St. Hedwig Hospital
| St. Hedwig Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Sponsorship | St. Hedwig Kliniken Berlin GmbH |
| place | Berlin |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 31 '33 " N , 13 ° 23' 52" E |
| medical director |
Karl Michael Derwahl |
| beds | 377 (2014) |
| doctors | 96 |
| areas of expertise | 7th |
| Affiliation | Alexianer GmbH |
| founding | 1846 |
| Website | www.alexianer-berlin-hedwigkliniken.de |
The Catholic St. Hedwig Hospital (SHK) is located on Große Hamburger Straße in the Spandauer Vorstadt in the Berlin district of Mitte in the district of the same name . The hospital was founded in 1846, making it one of the capital's oldest large hospitals.
history
founding
Because there was no Catholic hospital available for the 20,000 or so Catholics in Berlin after the Reformation and cholera was rampant at the beginning of the 19th century , something urgently needed to be done. Three nuns of the Congregation of Borromäerinnen from Trier and the then dean of the only Catholic church in Berlin at St. Hedwig Church , Anton Brinkmann , therefore, requested in 1844 the Prussian the establishment of a hospital king. After the approval was granted, the hospital opened on September 14, 1846. First, the nuns maintained an infirmary, for which private accommodation had to be rented. The first matron certain Sr. Xaveria Rudler on nursing, the establishment was named St. Hedwig after the municipality Hedwigskathedrale.
In the revolutionary clashes of 1848 there was an affront between the sisters and the insurgents. The superior succeeded in convincing the angry workers of their relief mission, and eventually even the wounded were taken in and cared for.
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The demand for health care and thus the number of beds rose rapidly, so that from the initial three beds in 1844 to 1850, 50 beds were maintained.
The hospital buildings are being built
The construction of our own clinic building was now urgently required. The St. Hedwigs community had acquired an area on Große Hamburger Straße for this purpose and commissioned the Cologne cathedral master builder Vincenz Statz with the construction of a corresponding house, which was built from 1851–1854 under the direction of the master builder Albert Kinel .
As early as 1850, the first patients moved into the not yet completely finished main building, where there were 250 beds with the internal medicine and surgery departments and an orphanage .
Five extensions were added by the turn of the 20th century:
- The front building was built in 1881 according to plans by the architect Walter Kyllmann .
- A children's hospital followed in 1885/1886.
- The Elisabethhaus was built between 1886 and 1889 as a hospital for the elderly based on plans by Max Hasak .
- To the south of the main house, August Menken added a hospital wing in the neo-Gothic style in 1899/1900 .
- An operating theater was opened in the main building in 1900.
- Neo-Gothic and Art Nouveau mix in the Josefshaus by the architect Carl Moritz from 1904/1905 .
In the 20th century until 1945
During the First World War , large parts of the hospital were converted into a military hospital .
In the 1920s, according to plans by the architect Michael Fahglbusch , the first renovation of the main house was carried out, which mainly added another floor.
The hospital complex housed the resigned Chancellor Heinrich Brüning ( Center Party ) from 1932 to 1934 , before he was forced into exile after the Enabling Act was passed. In the years 1942-1945, the doctor helped Erhard Lux and the social worker Marianne Hapig with the support of nuns and employees of the hospital many of deportation threatened Jews.
In 1941 the SHK had to admit patients with typhus . Since this is highly infectious, the magistrate had released the school in Auguststrasse (since the end of the 20th century the “Elementary School at Koppenplatz, Auguststrasse location”) to accommodate and treat these patients.
In the last fighting before the end of the Second World War , larger facade areas of the hospital buildings were damaged, but this did not affect the use of the building.
From the end of the war to 1990
From May 1945 the hospital was the only functioning major hospital in Berlin. As early as 1946, for the centenary, it was renewed, including damage to the facade and damaged windows. The stained glass window by Charles Crodel in St. Anna's Chapel in the front building complex also dates from this period .
Between 1950 and 1960, numerous specialists migrated to other institutions in West Berlin . In the GDR era, a Christian hospital received little support from the state, but the St. Hedwig was able to continue to operate reliably thanks to generous financial help from the Caritas Association of the old Federal Republic and was also technically well equipped.
After 1990
After the political change , St. Hedwig Kliniken Berlin GmbH was founded in 1994 , which took over the hospital on its own. The Hedwigshöhe Hospital in Berlin-Grünau also belongs to the new company .
