Alois Alzheimer – Birthplace

Until 1989, the birthplace of Alois Alzheimer had hardly been known. In 1989, on the occasion of a symposium to celebrate his 125th birthday, the house was eventually identified and fitted with a memorial plaque on Thursday, June 22, 1989.

In 1995, Lilly purchased the house and gave Ulrike Maurer the order to transform the birthplace into a museum and memorial and conference place.

Room in the house where Alois Alzheimer was born.

Alzheimer’s birth room houses his microscope with slides containing brain sections of Auguste D. The photo shows plaques and neurofibrillary tangles from Auguste D.

Original microscope including slides with brain slices of the patient Auguste D. of Alois Alzheimer.

The medical record of Auguste D. still exists as facsimile.

The paper file of the patient Auguste D. as a facsimile.