Loew Sanatorium
The Sanatorium Löw (also Loew ) was a private hospital in Vienna that existed from 1859 to 1939.
history
The sanatorium, initially located in the 2nd district , was founded by the doctor Heinrich Loew ( Pressburg March 31, 1813 - April 17, 1873 Vienna). In 1874 it was enlarged by his son Anton Loew (Pressburg October 20, 1847 - September 14, 1907 Vienna), also a doctor, and moved to Mariannengasse 20 in the 9th district in 1882 , where the first private sanatorium for surgically treated diseases was built.
After several extensions, the sanatorium comprised 90 beds and numerous subordinate areas such as a laboratory for bacteriological and histological examinations and a gym. At the beginning of the 20th century, several adjacent houses were acquired and integrated into the sanatorium. A gynecological department (with two operating theaters) was also established and living quarters for nurses were created. The sanatorium thus comprised a total of 11,900 m², of which 4,550 m² were built up, making it the largest private hospital in Vienna.
When Anton Löw died in 1907, his daughter Gertrud Eisler von Terramare , who was named Gerta Felsöványi de Felsö-Vány from 1912, became the main shareholder of the sanatorium. It was painted by Gustav Klimt in 1902 on behalf of her father ; the painting, its history and the litigation related to it have been extensively researched. Gertrud Löw had to give up the sanatorium in 1938 and leave Austria in 1939 because of the persecution of Jews by the National Socialists . In 1939 the company was liquidated and the main building was taken over by the German Reich. From 1960, departments of the Austrian Federal Railways were housed in the building, and for a long time also the general management.
Felix Czeike named the sanatorium as the place of death of Alexander Girardi , Emil Hertzka , Wilhelm Hesch , Josef Kainz , Rudolf Kaufmann, Ludwig Koch, Josef Loschmidt , Gustav Mahler , Hansi in 1997 in his Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 5, p. 41/42 Niese (on the transport there), August Pettenkofen and Moritz Szeps .
literature
- Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Vienna, II. To IX. and XX. District. Vienna 1993, p. 419 f.
- Adolf Wolf: Alsergrund Chronicle. From Roman times to the end of the monarchy . self-published in Vienna 1981. p. 175
- Martin Paul et al .: Technical guide through Vienna , Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects. Verlag Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna 1910 p. 396 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '58.8 " N , 16 ° 20' 50.7" E