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary in 1996, a family day was held on the premises. A vow made in 1943 was also redeemed. This provided that St. Agatha to donate a well in case the hospital remains undamaged in the air raids . This fountain was built in the first courtyard in front of the main house and inaugurated in 1996 by Georg Cardinal Sterzinsky . Since around 2007, however, the water has stopped bubbling because the catch basin cracked. However, the hospital gardeners always plant seasonal flowers in both pools.
After 1990, additional buildings were added to the site, the style of which, with the use of clinker bricks and the orientation at the height of the historical buildings, fits well into the existing listed complex. In 1999 the Alexian Brothers took over responsibility for the hospital. Since 2001 there has been a close cooperation with the Psychiatric University Clinic of the Charité and the St. Hedwig Hospital. The former children's clinic has been empty since the 2010s and is being extensively renovated and technically renewed.
architecture
The south-eastern front garden area in Grosse Hamburger Strasse is framed with a restored original wrought-iron railing.
Main house
The core building, later called the “main house” to distinguish it, was a three-storey corner building with a clinker brick facade . The Marienkapelle built on the northeast corner was built at the same time. The main house is kept in a strict neo-Gothic style.
On the east side, a three-axis vestibule with three pointed canopies and crenellated top- level attachments each with a metal cross closes off the building. On the canopies are the sculptures of St. Hedwig and St. Karl Borromeo , made by the sculptor Johannes Janda .
- The hospital chapel is dedicated to the Virgin Mary .
- On the south-east side, several columns are integrated into the facade, between which windows were subsequently let in, framed with colorful glazed strips.
- Additional buildings were built in 1926/1927 based on designs by Wilhelm Fahlbusch . He had added a fourth floor to the core building, in which large rectangular windows were set in an adapted row.
- Renovated, varied floor mosaics with tendril ornaments can be seen in many corridors.
- All stairs have wrought iron banisters.
- There are free-standing support columns in the corridors and on the stairwells.
- A half-sculpture of Saint Agatha stands out on a pillar in the entrance area , standing on a model building that probably shows the planned hospital building from the 1850s. Below that, the short story of Agatha can be read in capital letters in the form of a prayer.
Front building complex
The other additional buildings from the years 1881–1905, placed directly on the street, have four floors and are also faced with clinker bricks. The facades in historicizing forms are now largely overgrown with wild vines.
The oldest part of this expansion work is the southern wing of the front building (numbers 10/11), designed by the architect Walter Kyllmann . It is worth mentioning the first double-winged entrance door, which is decorated with well-preserved carvings. The door has been open permanently since the renovation work in the 1990s, in front of which there is an all-glass door for weather protection.
The Josefshaus (middle wing, numbers 7/9) was built according to plans by Carl Moritz . The windows of the two upper floors are combined with pointed arches .
The northernmost wing of the hospital complex (numbers 5/6), called Elisabethhaus and designed by Max Hasak , has the lettering “St. Hedwig-Hospital ”on the first purpose of this part of the building: it served as a hospital for the elderly . A transverse wing extends to the courtyard area. The street-side facade shows set window pillars and cloverleaf roofing made of sandstone .
House of Vincent de Paul
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This is a four-story new building with a red-brown clinker facade that was opened in 2012. It houses a ward block, the wards for internal medicine and geriatric psychiatry as well as the kidney center and an underground car park for visitors and employees of the hospital. A boulder wall is installed on its gable end , which is regularly used by members of the Berlin Alpine Club.
A glass pedestrian crossing connects this building with the south wing of the main building. The flat roof of the new building is covered with moss and lichen.
Boiler house and other buildings
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In the one-story boiler house, nothing of the original technical systems has survived. There is a cafeteria in it.
House Martha (named after Martha von Bethanien ) on the northern edge of the site is a white plastered new building from the beginning of the 21st century that is used by three service providers.
To the east is the Maria House (named after the Virgin Mary and built during the first extensions at the beginning of the 20th century), which houses the “Alexian Academy for Health and Nursing Berlin” (nursing school).
A plastered house on Große Hamburger Straße, north of the Elisabethhaus, also belongs to the clinic and has, among other things, a delivery entrance. The ground floor area facing the courtyard is designated as the Petrus House and occasionally serves as a prayer room.
As a supplement to the main house, a modern wing was added to the south-west area after 2000. With the row of windows and the clinker bricks, this is based on the existing historical building sections. A solar panel is installed on its roof . The supplementary building completely takes up the dimensions of the north wing in length and width (Haus Monika), so that a courtyard area that is symmetrically bordered on three sides is created. The floor plan of the “new” main house is thus U-shaped.
