ Ekkehard Seeber: Kulturpolitik der Stadt Oldenburg from 1976 to 2001 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Oldenburg Yearbook . Vol. 102. 2002, p. 268 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digital.lb-oldenburg.de
  10. ↑ www.umwelthaus-oldenburg.de
  11. ^ Member associations of the Umwelthaus Oldenburg
  12. ↑ Event calendar of the Umwelthaus Oldenburg
  13. ↑ www.wilhelm13.de , accessed on June 1, 2011