Erinnerungsort Badehaus, Historical museum in Wolfratshausen, Germany.
Erinnerungsort Badehaus is a museum in a former public bathhouse in Wolfratshausen, Bavaria. The building spans several floors, each holding multimedia installations, personal objects, and written testimonies about the fate of displaced people after 1945.
The building was erected in 1939 as a sanitation facility for the male residents of the Föhrenwald camp, whose homes lacked baths or showers. After the war it served displaced persons, and from 1946 a mikveh was installed in its cellar at the initiative of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam. In 2018 it opened as a memorial museum.
The name translates roughly as 'place of remembrance' and refers to people who lost their homes after the Second World War. Personal objects and handwritten documents on display throughout the rooms give individual faces to these stories.
The museum occupies 900 m² across three storeys, with a timeline in the stairwell linking regional events to the wider German and international context. Guided tours also cover Waldram and the remains of the armament factories in the former Wolfratshauser Forst. A museum app provides audio guides and outdoor tours.
The museum runs entirely on volunteer work, with community members investing thousands of hours to build and maintain the exhibitions. Without this effort, many of the personal stories on display would have been lost.
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