2025-06-27 00:00:00 From 1849 to 1972, Irsee Monastery housed a psychiatric institution. After Erlangen (1846 for Middle Franconia) and Irsee (1849 for Swabia), “district insane asylums” were built in all Bavarian districts within 25 years. Today's psychiatric services in the Free State of Bavaria look back on a long tradition. Today Irsee Monastery is an education center and conference hotel. An information room is reminiscent of the history of psychiatry. The former Prosektur is open to the public as a memorial room for the victims of Nazi “euthanasia”. The annual memorial event for the victims of the Nazi patient murders from 1940 to 1945 takes place in the former institutional cemetery. The app's stories give you insights into the lives of “mental nurses” and patients. You will find out what role the carnival costume of an “East African giant rooster” plays in the history of the institution. Historical images and documents illustrate everyday life at the institution. For example, in a film from 1940 you can follow the carnival parade and watch patients working in agriculture.