The hospital starts as a sanatorium with 7 buildings (no. 6/10/11/14/15/16/19) built in secession / Art Nouveau style in 1904
1912 – main profile changed to industrial accidents with 280 beds
In the 1st World War it operates as a military hospital
1928 – Industrial Hospital, main profile changed to respiratory diseases
1930’s – new buildings and renovations
1936 – new staff building as nurse hotel in Bauhaus style (1st modern Bauhaus public building in Hungary!)
1945 – Red Army expropriate the whole property. New name is Soviet Hospital.
The new owner (Moscow) orders 9 new buildings (post office, flats, outdoor stage, pig farm, club)
It becames a closed, guarded, secret military object with 4 nuclear-proof underground corridors, 3 bunkers and an anti-aircraft shelter
1985 – new building was handed over as Surgery with the most modern medical equipment and 260 beds >>> https://www.bellonpictures.com/post/soviet-surgery
1991 – soviets leave the area. The occupied state buy only the property back with more than 30 buildings.
1991-1993: The expensive medical equimpents were dismounted and delivered to Russia
Some of the buildings were demolished, the rest is still abandoned (only 4 buildings have function today)
Source and archive photo credits: fovarosi.blog.hu / varosisetak.kek.org.hu / bpxv.hu
Buildings
no. 11 - Entrance building / Board building originally
no. 16 - Male unsocial pavilion
no. 19 - Funeral home
no. 6 - Male social pavilion
no. 7 - ???
no. 15 - Female unsocial pavilion / laryngeal pavilion
no. 14 - Chapel and nun house / canteen
no. 10 - Female social pavilion
no. 4 - Staff building / nurse hotel, later isolating building during the Soviet occupation
no. 3 - Flat
no. 33 - Flat
no. 18 - Pump house
no. 1 - Surgery
Building no. 11
Entrance building, originally the board building (home of the hospital director)
Built in 1903-1904 in secession / Art Nouveau style
Nowdays it operates as a health center
Building no. 16
Original function: male unsocial pavilion
Built in 1903-1904 in secession / Art Nouveau style
The building is under monument protection
Nowdays it is totally abandoned
Building no. 19
Original function: funeral home
Built in 1903-1904 in secession / Art Nouveau style
The building is under monument protection
Nowdays it is totally abandoned
Building no. 6
Original function: male social pavilion
Built in 1903-1904 in secession / Art Nouveau style
The building is under monument protection
Nowdays it is abandoned
Building no. 7
Original function: ???
The building is sentenced to demolition
Nowdays it is abandoned
Building no. 15
Original function: female unsocial pavilion later laryngeal pavilion
Built in 1903-1904 in secession / Art Nouveau style
The building is under monument protection
Nowdays it is abandoned
Building no. 14
Original function: chapel and nun house later canteen
Built in 1903-1904 in secession / Art Nouveau style
The building is under monument protection
Nowdays it is abandoned
Building no. 4
Original function: staff building / nurse hotel (later isolating building durint the Soviet occupation)
Built in 1936 in Bauhaus style with the most modern architectural solutions (1st modern Bauhaus public building in Hungary!)
- 5 apartments on the ground floor for non-commissioned officers
- 14 / 14 apartments with 2 beds on the floors for single workers
- 1 official apartments with 2 bedrooms on every floor
- shared bathrooms, kitchenettes and dining rooms
- sun terrace on the flat roof
- thermal water from a 187 meters deep well and drinking water from a 68 meters deep well
The building is under monument protection
Nowdays it is totally abandoned and seems so dangerous
Building no. 3
Function: flat
Built by Soviets after 1945
Nowdays it is totally abandoned
Building no. 33
Function: flat
Built by Soviets after 1945
Nowdays it is totally abandoned
Building no. 18
Function: pump house
Built by Soviets after 1945
Nowdays it is abandoned
Building no. 1
Function: surgery
Built by Soviets in 1985
2 hungarian designers won the Ybl Prize for this building
Nowdays it is totally abandoned
Full story >>> https://www.bellonpictures.com/post/soviet-surgery
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