Sanatorium-cure center - Dr. Würzburger

The origin of the sanatoriums Mainschloss and Herzogh he lies back in the year 1861.damals founded the am  17.12.1816  born son of the Bayreuth merchant Jacob Würzburger and his wife Philippine, née. Romberg -  Dr. Simon Würzburger in Bayreuth in the Dammallee the "Asylum für nerves and gemütskranke Israeliten ". In the 1870s, the asylum moved to the house at Erlangerstrasse 19. In 1894, the newly built private sanatorium „Herzoghöhe“ was opened in the Herzoghöhe corridor by Dr. med.Simon Würzburger together with his son Dr. Albert Würzburger. In the meantime, non-Jewish patients were also admitted there. On September 25, 1895, Dr. Simon Würzburger died at the age of 78. Dr. Albert Würzburger and  son-in-law Dr. Bernhard Beyer opened the „Kurhaus Mainschloß“  in 1908  and expanded the range of treatments to include physical and neurological diseases. In 1932, Dr. Albert Würzburger handed over the management of the sanatorium to his children, the neurologist Dr. Otto Würzburger, the lawyer, journalist and radio pioneer Dr. Karl Würzburger, his daughter Emma, her husband Dr. Bernhard Beyer, who also worked at the sanatorium, and his daughter Anna. In 1936, the Nazi authorities converted the clinic into a „German institution“. The managing director and medical director was now the Nazi Reich physician Dr. Kurt Bach. Dr. Bernhard Beyer remained active as a physician. Dr. Otto Würzburger and Dr. Karl Würzburger emigrated abroad in 1936. When  Dr. Albert Würzburger  died in Bayreuth on July 16, 1938, Dr. Bernhard Beyer sold the clinic to his son-in-law Konrad Pöhner in order to preserve the family property and protect the sanatoria from Aryanization.