Wunderkammer Sonderausstellung - D'Lecht'ler Schwåbakind
When spring came, they set off. Children – often barely older than eight years – left their home villages, their families, and their childhood.
Poverty forced them to mostly walk across the border into neighboring Allgäu. They were called Schwabenkinder. The journey was long and dangerous, the work hard. On foreign farms, they herded livestock, worked in fields and in stables – far from home, often without protection, sometimes without hope. And yet they took this path year after year.
This exhibition tells of courage and deprivation, of lost childhood and great resilience. It makes visible what has long been silenced and remembers the children whose fates continue to shape our alpine history to this day.
Wunderkammer
Dorf 47
6652 Elbigenalp
+43 5634 20024
info@wunderkammer.tirol
