Hospitals, prisons and institutions to film in Germany
24 of them, 9 with a photo and 2 with practical details the location publishes itself. 2 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly.
Shooting in Germany pays back through the DFFF I / DFFF II / GMPF (30%): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Abtei Brauweiler
Hospital, prison & institution
Former Benedictine abbey near Pulheim later used as a workhouse and detention site, with cell wings, plain institutional corridors, a Romanesque church and courtyards.
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Alte Feuerwache Mannheim
Hospital, prison & institution
A disused early-20th-century fire station converted into a cultural centre, keeping its engine hall, brick facade and yard, now hired for concerts and events.
Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial
Hospital, prison & institution
Former Stasi remand prison in Lichtenberg with preserved interrogation rooms, cells and a prisoner transport van, run as a memorial site open for research and filming about East Germany.
Flandernbunker
Hospital, prison & institution
Wartime air raid bunker at the Kiel fjord kept as a memorial and cultural site, with bare concrete stairwells, narrow rooms on several floors and a roof terrace.
Justizpalast Munich
Hospital, prison & institution
A neo-baroque courthouse from 1897 housing Munich's higher regional court, with a domed atrium, marble stairways and panelled courtrooms.
Kammergericht Berlin
Hospital, prison & institution
Berlin's highest court, a Wilhelmine-era courthouse with a domed entrance hall, marble staircases and panelled courtrooms.
Memorium Nuremberg Trials
Hospital, prison & institution
The Nuremberg Palace of Justice, still a working courthouse, whose historic Courtroom 600 hosted the postwar Nuremberg trials and is now also a memorial museum.
Seen in: Nuremberg trials (historical)
Oberlandesgericht Hamm
Hospital, prison & institution
Higher regional court in Hamm with courtrooms, judges' corridors, a law library and formal entrance halls, listed as a location by the Film Commission NRW.
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Turm Triva
Hospital, prison & institution
Fortress tower in the Klenzepark at Ingolstadt built between 1828 and 1841 to designs by Leo von Klenze, restored in 1992 and now holding the Bavarian Police Museum.
About 1,000 sq m, parking in the Tilly underground car park, low entrance limits lorry access, weight limits apply
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Alte Klinik Greifenstein
Hospital, prison & institution
A former specialist lung clinic at Waldhof in Greifenstein, in operation until 2020, with about 4,500 square metres of floor space across an older building and later extensions.
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Beelitz-Heilstätten
Hospital, prison & institution
Sprawling former tuberculosis sanatorium and military hospital south of Berlin with dozens of derelict Wilhelmine-era pavilions, overgrown grounds and a former alpine slide building.
Seen in: Valkyrie (2008), The Pianist (2002), Hannibal Rising (2007)
Bundesbank-Bunker Cochem
Hospital, prison & institution
Cold war currency bunker under two houses in Cochem-Cond, with a blast door, long tunnels, control rooms, dormitories and empty banknote vaults.
Gedenkstaette Hoheneck
Hospital, prison & institution
A listed former prison complex in Stollberg with a main tract and three wings; cells occupied the south and west wings over four floors, and the north wing held workshop production lines.
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Genossenschaft in der Heilstaette Harzgerode
Hospital, prison & institution
The former Harzgerode sanatorium north of the town, a park-like ensemble of Neues Bauen buildings now run by a housing cooperative, with most structures in largely original condition.
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Institute of Forensic Medicine, Ulm University Hospital
Hospital, prison & institution
Forensic medicine department of Ulm University Hospital on the Oberer Eselsberg campus, with laboratory and autopsy rooms offered for filming.
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Kriminalpanoptikum Aschersleben
Hospital, prison & institution
A former remand prison in Aschersleben, a bare red brick Prussian utility building from the late 19th century with barred windows, now kept as a crime and prison history exhibit.
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Kunstlabor 2
Hospital, prison & institution
Former municipal health building of 1963 on Dachauer Strasse in Munich, taken over as a temporary art centre over six floors with bare rooms, street art, floor to ceiling windows and 6.5 metre ceilings.
About 10,000 sq m over six floors plus 6,800 sq m outside, 180 sq m event room, 400 sq m showroom, two courtyards of about 270 sq m
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Kunstquartier Bethanien
Hospital, prison & institution
A former 19th-century deaconess hospital in Kreuzberg, converted into studios and exhibition halls, keeping its brick wards, corridors and courtyard.
Oberlandesgericht Dresden (Staendehaus)
Hospital, prison & institution
Dresden's higher regional court, housed in the former Staendehaus built 1901-06 by Paul Wallot, standing between the Bruehlsche Terrasse and the Schlossplatz in the old town.
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Polizeipraesidium Ulm
Hospital, prison & institution
Regional police headquarters in Ulm listed as a filming location by the Baden-Wuerttemberg film commission, with offices, corridors and public service areas.
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Schlossbergbunker Boeblingen
Hospital, prison & institution
Second World War air raid bunker under the Schlossberg in Boeblingen, with bare concrete tunnels, chambers and stairs.
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Truppenuebungsplatz Oberlausitz
Hospital, prison & institution
Saxony's only active military training ground, set in the Muskau Heath, the largest inland dune landscape in eastern Germany, with flat plains and steep enclosed dune terrain.
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Wünsdorf Garrison Town
Hospital, prison & institution
Former Wehrmacht and later Soviet military headquarters town near Zossen, with barracks, a domed former officers' club and rows of abandoned housing blocks.
Zollernalb-Kaserne Messstetten
Hospital, prison & institution
Disused Bundeswehr barracks at Messstetten on the Swabian Alb, with accommodation blocks, workshops, drill ground and service buildings, now run as an industrial park.
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Hospitals, prisons and institutions elsewhere in Europe
Other kinds of location in Germany
- Theatres, arenas and venues 39
- Industrial and derelict locations 48
- Offices, schools and public buildings 42
- Transport and infrastructure 35
- Film studios and backlots 25
- Hotels and interiors 20
- Bars, restaurants and shops 12
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