Irsee
Irsee | |
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Irsee Monastery | |
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Location of Irsee within Ostallgäu district  | |
Ostallgäu | |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–26) | Andreas Lieb[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 17.47 km2 (6.75 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 755 m (2,477 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 1,552 |
| • Density | 89/km2 (230/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 87660 |
| Dialling codes | 08341 |
| Vehicle registration | OAL |
| Website | www.irsee.de |
Irsee is a village and municipality in the district of Ostallgäu in Bavaria in Germany.
The centre of the village is dominated by a
In 1812 accommodation for a
History
T-4 Euthanasia program
Between 1939 and 1945 more than 2,000 patients, both adults and children, were transported by the Nazi regime from Irsee and Kaufbeuren to death camps, or were killed in Irsee by starvation or injection. The then prison director and psychiatrist Valentin Faltlhauser was held responsible for this. Since 1981 a sculpture by sculptor Martin Wank in the former institution recalls these events.[3]
In the mid-1990s, a memorial for the victims of Nazi "euthanasia" was set up in the former morgue of the Irsee Health and Care Institute. In the anteroom is the large triptych, I would like to ask you even more politely to answer the following questions (1996) created by the Munich artist Beate Passow. She combined three of the perpetrators' photographs of victims with excerpts from the correspondence between Valentin Faltlhauser and Georg Hensel, a senior physician at the Kinderheilstätte Mittelberg near Oy im Allgäu from 1939 to 1946 who carried out TB tests on disabled children in Kaufbeuren-Irsee.[4]
In 2009, three stumbling blocks by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig were moved in front of the Irsee Abbey. Representatiing of all patients murdered in Irsee were Maria Rosa Bechter, Anna Brieger, and Ernst Lossa. [4]
Current uses
In 1972 the hospital was closed. The local authorities of the district of Schwaben began the restoration of the buildings in 1974, which opened as the Schwäbische Tagungs- und Bildungszentrum Kloster Irsee ("Kloster Irsee Swabian Conference and Training Centre") in 1984. The Conference Centre is home to the Schwabenakademie
References
- Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik, 15 July 2021.
- ^ Genesis Online-Datenbank des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Statistik Tabelle 12411-003r Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes: Gemeinden, Stichtag (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011) (Hilfe dazu).
- ISBN 3-89331-208-0, S. 151
- ^ a b Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. "Erinnerungsorte - Detailseite – bpb". bpb.de.
- ^ "Schwaben Akademie Irsee". Retrieved May 22, 2018.
- ^ See Clive Head and Michael Paraskos, The Aphorisms of Irsee (London: Orage Press, 2008)
External links
- "Gemeinde Irsee". Markt Irsee. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
- Kloster Irsee, Swabian Conference & Education Centre Archived 2018-05-10 at the Wayback Machine
- Irsee Memorial To Victims of Euthanasia
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