Tuesday, September 8, 2026

TB Story

 Roughly 125 years ago....about a mile up the road from my German village....they (the state) built a tuberculosis recovery hospital.  

This operated as such...until the early 1980s....when the state determined that they had 'control', and dumping a guy/gal off at a facility like this....was no longer necessary.

The selling point of this facility?  It was on a hillside....with a 6-mile wooded trail.  So as folks recovered....they were kinda 'directed'....to take a daily walk....to the end (where a rest-stop was located) and back.

What the center turned into after the 1980s?  Well...a business-retreat hotel....where you'd reserve rooms and a conference center...to have 'talks'.

Who worked in the facility from the 1900s to 1984?  Mostly folks from the village.

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