History and future

Over 150 years of service to people

Augsburg University Hospital has had an eventful history, with its beginnings dating back to 1852. In 1852, the city of Augsburg received 10,000 guilders from the Rotgerber Georg Henle, which were to be used for the care of Catholic patients by the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy. This condition meant that in the municipal hospital, the so-called main hospital in the Jakober Vorstadt, which opened just a few years later in 1859, patients were accommodated and cared for in different areas of the building depending on their denomination. Protestant patients were cared for by the Deaconesses' Sisterhood, while Catholic patients were cared for by the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy. Shortly after the end of the Second World War, the East Hospital (in the former Schiller School in Lechhausen) and the West Hospital (in the former Arras barracks in Kriegshaber) were built to provide adequate care for all patients.

The Augsburg Children's Hospital | Mother and Child Centre Swabia also looks back on various sanatoriums and hospitals as part of the municipal healthcare system in Augsburg. The first paediatric hospital was opened in Karmelitengasse in 1849. It later found a home as the "Municipal Children's Hospital with Infant Home" in Augsburg's Oberhausen district - at Zollernstraße 85, today's Sanderstift - before it was opened in 1965 in the then new building of today's "Old Children's Hospital" on Neusäßer Straße in Kriegshaber.

Central hospital

In 1958, the Augsburg City Council took the bold decision to build a central hospital complex - later to become the Central Hospital - on the Kobelfeld, which was to replace the main hospital as well as the East and West Hospitals in the city's healthcare system. A few years later, the statutes for the formation of the Augsburg Hospital Association were signed, in which the city and district of Augsburg jointly regulated medical care for the region through municipal hospitals. The paediatric clinic on the Kobelfeld was inaugurated in 1965. Construction of the central hospital with space for 1,700 beds, various departments and areas, clinics, institutes and centres, an emergency room, as well as technical, supply and administration buildings began in 1974 and lasted until 1982. The total costs amounted to 660 million German marks. On 17 April 1982, the first clinic, today's Clinic for Dermatology and Allergology, moved into the new central clinic. Other clinics and institutes from the three municipal hospitals - Main Hospital, East Hospital and West Hospital - followed.

Clinic

On 1 January 2000, the ZK, as it was known to the public for many years, took on the legal form of an independent municipal company. The name was changed to Klinikum Augsburg. Like the ZK, Klinikum Augsburg was an academic teaching hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and a member of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kommunaler Großkrankenhäuser (Working Group of Large Municipal Hospitals) and other health policy and economic associations.

University Hospital

Although the hospital was planned and built as a university hospital from the outset, it was almost 30 years before the decisive course was set. "The university hospital is coming!!!" was the visionary entry written by the then Bavarian Minister President Horst Seehofer in the city of Augsburg's Golden Book in 2009. Many challenges had to be overcome before the Faculty of Medicine was founded at the University of Augsburg on 1 December 2016 and Augsburg Hospital became the sixth university hospital in Bavaria to be taken over by the Free State of Bavaria at the beginning of 2019 .

Together with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Augsburg, which was founded in 2016, Augsburg University Hospital forms Augsburg University Medicine. The Augsburg District Hospital, a clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics, which is also located close to the Augsburg University Hospital, is a contractually integrated cooperation partner. As Augsburg University Hospital, the hospital now bridges the gap between innovative medical care solutions and pioneering research and teaching - particularly in the research areas of medical information and environment and health (environmental medicine).