User:Cautious/Jean Georg Haffner

However, in 1823 doctor Jean Georg Haffner, former medic of the French army, financed a new bath complex that gained significant popularity. In the following years Haffner erected more facilities. By 1824 a sanatorium was opened to the public, as well as 63 metres long pier, cloakrooms and a park. Haffner died in 1830, but his enterprise was continued by his stepson, Ernst Adolf Böttcher. The latter continued to develop the area and in 1842 new theatre and sanatorium were opened. By then the number of tourists coming to Sopot every year rose to almost 1200.