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Berlin - Beelitz-Heilstätten hospital

Beelitz-Heilstätten hospital - Monument to Soviet medics

Beelitz is best known for its asparagus, but outside the town there is a dilapidated and abandoned hospital, which has a very exciting history. In 1898 it was built and used as a sanatorium for Berlin's population, as here was light, air and beautiful nature. Later at the beginning of World War I it was converted into a military hospital and here soldiers like Adolf Hitler were treated after being wounded during the Battle of the Somme.

One of the many empty halls in the former hospital

Between the two world wars, the hospital was again used to treat civilians for diseases such as tuberculosis, but during World War II it again became a military hospital, which also continued after the war, when the Soviet military took over. Then East German coryphaeus such as Erich Honecker was treated here. Incidentally, it was also from here that his escape to the Soviet Union began after the fall of the wall .

 

The former head of government in the GDR - Erich Honecker

The cowboy Vladimir Putin

It is also said that Vladimir Putin was treated here during his posting period as a KGB agent in the GDR.

Beelitz-Heilstätten hospital - The Men's Department - Postcard from 1912

Nowadays, the hospital is best known for being the backdrop for films such as The Pianist, Operation Valkyrie and not least the Danish film Men and Chickens, where it is quite clear that the film was shot at the hospital.

Men and Chickens - The Danish movie from 2015

 

Adress:

Straße nach fichtenwalde, 14547 Beelitz

Ca. 45 minutters kørsel fra Berlin

 

 

Wanted

Berlin is always worth a visit - summer or winter - but where to go? Here are some slightly unusual and very different suggestions for places I like to go.


Interesting places

A B C

"Beelitz-Heilstätten" - Old military hospital

Bendlerblock" - Memorial and museum

"Berlin Untervelten" - Berlin's "Underworld"

"Bernauer Straße" - About the Berlin Wall etc.

"Bornholmer Straße - Former border crossing east/west

"Boxhagener Platz - Green area and flea market"

D E F

"Europacenter" - Shopping center etc.

Flakturm Humboldthain" - Bunker facility WW2

"Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg" - Busy airport

"Flughafen Berlin Tempelhof" - Recreational area.

"Escape tunnels between East and West Berlin - Kold krig

"Friedhof Invalidenhof - Soldiers Cemetery

G H I J K

"Old Danish Embassy"  - Tiergarten

Gedenkstätte Plötzensee" - Memorial

"Glienicker Brücke" - Dividing East/ West

- "Pallasstrasse bunker" Bunker i centrum

" Weissensee Jewish Cemetery - Jewish cemetery

Karlshorst - German-Russian Museum"

L M N O P Q R S

"Majakowskiring"
– GDR elite in Pankow

Prenzlauer Berg"

- Memorial

"Schöneberg town hall"  - JFK tale"

"Schwerbelastungs-
körper"
- Pressure gauge

" Friedhof Grunewald-Forst - Cemetery for suicides

SS residences – Zehlendorf

S T U V X Y Z

"Stasimuseum" - Stasimuseum

Teufelsberg" - NSA in Grunewald

"Tiergarten" - The Nordic Embassies"

"Tiergarten - Siegessäule" 67 meter tall victory column

"Villa Riefenstahl - Leni Riefenstahls House

"Zionskirche Prenzlauerberg - Where Bonhoeffer preached

 

Recreational areas:

"Grunewald"
- Berlins largest green areas

Strandbad Wannsee"
- Europe's largest lake bath

"Tempelhofer Park"
- Formerly Tempelhof Airport

"Tiergarten"
- Berlin's largest city park

"Volkspark Friedrichshein - Recreational area

"Volkspark Jungfernheide" - Recreational area

Food and drinks:

"Biergarden am Neuen See" in the Tiergarten.

Biergarden "Prater" - From 1837 and the oldest

Biergarden "Schleusenkrug", "Biergarden in Tiergarten".

"Mustafa’s Gemüse Kebap" - known all over Berlin

"Restaurant Zillemarkt" Unfortunately closed by now

"Zur letzten Instanz" - Oldest restaurant in Berlin

               

Berlin at War