University Hospital Aachen

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RWTH Aachen University Hospital
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place Aachen
state North Rhine-WestphaliaNorth Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates 50 ° 46 '35 "  N , 6 ° 2' 37"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '35 "  N , 6 ° 2' 37"  E
Chairman of the Board and Medical Director Thomas H. Ittel
beds 1400
Employee 7000 (2018)
Affiliation RWTH Aachen
founding 1966
Website www.ukaachen.de
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The University Clinic RWTH Aachen (University Clinic Aachen (AöR)) is the University Clinic of the RWTH Aachen . It is located in one of the largest hospital buildings in Europe in the west of Aachen in the Laurensberg district , in the immediate vicinity of Vaals in the Netherlands . Around 7,000 employees in 36 specialist clinics and 25 institutes (including six with health care tasks) treated a total of around 50,000 inpatients and 200,000 outpatients in 2017. In 2008, personnel expenses amounted to around 239.6 million euros and material costs to 93.6 million euros.

history

Maria-Hilf-Hospital

Former Maria-Hilf-Hospital

The beginnings of today's university clinic go back to the 14th century. At that time there was the Elisabeth Hospital for sick women, founded in 1336 on what was then Radermarkt , today's Münsterplatz in Aachen, known at the time as the Städtisches Armenspital Gasthaus , which was taken over in 1622 by Apollonia Radermecher and her newly founded Elisabethinnenorden . For the male patients was in 1769 a few 100 meters in the Jakobstraße using a foundation of Anna Maria von Wespien, wife of the former mayor of Aachen Empire John of Wespien , the Marian hospital built. Initially as a supplement and successor to these two hospitals, the Maria-Hilf-Hospital with 260 beds and a large hospital garden , the later Kurpark Aachen , was built as a denominational general hospital on Monheimsallee in Aachen according to plans by Friedrich Joseph Ark at the beginning of the 1850s . Since the city administration wanted to free this space for the construction of the New Kurhaus at the beginning of the 20th century, a new urban hospital was built between 1902 and 1905 according to plans by city architect Joseph Laurent , initially with an internal and a surgical department on Goethestrasse. As a result, the old Maria-Hilf-Hospital was demolished in 1914 and the Elisabethinen order, which had been in charge of the new facility since the early years, was taken over.

City hospitals Aachen

Former Municipal Elisabeth Hospital Aachen, Goethestrasse, today the seat of the Missio

In the twenties, the departments of gynecology , dermatology , ear, nose and throat medicine and prosthesis were set up on the new site and the Aachen ophthalmological institute was incorporated. In 1923 the hospital was named Städtisches Elisabeth-Krankenhaus Aachen in memory of the nucleus at Aachener Münsterplatz and the medal . Since there was no longer enough space for other departments, a new building was built between 1932 and 1934 for the newly established orthopedic department under Friedrich Pauwels , which was named Albert-Servais-Haus , and in 1941 for the children's clinic , which was made up of the medical department Clinic for Internal Medicine by Ludwig Beltz .

In the time of National Socialism , the hospitals, as a municipal facility, were pressured into medical manipulation by the politically responsible and the responsible medical officers. After the law for the prevention of genetically ill offspring was passed in 1934, it was primarily the chief surgeon Max Krabbel and the radiologist Theodor Möhlmann who were authorized to carry out forced sterilization and other interventions. Above all Krabbel, a vehement advocate of eugenics , recorded his considerable “annual balance sheet” and then published about the most sensible techniques, the procedures and the side effects of these operations, which were assigned to him by the genetic health court. Only a few chief physicians such as Ludwig Beltz were able to circumvent these requirements, although they had to accept considerable disadvantages. Other doctors who were said to have an opportunistic proximity to the political regime were the dermatologist Friedrich Boosfeld and the ophthalmologist Peter Geller.

During the Second World War , the buildings of the municipal hospitals were badly damaged and by 1950 most of them were rebuilt - mostly in a pavilion style. One of the first newly established departments was the urology department in 1947 under the direction of Karl Heusch . The children's clinic was last given a spacious new building between 1959 and 1961.

As a result of the shortage of doctors after the war, the municipal hospitals were also forced to hire new or re-employed doctors who had gone through a denazification process, but whose biographies were dubiously close to National Socialism. This mainly affected the medical professionals employed in leading positions, such as urologist Karl Heusch, surgeon Wilhelm Klostermeyer, ophthalmologist Alfred Jäger , gynecologist Georg Effkemann, pathologist Martin Staemmler and internists Ferdinand Hoff and Arthur Slauck .

