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Leprosy or Klepper House in der Bült

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Leprosy or Klepper House in der Bült

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Leprosy or Klepper House in der Bült

Name: Leprosy or Klepper House in der Bült
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Location: Heek, Kreis Borken, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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🇺🇦Uwe 🏃‍♂️1098🏍

June 18, 2022

In the course of his research, the historian Josef Wermert, who was born in Nienborg and now works in Olpe, came across documents that prove a Klepper, Melaten or leprosy house that was in the late
medieval away from the populated area of Nienborg befabd.
The artist Michael Franke from Erkelenz, who had previously worked successfully for Heek and Nienborg, developed a steel stele with the working group that shows the difficult fate of leprosy patients.
A board next to the stele provides interested visitors with detailed information about the "Leprosen or Klepperhaus in der Bült"
Source: heek.de/seiten/rathausspiegel_2016/files/assets/basic-html/page160.html

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January 28, 2023

You can read about it here:
file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/Klapper_Gesamt_2013_Jahrgang_21.pdf
Leprosy (also known as leprosy), a disease that has been detectable for centuries and has only recently been cured, had spread greatly in northern Europe in the High Middle Ages as the population grew. Hunger crises, an unbalanced diet and poor hygiene favored the transmission of the infectious disease, which has also rightly been called the disease of poverty. In many places, and especially in the vicinity of urban settlements, so-called leprosariums, houses for the infirm, lepers, Melaten or Klepper houses were set up, in which the people affected by the disease could count on more or less material, spiritual and medical support depending on the size of the foundation . ...

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