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Episode 41: The Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene and Lazarus built in 1243, and Melaten Leprosorium, now a cemetary full of the Living Dead..
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The Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene and Lazarus is a sacred building in the early Gothic style in the Melaten Cemetery in Cologne-Lindenthal Germany. The foundation stone for the chapel was laid in 1243 and consecrated . It is therefore several years older than Cologne Cathedral , whose construction began in 1248.
It is located in the western part of the cemetery, on Aachener Straße , near the “Melaten” tram stop. It goes back to the time when there was a home for lepers on the site of today's cemetery.
Leprosy was a terrible affliction and the sufferes had a life of social exclusion, persecution, and were outcasts from society.
I meet a few dead visitors from the 13th Century, and the 21st Century!
Please feel free to contact me or ask me questions, or give me feedback;
talkingtothedead@gmx.de
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