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Georgenhospital

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The Georgenhospital was a leper hospital established in Berlin in the thirteenth century. It was built outside the city, in Oderberg[1]

There is another hospital of the same name in Frankfurt (Oder).

There were many other St. Georgen hospitals in central and eastern German-speaking areas. They were always located outside the gates of medieval towns, mostly on important trade routes, and were originally leprosariums. They had buildings for the accommodation of the sick, a St. George's chapel and an enclosed cemetery. When the plague had disappeared, the hospitals were often used as poorhouses.

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  1. ^ Richie, Alexandra (1998). Faust's Metropolis. New York: Carroll & Graf. p. 26. ISBN 0-7867-0510-8.