Sanatorium E
Sanatorium E was constructed
as a Lung Clinic between 1912 and 1914 by the Jewish Doctor Walter Freimuth and
his wife. After the National
Socialists came to power, the Freimuths fled Germany and their
property was seized. The Clinic continued to operate as a retreat for Lung
Patients until 1952, when the East German government re-purposed it to treat
patients with Skin and Thyroid tuberculosis (the only clinic of its kind
in all of East Germany).
1967 saw the clinic change purpose again, when it was transformed into Skin
Clinic. The main building was renovated in the 1980s, while the side buildings
were designated as a housing unit for the staff and a “Wirtschaftshaus” – a stable of sorts to keep livestock. The Clinic
was closed down in 1994 (quite possibly as a result of the newly introduced
economic reforms of the German unification) and the property was returned to
the Freimuth family who had survived the war in Exile in the United
States. The building is currently protected as a cultural heritage – but the
Freimuth family have apparently set plans in motion to transform the vacant building
into a Hotel. Today the hospital now resides in the middle of a junction
surrounded on all sides by new road infrastructure.