The Charité: Hospital for the Poor, Military Hospital, and Training Center

Following the Parisian model, a plague house had been built just outside the city of Berlin at the beginning of the 18th century, but it was never used as such and was christened "Charité" in 1727 as a royal hospital. It served simultaneously as a municipal hospital for the poor, a military hospital, and a military medical training center.

Berlin, Charité, Schumannstraße 20-21, site plan with foreshortened view of the hospital, print, mid-18th century, artist unknown; source: © Photo collection of Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Charité, http://www.charite.de/medizingeschichte/.