The history of the University Hospital at a glance
- 1457Foundation of the University of Freiburg by Archduke Albrecht VI of Austria
- 1751The Freiburg faculty proposed to the government of Further Austria that the sick poor in the city's hospitals, i.e. not only in the poorhouse, should be treated free of charge and by the professors themselves.
- 1767Katharina Egg bequeathed her entire fortune to the municipal hospital for the poor in Gerberau.
- 1780Establishment of a “general hospital” at the Sapientiae College on Herrenstraße
- 1829Opening of the “Clinical Hospital” on Albertstraße
- 1868 - 1911Establishment of clinics for gynecology, ophthalmology, pediatrics, surgery, and polyclinics in what is now the institute district.
- 1887Opening of the psychiatric clinic on Hauptstraße in the suburb of Herdern
- 1922Conversion of the garrison hospital in Herdern into a dermatology clinic
- 1926 - 1931Construction of the Medical and Surgical Clinics on Hugstetter Straße
- 27.11.1944Destruction of almost all institutes and clinics by a heavy air raid
- 1948 - 1953Reconstruction of the surgical, medical and gynaecological clinics
- nach 1953Overall planning and construction of all other clinic buildings in the Hugstetter Straße area
- von 1949 bis in die 1990erThe University Hospital is developing into a centre of excellence for medicine, representing all specialist fields of medicine.
- 1998The hospital will be separated from the university network and converted into a public-law institution with legal capacity.
- 2006Founding of the Freiburg Tumour Centre – Comprehensive Cancer Centre Freiburg, awarded the title of ‘Centre of Excellence in Oncology’ by German Cancer Aid in 2007
- 2009Establishment of a centre of excellence for immunodeficiency in Freiburg: The Centre for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI) is being set up as part of a Germany-wide call for proposals by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
- 2012Opening of the University Emergency Centre in Freiburg for the interdisciplinary care of emergency patients in all medical fields
- 2021Transfer of business operations of Universitäts-Herzzentrum Freiburg · Bad Krozingen GmbH to the University Medical Centre Freiburg and further development of the University Heart Centre within the University Medical Centre as a centre of excellence for cardiovascular medicine
University Medical Center Freiburg
Hugstetter Straße 55
79106 Freiburg
Phone: 0761 270-0
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