Schloss Hartheim – Lern- und Gedenkort
The most important things at a glance
- Audio guides, apps, multimedia, listening stations
- Assistance dogs allowed
- Reduced admission
- for people with hearing impairments / in ÖGS
- for people with visual impairments
- in easy or simple language
- Culture Pass: Hunger for art and culture
- Special tours & offers
- Tactile orientation aids
- Rollator/wheelchair rental
information
- addressSchlossstraße 14072 AlcoveUpper AustriaOpen address in Google Maps
- Opening hours
- Mon-Thu 9:00-16:00
- Fri 9:00-15:00
- Sun and public holidays 10:00-17:00
- Entrance
- € 4 for people with a disability card
- free for assistant
Contact
- E-mail addressoffice@schloss-hartheim.at
- websiteschloss-hartheim.at/barrierefreiheit
Description
From 1940 to 1944, Hartheim Castle housed a Nazi euthanasia center where approximately 30,000 people with disabilities or mental illnesses, concentration camp prisoners unable to work, and forced laborers were murdered. In 2003, the memorial and learning center was opened with the exhibition "The Value of Life."
Physical accessibility
- Entrance: barrier-free
- In the building: all areas in and around the building, cloakroom, elevator, toilets, café, bookshop
- In exhibitions: Movement space for wheelchair users, seating, including mobile seating, orientation maps and exhibition brochures in easy language
Accessible information and content
- In easy/simple language: Information about the rooms of the memorial and the exhibition “Value of Life” is available via the Capito app, brochures in easy language about the memorial and the exhibition
- To listen: accessible via the app
- In sign language: accessible via the app, some videos also in the exhibition rooms
- In Braille and tactile: tactile orientation maps in the memorial, brochures with texts about the memorial and exhibition
- Multimedia: various video stations in the exhibition rooms with subtitles, barrier-free app
Inclusive art and cultural education
- Target group-specific tours:
- • Guided tours in easy-to-understand language, max. 5 participants per group (excluding accompanying persons), duration: 2 to 4 hours
- • Guided tours for mentally ill and psychosocially disadvantaged people, duration: 4 hours