Semmelweis-Frauenklinik

The Semmelweis Women's Hospital is a women's clinic in Vienna's 18th district Waehring. It is named after the physician Ignaz Semmelweis.

Location and architecture

The listed hospital is located on the Bastiengasse 36-38 in the district part Gersthof. It consists of six five-story pavilion in a park.

In the complex there is a monument of Emperor Franz Joseph I., which was created in 1910 by sculptor Georg Leisek. It was located until 1936 in the nursing home Lainz. On a square pillar is a Ignaz Semmelweis Performing bust, the sculptor Rudolf Schmidt from the year 1944. Secessionist On Grid Portal of the clinic the Lower Austrian coat of arms is attached.

History

The complex was built in 1908-1910 by order of the Lower Austrian government by the Lower Austrian Landesbauamt as Foundling Hospital. The architects were Karl Otto Limbach and Max head. Here, the Lower Austrian Central Children's Home was housed. As Vienna in 1922 was separated as its own province of Lower Austria, the city of Vienna took over the institution.

In 1943 the first city in two pavilions Semmelweis Women's Hospital. In 2002, it was incorporated into the urban Rudolfstiftung Hospital.

As part of the reorganization of the hospital in Vienna landscape the medical facilities of the Semmelweis Women's Hospital are to move north to the newly built hospital. After that, the buildings will be put to a new use, a portion is used by the private " AMADEUS VIENNA international school of music " since 2012.

Services

The Semmelweis Women's Hospital serves approximately 5500 inpatients annually. In the clinic of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department of Anesthesiology of the Rudolf Foundation are housed. The seven hospital outpatient departments are specialized in studies of the pelvic floor and pelvic floor muscles, dysplasia, obstetrics, gynecology, psychosomatic medicine, ultrasound for prenatal diagnosis and Urogynecology. An interdisciplinary institution dedicated to the election midwives birth. In addition, a milk - collection center.

In the Semmelweis Women's Hospital is also since 1992, is a health center for women, parents and girls of the Institute for Women's and Men's Health.

Pictures

House 1 at the Bastiengasse

House 1, west side

House 2

House 3

House 3, detail of facade

House 3, input

House 3, West part

House 4

House 4, input

Bust of the physician Ignaz Semmelweis

Statue of Emperor Franz Joseph I.