Bamberg General Hospital 1797
Caroline, Wilhelm Schlegel, and Schelling paid an official visit to the Bamberg General Hospital on 4 August 1800, signing the guest register and touring the facility presumably in the company of one or both head physicians, Adalbert Friedrich Marcus and Andreas Röschlaub.
Plate I: Front view of Bamberg General Hospital.
The small shafts extending up between the attic dormers and on the upper roof area are the vapor shafts from the patient wards below.
This and the following construction plans from: Adalbert Friedrich Marcus, Kurze Beschreibung des allgemeinen Krankenhauses zu Bamberg (Weimar 1797).
Bamberg General Hospital: Location on the Regnitz River
(Karl Baedeker, Southern Germany [Leipzig 1902], map following p. 90.)
Bamberg General Hospital (center right, on the river) and Michelsberg Monastery (above left), 1845–50
(Ed. Gerhardt and and J. Pappel, Kloster Michelsberg und das Hospital zu Bamberg [1845–50].)
Plate II: Entire ground floor
See following excerpts for specifics of the (IIa) main floor patient area; (IIb) courtyard area.
Plate IIa: Ground floor, main patient area
1. The 5 main doors and entries. — 2. Communication hallway. — 3. Isolation section in the communication hallway. — 4. Manager’s residence. — 5. Manager’s domestics’ room. — 6. Manager’s kitchen and dining room. — 7. Deputation room. — 8. Deputation room for the Institute of Journeymen. — 9. 2 rooms for male patients with 10 beds. — 10. Passages to the close stools and lavatories. — 11. Bathing cabinets. — 12. Operating room. — 13. Surgeon’s rooms. — 14a. Room for clinical lectures. — 14b. Apothecary. — 15. 3 rooms with 15 beds for female patients. — 16. Main hospital kitchen. — 17. Two dining atria. —18. Staircase to kitchen cellar. — 19. Hospital cook’s room. — 20. Laundress’s room. — 21. Spring-fed fountain. — 22. 2 stone staircases. . . . 32. Main courtyard. — 33. Fountain.
Bamberg General Hospital 1831, rear view
This view of the rear courtyard in 1831 shows the rear wings in the preceding illustrations with the fountain at the center of the courtyard.
(Joseph Heller, Taschenbuch von Bamberg: Eine topographische, statistische, ethnographische und historische Beschreibung der Stadt und ihrer Umgebungen, als Führer für Fremde und Einheimische [Bamberg 1831], plate following p. 94.)
Plate IIb: Ground floor, auxiliary buildings in the courtyard
23. Laundry. — 24. Aux. laundry room. — 25. and 26. Four baths and washing chambers. — 27. Staircase to the roof. — 28. Mortuary. — 29. Woodshed. — 30. and 31. House servant and gatekeeper quarters. — 32. Main courtyard. — 33. Fountain. [see preceding image] — 34. Small, separate courtyard. — 35. Exit/entry to main gate. — 36. Courtyard gate to river.
Making the rounds
A physician’s hospital visit in a ward in 1783 — albeit not in the Bamberg General Hospital itself — where he demonstrates his familiarity with every patient.
(Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, “Er ging mit uns durchs ganze Zimmer, und sagte uns bey jedem Bette, den Nahmen des Kranken, seine Krankheit — auch allerhand Umstände aus ihrem Leben,” “Der Besuch im St. Hiob zu **,” Wandsbecker Bothe von M. Claudius [1783], p. 225.)
Plate III: Floor plan of second story
37. Halls to the close stools and lavatories. — 38. Bathing cabinets. — 39. Two spring-fed fountains. — 40. Stone staircases. — 41. 2 wards with 20 beds for male patients. — 42. Chapel. — 43. 2 wards with 20 beds for female patients. — 44. Catholic priest’s quarter. — 45. 4 rooms with 12 beds for distinguished patients. — 46. Enclosed communication halls for isolated patients. — 47. 3 rooms with 7 beds for female patients. — 48. Linen room. — 49. Small kitchen.
Contemporaneous visitations to the sick, 1805, 1783
Visitations to the sick, not at the Bamberg General Hospital but typical of the period.
([1] Gottlieb Böttger der Ältere, Krankenbett mit Besuchern [Gotha 1805]; Herzog August Bibliothek; Museums./Signatur Graph. A1: 242; [2 and 3] Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum; Museums./Signatur DChodowiecki AB 3.569, 570.)
Plate IV: Floor plan of upper story
50. Upper-story chapel prayer kneelers. — 51. Bathing cabinet. — 52. Hallways for close stools and lavatories. — 53. 2 wards with 20 beds for male patients. — 54. Upper part of the chapel in the attic. — 55. 2 wards with 20 beds for female patients. — 56. 4 rooms with 12 beds for male patients. — 57. Protestant pastor’s quarters. — 58. 3 rooms with 7 beds for female patients. — 59. Closets for housekeeping equipment. — 60. Bed storage. — 61. Stairs to attic. — 62. Communication hallway.
Bamberg General Hospital 1880
Bamberg General Hospital 1880: Colorized woodcut by Hubert Clerget showing the Michelsberg hill and complex in the background.
Bamberg General Hospital, 1891
(Peter Moser, Das Album des Alois Erhardt [2002].)
Bamberg General Hospital, 1914
(1914 postcard.)