The size and shape of the largest pavilion hospitals established in West Prussia in the 19th century changed along with the advancing technical and medical knowledge, the progress of ideas regarding modern society, architectural patterns, and the needs for which the hospitals were built. Apart from the medical treatment section, there were administrative, social and technical facilities, all constituting parts of the complex. The hospital part was accompanied by entire neighbourhoods for doctors and other hospital workers, green areas (including parks and cemeteries) and farms. Because of that, the complexes were able to operate as self-sufficient towns ensuring living conditions for several hundred hospital patients and workers. The analysis of these large hospitals, their architecture and spatial arrangement, and comparative research show evolution of the pavilion hospitals idea during the 19th century. They also make it possible to show the studied Prussian hospital establishments in a broader context – compared to the whole of Germany and other European countries. The knowledge about this civilizational and spatial phenomenon is very important for the history of architecture in West Prussia (a German region in the past, a part of present Poland). Also recognizing and acknowledging the heritage, which large Prussian hospitals presently constitute, has great impact on their conservation and preservation.
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- Category
- Aktywność konferencyjna
- Type
- publikacja w wydawnictwie zbiorowym recenzowanym (także w materiałach konferencyjnych)
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2018
