St. Joseph-Stift (Dresden)

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St. Joseph-Stift Dresden
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Sponsorship Elisabeth Vinzenz Verbund
place Dresden - Johannstadt
Coordinates 51 ° 2 '50 "  N , 13 ° 45' 44"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '50 "  N , 13 ° 45' 44"  E
management Peter Pfeiffer (Commercial Director)
Reinhard Goerl (Medical Director)
Care level Standard supply
beds 225 (2009)
Employee 600
including doctors 70
areas of expertise 21st
founding 1895
Website www.josephstift-dresden.de

The St. Joseph-Stift is a hospital that has been sponsored by the Elisabeth Vinzenz Association since 2014 , previously the Catholic Charity for Saint Elisabeth , in Dresden - Johannstadt . The hospital is an academic teaching hospital of the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden .

history

Essenius house

Preserved portal of the Essenius house in Dresden's Friedrichstadt

The history of the hospital goes back to the first half of the 18th century. Due to an electoral decree of July 8, 1726, Roman Catholic patients and priests were no longer allowed to visit Protestant hospitals. Therefore, in 1747, Electress Maria Josepha founded a Catholic hospital in Friedrichstrasse in Dresden-Friedrichstadt . For this purpose, the Elector of Saxony, Friedrich August II. Acquired the former Essenius house, which was built in 1738 for the court paymaster August Franz Essenius as the first building completely made of stone in Friedrichstadt, from the possession of Count Brühl and left it to his confessor , the Jesuit father Ludwig Liegeritz (1701–1761). The catholic hospital was located in the back building, the administration of the monastery and a catholic school in the front building.

The “Royal Hospital” initially offered six male and six female patients, regardless of religious affiliation, and care. In the middle of the 19th century the number of beds had increased to 40. Johann Ludwig Choulant , a well-known doctor and medical historian, worked at the Royal Monastery in 1821. The hospital was expanded several times. At times it also extended to the former home of Johann Andreas Schubert . In 1842 a side wing was built, which was primarily used to treat sick farm employees.

In 1858 the shortage of nursing staff became evident. Untrained nurses were hired, but by 1860 only one of them was still working at the monastery. Although at the time after the constitution of 1831 religious settlements and monasteries were forbidden in Saxony, the then Bishop Ludwig Forwerk (1816–1875) brought four sisters from the Elisabethverein zu Neisse in Upper Silesia , later the Gray Sisters of St. Elisabeth , to the hospital. It was the "first [settlement] of the Gray Sisters outside Silesia", who from then on took care of the care in the Royal Sickness Foundation. In 1865 the Gray Sisters, who worked in outpatient nursing, moved to a newly acquired nurses' house at Flemmingstrasse 15. In the following year, in addition to their work at the Royal Hospital, the Gray Sisters were also in the hospitals of the German-Austrian War and for four years later active in the Franco-Prussian War .

After the Wettins abdicated in 1918, the Royal Sickness Foundation remained in existence as a family foundation. Today, after its destruction in the Second World War , only a remnant of the former entrance portal with the inscription "GLORIA" is reminiscent of the Essenius house . This remainder was included in a new building built after 1990. The rear building was built from 1991 to 1992 new and now houses the seat of the diocese - Caritas of the Diocese of Dresden-Meissen . The remaining buildings serve as the St. Michael's Catholic nursing home .

Chapel of St. Michael

St. Michael's Chapel on a steel engraving from around 1900

In 1748 the Sick Foundation was expanded to include the St. Michael Chapel. Between 1848 and 1856 Joseph Lorbacher (1796–1863) was pastor of this church. He was particularly committed to charity. Lorbacher founded the Dresden journeyman's association with Adolph Kolping in 1854 , from which the Kolping Society later emerged, and was the initiator of an orphanage that opened in 1849 in Weißeritzstrasse. Bishop Mauermann named the chapel the Catholic parish church of Friedrichstadt in 1823. Thus a second Catholic parish was created in Dresden after the Catholic Court Church . In 1945 the chapel was destroyed and rebuilt in 1992, modified. Today it is part of the St. Michael nursing home.

