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Altes (ancient) AKH Wien, Vienna General Hospital, Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien, Hospital General de Viena, Hôpital Général de Vienne, Ospedale Generale di Vienna.
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Old Vienna General Hospital
Altes AKH, 1784
The AKH 1830
Overview of the blocks of the old and the new AKH
Baroque Grand Staircase
The Narrenturm built about 1782
As Old General Hospital, shortly Altes AKH, today the campus of the University of Vienna, a complex of buildings in the Hospital Lane (Spitalgasse), is referred to in Alsergrund (9th district), which was the former site of the Vienna General Hospital and today is a campus of the University of Vienna.
History
Hospital for Disabled Persons
The origins of the Vienna General Hospital go back to Johann Franckh that after the end of the Second Siege of Vienna in 1686 donated his land to the Alserstraße (lea Schaffernack) for the establishment of a military hospital. However, since initially lacked the money for the construction of buildings, war veterans and their families were quartered in the already existing Kontumazhof (plague hospital).
It was not until 1693 as Emperor Leopold I ordered the construction of a great poor-law infirmary and hospital for Invalides. 1697 the first court was completed, in which were quartered 1,042 persons. To take into account the will Franckhs, took up in the tract at Alserstrasse wounded their quarter, with the other residents, however, the concerned people were civilian poors. 1724 already lived 1740 people here.
The complex could be extended by the will of Ferdinand Freiherr von Thavonat, who donated his property after his death in 1726 to soldiers unfit for service, thus, the already begun 2nd court (called marriage or Witwenhof (widower's court) now Thavonathof) could be completed. Also the by side tracts formed courtyards, the Krankenhof (court for ill people), farmyard and craftmen's court were built. 1733 under Emperor Charles VI. was after plans of Matthias Gerl and Franz Anton Pilgram structurally extended. Establishment of a dreiläufigen (with three flights) baroque grand staircase with long steps of hard, white stone from Kaisersteinbruch. As stonemasons worked 1735 - 1738 Franz Trumler and Simon Sasslaber.
1752 to 1774 followed the further expansion of the student court and the caretaker court. The residents had to wear their own uniforms and received own copper coins, which could be redeemed with the in the complex present butchers, bakers, etc.
General Hospital
On 28 January 1783 Emperor Joseph II visited the poorhouse. He noted that the huge complex was lesser used for Notlinderung (alleviation of suffering), but in may cases people housed who were through patronage or sloppiness got there. Spontaneously, he abolished the system and had it by his personal physician Dr. Joseph Quarin, later Director, replanned to a general hospital. Model was the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.
On 16 August 1784 followed the opening. The inscription in the archway to Alserstraße reads "Saluti et solatio aegrorum" ("For the benefit and comfort of the sick"). The house for the first time was only responsible for patient care, the remaining tasks of the hospitals were separated. Connected to the hospital was a madhouse and a birthing house, from 1806, the Foundling Hospital (Alserstraße 23) was attached.
The Narrenturm (fool's tower) was the first special construction to house the mentally ill and offered 200 to 250 patients room. Because of its peculiar shape, it is called by the Viennese as "(Emperor Joseph) ring cake (Gugelhupf)". Today it is the seat of the Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum Vienna and every summer and take place weekly cultural events.
After the dissolution of the adjacent cemetery finally were in 1834 under Emperor Franz I the 8th and 9th court added. In the courtyard 10 at the Spitalgasse is the 1862 under Carl von Rokitansky opened Pathoanatomical Institute, which served this purpose until 1991. On the gable is the inscription "Indagandis sedibus et causis morborum" ("The exploration of the seat and the causes of the diseases"). Since 2000, the Center for Brain Research is housed therein. It came to the reorganization in 1865 when the maternity establishment and the insane asylum came in the management of the Crown land Lower Austria (cf. Brünnlfeld), and 1922 on the occasion of the creation of the province of Vienna. In the 1930s, the Forensic Medicine Institute was almost at a right angle to the Pathological-Anatomical Institute in Sensengasse, before Narrenturm, built, which was until 2007 in operation. In the 1950s were built for reasons of space and as modernization in the courts barracks, which were removed during campus remodeling, as well as the many additions to the original building.
In the same block is situated the former garrison hospital I with its remarkable former auditorium. Between 1933 and 1967 it housed the nursing school and today is there among other things the university dental clinic housed. Right behind it is located on the Währingerstraße the Collegium Medico - Chirurgicum Josephinum.
Especially in the 19th Century was the Vienna General Hospital as the center of the Viennese Medical School one of the centers of medical research. So here made Ignaz Semmelweis his observations on hygiene at the two separate maternity hospitals in the 8th and 9th court, Karl Landsteiner discovered the blood groups at the AKH (Nobel Prize 1930), Julius Wagner-Jauregg developed the malaria fever therapy in progressive paralysis (a hitherto incurable late-stage syphilis, Nobel Prize 1927). The neurobiologist Robert Bárány (Nobel Prize 1914) and the surgeon Theodor Billroth worked here as well as in the new clinics.
