Würzburg. The State Luitpold Hospital was inaugurated on November 2, 1921 in Würzburg. 100 years later, the Würzburg University Medical Center celebrated this milestone in its 400-year history with a ceremony.
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Over 100 invited guests came together in the Rudolf-Virchow-Zentrum (RVZ) on Josef-Schneider-Straße in the Würzburg district of Grombühl for the ceremony “Luitpold-Campus – Tradition and Innovation since 1921”. “Today we are celebrating the 100th birthday of modern Würzburg university medicine,” explained Professor Dr. Jens Maschmann. The Medical Director of the University Hospital Würzburg (UKW) moderated the two-hour event. His colleague from the hospital board, Professor Dr. Matthias Frosch, worked out in his address that the local history of university medicine can be traced back to the founding of the Würzburg University in 1582, but the inauguration of the State Luitpold Hospital on November 2, 1921 was a truly epoch-making development. “With the ensemble of buildings named after the Bavarian Prince Regent, the city and region received one of the most modern, groundbreaking large hospitals of that time,” emphasized the Dean of the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg.
According to Judith Gerlach, the Bavarian State Minister for Digital, the clinic rose steeply in the following decades – interrupted by the Second World War – and developed into one of the most important medical centers in Franconia. The guest speaker at the ceremony said: “The University Hospital Würzburg today enjoys a worldwide reputation as a medical research facility. At the same time, it is an efficient hospital offering maximum care. And it offers the citizens of the entire region access to top-quality medicine. ”Bavaria’s Science Minister Bernd Sibler also sent similar words of praise to the RVZ lecture hall in a video greeting.
For Professor Dr. Paul Pauli, President of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and member of the supervisory board of the clinic, the good cooperation with the UKW is also a stroke of luck for the medical faculty with its 3600 students, while the mayor of Würzburg Martin Heilig in his welcoming address includes the outstanding achievements of the university hospital and its employees during the corona pandemic.
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The keynote lecture was given by Professor Christine Nickl-Weller, a graduate engineer. The architect from the Munich architecture firm Nickl & Partner, which is responsible for the planning of the German Center for Heart Failure in Würzburg, took the audience on a tour through the history of hospital architecture. “Today we are striving for patient- and staff-centered buildings. Sustainable hospitals must also be equipped for technical and medical advances and the challenges of climate change, ”explained the professor.
These architectural considerations for the future are highly relevant for the VHF, after all, new buildings for the head clinics and a center for women, mother and children are to be built in the next few years on a site north of the previous clinic campus. In mid-October of this year, the winners were chosen in the corresponding planning competition. “Just looking at the immense scope of the commissioning of the Luitpold Hospital 100 years ago makes it clear how great our responsibility is for the most far-sighted and intelligent structural planning possible,” Maschmann emphasized.
The anniversary celebration was loosened up by an “in-house” music trio: Professor Dr. Sarah König from the Chair of Medical Teaching and Educational Research (Flute), Professor Dr. Klaus Toyka, the former director of the neurological clinic (violin), and Jiechu Chen, assistant doctor at the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology (piano), delighted the audience with works by Bach and Shostakovich.
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