Wunderkammer Special Exhibition - D'Lecht'ler Schwåbakind

Name: Wunderkammer Special Exhibition - D'Lecht'ler Schwåbakind
Start: 2026-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Wunderkammer

Wednesday 16 September · 14:00Wunderkammer · tirol

What's it about?

When spring came, they set off. Children - often barely older than eight years old - left their home villages, their families, and their childhood. Poverty forced them to travel, mostly on foot, across the border into the neighboring Allgäu. They were called Schwabenkinder. The journey was long and dangerous, the work hard. On foreign farms, they herded cattle, worked in fields and stables - far from home, often without protection, sometimes without hope. And yet, year after year, they took this path. This exhibition tells of courage and hardship, of lost childhood and great resilience. It makes visible what was long kept silent, and commemorates children whose fates still shape our alpine history today. On open-air stage performance days, the Wunderkammer is open until 8:00 PM. With a ticket to the performance, admission to the Wunderkammer and the special exhibition is free.