The large casern-like building complex West of the General Hospital campus has been erected a decade before as municipal nursery home for the elderly, with a chapel in the centre.
After WWII parts of this building have become home to the West German Maxillofacial Clinics, originally a sensational private initiative for face reconstruction of wounded soldiers during and after WWI situated in the city, Sternstr.
Lit.: Albrecht-Alexander Geister, Zur Geschichte der Westdeutschen Kieferklinik: ihre Entstehung und Einbettung in die Düsseldorfer Krankenanstalten und die Medizinische Akademie, Stadtarchiv, Düsseldorf 2004.
https://www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/patienten-besucher/klinikeninstitutezentren/zentrum-fuer-zahn-mund-und-kieferheilkunde-westdeutsche-kieferklinik-zmk/geschichte-der-westdeutschen-kieferklinik
https://www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/patienten-besucher/klinikeninstitutezentren/klinik-fuer-mund-kiefer-und-plastische-gesichtschirurgie/geschichte-der-klinik
Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62964239; text: Thorsten Halling & Ulrich Koppitz
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