The Baden-Württemberg Department State Archive, Ludwigsburg State Archive (Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Staatsarchiv Ludwigsburg) contains several holdings that may be relevant for the history of leprosy in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
Finding aids for most of the files are available online.
A full text search for the key words “Lepra”, “Leprosen”, or “Aussätzige” (leprosy, lepers) yields many results (administrative documents, medical reports, and images), including the following:
http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=2-135710
http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=2-413418
http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=2-40688
http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=2-70417
http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=2-77731
http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=2-77991
http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=2-76868
http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=2-544142
http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=2-1102239
With the exception of the photographs, the files are not digitised, but can be accessed in the archive’s reading room.
Additional material on leprosy may be found in the reference library of the State Archives Ludwigsburg. Its online search function is located
Entry updated January 2016