The increase of newborns in the early 1900’s was the reason to build some new children hospitals. In Weißensee, Carl James Bühring designed and build this children hospital in 1909.

Two years later new buildings were added to the site and the grounds around the hospital became a park. The hospital was not only promoted to one of the best hospitals of this kind, but also became a training centre and, in 1911, part of the 3rd International congress for baby protection.

On the hospital site they build a cow farm and dairy with all the machines to make milk, this was all part of the “milk cure”. The milk farm closed 9 years later in 1920.

In 1985 they started building a new bed house that was finished in 1987.

After 86 years of medical support for children on 1 January 1997 the baby and child hospital was closed. In July 2006 the former hospital was sold to a group of investors, which wants to establish a cancer centre in the next years.