lilli
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This place has a bit of a nasty history, the franciscan monks who built the complex used to look after phsically and mentally disabled people in there untill when under nazi rule they were forced out by extremley high taxes and rumours of various scandals (priests ... it comes with the teritory really!! )
Now under Nazi rule it was turned into a institution where due to the eugenics laws phsically and mentally disabled children were sent after being complusory registered, it was one of the first places to "try out"n the euthanasia programme, with over 30 children being put to death by a lethal injection. Shortly afterwards the rest of "patients" (over 800) were sent to other institutions most never to be seen again.
After the war the buildings were offered back to the monks (at a price) but they decided against it having lost the sway that they once held in the area. The British took over and it beacme a hospital for a while and later the need for education of army children saw it turned into a school, some pupils ended up going to school in the very building they were born into!
Cant quite remember when it closed! But I do know that the chapel was last used in 1978! Well up until recently .... when I went back in 2008 the chapel was a walk in job, now there is a big welded door over the entrance but someone has put a hole in the 1st floor ... its small (jeans ripping small) but it can be done
Anyways! .....
Now under Nazi rule it was turned into a institution where due to the eugenics laws phsically and mentally disabled children were sent after being complusory registered, it was one of the first places to "try out"n the euthanasia programme, with over 30 children being put to death by a lethal injection. Shortly afterwards the rest of "patients" (over 800) were sent to other institutions most never to be seen again.
After the war the buildings were offered back to the monks (at a price) but they decided against it having lost the sway that they once held in the area. The British took over and it beacme a hospital for a while and later the need for education of army children saw it turned into a school, some pupils ended up going to school in the very building they were born into!
Cant quite remember when it closed! But I do know that the chapel was last used in 1978! Well up until recently .... when I went back in 2008 the chapel was a walk in job, now there is a big welded door over the entrance but someone has put a hole in the 1st floor ... its small (jeans ripping small) but it can be done
Anyways! .....