Wiedner Hospital

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The Wiedner Spital (also Wiedener Spital or Hospital) was a hospital in the 4th district of Vienna, Wieden, at Favoritenstrasse 32 (corresponds to the current address, Favoritenstrasse 40).

history

The reason for the establishment of the Wiedner Spital in 1842 was the recurring bed shortage in the hospitals of Vienna when an epidemic such as typhus or cholera broke out. Originally, the hospital, which was built with private funds under the protectorate of Archduke Franz Karl, was to be rented in the Piarist monastery in Wiedner Hauptstrasse, which was abandoned under Emperor Joseph II . In the end, however, the former Palais Czernin at Favoritenstrasse 32 was initially occupied as a tenant because of its better suitability and above all because of a well that provided healthy drinking water in sufficient quantities.

In 1844 the former Palais Czernin was acquired for 57,000 guilders from the bankrupt property of the furniture factory founded by Joseph Ulrich Danhauser and, after his death in 1829, continued by his son Josef Danhauser until 1838. In 1847 the neighboring house of the silk manufacture Hell and Schepper was rented. In 1848 the original building was demolished and a new building was erected. Only the central wing, which was used as a management building, remained.

The chief surgeon at the Wiedner Spital, Friedrich Wilhelm Lorinser , discovered phosphorus necrosis - an occupational disease of people who worked in match factories - and successfully campaigned for an improvement in working conditions. In 1857, Cardinal Joseph Othmar von Rauscher constituted a group of 95 nurses who worked at the Wiedner Spital for the Order of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Love, who today run the Hartmannspital in Margareten . In 1861 the privately maintained hospital was taken over by the kk hospital fund. At that time the hospital had eight departments and 1,250 beds.

A decree by the Imperial and Royal Interior Ministry placed the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital in Favoriten, which was under construction, under the control of the Wiedner Spital . In 1889 this subordination was lifted again. The hospital was badly damaged in the Second World War. In 1956 it was demolished and the Bertha-von-Suttner-Hof , a community building , was built in its place . At the meeting of the Wieden district council in September 2007, an application was made to erect a memorial plaque to the hospital.

doctors

Prominent doctors worked at the Wiedner Spital:

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ärztewoche Online - Worker Protection was created in Vienna (Narrenturm 39) ( Memento from September 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Hartmannspital - Franciscan Sisters of Christian Love
  3. ^ Karl Heinz Tragl: The Kaiser Franz Josef Spital. Chronicle and medical history. Departure into modern times. Compress Verlag, Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-215-06380-8 .

literature

  • Oskar André Straickher: The old Wieden, their hospitals and their doctors . In: Our home. 32, 1961, ISSN  1017-2696 , pp. 126-137.
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '26.7 "  N , 16 ° 22' 16.8"  E