Hansen House is a historic building in the Talbiya neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel established in 1887 as a leprosy hospital known as "Jesu-Hilfe" in German, a name still visible on the façade. In 1887, when the old lepers' asylum in Mamilla on Rehov Agron 20, donated in 1867 by Baroness Auguste von Keffenbrinck-Ascheraden from Keffenbrink be…Hansen House is a historic building in the Talbiya neighborhood of Jerusalem, Israel established in 1887 as a leprosy hospital known as "Jesu-Hilfe" in German, a name still visible on the façade. In 1887, when the old lepers' asylum in Mamilla on Rehov Agron 20, donated in 1867 by Baroness Auguste von Keffenbrinck-Ascheraden from Keffenbrink became overcrowded, Jerusalem's Anglican-German Protestant community initiated the establishment of a larger facility designed by German architect Conrad Schick. The building, surrounded by a high stone wall, was established in an isolated spot northwest of the German Colony with the name of the institution, Jesus-Hilfe, inscribed on a lintel on the main façade. The Herrnhut Brethren, the German branch of the Moravian Church, was responsible for fundraising and management. An innovative feature of the building was the construction of a self-standing two-story bathroom tower.
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