{"id":50670,"date":"2026-03-06T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/von-zaren-und-kameliendamen\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:04:07","slug":"of-tsars-and-ladies-of-the-camellias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/en\/of-tsars-and-ladies-of-the-camellias\/","title":{"rendered":"Of tsars and ladies of the camellias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong><strong>The Rohrbacher Schl\u00f6sschen, an enchanting little palace, is situated on the grounds of Heidelberg\u2019s Thorax Clinic. It tells the stories not only of persons of historic interest who once lived there or visited the place. It also houses the only museum in Germany exclusively dedicated to tuberculosis. And all of this in a setting that could not be more fitting.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you visit the little palace called Rohrbacher Schl\u00f6sschen in Heidelberg, you step into a world of its own\u2014a world of kings and aristocrats, that is. But also a world of illness and death. The property, where the Bavarian King Ludwig I spent happy childhood days or Tsar Alexander I of Russia had dinner with Emperor Franz I of Austria in the banqueting hall in 1815, was actually built in 1770 as a hunting and summer palace. During the first world war, though, it was turned into a military hospital and later into a sanatorium for people with tuberculosis. Since then, the beautiful classicistic palace has been considered the nucleus of today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thorax-international.ukhd.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thorax Clinic<\/a> where, due to its affiliation with Heidelberg University Hospital, pulmonary diseases are treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_020-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_020-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_020-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_020-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_020-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_020.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Classicistic splendour: The palace tells stories of the horrible hidden within the beautiful.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the banquet hall, in the adjoining cabinets or in the Blue Salon, the tiled stoves and\u2014to some extent\u2014the floors might be the only things that were preserved here, yet the atmosphere in these rooms nevertheless is impressive. This is due to the paintings and replicas of the furniture with their detailed accuracy as well as elegant wall paintings and wallpapers in delicate shades of light green or rose. They are descriptive of a time when there was a constant coming and going of the who\u2019s who of European aristocracy. And of times, too, when the dreaded tuberculosis raged. The floor-to-ceiling windows open out onto the well-maintained remains of the former palace garden where, by medical prescription, countless sick persons once had to spend many hours in the fresh air every day.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_063.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_063-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_063-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_063-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_063-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_063-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_063.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Tuberculosis Museum is unique in Germany.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 2019, Oswinde Bock-Hensley has been the first chairperson of the <em>F\u00f6rderverein<\/em>, the association that funds the work of the tuberculosis museum. \u201cThe collection has existed for even longer than it has been on display on the first floor,\u201d the paediatrician recounts, who ended up at the museum more by chance\u2014and stayed. The Rohrbacher Schl\u00f6sschen palace is one of approximately 50 medical-cum-historical museums in Germany and the only one exclusively dedicated to tuberculosis. The affiliation with Heidelberg University Hospital through the Thorax Clinic, which provides the space at no fee, is not exactly commonplace, either. \u201cIt is really fantastic that we were allowed to move here,\u201d Oswinde says, \u201cthis has led to a very good cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Claudia Denkinger, medical director of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine of Heidelberg University Hospital, has served on the board of the <em>F\u00f6rderverein<\/em> funding association since 2019, contributing her expertise on tuberculosis diagnostics. That the neighbouring clinic works so closely together with the museum has a lot to do with Oswinde Bock-Hensley, too. She used to be in charge for infection protection at the public health authority of the Rhine-Neckar region for about 30 years. \u201cDuring that time, I walked in and out of the Thorax Clinic\u2014and I am still around here, in great part due to the association.\u201d The palace is the perfect place\u2014not only for Oswinde: \u201cIt might be a bit small in proportion, but compared to other museums of that kind, it has by far the most beautiful ambience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is important to us to put the historical exhibits into a contemporary context<\/p>\n<cite>Oswinde Bock-Hensley<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As volunteers, Oswinde and her colleagues Rainer Eickhoff and Ingrid Erhard show visitors all the exhibits that the German Tuberculosis Archive has gathered up since its foundation in Fulda in 1996 by pulmonary specialist Robert Kropp. Pointing out tiny metal and glass syringes, lab notebooks, surgical instruments, microscopes and highly sophisticated equipment over the course of approximately 60 guided tours per year, the team conveys a sense of the desperate fight medicine and science waged against tuberculosis\u2014having been one of the deadliest infectious diseases for centuries affecting mainly the lungs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_087.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_087-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_087-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_087-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_087-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_087-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_087.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Oswinde Bock-Hensley and Rainer Eickhoff regularly give visitors guided tours of the museum.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naturalistic depictions made of wax, so-called moulages, and a spine from the Neolithic Period with changes caused by tuberculosis illustrate the progression of the disease, since\u2014besides the lungs\u2014skin and bones can be affected, too. Spectacles with glaring red glasses that were used to assess the radiographic images come across as almost modern by comparison. Film posters and educational posters to raise awareness in the public create a lively impression of a time in which tuberculosis used to be an ever-present topic.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_057.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_057-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_057-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_057-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_057-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_057-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_057.