University Hospital Aachen

Former logo

After the Senate of RWTH Aachen University had decided on May 20, 1961 to apply to the responsible Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia to incorporate the city hospitals into RWTH Aachen University , this application was granted on April 28, 1964. Finally, on January 1, 1966, the municipal hospitals were completely transferred to the clinical institutions of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule and thus owned by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The grounds of the old clinic on Goethestrasse in Aachen were spacious, but most of the departments were still housed in pavilions. The limited space and the rapidly increasing number of patients required a new building in the Melaten district, which was designed by the Aachen architects Weber, Brand & Partner in collaboration with the hospital construction specialist Benno Schachner and started in 1971.

Instead of the state building administration, the North Rhine-Westphalian University Construction and Financing Company (HFG) represented the client. In March 1970, the HFG commissioned Neue Heimat Städtebau GmbH to build the university clinic. Synchronous planning, a lack of coordination and cooperation led to a cost explosion and in 1977 to the dissolution and dissolution of the HFG. A special construction management was employed.

After moving in gradually from 1984, the inauguration took place on March 21, 1985. Since then, teaching, research and health care have been accommodated in one building. The total construction costs of the university clinic with 1,600 beds and 52 operating theaters amounted to 2.06 billion DM (approx. 1.05 billion euros); in 1971, 571 million DM (approx. 292 million euros) had been assumed. The pavilions of the old clinic were torn down, the basement rooms filled in and a park built.

At the beginning of 1984 the Federal Audit Office accused the state government of failing to manage and control the construction project. So this demanded a stop of the federal participation over the agreed 1.7 billion DM and the examination of possible recourse claims against the country. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia in turn raised allegations against the developer for inadequate planning and set up an investigative commission from the state parliament.

Since January 1, 2001, the RWTH Aachen University Clinic has been operating as an institution under public law - like all university clinics in North Rhine-Westphalia. This was intended to separate the hospital business from research and teaching that belong to the faculty.

In 2013, the RWTH Aachen University Clinic was home to 35 specialist clinics, 5 interdisciplinary units and 28 institutes. As of June 2016, the Medical Faculty has 101 professorships and heads of research and teaching areas; it has around 2500 students.

In March 2015, the RWTH Aachen University Hospital celebrated its 30th anniversary with a ceremony. The Medical Faculty of RWTH Aachen University, founded in 1966, celebrated its 50th anniversary in June 2016.

With effect from January 1, 2020, the University Clinic took over the Franziskushospital Aachen , which from now on operates under the name "Uniklinik RWTH Aachen - Franziskus". As a result, this was fundamentally restructured and removed from the hospital emergency plan.

building

Front view
foyer

The main building, a reinforced concrete skeleton construction, is 257 m long and 134 m wide and is accessed vertically through 24 stairwells 54 m high. The stairwell shafts protrude 9 m from the eight-story building sections. The structure can be extended on all sides and for the most part has a deep foundation with bored piles. The net usable area is 130,000 m². The neighboring two-storey supply building has floor plan dimensions of 95 m long and 131 m wide with a height of 12 m. On September 1, 1971, the structural work began, which was completed at the end of 1973. The stairwell cores were first made with in-situ concrete and sliding formwork, the remaining components were prefabricated parts . At times it was the largest construction site in Europe.

The look of the building is unusual both externally and internally. The color scheme of floor coverings, doors and wall elements is almost entirely in shades of green, silver and yellow, and the supply media (heating, ventilation, etc.) on the ceilings are mostly unclad.

Due to the visible building technology, in connection with the likewise visible structure of a reinforced concrete skeleton construction, the University Hospital RWTH Aachen is seen as a representative of the so-called "technical modernity", as is the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris . Because of its architectural design principle of repeating uniform building structures, the building can also be classified in the context of structuralism . The university clinic has been a listed building since the end of November 2008 as "the most important testimony to high-tech architecture in Germany" . As a hospital and medical faculty, the building has to be constantly adapted to the technical requirements. In particular, the striking ventilation pipes on the elevator shafts are threatened with dismantling if the air conditioning system is dismantled. In addition, the windows of the previously fully air-conditioned building would have to be replaced. Approx. 35% of the approximately 6000 rooms have no windows, especially the basement, technical or storage rooms. The carpets in the interior are custom-made made of woven velor.

Between 2007 and 2012, a fundamental renovation and restructuring of the care area (floors 7-9) of the two western building teeth (corridors 1 and 2 and corridors 19 and 20) was carried out. After two construction phases, the construction work was completed at the end of 2012 without starting the other four planned construction phases (each in a southern direction).