Buyer street location

Bishop Ludwig Wahl (1831–1905), the then spiritual advisory council of the Gray Sisters, acquired the so-called “spiritual garden” between Queckbrunnen and Mittelgasse, which later became Kaufferstrasse, around 1880 and had a sister house and a journeyman's house built on it. As President of the Catholic Journeyman's Association, he hoped for a connection between the journeyman's house and sister house, as had been successfully carried out in other German cities at the time. In July 1882 the Gray Sisters moved into the sister house. Two floors of the house were designed as private rooms, while two more floors were used for nursing. The first private clinic of the Gray Sisters in Dresden was created, which was officially approved in 1888.

The clinic's rooms soon became too small, so that a piece of land at Wintergartenstrasse 17 was acquired through donations in 1894.

Wintergartenstrasse location

The building of the St. Joseph-Stift in 1900
Reconstructed hospital building with a view of the modern glass extension

The private clinic moved to its current location at Wintergartenstrasse 17 in 1895. The foundation stone for the St. Josefstift Clinic in Dresden was laid on August 17, 1895. The builders Geyer and Schramm built the new clinic. On September 27, 1895, the hospital was solemnly consecrated in the name of St. Joseph . It was not until 1906 that the hospital was given the legal form of a foundation ( Catholic St. Joseph Foundation in Dresden ), with which further future conflicts with the Saxon constitution, which forbade religious settlements, could be avoided.

At the beginning there were 50 beds and two operating theaters in the clinic, which “could claim the reputation of a modern institute”. 16 Gray Sisters were employed in the monastery. The doctors treated around 700 patients a year; during the First World War , 50 beds were always reserved for war wounded; a soup kitchen provided the poorest members of the community with free lunch even before the First World War.

In 1927 the monastery acquired the neighboring property at Wintergartenstrasse 15 to expand the hospital. In June 1930 the renovation and expansion of the hospital began in two stages. Master builder Lebsanft connected the building on the neighboring property with the hospital and converted both buildings into a modern hospital. The new St. Joseph-Stift was consecrated on February 2, 1932 by Bishop Conrad Gröber . The hospital now had beds for 120 patients, four operating theaters and was "equipped with all medical achievements" for the time, such as electric spas and X-ray machines. During the time of National Socialism “the hospital, in the capacity of a foundation of the Catholic Church [...] had to endure many challenges ...”. In 1932 a chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was consecrated, which was connected to the hospital. It was in contact with the Catholic parish Herz-Jesu and was redesigned after 1945 by the artist Friedrich Press .

During the air raids on Dresden in February 1945, the hospital was destroyed down to the ground floor. Important equipment survived the destruction of the building in the basement without damage, and the operating rooms and the X-ray department were also undamaged, so that the nurses could work in four rooms. In 1946 it was decided to rebuild the hospital, which was able to accept the first 20 new patients the following year. When it was officially reopened in September 1947, 60 beds were available. After the reconstruction was completed in 1964 and an expansion in 1989, the capacity increased to 205 beds, in 1992 it was 234 beds.

Today's structure

Entrance portal of the St. Joseph-Stift

In 2009 the hospital has 225 beds and maintains specialist clinics for:

Since October 2004 the hospital has been an academic teaching hospital of the Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital in Dresden . The hospital takes over the practical training in the clinics for internal medicine, anesthesiology / intensive medicine, surgery as well as gynecology and obstetrics.

The project "Integrated palliative care in Dresden" of the St. Joseph-Stift was awarded the Golden Helix Award 2010 for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Chapels of the St. Joseph-Stift

Chapel with the Madonna of Radibor

The first chapel of the monastery, the Chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, was located in a side wing of the hospital, the Marienheim. It was redesigned by Friedrich Press after 1945 and served as a nurses' and hospital chapel. Since the Marienheim could no longer be renovated, it and the chapel had to be demolished in the course of construction work for a new functional wing.