Campus
Court 1 at the campus of the University of Vienna
After the New General Hospital in Michelbeuern was already in the pipeline, announced Mayor Franz Jonas for the 600th anniversary of the University that it was considered to give the nearby site to the University, which was legally possible by the University Organisation Act 1975. On 7 December 1988, the notarial deed was finally signed by Mayor Helmut Zilk and Rector Wilhelm Holczabek. Yet in 1986 an "Action Committee Altes AKH" was founded, which should initiate the adaptation work. Start of construction was then 1993.
Terms
On the site of the old General Hospital is located since the relocation of the medical institutes the campus of the University of Vienna with many liberal arts institutions as well as in the first courtyard several dining establishments and small businesses.
The redevelopment of the site was done on a usability analysis from the year 1988 and a content supervisor from 1992. The authors of the implementation are the architects Hugo Potyka, Friedrich Kurrent, Johannes Zeininger, Sepp Frank, Ernst M. Kopper, who had come together to ARGE Architekten Altes AKH. The complex was in 1998 handed over to the users.
Besides university institutes and shops also gastronomic restaurants with extensive outdoor operation are located in the Old General Hospital.
Courts
Hof 1
Completed in 1697, known by the Christmas market
Hof 2 (Thavonathof)
Former mariage or Witwenhof (widows' court)
Court 6 (Hausverwalterhof) caretaker court)
The synagogue in the old AKH Vienna
Synagogue in the old AKH Vienna
1903 a "prayer pavillion" was built by the architect Max Fleischer in the court 6, financed by donations of the Jewish community. In the Kristallnacht in 1938 it was devastated, alienated as a transformer station after the war and reopened after a redesign in 2005 as a Denk-Mal (think twice) Marpe Lanefesh/healing for the soul.
In 2793, Space-square scientists succeeded in creating a silicon-based life form. In its early days, the life form showed almost no signs of sentience, but the scientists continued to study it. But one day, The being began to exhibit signs of sentience. Since the creature was now sentient, the scientists gave it a name: T'ul'akh. When the scientists continued studying T'ul'akh, even though it was sentient, it became extremely irate and forcefully escaped. It seemed that neither bullets nor lasers could do great harm to T'ul'akh. Because they did not harm it, it was able to raid an armory and get some armor and weapons for itself. Since then, it has enjoyed its freedom from scientific oppression and has begun to hunt scientists, so as to exact its revenge.
"STEOP" is short for "Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase" which is a phase at the beginning of a field of study, where students are supposed to acquire basic knowledge and should be given the chance to find out whether they are really interested in the subject of their choice. However the STEOP at Austria's universities has been criticized for being a substitute for entrance exams instead of a period of orientation.
The original tag ran "STOP STEOP! ...BLEIBT!" ("bleibt" means "stays", I'm not sure about the word before that one though), which ironically has been turned into the opposite when the two signs were mounted on the Enzos (that's what these seats are called) afterwards.
(further pictures and informations you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Old Vienna General Hospital
Altes AKH, 1784
The AKH 1830
Overview of the blocks of the old and the new AKH
Baroque Grand Staircase
The Narrenturm built about 1782
As Old General Hospital, shortly Altes AKH, today the campus of the University of Vienna, a complex of buildings in the Hospital Lane (Spitalgasse), is referred to in Alsergrund (9th district), which was the former site of the Vienna General Hospital and today is a campus of the University of Vienna.
History
Hospital for Disabled Persons
The origins of the Vienna General Hospital go back to Johann Franckh that after the end of the Second Siege of Vienna in 1686 donated his land to the Alserstraße (lea Schaffernack) for the establishment of a military hospital. However, since initially lacked the money for the construction of buildings, war veterans and their families were quartered in the already existing Kontumazhof (plague hospital).
It was not until 1693 as Emperor Leopold I ordered the construction of a great poor-law infirmary and hospital for Invalides. 1697 the first court was completed, in which were quartered 1,042 persons. To take into account the will Franckhs, took up in the tract at Alserstrasse wounded their quarter, with the other residents, however, the concerned people were civilian poors. 1724 already lived 1740 people here.
The complex could be extended by the will of Ferdinand Freiherr von Thavonat, who donated his property after his death in 1726 to soldiers unfit for service, thus, the already begun 2nd court (called marriage or Witwenhof (widower's court) now Thavonathof) could be completed. Also the by side tracts formed courtyards, the Krankenhof (court for ill people), farmyard and craftmen's court were built. 1733 under Emperor Charles VI. was after plans of Matthias Gerl and Franz Anton Pilgram structurally extended. Establishment of a dreiläufigen (with three flights) baroque grand staircase with long steps of hard, white stone from Kaisersteinbruch. As stonemasons worked 1735 - 1738 Franz Trumler and Simon Sasslaber.
