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Narrenturm ("Fools' Tower")

"The Narrenturm (Fool's Tower) in Vienna is continental Europe's oldest building for the accommodation of psychiatric patients. Built in 1784, it is next to the site of the old Vienna General Hospital, and is now home to the Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum Vienna (Pathologisch-anatomisches Bundesmuseum Wien)."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrenturm_(asylum)

 

The site of the old "Vienna General Hospital (German: Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien), usually abbreviated to AKH, [...] is used as the main university campus of the University of Vienna..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_General_Hospital

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