Hadamar killing centre

The Hadamar killing centre was a killing facility involved in the Nazi involuntary euthanasia programme known as Aktion T4. It was housed within a psychiatric hospital located in the German town of , near in Hessen.
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday—Thursday: 9:00 AM—4:00 PM
    Friday: 9:00 AM—1:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: Nazi extermination center in Hesse, Germany (1941-1945)
  • Also known as: “Hadamar Asylum”, “Hadamar Euthanasia Centre”, and “Hadamar killing center”
  • Address: Mönchberg 8, Hadamar, 65589

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Liebfrauenkirche (Hadamar) and Hadamar Castle.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 210 metres northeast of Hadamar killing centre.

Public building
Photo: Asdrubal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a public building, which is situated 360 metres southeast of Hadamar killing centre.

Church
Photo: Asdrubal, GFDL.
is a church, which is situated 440 metres southeast of Hadamar killing centre.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hadamar and Faulbach.

Village
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is a small town in district in , . is known for its Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry/Centre for Social Psychiatry, lying at the edge of town, in whose outlying buildings is also found the Memorial.

Village
Photo: Asdrubal, GFDL.
is a village.

Village
Photo: Asdrubal, GFDL.
is a German village belonging to the municipality of , with 4,000 inhabitants. It is located between several other communities: Elz to the south, to the west, Hadamar to the north, and Offheim to the east.

Hadamar killing centre

Latitude
50.45034° or 50° 27′ 1″ north
Longitude
8.04251° or 8° 2′ 33″ east
Open location code
9F2CF22V+42
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Hadamar killing centre” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مركز هادامار للقتل الرحيم”
  • Catalan: “Centre d’Eutanàsia de Hadamar”
  • Catalan: “Hadamar”
  • Catalan: “Memorial de Hadamar”
  • Chinese: “哈达玛安乐死中心”
  • Chinese: “哈达玛尔安乐死中心”
  • Chinese: “哈达马尔安乐死中心”
  • Chinese: “哈達瑪爾安樂死中心”
  • Chinese: “哈達馬爾安樂死中心”
  • Dutch: “Euthanasiecentrum Hadamar”
  • Esperanto: “Eŭtanaziejo Hadamar”
  • French: “Hadamar”
  • German: “Gedenkstätte Hadamar”
  • German: “Gedenkstätte Mönchberg”
  • German: “Heilanstalt Hadamar”
  • German: “NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar”
  • German: “Tötungsanstalt Hadamar”
  • Greek: “Χάνταμαρ”
  • Hebrew: “הדמאר”
  • Italian: “Centro di sterminio di Hadamar”
  • Italian: “Hadamar Euthanasia Centre”
  • Italian: “NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar”
  • Japanese: “ハダマール安楽死施設”
  • Japanese: “ハダマー安楽死施設”
  • Japanese: “ハダマー殺害精神病院”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar”
  • Norwegian: “NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar”
  • Persian: “مرکز کشتار هادامار”
  • Russian: “Центр смерти Хадамар”
  • Spanish: “Centro de eutanasia de Hadamar”
  • Spanish: “Centro de exterminio nazi de Hadamar”
  • Swedish: “Tötungsanstalt Hadamar”
  • Turkish: “Hadamar ötenazi merkezi”
  • Ukrainian: “Центр евтаназії Хадамар”
  • Western Frisian: “Eutanasysintrum Hadamar”

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Highlights include Ägidienkirche and Garten, Anstaltsfriedhof, Gedenkort.

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