Helipad at dusk

On May 5, 2010, the construction of a new helipad began directly in front of the main building. From the landing platform at a height of around 15 meters, patients can be transported directly to the hospital's emergency room via an inclined elevator without the aid of secondary transport. The new landing site was inaugurated on July 9, 2011 as part of an open day , during which visitors could also enter the platform. Regular flight operations started on August 3, 2011 in the morning hours with a patient transport by Christoph 3 .

On May 24, 2016, the Minister for Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia announced at a joint press conference with the RWTH Aachen University Hospital that the state will invest around 418 million euros in twelve construction and renovation projects by 2020.

In addition to the main building, the administration buildings, the patient guest house and the staff dormitory, there are other buildings belonging to the university clinic, including:

  • The Großer Neuenhof estate in Neuenhofer Weg. It was rebuilt in several sections and now houses the clinic for psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy for children and adolescents . In the meantime, a new building is being built on the opposite side of the street to expand the treatment capacities.
  • The institute buildings in Wendlingweg, which were built before the main building was built and which are to be replaced by a new building in the next few years.
  • In the north-eastern part of the clinic premises, new buildings were built on Schneebergweg for the company daycare center, the social pediatric center of the clinic for pediatric and adolescent medicine, as well as office space for the staff council. The building previously used for this purpose, the former special construction management, was demolished and the uses were housed in container structures.
  • The former Medical Technical Center (MTZ) of the Aachen Society for Innovation and Technology Transfer (AGIT) in Pauwelsstrasse has now been completely taken over by the University Clinic, as has Gut Melaten in Schneebergweg.

Clinics

Centers (selection)

The University Hospital currently has 24 central departments and interdisciplinary centers, some of which have a special or supraregional significance. These include:

Institutes (selection)

In accordance with its mandate as a university hospital, numerous institutes are connected to the facility, of which the institutes for occupational and social medicine , human genetics , medical microbiology , pathology and neuropathology deal with the tasks of patient care. This also includes the chair for geriatric medicine , which is based at the University Geriatric Center of the Franziskushospital Aachen .

The remaining 21 institutes deal with the fields of anatomy and biochemistry , biomedical technology and molecular medicine as well as immunology , pharmacology , toxicology , psychology and physiology , but also with medical history , medical informatics and statistics, and laboratory animal science .

