City Hospital Szczecin

The Szczecin City Hospital was the main hospital in the city of Szczecin from 1879 to 1945 .

history

In 1870, the Szczecin city administration commissioned the Berlin architectural office of Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden, which was particularly renowned for hospital construction, to plan a new hospital. On a hill in the Pommerensdorf district on the west bank of the Oder , the facility was built according to your designs from 1877. At the same time, the Wiesbaden Municipal Hospital was built, also based on a design by Gropius and Schmieden ; the Berlin Friedrichshain Hospital was the model for both houses .

On a 46,550 m² site, the hospital , which was built using the pavilion system , comprised 20 individual buildings, including one for the mentally ill and a pavilion for the infectious. The ancillary facilities included stables, coach house and workshops. The construction costs amounted to 961,000 marks . On January 2, 1879, the house with 353 beds went into operation. It was considered exemplary. The first medical director was the surgeon Georg Wegner (1843–1917), a student of Rudolf Virchow and Bernhard von Langenbeck . In 1919 a urological department was opened. With the growing population of Szczecin, the house was expanded and modernized several times. In 1937 it had 1004 beds. In both world wars, hospitals were housed in the building. The hospital was first hit by bombs in April 1943 and was partially destroyed by numerous other British air raids on Szczecin .

Leading doctors included Wilhelm Schultze and Karl Vogeler ( surgery ), Karl August Schuchardt ( gynecology ) and Karl Eimer ( internal medicine ). Pomerania's urology pioneer was Felix Hagen (1880–1962). Alfred Gottschalk headed the laboratory.

The People's Republic of Poland established the Pomeranian Medical University of Szczecin in 1948 .

See also

• History of the city of Szczecin # Nazi era and World War II

literature

• Oleg Peters: Heino Schmieden. Life and work of the architect and builder 1835–1913. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86732-169-3 , p. 279 f. ( limited preview of Google Books )

Web links

• Reproduction of a contemporary postcard on the website of the Herder Institute Marburg
• two sheets of the preliminary draft by the architect Richard Schachner for an infection house with six hospital wards for the expansion of the Stettin City Hospital (1928/1929) at the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich :
  • View of the south side, 1: 500 (January 1928)
  • Ground floor plan, 1/200 (January 1929)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thaddeus Zajaczkowski , Elisabeth Wojewski-Zajaczkowski: Development of the City Hospital in Szczecin. Beginnings of urology in Szczecin. In: Der Urologe , 44th year 2005, pp. 73–80 (1st part) / 45th year 2006, pp. 1006-1016 (2nd part).
2. ↑ Oleg Peters: Heino Schmieden ... (see literature )
3. ↑ Thaddeus Zajaczkowski, Elisabeth Wojewska-Zajaczkowska: Beginning of urology in Szczecin. Felix Hagen (1880-1962), the first head of the Department of Urology in Stettin. In: Annales Academiae Medicae Stetinensis , 56th year 2010, No. 2, pp. 137–144. ( PMID 21469292 )