The building complex was built in 1884. After the end of World War I, a clinic for the mentally ill was established in Toszek. It existed until 1940, when the German authorities established a camp in the main buildings of the hospital. Before the Red Army entered in January 1945, the Germans evacuated, leaving an oflag of Allied prisoners. After the city was occupied by the Russians, around January 20, 1945, the POWs were released, and the Soviets settled on the grounds of the former hospital.
On one of the walls of the hospital there is a memorial plaque devoted to a German doctor of Jewish origin - Ludwig Guttmann.