Saarland Psychiatry Museum

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The Saarland Psychiatry Museum is located in the SHG Clinic Merzig at Trierer Straße 148 in Merzig .

It is located in the old roof structure of the psychiatry department in a room around 200 square meters with sloping roof beams and old stone walls.

Among other things, the museum also deals with the fate of patients from Merzig during the Nazi era , including forced sterilizations and murders as part of the T4 campaign .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isabel Sonnabend: Charm instead of horror. The Psychiatry Museum in Merzig. In: Saarlandwelle , July 22, 2016
  2. ^ SHG: Psychiatry Museum.
  3. ↑ "Restless, unclean and annoying"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. February 6, 2015@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.magazin-forum.de  
  4. ↑ Crimes That Affect . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , March 27, 2015

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 25.5 "  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 56.7"  E