 The "Asyl Gottessorge" ("loosely, "Care of God asylum"") was founded in 1865, and also operated as part of the "Elisabethstift" complex.Further expansion came with the purchase and conversion, in 1877, of a disused sugar factory which became the "Blödsinnigenanstalt Kreuzhilfe" near the local spa resort, Thale.Then in 1884 an institution for male epilepsy sufferers, the "Gnadenthal Home" was opened, also in Thale.