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The Berlin architect and head of town planning, Ludwig Hoffmann (1852-1932), had a huge influence on the appearance of Buch with the hospitals that he built. Here is a short summary of Ludwig Hoffmann's hospital facilities in Berlin-Buch and their colorful history.
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Hospital facility at Wiltbergerstrasse 50
(Site I)
Built as an asylum.
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Building carried out: 1912-1914
Area: 41.2 ha
Protected historic Hoffmann Building: 32
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The asylum built by Hoffmann on this site was never actually used as a mental institution. In World War I it served as a hospital and later the number of mentally ill patients in Berlin was not as high as previously estimated so that part of the site on the Wiltbergerstrasse was converted to a pediatrics facility in 1919.
From 1963, the site formed the heart of the Buch City Clinic and since 2001 is has been under the management of HELIOS Klinikum Berlin.
More about the history of the site 
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Karower Strasse 11 Hospital facility (Site II)
Built as an asylum, later Hufeland Hospital
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Building carried out: 1900 to 1908
Area: 67.5 ha
Protected historic building : 45
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The site of the former asylum was the first hospital facility built by Hoffmann in Buch. The pavilion style, typical of Hoffmann, combined the pleasant with the purposeful: the mental patients had lots of free space and the transmission of infections was restricted by the distance between the buildings.
Today the site is occupied by : the Berlin-Buch Rheumatology Clinic, the Specialist Hospital for Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery FLT, the Training Center for the Health Professions Berlin-Brandenberg e.V., HELIOS Klinikum Berlin
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Former Ludwig Hoffmann Hospital
(Site III)
Built as an old people's home
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Built: 1905 to 1908
Area: 10 ha
Protected historic building: 17
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From the "Berliner Tageblatt" (Berlin Daily), 1909: "This old people's home does not look at all like a hospital or a place for the infirm. The twenty beautiful houses, which make up the site, have bright walls and high red tiled roofs; there are separated from one another by green lawns and yellow gravel paths.
Archways and escape walls give the whole thing a continuous and unified appearance."
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Waldhaus (Site IV)
Built as a tuberculosis sanitarium
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Built : 1900 to 1905
Area: 10.7 ha
Protected historic building: 4
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The former Tuberculosis Sanitarium is certainly the most imposing of Ludwig Hoffmann's buildings in Buch. The castle-like installation with great open spaces serves to isolate the tuberculous patients from the general public and allows them to enjoy their stay there is an environment with plenty of fresh air.
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Former Dr. Heim Hospital
(Site V)
Built as a tuberculosis sanitarium
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Planned by Hoffmann
Built: 1914-27 by Martin Wagner
Area: 14.8 ha
Protected historic building: 10
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The last and smallest of the hospital buildings planned by Hoffman in Buch is located on the Hobrechtsfelder Chaussee idyllically situated in a wood 3 km from the autobahn and 1.5 km from the Buch S-Bahn station. The three large patient buildings, built for TB patients, have been empty since 1999, and the former laboratory and pathology buildings have been unoccupied for the last 25 years. An investor plans to build a center for thermal treatment and Chinese medicine.
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Source : „Zur Geschichte der Krankenhausanstalten in Berlin-Buch“ (The History of Hospital Facilities in Berlin-Buch), Horst Peter Wolff, Arno Kalinich, Edition Hentrich 1996
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Site I
