Van Swieten barracks

Army hospital in the Van Swieten barracks

The Van Swieten barracks is a barracks of the Austrian Armed Forces in Vienna in the 21st district of Vienna (Floridsdorf) .

It was named after Maria Theresa's personal physician and founder of the so-called Older Vienna Medical School , Gerard van Swieten .

Today the Van Swieten barracks houses the military medical center of the Austrian Armed Forces. Soldiers of the armed forces who want to take part in operations within the framework of the United Nations peacekeeping forces must undergo a selection process at the Van Swieten barracks or in the Army Personnel Office in Linz .

history

Between 1939 and 1940, the German Wehrmacht built an artillery barracks on Brünner Strasse, the Artilleriekaserne Brünner Strasse , in which air defense units were also stationed during the course of the Second World War . Towards the end of the war, the barracks were used as a makeshift military hospital . During the occupation, the Red Army used these barracks as a military hospital and a military hospital.

After the barracks were taken over by the Austrian Armed Forces, planning work began in 1957 for a modern military hospital with a capacity of 242 beds. However, this capacity was reduced to 177 beds by a decision by the Federal Minister for National Defense Ferdinand Graf on May 5, 1960.

In 1958 the construction of the farm buildings began and between April 1960 and December 1964 work was carried out on the actual hospital wing.

The hospital wing was divided into seven buildings, which have an underground connection through the cellars for the transport of patients and materials.

This military hospital , known as the Heeresspital , began operations in the Van Swieten barracks on June 1, 1965, as it also performs supraregional tasks for the armed forces . From 1987 to 2003 Walter Dorner was medical director of the Army Hospital, most recently with the rank of major general .

Heeresspital: institutes, wards and outpatient departments

The Heeresspital (HSP) is the largest military hospital in the Austrian Armed Forces. It ensures medical care in the event of peace, emergency or disaster.

Institute (newly founded in 2006):
- International medical support
- Aviation Medicine
- Performance medicine and military ergonomics

Stations with ambulances:
- Anesthesia and intensive care medicine
- surgery
- dermatology
- Ear, nose and throat department
- Internal medicine

Ambulances:
- Pain clinic
- Ophthalmology
- Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology
- neurology
- Orthopedics
- X-ray department
- urology
- Dentistry
- Aviation Psychology
- physical therapy
- Clinical-psychological support u. Psychotherapeutic care center
- laboratory

Web links

Information about the "Sanitätszentrum Ost" in the Van Swieten barracks

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.bundesheer.at/ausle/auslepd/eignung_kpe.shtml
^ Kurier: Former Medical Association President Walter Dorner has died . Article dated July 11, 2017, accessed July 11, 2017.

literature

Van Swieten Barracks in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
DEHIO MANUAL. The art monuments of Austria: Vienna, X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District, XXI. District: residential buildings. Brünner Street. No. 238.Bundesdenkmalamt , Schroll, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 634.