Discover the Alpine House
You can find out more interesting facts about this house during a visit with the guided tours listed below:
The Alpine House
The Alpine House was built until 1907 for 273 patients. One of three interconnected water tanks in the sanatorium area was located on the roof. Set on fire towards the end of the war, it was not put back into operation after the war and has since been reclaimed by nature.
As the largest ruin of a secular building in Brandenburg, which reminds viewers of the horrors and destruction of the Second World War, the largest part of the structure stands surrounded by plants in the middle of the forest park. Since 2015, the first section of the treetop walkway has spanned this structure, allowing visitors a safe view of all floors of the building, the biotope that has been growing on the top floor since April 1945 and the impressive steel skeleton of the water tank. During guided tours of the building, interested visitors are shown technical relics and traces of filming that took place here, as well as evidence of the conquest of this building by plants and animals. The Alpenhaus is left in its original state as a monument of remembrance and as an example of the era of decay at the Beelitz sanatoriums.
Discover the Alpine House
You can find out more interesting facts about this house during a visit with the guided tours listed below:
How to find us
By car:
Address for navigation
Road to Fichtenwalde 13, 14547 Beelitz-Heilstätten
You can reach us via the A9 Berlin – Nürnberg departure 2 „Beelitz-Heilstätten“, or the Landesstraße 88. Parking lot 2 is open in winter.
By train:
You take the Regionalbahn Line 7 the route Berlin – Dessau, Get off at Beelitz – Heilstätten station and follow the signs for the Beelitz Heilstätten treetop walk (Baumkronenpfad). After a 5-minute walk you will reach the entrance at the “Pförtnerhaus” (gatehouse)