The town became especially known for its Behindertenanstalt Bethesda, an institute for those with mental retardation.
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During the Roman Period a pagan shrine to either the Egyptian god Serapis or the Greek god Asclepius, both gods of healing, stood on the grounds next to the two Pools of Bethesda.