District Museum Donaustadt

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District Museum Donaustadt
East view of the district museum

The District Museum Danube City is a 22 Vienna district Donaustadt dedicated district and local history museum at the address Kagraner Platz 53 + 54 (Old Fire Station).

The district museum opened in 1983, the youngest in the city of Vienna, documents the history of the eight places that are now combined to form the Donaustadt district using documents, certificates, models and photos.

The museum, located on the former village green of Kagran, was housed in the Kagran volunteer fire brigade's syringe house built in 1905, threatened by demolition but saved thanks to a citizens' initiative . Later the station building to the west of the former steam tramway , which was built in 1886 and ran from Floridsdorf via Kagran to Groß-Enzersdorf , was also included as a museum building. From 2002 to 2003 a glass octahedron was erected between the two buildings as a connection and was handed over to its intended use on March 30, 2003.

Among other things, the Napoleon documentation with the " Altar von Aspern " and the depiction of the history of the rowing club on the Old Danube are exhibited . The district on the east bank of the Danube (" Transdanubia "), which was incorporated into Floridsdorf before 1938 and incorporated in 1904, was for a long time very rural and characterized by the Danube floodplains. To this day it has many garden centers, the history of which is also conveyed in the district museum. The old church clock from Süßenbrunn , models of ship mills , a living room from around 1900 and the Maria Theresientor from Essling can also be seen.

The district museum also hosts special exhibitions, lectures and other cultural events. The current museum director is Helmut Just.

literature

  • Edith Mühlbauer Mathilde Lengheim, Josef Stupka: 22 - District Museum Donaustadt . In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter, supplement . Association for history d. City of Vienna, Vienna 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wien.gv.at: District Museum Donaustadt and its creation ; Retrieved April 1, 2017

Coordinates: 48 ° 14 ′ 56 "  N , 16 ° 26 ′ 50.8"  E