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Die Gedenkstätten am Sanatorium Weilmünster

The Weilmünster Genocide Memorials

Schriftenreihe : Vom Kirberg zum Wellersberg

The Memorial

The great genocide memorial at the entrance of the Clinic complex at Weilmuenster, Weilstrasse 10, sculptured from black marble stones consist of 5 columns (4 standing, 1 laying) and an partially buried text-stone.

The Holocaust Information Center

The central Social Building of the Weilmuenster Clinic complex accomodates beneath it`s cafeteria rooms an exposition site with an illustrated documentation about the "T-4 Program" that illustrates the conceptional integration of the Weilmuenster Clinic into the regional fascist internal extermination structure (Eichberg, Kalmenhof, Hadamar, Herborn, Haina ...), meanwhile some of these establishments due to the internal resistance of the medical personal didn`t gain fully their character as extermination sites as determined by the T-4 administration.

The last posters headline, that guides to the expositions exit, most probably shall not be understood as conceptional advice but as a warning, that the visitors of this room never must forget ...

The 3 Cemeteries

Since the initial planning times of the new Weilmuenster Clinic complex during the last decade of the 19th century (1890-1900) a funeral area in the neighbouring forest was integrated in the hospital development concept. Some historic sources consider that this funeral site was already overstored after the first 4 decades of the 20th century, so that in the years before the Second World War most existing gravesides must have been dissolved. The nowadays still existing 3 cemetery sectors so shelter mostly the deceased persons from the years between 1933 and 1990.

The Jewish Cemetery

A small sector of 61 graves in the center of the clinic cemetery is separated with a fence and markered as Jewish Cemetery. Most probably here are the gravesides of the patients which had been registered as members of orthodox jewish believe. More detailled information written in german language is registered at the pages http://www.lassarahs.blogspot.com and http://www.cementerio-judio.blogspot.com

Every year a list with the actual jewish holydays is exposed at the cemeteries entrance.



The Clinic Cemetery

The clinic cemeteries is dominated by the holocaust memorials that are erected at those sectors, where graves of victims of the fascist T-4 extermination program have been removed, even if the cemetery also includes naturally deceased patients and clinic staff gravesides from the years after the Second World War until 1990. The exact number of victims of organized murdered patients is not exactly determined. The officially organized T-4 program worked between 1938 and 1941 but also in the following war-years 1942-1945 many racially "separated" patients in Weilmünster deceased as consecuence of starvation or overdosed sleeping drugs. Furthermore 2.595 patients had been removed during the year 1941 from the Weilmünster hospital and transported to Hadamar which was known as one of 6 central extermination stations for patient murders in former fascist Germany. During the whole T-4 program in Germany had been murdered about 70.000 hospital patients that had been considered as "unworth for life".

The Military Cemetery

The soldiers cementery is located at the upper east end of the clinic cemetery. In 1959 the 275 graves were separated by a wall from the hospital cemetery and separate access road, entrance and memorial have been constructed.

The Conmemorative Plaques

During the latest renovation and reconstruction period of the Weilmuenster Clinic complex during the last decade of the last century (1990-2003) the mayor part of the clinic cemetery with several thousand gravesides and stones has been dissolved. To maintain the memory the names written on the individual gravestones nowadays are represented on conmemorative plaques that are attributed to the different sectors of the cemetery that have been dissolved. Some other plaques remember the historic situation under the fascist regime from 1933 to 1945 that was responsable for the carrying through of the so-called "T-4 Program" that consisted in the systematic extermination of a part of the german population seen as "unworthy for life" by the german health service. Other plaques remember individual life stories of patients following the dates from former patient registers.

The Plannings for a New Intercultural Memorial Site at Lichtertal Valley

At the south-eastern limits of the Clinic complex begins the nowadays recreational area of the Lichtertal - Valley. During the beginnings of the Weilmuenster Clinic history the valley accomodated a sawmill, tourist cafes and the still existing Buderus hunting lodge "Dianenstein Castle". The needs of recovering drinking water fountains for the continuously growing Clinic complex changed the characteristics of the Lichtertal-Valley during the last century into a natural and water ressource reserve. Several mining tunnel entrances and the construction of the reinforced Lichtertal Road during the 30ies and 40ies of the last century are still witnesses of these activities.

Air-photography of the Weilmuenster Clinic (upsight left corner) and the Lichtertal Valley taken from Google Earth

The possible Temple construction sites

Two sites of the Lichtertal Valleys greenland areas offer itself for the edification of the planned Asiatic Temple - Landscape. The first site occupates the mere center of the valley at the hight where two curves mark the valleys directional change from east to south-east. The area nowadays accomodates several raised hunting sites and a feeding plantation to attract game animals (adyacent to the road curve at upper image margin, left center).

The second area occupates the upper end of the valleys greenland zones where the Lichtertal road enters the valleys forest areas and begins to ascend to the Lichterstein Mountain. The upper valley greenland zone here was reforested about 30-50 years ago with coniferous forest consisting in an spruce-plantation that merges into an thuja-plantation. In this same sector the Lichtertal Road margin is planted as chestnut alley. This previous landscape conditioning could be perfectly integrated into the future temple construction area as a kind of "holy wood".

Examples of Asiatic Temple Constructions

The following photographies shall give an idea for the future design of the Lichtertal Valley memorial site constructed as Asiatic Temple landscape with artificial water zones, buildings, passwalks, rock-zones accompanied by typical plant species from East Asia, North and South America.

Examples from the Corean Temple site constructed during 2007 Frankfurt Bookfair at Frankfurt Grüneburg Park

Examples from the Chinese Temple Garden at Bethmann Park - Frankfurt am Main

More comments on the Lichtertal temple planning proyect you can find in the correspondent chapter of the last (2009) CID-Investigation company report at
http://www.2009-lassarahs.blogspot.com

Comments, bits of advice and consulting offers are welcome to the CID-Investigation T.R.M. office E-mail adress
cidinvestigacion@googlemail.com

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