St. Michael pen
The single building, also from the first construction phases, is named after the Archangel Michael . The hospital's administrative headquarters are located here.
Medical institutions
The hospital has the following clinics (as of 2016): Anesthesia and intensive care medicine , internal medicine , urology , urogynecology, visceral and vascular surgery - minimally invasive surgery and the German Pelvic Floor Center as well as psychiatry , psychotherapy and psychosomatics . It has a total of 377 beds (as of 2014).
The hospital has also been the Charité's academic teaching hospital since 1992 . In 2002, SHK and Charité agreed to work closely together in the field of psychiatry , and the Charité Psychiatric University Clinic was established in the St. Hedwig Hospital .
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Some clinics, building wings or wards also bear the names of saints in addition to the specialist name:
- Main house with
- Front building with
- Clinic director, chief physician psychiatry
- Gerontopsychiatric outpatient department
- Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine and Integrative Medicine
- Sleep Medicine Clinic
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Annen - Chapel :
There is a colored window on the theme of 'angels', which was made by Charles Crodel in 1946 .
- St. Josefshaus (after Joseph of Nazareth ) with the facilities
- Polyclinic with practice for internal medicine / abdominal center
- Psychiatric Institute Outpatient Unit (PIA)
- Psychiatric day clinic
- Depression and Crisis Intervention Center
- Gerontopsychiatric Center
- MVZ (= medical care center) with gynecology and birth center as well as urology
- physical therapy
- Alexius House with
- Management, nursing directorate, patient administration, quality management
- Elisabethhaus (after St. Elisabeth ) with
- Institute for clinical research and development and research GmbH
- Hospital hygiene
- Industrial medicine
- House Martha (after Martha von Bethanien ) with
- Alexianer service GmbH
- Property management and Agamus service GmbH
- House Vinzenz von Paul , opened on September 28, 2012, with the stations
- St. Balthasar (after one of the three kings ): Station 61
- St. Catherine of Siena : Station 62
- St. Martin : Station 63
- Renal center
- House of Karl Borromeo with the stations
- St. Cecilia : Station 39
- St. Felicitas : Station 34
- St. Francis of Assisi : Station 37
- St. Vitus : Station 36
- Some of the nuns of St. Borromeo.
Art on the hospital grounds and in the buildings
- Sculpture of Mary, carved in sandstone by the sculptor J. Janda in 1854 , stands by the colonnade on the south inner wall.
- A roughly 1.60 meter high, roughly hewn granite hot spring stone is located in the middle of a flower rondel in the courtyard of the main building.
Seating groups are separated by hornbeams, in front of such a group is a marble (further) statue of the Virgin Mary. - In the access area to the St. Michael monastery there is a cuboid air stone surrounded by a few flower beds.
- In the vestibule of the main house, there are mosaic pictures made by patients on both wall surfaces on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the death of Charles Crodel. They are based on the “angel window” that is built into the St. Anna chapel.
- Copper bust of a high-ranking Catholic clergyman next to one of the two mosaic panels in the vestibule
- marble Pietà in the main house, this is said to have been in the Marienkapelle first.
- In many stations and in the long corridors, there are reproductions of nature depictions by important painters such as Vincent van Gogh , Paul Cézanne and Claude Monet on the walls .
- Works of art from the Wulsche Collection are exhibited on the ground floor. After his ordination in 1985, Uwe Wulsche (1954–2016) was a hospital chaplain at the St. Hedwig Hospital and left behind a remarkable literary legacy (brevier, 2014).
Green spaces
In the center of the "historic inner courtyard" is a healthy, well-grown ginkgo . Further deciduous and coniferous trees as well as bushes complete the park-like character. The meadow areas with flower beds in them are well cared for. To the north of the Vinzenz von Paul house there is a narrow flower and herb garden with training equipment for arm and leg muscles. It is also called the Garden of the Brromaean Sisters . Numerous benches invite you to linger. The center of the U-shaped courtyard area of the main house is dominated by a 15 meter high plane tree .
Physicians (selection)
A number of well-known medical professionals are or have been employed at this hospital, including
- Josef Ulrich , first urologist at this hospital, 19th century
- Alexander von Lichtenberg (1880–1949)
- Ferdinand Hüdepohl (1902–1980)
- Hermann Kahl , (1917–2003), Medical Director until 1982
Awards
- In April 2008 the SHK was awarded the certificate “Committed to Excellence EFCOM” (for example “committed to excellent software”).
