Hospitals, prisons and institutions to film in Poland
10 of them, 1 with a photo and 6 with practical details the location publishes itself. 1 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 Poland pays back through the Polish cash rebate (PISF) (30%): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Fort VI, Poznań
Hospital, prison & institution
One of the 19th-century ring forts of the Poznan Fortress, built to the German fortification pattern with barrack buildings, a caponier, a dry moat and outer gates largely unaltered.
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Areszt Śledczy w Zabrzu (Zabrze Remand Prison)
Hospital, prison & institution
A closed remand prison in Zabrze built in 1888 in the style of German 19th-century prison architecture, with around 290 cells across four wings, shut down in 2018.
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District Court Poznan-Stare Miasto
Hospital, prison & institution
A 1905-1908 Wilhelmine Baroque courthouse in central Poznan with wrought-iron staircase balustrades and restored courtrooms, standing next to a still-operating 19th-century prison.
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Former City Prison, Wrocław
Hospital, prison & institution
A former municipal prison on Więzienna street in Wrocław, built from the late 14th century and enlarged into a closed quadrangle by the 1680s, its basement interrogation cells now a pub and the rest an academic institute.
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Former hospital on Drewnowska street, Lodz
Hospital, prison & institution
A former hospital building on Drewnowska street in Lodz with its own chapel and grounds, listed by the local film commission as a location for institutional interiors.
Seen in: Kruk. Szepty slychac po zmroku
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Heliodor Święcicki Clinical Hospital
Hospital, prison & institution
A working Poznan hospital complex combining a 1908 main building with a chapel, and later wings from 1973 to 2001, set among wooded grounds with benched paths.
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Regional Court in Katowice
Hospital, prison & institution
A six-storey courthouse in Katowice completed in 2009, an elongated cuboid block with 51 courtrooms, a planted internal courtyard and over 600 office rooms.
51 courtrooms, internal courtyard, rear parking area
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Regional Specialist Hospital No. 5, Sosnowiec
Hospital, prison & institution
A working trauma hospital in Sosnowiec opened in 1988 on the site of the former Coal Miners' Hospital, with a helicopter landing pad and an underground tunnel to its emergency department.
Helicopter landing pad, underground patient transfer tunnel, on-site car park
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Stary Szpital w Żywcu (Old Hospital, Żywiec)
Hospital, prison & institution
A disused hospital building on Sienkiewicza street in Żywiec, listed by the regional film commission as a filming site with on-site parking and mains utilities.
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Twierdza Boyen (Boyen Fortress)
Hospital, prison & institution
A 19th-century Prussian fortress in Gizycko with ramparts, a parade ground, a powder laboratory and an armourer's workshop, hosting reenactments, festivals and light shows on its central majdan.
Hospitals, prisons and institutions elsewhere in Europe
Other kinds of location in Poland
- Theatres, arenas and venues 22
- Industrial and derelict locations 28
- Offices, schools and public buildings 18
- Transport and infrastructure 17
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