1752 to 1774 followed the further expansion of the student court and the caretaker court. The residents had to wear their own uniforms and received own copper coins, which could be redeemed with the in the complex present butchers, bakers, etc.
General Hospital
On 28 January 1783 Emperor Joseph II visited the poorhouse. He noted that the huge complex was lesser used for Notlinderung (alleviation of suffering), but in may cases people housed who were through patronage or sloppiness got there. Spontaneously, he abolished the system and had it by his personal physician Dr. Joseph Quarin, later Director, replanned to a general hospital. Model was the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.
On 16 August 1784 followed the opening. The inscription in the archway to Alserstraße reads "Saluti et solatio aegrorum" ("For the benefit and comfort of the sick"). The house for the first time was only responsible for patient care, the remaining tasks of the hospitals were separated. Connected to the hospital was a madhouse and a birthing house, from 1806, the Foundling Hospital (Alserstraße 23) was attached.
The Narrenturm (fool's tower) was the first special construction to house the mentally ill and offered 200 to 250 patients room. Because of its peculiar shape, it is called by the Viennese as "(Emperor Joseph) ring cake (Gugelhupf)". Today it is the seat of the Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum Vienna and every summer and take place weekly cultural events.
After the dissolution of the adjacent cemetery finally were in 1834 under Emperor Franz I the 8th and 9th court added. In the courtyard 10 at the Spitalgasse is the 1862 under Carl von Rokitansky opened Pathoanatomical Institute, which served this purpose until 1991. On the gable is the inscription "Indagandis sedibus et causis morborum" ("The exploration of the seat and the causes of the diseases"). Since 2000, the Center for Brain Research is housed therein. It came to the reorganization in 1865 when the maternity establishment and the insane asylum came in the management of the Crown land Lower Austria (cf. Brünnlfeld), and 1922 on the occasion of the creation of the province of Vienna. In the 1930s, the Forensic Medicine Institute was almost at a right angle to the Pathological-Anatomical Institute in Sensengasse, before Narrenturm, built, which was until 2007 in operation. In the 1950s were built for reasons of space and as modernization in the courts barracks, which were removed during campus remodeling, as well as the many additions to the original building.
In the same block is situated the former garrison hospital I with its remarkable former auditorium. Between 1933 and 1967 it housed the nursing school and today is there among other things the university dental clinic housed. Right behind it is located on the Währingerstraße the Collegium Medico - Chirurgicum Josephinum.
Especially in the 19th Century was the Vienna General Hospital as the center of the Viennese Medical School one of the centers of medical research. So here made Ignaz Semmelweis his observations on hygiene at the two separate maternity hospitals in the 8th and 9th court, Karl Landsteiner discovered the blood groups at the AKH (Nobel Prize 1930), Julius Wagner-Jauregg developed the malaria fever therapy in progressive paralysis (a hitherto incurable late-stage syphilis, Nobel Prize 1927). The neurobiologist Robert Bárány (Nobel Prize 1914) and the surgeon Theodor Billroth worked here as well as in the new clinics.
Campus
Court 1 at the campus of the University of Vienna
After the New General Hospital in Michelbeuern was already in the pipeline, announced Mayor Franz Jonas for the 600th anniversary of the University that it was considered to give the nearby site to the University, which was legally possible by the University Organisation Act 1975. On 7 December 1988, the notarial deed was finally signed by Mayor Helmut Zilk and Rector Wilhelm Holczabek. Yet in 1986 an "Action Committee Altes AKH" was founded, which should initiate the adaptation work. Start of construction was then 1993.
Terms
On the site of the old General Hospital is located since the relocation of the medical institutes the campus of the University of Vienna with many liberal arts institutions as well as in the first courtyard several dining establishments and small businesses.
The redevelopment of the site was done on a usability analysis from the year 1988 and a content supervisor from 1992. The authors of the implementation are the architects Hugo Potyka, Friedrich Kurrent, Johannes Zeininger, Sepp Frank, Ernst M. Kopper, who had come together to ARGE Architekten Altes AKH. The complex was in 1998 handed over to the users.
Besides university institutes and shops also gastronomic restaurants with extensive outdoor operation are located in the Old General Hospital.
Courts
Hof 1
Completed in 1697, known by the Christmas market
Hof 2 (Thavonathof)
Former mariage or Witwenhof (widows' court)
Court 6 (Hausverwalterhof) caretaker court)
The synagogue in the old AKH Vienna
Synagogue in the old AKH Vienna
1903 a "prayer pavillion" was built by the architect Max Fleischer in the court 6, financed by donations of the Jewish community. In the Kristallnacht in 1938 it was devastated, alienated as a transformer station after the war and reopened after a redesign in 2005 as a Denk-Mal (think twice) Marpe Lanefesh/healing for the soul.