Leprosy Museum Münster

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The Leprosy Museum Münster

The Leprosy Museum in the district children's home of the Westphalian city of Münster is Germany's only museum devoted to the history, the proliferation and the fight against the disease leprosy apart sets. In addition, it offers special and traveling exhibitions, colloquiums, lectures, publications and teaching materials on this topic. The museum is supported by the Society for Leprosy

history

The “Lazarus House” of the museum

The founding of the Leprosy Museum in Münster goes back to 1984 with the founding of the Society for Leprosy. The initiators of this society were the then head of the Northwest Action Center of the German Leper Aid Organization, Wolfgang Nitsch, and the doctor Dr. Diederich Winterhoff. In the following year, the city of Münster gave the newly founded society two rooms for the establishment of a museum in the children's home, the former leprosy of the city, i.e. at the place where the lepers were abandoned.

The museum received support from the Münster City Museum , which made exhibits from its exhibition “Pest and Leprosy in Münster” available. The museum opened on January 29, 1986, World Leprosy Day . It is the only museum of its kind in Germany. Due to the growing exhibition, the premises were expanded in 1988 and 1993.

Lazarus house

The so-called Lazarushäuschen is a special feature of the museum. The approximately 3 m × 3 m large and 4.45 m high building is the only one known in Germany of a former leprosarium. There is evidence that it already existed around 1586 on the trade route from Münster to Friesland , where travelers could deposit donations for people suffering from leprosy. The current interior with the stone sculptures of Lazarus and Saint Gertrude, the two patron saints of lepers, dates from the time of the renovation around 1618.

location

The museum is located about 5 km north of the center of Münster in the Kinderhaus district; the address is: Kinderhaus 15, 48159 Münster.

Exhibitions

  • 2001: Ralf Klötzer (Hrsg.): Kinderhaus 1534–1618: The leprosy house of the city of Münster from the Anabaptist rule to the Thirty Years War. (also literature)
  • 2007: Mirko Krabus: Kinderhaus 1333–1533: The children's home of the city of Münster from its beginnings to the Anabaptist rule. (also literature)
  • 2010: Leonie Kegel (ed.): Children's house 1660–1760: The former Leprosenhof of the city of Münster as a house of education and a poor house. (also literature)
  • 2016: Christopher Görlich: Kinderhaus 1760–1920. The poor house children's house in the long 19th century. (also literature)

Web links

Commons : Leprosy  Museum in Münster - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The poor children of God in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on January 29, 2011, pp. 58, 61.
  2. ↑ Eckart Roloff and Karin Henke-Wendt: The leprosy brought exclusion and social death. (The Leprosy Museum in Münster-Kinderhaus) In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 144-146, ISBN 978-3-7776-2510-2 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 42 ″  E