Töurcher en Kölle un drömeröm: "Konrad und Gussie Adenauer in Brauweiler"

In the organizer's words:

A workhouse was established in the former Benedictine abbey of Brauweiler at the beginning of the 19th century. From 1933, the Nazi regime used the buildings as an early concentration camp and Gestapo prison. The best-known inmate was the long-serving mayor of Cologne and later German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.

He and his wife were interned here in the fall of 1944. Both survived their imprisonment, but Auguste, known as Gussie, was never to recover from the dramatic events in the women's prison until her early death.

On a tour of the abbey park, the newly designed memorial and the abbey church, the guided tour provides background information and prison conditions as well as traces of their stay in Brauweiler.

Meeting point: Abbey store at the main entrance to the abbey, Ehrenfriedstraße 19, Pulheim-Brauweiler
Expert: Cornelia Breuer
Duration: approx. 2 hours.
Note: The tour is NOT "op kölsch" and is therefore also suitable for non-Cologne residents

Tickets: €13.50, reduced €12 for schoolchildren, students and KölnPass holders

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