St. Maria Victoria Sanatorium
The St. Maria-Victoria-Heilanstalt was a hospital operated by the Dominican order in Berlin-Mitte .
Prince Karl zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (1834–1921) acquired the building at Karlstrasse 29 (now Reinhardtstrasse 14) in October 1886. In addition, in November 1889, he acquired the two neighboring properties at Karlstrasse 28 and 30. As President of the Central Committee of German Catholics and later religious priest , the Prince made the entire complex available to the Dominican Order. From 1889 onwards, the Dominicans ran the “St. Maria Viktoria Hospital ”.
After the commercial buildings became too narrow for hospital operations, they were torn down and rebuilt. On March 11, 1912, the newly built hospital and the associated St. Maria Victoria Church were opened. In 1927 the over 60 Dominican women maintained more than 400 beds for the care of the sick.
Ten years after the inauguration, cracks were already showing in the vaults of the church and in the hospital. In 1935, the damage to the church and hospital had already reached such proportions that the hospital could not continue to operate without renovation work. After the renovation, the hospital could still be operated, but the funds for the restoration of the church were missing. The church was demolished in 1938.
Due to the financial emergency of the order and the reprisals of the National Socialists , the hospital had to be closed on September 30, 1938.
After that, the Kurmark rural farmers settled in the building. After the end of the Second World War , the building was used as a publishing house for Deutsche Bauernverlag and Deutsche Landwirtschaftsverlag until 1992.
In 1994 the FDP acquired the building in order to set up its federal office in Berlin, today's Hans-Dietrich-Genscher-Haus , after the renovation and redevelopment that began in 1996 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '25 " N , 13 ° 23' 7" E