Well-known physicians

  • Katrin Amunts (* 1962), specialist in anatomy and from 2004 to 2013 professor for structural-functional brain mapping at the Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Ludwig Beltz (1882–1944), internist and from 1924 to 1944 director of the medical clinic of the Aachen city hospitals
  • Ulrike Brandenburg (1954–2010), specialist in psychotherapeutic medicine and from 1990 to 2010 head of the sexology outpatient clinic at the Clinic for Psychosomatics and Psychotherapeutic Medicine
  • Tim Brümmendorf (* 1966), Medical Director of the Clinic for Hematology and Oncology
  • Sven Effert (1922–2000), cardiologist and professor and director of the Medical Clinic I.
  • Hugo Eickhoff (1905–1972), specialist in otorhinolaryngology and from 1955 to 1972 chief physician at the ENT clinic
  • Walter Gahlen (1908–1994), dermatologist and venereologist and from 1966 to 1976 full professor and medical director of the dermatology clinic
  • Tamme Goecke (* 1966), gynecologist and from 2012 to 2017 head of prenatal diagnostics and the perinatal center (Level I) at the women's clinic
  • Adolf Greifenstein (1900–1955), specialist in otorhinolaryngology and from 1952 to 1955 chief physician at the ENT clinic
  • Rolf W. Günther (* 1943), specialist in radiology and from 1984 to 2010 director of the clinic for radiological diagnostics
  • Axel Heidenreich (* 1964), urologist and director of the Urology Clinic from 2008 to 2015
  • Karl Heusch (1894–1986), urologist and founder and from 1947 to 1963 chief physician of the urological clinic of the Aachen city hospitals
  • Ferdinand Hoff (1896–1988), internist and from 1948 to 1951 director of the medical clinic of the Aachen city hospitals
  • Anton Hopf (1910–1994), orthopedist and from 1960 to 1977 full professor and director of the orthopedic clinic
  • Frank Hölzle (* 1968), full professor for oral and maxillofacial surgery since 2011
  • Alfred Jäger (1904–1988), specialist in ophthalmology and from 1955 to 1973 chief physician at the eye clinic
  • Hugo Jung (1928–2017), gynecologist and from 1967 to 1993 director of the gynecology and obstetrics department
  • Philipp Keller (1891–1973), dermatologist and director of the skin clinic at the Aachen City Hospitals
  • Ruth Knüchel-Clarke (* 1959), pathologist and since 2003 director of the Institute for Pathology
  • Max Krabbel (1887–1961), surgeon and from 1932 to 1945 chief physician at the surgical clinic of the Aachen city hospitals
  • Christiane Kuhl (* 1966), radiologist and director of the Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
  • Mosaad Megahed (* 1956), specialist in skin and venereal diseases and since 2006 professor and senior physician at the Department of Dermatology and Allergology
  • Ivo Meinhold-Heerlein (* 1969), Deputy Director of the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics until 2018
  • Axel Hinrich Murken (* 1937), medical historian and from 2003 until retirement professor and director of the Institute for the History of Medicine and Hospitals
  • Fritz Uwe Niethard (* 1945), orthopedist and director of the Orthopedic Clinic from 1996 to 2010
  • Norbert Pallua (* 1952), surgeon and from 1997 to 2017 Director of the Clinic for Plastic Surgery, Hand and Burn Surgery
  • Hans-Christoph Pape (* 1962), surgeon and director of the Clinic for Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery from 2009 to 2016
  • Friedrich Pauwels (1885–1980), orthopedist and founder and from 1934 to 1960 chief physician of the orthopedic clinic at the municipal hospitals
  • Andreas Ploeger (1926–2018), psychiatrist and from 1976 to 1993 director of the Clinic for Medical Psychology
  • Klaus Poeck (1926–2006), neurologist and co-founder and director of the neurological clinic from 1961 until retirement
  • Lukas Radbruch (* 1959), specialist in anesthesia and palliative medicine and founder from 2003 to 2010 director of the clinic for palliative medicine
  • Martin Reifferscheid (1917–1993), surgeon and professor, and from 1966 to 1982 director of the surgical clinic
  • Henning Saß (* 1944), psychiatrist and from 1990 to 2000 director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  • Georg Schlöndorff (1931–2011), specialist in otorhinolaryngology and from 1973 to 1996 chief physician at the ENT clinic
  • Egon Schmitz-Cliever (1913–1975), first radiologist from 1938 to 1975 and later honorary professor for the history of medicine
  • Frank Schneider (* 1958) psychiatrist and since 2003 director of the Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Holger Schmid-Schönbein (1937–2017), from 1974 to 2003 director of the Institute for Physiology
  • Jakob Schoenmackers (1912–1982), pathologist and from 1960 until retirement director of the Pathological-Bacteriological Institute
  • Volker Schumpelick (* 1944), surgeon and director of the surgical clinic from 1985 to 2010
  • Arthur Slauck (1887–1958), internist and from 1947 to 1948 chief physician of the municipal hospitals
  • Hubertus Spiekermann (1942–2009), dentist and director of the clinic for dental prosthetics and materials science at the Aachen clinic
  • Martin Staemmler (1890–1974), pathologist and from 1950 to 1960 director of the Pathological-Bacteriological Institute of the Aachen City Hospitals
  • Markus Tingart (* 1968), orthopedic surgeon and director of the Orthopedic Clinic since 2010
  • Felix Wesener (1855–1930), internist and from 1892 to 1924 chief physician of the municipal Maria-Hilf-Hospital
  • Volker Wienert (* 1937), professor of phlebology

Transport links

Street

The RWTH Aachen University Hospital can be reached via the outer ring in the north to the federal motorway 4 via the Aachen-Laurensberg junction, even without an environmental zone sticker, and to the south to federal highway 1 .

Public transport

The Uniklinik bus stop is located directly in front of the main entrance on Pauwelsstraße, which can only be used by public buses, taxis, bicycles, supply and rescue vehicles.

The university clinic has a taxi stand, a car sharing station and a station for the Velocity e-bike rental system.

Others

In 2007, plans became known according to which the University Hospital RWTH Aachen would merge with the University Hospital in Maastricht to form a University Hospital Aachen-Maastricht. It would then be the first European hospital.

In early 2005, RTL began shooting a daily docu- soap in the clinic entitled Our Clinic - Doctors in Action . Doctors, nursing staff and patients were accompanied by cameras during their work and their stay at the RWTH Aachen University Hospital.

The RWTH Aachen University Clinic has also been offering guided tours through the University Clinic since 2015.

In December 2015, the RWTH Aachen University Hospital established the University Medicine Aachen Foundation . Its purpose is to implement funding projects from health care, research and teaching at the RWTH Aachen University Hospital.

