Former All Saint's Hospital (Wroclaw)

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This was formerly the oldest hospital in Wrocław. It was founded as the city's first municipal sanitarium in 1526 by the governor of the Duchy of Breslau, Hieronymus Hornig, and Johann Heß (Hess), a prominent Lutheran pastor. It was named the Allerheiligen (All Saints') Hospital. Following the takeover of Silesia by Poland following WWII, the hospital was taken over by the state and renamed in honor of Joseph Babinski, a Franco-Polish neurologist. The hospital was closed in 2007 and the land was recently sold to a private developer.

The current main building was designed in 1801 by Carl Gottfried Geissler. Other buildings were designed by Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann (1869), Richard Plüddemann, Karl Klimm, Friedrich Friese (who designed the Agatha Friebe Foundation building 1901/02) and Richard Konwiarz and Alfred Weist (who designed the Pulvermacher-Ries Foundation building 1935/36.)