The buildings were built in the year 1875 as the hotel ‘Belvedere’. In 1907, it was sold to the Arbeiter-Pensionskasse and 20 years later to the ‘Milde Stiftung’ of the Reichsbahn. The hotel was refurbished as a children’s home for orphans of workers of the Reichsbahn. The whole renovation was funded by donations and included the construction of a gymnasium. After the 2nd world war, it was used to accommodate and quarantine Czech and Polish refugees. The complex received the name ‘Erich Steinfurth’ in 1949. Later in 1958 it became a part of the healthcare of the GDR and was renamed ‘Kinderkurheim Erich-Steinfurth’. A new refurbishment to a children’s sanatorium was started in 1964 and finished 3 years later. Till the end of the GDR, it provided a place for treatment of children with respiratory problems like asthma. It had a capacity of about 300 children, which were split in 2 buildings depending on their age. Every age group had their own common room with fitting toys. The sanatorium had modern inhalation devices, therapeutic baths, sunlamps and sole inhalation chambers. It was closed down immediately after the end of the GDR in 1991 and was left abandoned since then. However, it is protected by monument protection and can’t be demolished.
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