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The exhibits show how tuberculosis affects the body.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oswinde plays an active role in the museum\u2019s outreach activities almost on a daily basis. Together with her fellow volunteers of the <em>F\u00f6rderverein<\/em> association, she curates the exhibition, organises events, or maintains contact with supporters and colleagues. \u201cWe would be very glad to welcome new members to our association.\u201d The chairwoman warmly encourages people to participate: \u201cWe are open to new ideas, and also for suggestions for our archive and the library.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_053.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_053-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_053-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_053-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_053-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_053-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_053.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">With these glaring red glasses medical doctors used to assess radiographic images.&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the room dedicated to sanatoriums, an atmosphere is palpable of the kind that you usually only encounter in novels and films. In this room, an original deckchair visually blends into a historical photograph showing patients lying side by side, resting in the fresh air. And here you can also encounter the so-called \u201cBlue Henry\u201d, a rather pretty, bright blue spittoon for takeaway purposes or the \u201cSilent Nurse\u201d, a thermometer without a scale to rule out any manipulation. Rainer Eickhoff explains how treatment was carried out about 100 years ago. \u201cHigh-calorie nutrition and rest were important,\u201d the paediatrician says. \u201cDoctors prescribed open-air rest cures for people suffering from tuberculosis, but surgical interventions were performed as well.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_065.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_065-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_065-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_065-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_065-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_065-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_065.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Countless people suffering from tuberculosis recovered here in the palace\u2019s beautiful ambience.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The library displays about one-third of the archive, comprising several thousand books and magazines\u2014a treasure not only for research. One example of the exhibits there is the illuminated original radiographs showing lungs affected by the disease. These were presumably made after the second world war. A portrait of Robert Koch can be found there as well\u2014his discovery of the tuberculosis pathogen in 1882 is considered a milestone in medicine. \u201cIt is important to us to put the historical exhibits into a contemporary context,\u201d the medical doctor says. The reason for this is, as the doctor explains, that this infectious disease still is potentially lethal, even if it has become quite rare in Germany and can be cured with the right medication. But this has not always been the case. This is evidenced by a long list of names that have been given to this disease over the centuries: it was called, for instance, \u201cconsumption\u201d or \u201cwhite death\u201d. Countless literary or cinematic masterpieces focus on it: amongst them is Alexandre Dumas\u2019 \u201cThe Lady of the Camellias\u201d or\u2014the classic one\u2014\u201cThe Magic Mountain\u201d by Thomas Mann.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_038-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_038-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_038-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_038-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_038-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_038.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">In the past, Oswinde Bock-Hensley walked in and out of the Thorax Clinic for work, now as a volunteer. &nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A painting of Auguste Wilhelmine Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt illustrates just how often the symptoms were misinterpreted. On a first glance, you perceive a healthy-looking young woman. Yet, as Rainer Eickhoff explains: \u201cThe rosy cheeks are a sign of high fever, a typical symptom of tuberculosis.\u201d The supposed aristocratic pallor together with the emaciated body is classified as a clear symptom of the illness. The young patient was the mother of King Ludwig I of Bavaria and died of tuberculosis in Rohrbach at the tender age of 30. She, by the way, is not the only prominent victim of the \u201cugly disease\u201d, as Oswinde calls it. Amongst them are also Karl Marx, Francis of Assisi, and Emily Bront\u00eb, who with high likelihood died of pulmonary tuberculosis also at the age of only 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_010-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_010-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_010-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_010-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_010-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wosonst.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tuberkulose_Museum_010.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Auguste Wilhelmine Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt died of tuberculosis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The oversized silver pinhead with its futuristic appearance is another example of the museum\u2019s exhibits of the rather impressive kind. It was on display for the first time in the Hygiene Museum in Dresden in 1920 and, magnified 500 times, shows how miniscule the dangerous tuberculosis pathogens are in comparison. Another exhibit of artistic value is the torso of the cardiologist Albert Fraenkel. He had survived tuberculosis himself and by developing strophantin, he introduced an important cardiac drug. And it was him who ensured that a tuberculosis clinic was established in Heidelberg in the 1920s\u2014in the place where aristocrats once lived. And where countless people have become healthy again.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tb-archiv.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.tb-archiv.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Visiting the museum is possible as part of a guided tour for groups of up to 25 people. You can make an appointment at<\/em>: <a href=\"mailto:fuehrungen@tb-archiv.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fuehrungen@tb-archiv.de<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Admission is free. By making a donation, you can support the work of the association.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rohrbacher Schl\u00f6sschen, an enchanting little palace, is situated on the grounds of Heidelberg\u2019s Thorax Clinic. It tells the stories not only of persons of historic interest who once lived there or visited the place. It also houses the only museum in Germany exclusively dedicated to tuberculosis. 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