Hôpital civil

The Hôpital civil of Strasbourg (main historic entrance from the Place de L'Hôpital) is one of the oldest medical establishments in France. Today it is a major component of the University Hospitals of Strasbourg1. The origins of the hospital - which is a real citadel of great artistic and architectural value - date back to the 12th century. Some extant buildings date back to 14th and 15th centuries.

The interior view of the main entrance to the hospital area: the medieval Porte de l'hôpital (1340)

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The old entrance to the Medical School (from Place de l'hôpital) with two busts of ancient physicians, possibly Claudius Galen and Hippocrates

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The 16th century building of the Hospital Pharmacy, which now contains a medical and surgical historical collections

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On the monumental portal of the building facing the Pharmacy, an inscription remembers the rebuilding of the Hospital in 1724, after that a tremendous fire had destroyed a great part of it in 1716

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Some of the buildings and clinics of the Hôpital civil

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Some details of an other entrance to the Hospital area from the Place de l'Hôpital

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  • Photos by Virginia Gregorio ti.liamtoh|9081oirogergigriv#| (September 2015)

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Bibliography

- Raymond Escholier, L'Hôpital Civil de Strasbourg, Laboratioires Ciba, Lyon 1941, pp. 44


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