The Rothschild Hospital , named after its founder Baron Anselm von Rothschild , was the hospital of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Vienna , Austria . The hospital lasted from its opening in 1873 until its closure by the Nazis in 1943. After World War II , it served as a hospital for sick and infirm displaced persons , housing as many as 600 refugees.
4-507: The building on Währinger Gürtel 97, built by the architect Wilhelm Stiassny , was demolished in 1960 and replaced by a new building which houses the Chamber of Commerce's "WIFI University" ( Wirtschaftsförderungsinstitut ), which offers courses and certificates and degrees in economy-related fields (including languages and social sciences). This article about a hospital in Europe is
8-551: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about an Austrian building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wilhelm Stiassny Wilhelm Stiassny (15 October 1842, Pressburg (Bratislava) – 11 July 1910, Bad Ischl ) was a Jewish Austrian architect . From 1857 to 1861, he studied at the Polytechnic in Vienna and afterwards studied architecture at
12-719: The Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Friedrich von Schmidt . In 1867 Stiassny was appointed delegate to the Paris Exposition by the Ministry of Commerce, and the following year he settled in Vienna as an architect. Until 1905 he oversaw the construction of 180 palaces, schools, residences, factories, hospitals, and synagogues, including the Rothschild Hospital at Währing (1873), the Hall of Ceremonies in
16-910: The Jewish section of the Vienna Central Friedhof, the Königswarter Institute for the Blind at Hohewarte, the Kindergarten in the second district of Vienna, the Rothschild Hospital at Smyrna , and the synagogues at Malacky , Jablonec nad Nisou , Čáslav , and Weinberge ( Vinohrady , now a part of Prague ). From 1878 to 1900 Stiassny was a member of the aldermanic board of Vienna and of the Donauregulierungs-Commission. From 1879 he
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