- The clinic emerged as the winner of a patient survey in 2008 that TK had carried out in several Berlin hospitals in five quality criteria (according to a certificate in the foyer of the front building).
- In 2016 the SHK received the seal of “Top Regional Hospital 2016” in Germany's largest hospital comparison.
- Also in 2016, a jury of architects for hospital construction and health care e. V. (AKG) the new building of the "Soteria Berlin - a treatment unit of the Psychiatric University Clinic of the Charité in the St. Hedwig Hospital" and awarded the "Special recognition for outstanding health buildings 2016".
In the neighborhood
In the August street are located, then to the hospital complex primary school on Koppenplatz Berlin, site Auguststraße and building of the former Jewish girls' school , where the individual buildings inside the former school complex is vacant (as of summer 2016).
The Jewish cemetery , the oldest Jewish cemetery in Berlin, is located on Große Hamburger Straße . After desecration in the Nazi era, it is no longer used as a burial place. The sculpture group by Will Lammert (1892–1957) was set up in 1985 and was originally created for the memorial at the former Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. It was the first memorial in Berlin-Mitte to commemorate the Holocaust; there are more on Koppenplatz and Rosenstrasse.
The New Synagogue in Oranienburger Strasse connects to the hospital grounds with its courtyard.
The Sophienkirche and the Hackesche Markt are also nearby.
Transport links
The hospital is easily accessible by public transport in Berlin: several tram lines are nearby, the Hackescher Markt S-Bahn station and the Weinmeisterstraße and Oranienburger Tor underground stations are also just a few hundred meters away.
literature
- Eva Brinkschulte, Thomas Knuth (Ed.): The medical Berlin - A city guide through 300 years of history. Be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8148-0178-0 .
- Hans Junecke: Mosaics and glass paintings of the present . In: Zeitschrift für Kunst , 1950, issue 4, p. 279, illus. P. 282.
- Love overcomes everything. 100 years of St. Hedwig Hospital Berlin. Festschrift . Board of Trustees of the Hospital (ed.). More publishing house, Berlin 1946
- Axel Hinrich Murken, Sylvia Thomas (Hrsg.): Blessed the merciful. 150 years of St. Hedwig Hospital (in Berlin) . Murken-Altrogge publishing house, Herzogenrath 1996, ISBN 3-921801-86-9 . 87 pp., 52 ills.
- Uwe Wulsche: brevier , Berlin, 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-035988-0
Web links
- Hospital homepage
- The defensive nuns of Berlin . Paulinus - Trier diocese sheet
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Joachim Stoltenberg: Berlin crosser between sport and politics . In: Berliner Morgenpost , 2004 (fee required)
- Obituary for Uwe Wulsche (born 1954) - The Uwe with the abysses. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 8, 2016
- Speech by the Governing Mayor Michael Müller on the occasion of the ceremony for the 170th anniversary of the St. Hedwig Hospital, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Handout on the St. Hedwig Hospital; Status: June 2013.
- ^ A b c Ida Luise Krenzlin: Healthy through the clinic . In: Berliner Zeitung , 2./3. February 2019, pp. 18/19, (print edition).
- ↑ a b c d e f g Institute for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.): The architectural and art monuments of the GDR. Capital Berlin-I . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1984, p. 290 ff .
- ↑ a b c d e f Chronicle of the Kh.
- ^ The text on the corner building at Große Hamburger Strasse / Krausnickstrasse.
- ^ Proof of all residents> Kinel, A., master builder and master mason . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1856, I, p. 197 (residing at Monbijouplatz 10).
- ↑ Information about the welfare worker Marianne Hapig. ( Memento from August 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Poster in the main building: Hedwig celebrates her birthday, 150 years!
- ↑ 150 years of tolerance to pass on - St. Hedwig Hospital celebrates its birthday on the weekend / exemplary service to people . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 13, 1996.
- ↑ Information on the House of Vincent von Paul ; accessed on June 2, 2016.
- ↑ Quality report of the St. Hedwig Hospital 2014. ( Memento from January 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.94 MB)
- ↑ Information boards next to the mosaics; As of May 2016.
- ↑ Karl Grünberg: The Uwe with the abben Beenen . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on July 20, 2019]).
- ↑ Health Senator honors a special Berlin doctor. Press release from September 2, 2003
- ↑ St. Hedwig Hospital receives seal of “Top Regional Hospital 2016” , accessed on June 2, 2016.
- ↑ outstanding health buildings 2016; accessed on June 2, 2016.