Since 1 December 2011, it is part of the municipality Sonnenstein.
The Verwaltungsgemeinschaft was disbanded on 1 December 2011, when its constituent municipalities (except Am Ohmberg) merged into the new municipality Sonnenstein.
Extermination centres were established at six existing pyschiatric hospitals: Bernburg, Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Hadamar, Hartheim, and Sonnenstein.
Wirth had the leading position as a supervisor of all six euthanasia institutions in the Reich; Hering as the non-medical chief of Sonnenstein (Pirna, Saxony) and Hadamar.
Men and women of all ages and even children were murdered at Sonnenstein, including those from the Katharinenhof in Saxony's Großhennersdorf and from the Chemnitz-Altendorf State Institute.
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All the boards carry a motif of the Sonnenstein Fortress based on a painting by the Electorate of Saxony court painter, Giovanni Canaletto (1722-1780).
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The patients killed at Sonnenstein came from the whole of Saxony, Thuringia, Silesia, East Prussia and parts of Bavaria.