Keller institutions
The Kellerchen Anstalten were a Danish institution for the accommodation of the mentally ill and the mentally handicapped , founded by Christian Keller (1858-1934). It went back to a school for the deaf that his father, the theologian Johan Keller (1830-1884), had founded.
The first building for male psychiatric patients was inaugurated in Brejning in July 1899. Other operations were on the island of Livø in the Limfjord , where mentally weak and often criminal men were housed from 1911 to 1970, and on the island of Sprogø , where female patients were housed from 1923 to 1961.
The novel Contempt by Jussi Adler-Olsen deals literarily with the establishment on the island of Sprogø in the 1950s.
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