Steinhof (Vienna)
Steinhofgründe is an ancient place name, derived from the formerly located in this area Ottakringerstraße quarries and stone bearings which Steinhöfe were called, is derived. At that time the area was part of the province of Lower Austria, the parliament passed a resolution to build a State Hospital and Nursing Home in 1902. This was on that part of the territory, which bears the name hallway mirror base, and built - opened in 1907 - as the sanatorium Baumgartner level in the western part of the plant at the same time. Today, the area for the 14th District, Penzing in Vienna belongs.
Otto -Wagner -Spital
The still run by the Vienna Hospital Association Psychiatric Hospital and Pulmologische center of the city of Vienna was built according to plans by Otto Wagner and opened in 1907. It consists of sixty pavilions, designed by Carlo of Boog, as well as the Art Nouveau theater in the center.
In 2000, Social Medical Center ( Neurological Hospital Maria Theresa Schlössl, nursing home Sanatorium Road, Psychiatric Hospital Baumgartner Höhe and Pulmologisches center Baumgartnerhöhe funding nursing home Baumgartnerhöhe, ) were under the name Baumgartner Höhe Otto Wagner Hospital with care center five health facilities combined.
Otto Wagner Church
The visual highlight is the Church of the Holy Leopold of Otto Wagner. After her eye-catching dome that resembles half a lemon, the place is also called Lemoniberg. The Church at Steinhofgründe was reopened in 2007 after she was locked for several years due to total renovations. It is one of the most beautiful Art Nouveau buildings.
Memorial to the history of Nazi Medicine in Vienna
In the center is the memorial to the history of Nazi Medicine in Vienna with a memorial and exhibition. In the then on mirror base called euthanasia institute numerous murders were committed.
Steinhofgründe
The north adjoining 45 acre Steinhofgründe were once a part of the hospital and were used for horticultural. Even today, there are numerous fruit trees. In the 1950s, stood on the site of a medium-wave transmitter was broadcast by the program from the red-white- red of the American army. The concrete foundations are still present today. In the 1970s there were plans to build in the area. However, as demonstrated in a community- wide referendum in Vienna from 10 to 12 December 1981 that the majority of the population opposed the project - more than 267,000 people participating were 53.46 % against the project, the Steinhofgründe were finally as the Forestry Department of the city of Vienna will receive supervised recreation area.
Future
In April 2006, plans were published, according to which the psychiatric department in the eastern part of the Otto Wagner Hospital is to be moved to other locations. The area should then be used for homes, hotels or shops. However, the existing building and should not be substantially altered, so that the overall ensemble is maintained.
There are over this project ( as in the similar case of TMI, the former care home Lainz ) criticism from the Green parties and the ÖVP. According to their interpretation of the plans, it would be quite possible that then currently existing green spaces are built. The mid-December 2006 adopted new zoning plan for the Steinhofgründe appears mitigated compared to the original project.
After a partial sale of the hospital complex on two major developers, the construction plans have materialized. At a public commission of the eastern part of the site on 21 September 2011 and at a public meeting on September 28 was articulated clear resistance especially from the neighboring districts