A new chapel was consecrated in 2003 by the entrance hall on Wintergartenstrasse opposite the reception. The overall concept comes from the Dresden architect Matthias Horst, the interior design from the Dresden artist couple Marion and Uwe Hempel . The chapel room is kept simple, but has stained glass windows with paintings. It serves as a hospital chapel and is open daily. Services are held every Sunday and Thursday.

In 1995 the Chapel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary was inaugurated on the site of the St. Joseph-Stift on Dinglingerstraße . It was created in connection with the construction of the new sister house and today serves as a sister's chapel. Local slate from the Eastern Ore Mountains was used as building material for the chapel . The Dresden artist Reiner Tischendorf created the ambo and tabernacle . In the chapel there is the Madonna from Radibor , a figure of Our Lady with a child made of limewood, which is protected as a cultural monument. There is also a restored winged altar from the 15th century in the chapel.

In the Chapel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary , services and the convent mass of the sisters, the religious order and the hospital are celebrated daily. The MDR broadcasts this fair from time to time. The chapel is also used by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite .

literature

  • Friedrich August Forwerk: History and description of the Königl. Catholic court and parish church in Dresden: in addition to a short history of the Catholic Church in Saxony from the change of religion of Prince Elector Friedrich August I up to our day . Janssen, 1851 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Eduard Machatschek: History of the Kingdom of Saxony . Manz, Jackowitz, 1862 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Karl Christian Hille: The Royal Hospital in Dresden, according to its history, institution and its services. Dresden 1833 Record in the Saxon State Library with a view of the works
  • Siegfried Seifert : Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the hospital 1895–1995 . St. Joseph Stift, Dresden 1995.
  • Joseph pen . In: Folke Stimmel, Reinhardt Eigenwill et al .: Stadtlexikon Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, p. 207.

Web links

Commons : St. Joseph-Stift Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Information on the St. Michael Chapel
  2. ↑ Werner Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil: Encyclopedia Medical History . Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Siegfried Seifert: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the hospital 1895–1995 . St. Joseph Stift, Dresden 1995, p. 30.
  4. ↑ Information on the Essenius house
  5. ↑ Klinik St. Joseph pen Dresden . In: Festschrift of 1928 . Quoted from Siegfried Seifert: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the hospital 1895–1995 . St.-Joseph-Stift, Dresden 1995, pp. 20–21, here p. 20.
  6. ^ Siegfried Seifert: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the hospital 1895–1995 . St. Joseph Stift, Dresden 1995, p. 37.
  7. ↑ a b c G.B .: In the service of St. Elisabeth. Visit to the St. Joseph Hospital in Dresden . In: The Union . March 22, 1952.
  8. ↑ Joseph-Stift . In: Folke Stimmel, Reinhardt Eigenwill et al .: Stadtlexikon Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, p. 207.
  9. ^ Siegfried Seifert: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the hospital 1895–1995 . St. Joseph Stift, Dresden 1995, p. 46.
  10. ↑ The houses in Friedrichstrasse and Kaufferstrasse were also destroyed in 1945.
  11. ↑ Entry St. Joseph-Stift Hospital in oncoMap, German Cancer Society
  12. ↑ Information on training (Academic Teaching Hospital) ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.josephstift-dresden.de
  13. ↑ Golden Helix Award 2010
  14. ^ Day of the Lord Diocese of Dresden-Meißen, issue 48 of November 30, 2003
  15. ↑ Lighting design of the new chapel ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2011 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. (PDF; 573 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neon-mueller.de
  16. ↑ Information on Reiner Tischendorf's work in the chapel
  17. ^ Themed city map of the city of Dresden
  18. ↑ cf. Divine service broadcasts in November [2015] ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by MDR Figaro @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  19. ↑ See Catholic church services in foreign languages ​​in Dresden ( memento of October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 174 kB)