Hopital 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)
The old entrance to the Medical School (from Place de l’hôpital) with two busts of ancient physicians, possibly Claudius Galen and Hippocrates
The 16th century building of the Hospital Pharmacy, which now contains a medical and surgical historical collections
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
Some of the buildings and clinics of the Hôpital civil
Some details of an other entrance to the Hospital area from the Place de l’Hôpital
- Photos by Virginia Gregorio (September 2015)
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Bibliography
– Raymond Escholier, L’Hôpital Civil de Strasbourg, Laboratioires Ciba, Lyon 1941, pp. 44