Georgenhospital

{{short description|German leper hospital}}

The Georgenhospital was a leper hospital established in Berlin in the thirteenth century. It was built outside the city, in Oderberg.{{cite book |last1=Richie |first1=Alexandra |title=Faust's Metropolis |date=1998 |publisher=Carroll & Graf |location=New York |isbn=0-7867-0510-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/faustsmetropolis00rich/page/26 26] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/faustsmetropolis00rich/page/26 }}

There is another hospital of the same name in Frankfurt (Oder).

There were many other St. Georgen hospitals in central and eastern German-speaking areas. They were always located outside the gates of medieval towns, mostly on important trade routes, and were originally leprosariums. They had buildings for the accommodation of the sick, a St. George's chapel and an enclosed cemetery. When the plague had disappeared, the hospitals were often used as poorhouses.