Kalladorf Farm Museum
The Kalladorf Farmers Museum is an agricultural museum in the municipality of Wullersdorf in the Lower Austrian Weinviertel . The collection includes agricultural machines, tools, household appliances and utensils and is exhibited in a roughly 380 m² brick barn.
history
The idea of founding a farmer's museum as a communication center in order not to let old agricultural work processes fall into oblivion originally came from Leopold Stadler, a large farmer from Kallador. In 1979 he turned to Helmut Wunderl with this vision and found a like-minded person in him. Then the “Kulturverein Bauernmuseum Kalladorf” was founded.
In over 3,300 hours of voluntary work by the members of the association, the exhibits were collected and restored as best as possible. In addition, a documentation was created about agriculture before the onset of the great wave of technology, which was first made available to the public on October 17, 1982.
In addition to the description of the individual work processes in an annual rhythm, the structural change in agriculture over the past decades for the Hollabrunn region was documented and visually prepared in cooperation with the Institute for Folklore. The rural training center for the Hollabrunn district, a student at the Hollabrunn HTL under the direction of Gerhard Schmid, a student at the Hollabrunn agricultural college and the Hetzmannsdorf sports, culture and community association, and the "Young ÖVP - Hollabrunn District Group", in particular, played a key role in building up the collection Groups from Wullersdorf and Frauendorf.
building
The barn made available by Leopold Stadler was built around 1900 and has an eventful history: In addition to its regular use in the context of agricultural work - a large steam threshing machine was operated in the barn - it also served as accommodation for 20 Transylvanian families in 1945 . The families had originally ended up in Guntersdorf , but the mayor there suggested that they quartered a bit out of the way, as Guntersdorf is on a well-frequented thoroughfare. The Transylvanian families subsequently hired themselves out to Kalladorfer farmers and finally settled in the village.
In 2005, from the proceeds of the potato festival, which has been celebrated for several years and organized by the “Kulturverein Bauernmuseum Kalladorf” , private donations and subsidies from the state of Lower Austria were used to renovate the roof and floor of the barn. The museum then reopened on October 17, 2005.
exhibition
In the form of a permanent exhibition, agricultural equipment, old utensils and household appliances as well as a grocery store are shown on three floors . Most of the objects date from around 1900 to 1970. A whole area is also dedicated to viticulture.
The range of equipment on display ranges from simple tillage equipment to harvesting machines - from sickles to sheaves - to threshing machines of various age categories and various horse-drawn vehicles. You can also see a number of old tractors, including a Deering tractor Petroleum from 1928 and a Steyr tractor type 180 with 26 hp from 1949.
The collection is intended to show the development of agriculture in the Hollabrunn region and, in particular, to demonstrate the different labor power of humans, animals and machines in the form of a comparison. Today the owner of the collection items is the Kulturverein Bauernmuseum Kalladorf.
Virtual Farming Museum Kalladorf
As part of a project with students from the Burgenland University of Applied Sciences , the Kalladorf Virtual Farming Museum was created in 2009 , in which selected exhibits from the museum could be viewed online. The visitor was able to move through a three-dimensionally designed virtual farm and visit a utility room, a granary, a wine cellar and a forge, in which multimedia content from the Kalladorf farm museum was provided.
Technically, the project was realized with the eXhibition: editor3D , a program developed by the Institute for Information Management and Information Systems at Joanneum Research to create three-dimensional exhibition spaces.
Kulturverein Bauernmuseum Kalladorf
Founded in 1979 under the chairman at the time, Helmut Wunderl, the Kulturverein-Bauernmuseum Kalladorf has set itself the goal of creating a farming museum of rural working culture as a communication center between young and old.
Many members of the young ÖVP of the Hollabrunn district, the rural training center, as well as teachers from the HTL Hollabrunn and teachers from the agricultural college in Hollabrunn joined the cultural association Bauernmuseum Kalladorf . The mayor Ignaz Pimberger has held the office of chairman of the association since 1992.
The association is mainly financed by an annual "potato festival".
literature
- Olaf Bockhorn, Hermann Steininger: Museums in Lower Austria. Part 2: Quarter under the Mannhartsberg. 2nd Edition. Pram 1984, p. 60.
Web links
- Kalladorf Farm Museum
- Kulturverein Bauernmuseum Kalladorf
- Peasant Museum Kalladorf in the Museum Management of Lower Austria
Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '40.2 " N , 16 ° 5' 2.5" E