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Orthodox Jewish Hospital 2
During the Congress Kingdom, the Orthodox Jewish Hospital was housed in the two-story palace dating back to the 1770’s, on ul. Zielona. The palace was originally the property of Franciszek Kandyd Ossoliński. The area later became part of the Citadel. When the Alexandrine Citadel was built after the defeat of the November Uprising, the Ossoliński palace was demolished and the hospital moved in 1833 to a building from the 1820’s at Pokorna and Inflancka streets. The building had two wings, a cellar and a tile roof. It was probably designed by Karol Galle, who had also done most of the other buildings in this part of town. Because the new hospital soon turned out to be too small for the needs of Warsaw’s Jewish population, work began in 1835 on expanding the hospital on its northern side. Construction was finished in 1838. Maksymilian Sobieszczański, in his “Rys historyczno-statystycznym wzrostu i stanu miasta Warszawy od najdawniejszych czasów aż do 1848 roku”, described the new building like this: “(...) in addition to adorning the street with its exterior, [the hospital] comfortably provides beds for 330 patients, having enough beds prepared for all manner of afflictions.
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This institution was constructed in part thanks to contributions from the Community and from private donations from Jewish philanthropists, and in particular thanks to the efforts of the ardent patron and main benefactor, Jakub Epstein, who died in 1843.”
Epstein was a merchant and former officer in the Polish army, as well as philanthropist and member of Masonic lodges. In 1833, he became the main warden in the Supervisory Body of the Orthodox Hospital. The building was designed by Henryk Marconi, as mentioned in a text published after his death in “Gazeta Warszawska” in 1863 (Issue 43). Although a design by Marconi is housed at Warsaw’s main historical archive, it differs from the one that was actually used, which is apparent from photographs that have survived. Because of worsening conditions both structurally and from a hygienic point of view, the hospital was closed in the late nineteenth century. At the same time, plans to build a new Orthodox Hospital in Czyste were made.
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