It is a black-and-white photo postcard of the Riesenburg sanatorium and nursing home. It shows the green forecourt in front of the entrance building of the institution. It is a two-storey plastered building with a left and right wing with a pointed roof. There is a gable on the main façade. The access road is circular.

Postcard of the Riesenburg sanatorium and nursing home, before 1939.

Kopie ArEGL.

RIESENBURG | PRABUTY

It was thanks to the negotiating skills of the mayor of Riesenburg that the decision was made in 1928 to build the sanatorium and nursing home in Riesenburg, even though many other towns had also applied for it. This institution, headed by its first director, Fahrenbruch, was built in the middle of the Doktorwald forest. With 1,200 acres of forest land and 1,000 acres of farmland supervised by District Administrator Platz, it was considered the most modern sanatorium and nursing home in Germany at the time and housed around 2,000 patients. In 1939, all the patients were murdered. After that, the institution was used as a reserve military hospital.