Visited: January 2011 Location: Beelitz, Germany / ドイツ・ベーリッツ Report of 2nd Visit in 2013 Beelitz Heilstaten sanatorium was built between 1898 and 1930 in three phases. It was one of the largest hospital complexes in Berlin area, consisted of 60 buildings on a total area of approx. 200 ha. ベーリッツ・ハイルシュテッテン・サナトリウムは1898年~1930年の間に3段階にわたって建設されました。2平方キロメートル程の広大な敷地に約60棟の建物があり、当時ベルリン地区では最も規模の大きい総合病院の一つでした。
Map of Beelitz Hailstaten
During the First and Second World War, Beelitz Hailstaten was used as a military hospital and sanatorium for soldiers. It is widely known that the then Private, Adolf Hitler was admitted and treated here for 2 months in 1916. After the end of WWII, during which parts of facilities were badly damaged, the hospital was taken over by the Soviet Army in 1945. It served as the largest military hospital of the Soviet army abroad until 1994. With the withdrawal of the Soviet Army in 1994, the hospital was returned to the owner and some buildings were renovated. However as they went bankrupt in 2001, no further development followed. The hospital has so many interesting histories alreadybut there are also other stories which probably attract ghost/mystery hunters all over the world. First one was during when the hospital was used by the Soviet in 1991, a wife of a Soviet doctor and her three-month-old baby were murdered by serial killer Beate Schmidt. Second one was in 2008, a photographer murdered a model who he met on the internet (Article in German). There were also accidents and a suicide occurred here. Apparently, there is now a guided tour and it became a tourist attraction.