When the first patients were admitted to the newly opened Långbro Hospital in 1909, they found themselves in one of Europe's most modern mental clinics. It was built to provide proper healthcare to the patients who had been previously considered incurable and to get them back to life with the help of right treatment methods, well trained staff and premises that were designed to facilitate recovery. The so-called “Stora Mans” (the male block) came first, a year later “Stora Kvinns” (the female block) was completed ( https://reveal.world/story/1395 )

Here in the male block, there were rooms for up to eight lying patients and individual rooms for those who had the means to pay for privacy. An assembly hall at the top of the building was used for worship services, music lessons, theater and movies. One of the most modern features was a train that transported the meals directly from the hospital's kitchen, through culverts to elevators at the wards' basement floor. In the basement there were rooms for long baths and a carpentry shop to put patients at work. 

Photo: https://langbrosjukhus.se/, photographer unknown 

For almost a century, patients with various psychiatric diagnoses were treated here, some of them quite famous.

Hermann Göring, the second most powerful man in the Nazi Germany and the founder of Gestapo, was one of them. During the Munich Putsch in 1923 Göring had been wounded. While receiving treatment for his injuries, he developed an addiction to morphine which persisted until the last year of his life. While living in Sweden, he became such a violent addict that his family had to place him in Långbro Hospital twice - in 1926 and 1927. At some point, he had to be confined in a straitjacket, although his psychiatrist felt that Göring was sane and the condition was caused solely by the morphine. Remarkably, his medical journal described Göring as a “brutal hysteric with very weak character”. 

Another famous patient in the late 70s was the so-called “Culvert Man”. For two years, the 40-year-old man lived in the hospital's culvert system. He slept on old hospital mattresses and collected leftover food. The hospital management knew about him but chose to let the man live in the 2.5 km long culverts. They did not want to chase him and he was not ill enough to be a danger to himself or others. He was diagnosed with various phobias and anxiety, and had a long history in the psychiatric ward. At the same time, many people testified that he was "intelligent, pleasant and sympathetic". Later, the hospital arranged for his own room in an open ward, where he could come and go as he wished. 

Sources: Wikipedia, https://langbrosjukhus.se/