Trivia

For years the University Hospital has been celebrating its own carnival (since 2017 with its own prince), accompanied by a specially organized celebration on Fat Thursday under the motto “Celebrate for a good cause”. The proceeds from the festival benefit the children's clinic as well as the foundation of the University Clinic Aachen.

literature

  • Godehard Hoffmann: The clinic in Aachen, the most important testimony to high-tech architecture in Germany. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. Vol. 17, No. 4, 2000, pp. 154-161.
  • Godehard Hoffmann: High-tech becomes a monument - Aachen University Hospital is entered in the list of monuments. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. Vol. 26, No. 2, 2009, pp. 68-72.
  • Godehard Hoffmann: RWTH Aachen University Medical Center - high-tech architecture for a hospital. In: Yearbook of the Rheinische Denkmalpflege. 40/41, Worms 2009, pp. 31-48.
  • Michael Kasiske: Color studies in Aachen. In: Bauwelt, Issue 26–27.10, 101st year, July 16, 2010, pp. 12–19 - Changes in the hospital: The blood-red scaffolding and sulfur-yellow ring tubes symbolizing high-tech maximum patient care have been a listed building since 2008. The inside of the Aachen Clinic is getting a new face after 25 years.
  • Lothar Mayer: Medical Faculty Aachen. In: The civil engineer. Issue 5, vol. 1973, pp. 153-168.
  • Ekkehard Winn: The Aachen Clinic. Building history and analysis. Master's thesis, University of Cologne, 2005.

Web links

Commons : Universitätsklinikum Aachen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Factsheet of the RWTH Aachen University Hospital
  2. ↑ April 25, 2013: New brand - "Klinikum" will in future be presented as RWTH Aachen University Hospital  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ukaachen.de  
  3. ↑ Annual report 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ukaachen.de  
  4. ↑ Joachim Schäfer: Apollonia Radermecher , entry in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
  5. ^ Richard Kühl: Leading Aachen clinicians and their role in the Third Reich. Study by the Aachen Competence Center for the History of Science, Volume 11, Ed .: Dominik Groß, Diss. RWTH Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86219-014-0 pdf
  6. ↑ Carola Döbber: Political chief physicians? New studies on the Aachen medical profession in the 20th century (= studies of the Aachen competence center for the history of science. Volume 14). Dissertation. Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen 2012. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2012, ISBN 978-3-86219-338-7 ( online )
  7. ^ Building scandal , in: Der Spiegel from April 16, 1979.
  8. ↑ RWTH Alumni 2006, p. 30.
  9. ↑ Law and Ordinance Gazette Edition 2000 No. 54
  10. ^ A phenomenon in Germany , In: Aachener Nachrichten . June. 17.2013.
  11. ↑ University Hospital Aachen: Green Temple of Medicine turns 30. In: Aachener Zeitung. March 27, 2015, accessed June 26, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Festive program and distinguished guests: 50 years of the RWTH Medical Faculty. In: Aachener Zeitung. June 24, 2016. Retrieved June 26, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Former Franziskushospital is now part of the University Clinic , press release on the website of the UK Aachen from January 1, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Baukunst-NRW" . Internet guide to architecture and engineering in North Rhine-Westphalia.
  15. ↑ Press release 087/2008 of the Cologne District Government: Aachen Clinic is placed under monument protection. Worldwide important building of high-tech architecture  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ukaachen.de  
  16. ↑ The construction of the new helipad in front of the UKA has started , press release ( memento of the original from March 22, 2013 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. , May 4, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ukaachen.de
  17. ↑ Press release from the Ministry for Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia: 418 million euros for Aachen University Hospital
  18. ↑ Environmental zone Aachen
  19. ↑ From Monday the Pauwelsstrasse will become an environmental route. In: Aachener Nachrichten. October 31, 2013, accessed February 5, 2016 .
  20. ↑ LOCATIONS. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  21. ↑ The plan for a University Hospital Aachen-Maastricht - press feedback  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ukaachen.de
  22. ↑ Guided tours through the RWTH Aachen University Hospital
  23. ↑ Pacemaker for the modern medicine of tomorrow. In: Aachener Zeitung. December 9, 2015, accessed June 26, 2016 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ In a 16-page specialist article by Lothar Mayer about the shell construction, there are no statements about a reduction in the originally planned number of floors after the elevator shafts have been completed. (Lothar Mayer: Medical Faculty Aachen. In: Der Bauingenieur. Born 1973, Issue 5, pp. 153-168).
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