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Specialist children's clinic (formerly children's sanatorium)
Spa/Rehabilitation Clinic | Recreation and Health
In 1877, Sassendorf received its first institutionalized bathing facility with the children's sanatorium - four more followed.
Address
Specialist children's clinic (formerly children's sanatorium)
Lütgenweg 2
59505 Bad Sassendorf
Telephone: +49 2921 / 96 00 - 0
Fax: +49 2921 / 5 34 38
Properties:
They cared for "scrofulous" children from the Ruhrgebiet. Scrofula (also scrofula, from Latin scrofula; "neck gland tumor"), also known as scrofuloderm, is the historical name of a skin disease.
The historic buildings and a former drilling tower are visible from the spa gardens.
Today, the children'
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clinic is a clinic for rehabilitation, preventive and curative treatment of mentally and psychosomatically impaired children, adolescents and young adults.
Unauthorized persons are not permitted to enter the grounds.
A plaque on the "Wundmal" sculpture at the Gradierwerk provides information on the subject of "Children's cures in Bad Sassendorf".
Business hours
The clinic is not open to the public, but a plaque on the "Wundmal" sculpture at the Gradierwerk provides information on the subject of "Children's cures in Bad Sassendorf".