In the Thuringian forests a physicist once came up with the idea to treat patients of Tuberculosis with exposure to mineral-rich fresh air. At this mountainside deep in the forest a Tuberculosis sanatorium was later build which finally opened in 1898. Many working-class patients who suffered from lung pain were treated there from this point onwards. It served use as an army hospital in both World Wars and continued being used as a hospital for those sickened with Tuberculosis in the GDR till the transition of the complex to a regular hospital. After the fall of the Iron Curtain the building of a new hospital nearby rendered the facility obsolete and it finally closed down in 1992.
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