At the beginning of the First World War had the war commissariat in Altona, seat of the XI. Army Corps, erected a camp on the Burgfeld in Lübeck, because the space was considered particularly suitable for this purpose. The Lübeck Upper rod doctor of the reserve, Eugen Plessing (Thomas Mann used him in his roman Buddenbrooks), was entrusted with the organization and leadership of Barack hospital. Already in its planning, it was assumed that it would be the greatest in the north. It is said that that was one hospital in the war of the largest within the empire, respectively it has been the largest one.