You always have this weird feeling that there is someone behind you when you are walking the long hallways of the Elisabeth Sanatorium. The doors don’t lock anymore and they move in a way that could scare some people. And since we kept hearing noises from the dogs outside, walking around this abandoned building was a weird experience to have on a early sunday morning.

A dozen doctors and more than 20 nurses used to work in this place after 1967 when it became a skin clinic. More than 90 beds were available in the main building and you can almost picture their places when you go from room to room right now. The Elisabeth Sanatorium survived the Nazis and the Second World War but it didn’t survive the Fall of the Berlin Wall. At least, this is what we believed it happened to this place that was abandoned back in 1994 when the skin clinic moved to Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann in Potsdam.