Surgical Clinic in 1954

The building was constructed as part of the development of the “New City Hospital” between 1885 and 1887 and was opened in 1888.

The new Innsbruck hospital complex was built in what was then considered a “modern” pavilion style for hospital architecture.

The pavilion of the Surgical Clinic comprised
a basement level, raised ground floor, and first floor, including a northern annex for teaching purposes, as well as patient wards on the east and west sides of the pavilion. Later (in 1915), a small new building for the orthopedic department was added, which was expanded in 1950.

In 1948, the Innsbruck Hospital was transferred to the ownership of the Province of Tyrol and has since carried the name “Landeskrankenhaus – Universitätskliniken Innsbruck” (Provincial Hospital – Innsbruck University Clinics).

The building of the Surgical Clinic survived both World Wars and, following the completion of the new surgical clinics on the present site (1961–1968), it was demolished in 1971 in connection with the construction of the Women’s and Head Clinics.

(K.H. Velano)