{"id":76649,"date":"2024-10-01T12:09:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T10:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?post_type=magazin&p=76649"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T16:22:43","slug":"lost-place-in-the-harz-the-abandoned-harzgerode-sanatorium","status":"publish","type":"magazin","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/magazine\/traces\/lost-place-in-the-harz-the-abandoned-harzgerode-sanatorium\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost place in the Harz: the abandoned Harzgerode sanatorium"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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Where children were once treated for tuberculosis, silence now reigns \u2013 a walk through crumbling walls.
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Grass grows on the outside steps <\/strong>of the former Harzgerode children\u2019s sanatorium, and there is even a small deciduous tree on the terrace. Many windowpanes are shattered or missing altogether from empty frames, and some of the sandstone blocks in the base of the building have cracked. Medical work here stopped long ago, almost 30 years ago. Today the empty complex is a listed monument \u2013 and a reminder of the fight that children and young people, nurses and doctors waged against tuberculosis here for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The complex of the former Harzgerode children\u2019s sanatorium doesn\u2019t really fit into the wooded hills of the eastern Harz: too big, perhaps too different too. The Harz is characterised by low buildings, often half-timbered. The sanatorium, however, rises three storeys into the sky, and the architecture of the main building is clear and straight-lined. Concrete and glass dominate the fa\u00e7ade. Yet the main wing is gently curved, the centre recedes slightly and the corners of the building are rounded, almost like oriels \u2013 a slight break with the rather functionalist, almost Bauhaus-like style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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