Passau Infant Home
The Passau Infant Home was an institution in Passau that existed from 1918 to around 1991.
history
In 1918, the city of Passau made the disused epidemic house next to the hospital in Heiliggeistgasse available to the Teutonic Sisters as a “home for an infant home ”. It was a square house in the style of old country hospitals with blue-painted rooms, old tiled stoves and wooden floors. In 1922, the four sisters of the community rebuilt the old house in pioneering work full of privation and turned it into a nursing home for babies. They begged the money for this in Passau and the region. The then Provost Dr. Franz Seraph Ritter von Pichler commented: "If the home only prevents a mother from giving birth to her child, it has served its purpose."
The house was ready to move into in April 1923, and within a few weeks 18 children were hospitalized. Josef Bartschmidt became medical director. In 1925 a "three times larger building" was added to the small house. In 1927 a school for nurses for toddlers and babies was founded here. It later called itself the “Technical School for Child Nursing ”.
In 1949 the house, which until then belonged to the Association for the Care of Small Children and Tuberculosis, became the property of the Third Order. In 1953 there was a further extension and in 1964 a staff building was built in the former hospital garden and a pavilion for the nurses' school. Children from the entire Bavarian Forest, from Plattling, Landau, Pfarrkirchen and even from Upper Austria were treated.
Until the construction of the new Children's Clinic of the Third Order , which was realized in close proximity to the Passau Clinic in 1991, the Sisters of the Third Order in Passau looked after and treated over 40,000 women as inpatients. You performed obstetrics as a midwife . Over 63,000 children were treated as inpatients. In 1956 the number of nurses stationed had grown to 25. 600 to 700 children were born annually in the nursery.
The European library has been located in the building since 1991. The children's ward has been integrated into the Passau Clinic .
See also
literature
- Stefan Rammer: The former baby home is a stepchild. In: Passauer Neue Presse, April 8, 2008, p. 33