The St. Georg Hospital is located in Hamburg (Lohmülenstraße 5, 20099).
From its charitable beginnings outside the city walls during the Middle Ages, St Georg developed into an important institution associated with key medical figures and scientific discoveries. The modern hospital opened in 1823 as the Allgemeines Krankenhaus St. Georg at the current site, serving as the city of Hamburg’s first public general hospital.
While the hospital underwent several expansions at the beginning of the 20th century, several of the original 1820s structures are now protected for their historical significance. The hospital was privatised in the early 21st Century and is now part of the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg network.
St. Georg occupies a distinguished role in medical heritage. It is associated with figures in the fields of dermatology and thoracic surgery such as Eduard Arning and Gotthard Bülau respectively, and its walls and grounds bear testimony to the work of these pioneering physicians (as exemplified by the Bas-Relief commemorating Eduard Arning and the Memorial to Gotthard Bülau).
Not long after Wilhelm Conrad Rõntgen’s discovery of x-rays in 1895, the hospital became one of the early adopters of radiological technology. In its grounds the hospital hosts the Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations, who lost their lives through radiation exposure in the early years following the discovery of x-rays and radium.
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