Sanatorium Beelitz-Heilstâtten

Located in Germany, southwest of Berlin, near Potsdam, in the interior of a dense pine forest was built, there by 1898, this complex Hospital of about sixty buildings and which is distributed over two hundred hectares. The architects of the original project were Heino Schimieden and Julio Boethke and subsequent reforms and additions were made by Fritz Schultz.

The complex had separate for different applications and specialty buildings. Chronic, contagious diseases, rehabilitation, etc. alongside the buildings for the staff and the administration. It even had its own plant for power generation, an Assembly Hall and Chapel.During the first and the second world war, the sanatorium became hospital of war coming to host, between 1914 and 1915, until nursing 17500. One of them was Adolf Hitler, who spent a season there in 1916 to recover from wounds suffered during the battle of the Somme

After the partition of Germany, in 1945, the complex was in charge of the U.S.S.R, and so continued until 1995. During all these years, the complex was the largest Russian military hospital outside their land.When the Russians left, only some of the buildings were rehabilitated and are used in our days. Some as museums, others still for medical purposes and rehabilitation. But most of the complex remains in total abandonment, without any provision for use at the moment.In this impressive place movies were filmed as: pianist, Polanski, the House of Wolfgang Becker patients or the last of Tom Cruise, Valkyria.