District Museum Floridsdorf

The Mautner-Schlössl on Prager Strasse

The Floridsdorf District Museum , also known as Floridsdorfer Heimatmuseum , is a museum in the Mautner Schlössl at Prager Straße 33 in Vienna's 21st district of Floridsdorf .

history

In 1933, the district chairman of Floridsdorf Anton Feistl founded the Floridsdorfer Heimatmuseum as chairman.

Mautner Schlössl

Georg Heinrich Mautner Markhof (1840–1904) had a villa built in 1900, which his son Georg Anton moved in in 1902. Built in the secessionist style, Georg Anton Mautner Markhof (1875–1934) redesigned the villa in Baroque style after his father's death. Among other things, the flat roof was expanded to today's hip roof, which is why the population now called the building Mautner-Schlössl .

After the Second World War, the building was bought by the City of Vienna and used as an office building, especially since the district office was destroyed by the bombing.

After the museum association became active again in 1947, exhibition space on the third floor of the office building "Am Spitz 1" was made available to it in 1951. With a festive opening ceremony in the presence of the then Mayor of Vienna Franz Jonas, the move to the Mautner-Schlössl took place in June 1953. In 1957 the museum was closed for the purpose of adapting the structural conditions and on June 18, 1960 it was reopened.

Hans Smital Park

Hans Smital memorial stone in front of the district museum

The area around the building was named Hans Smital Park in 1966 after the local historian Hans Smital (1860–1935) and in 1965 a memorial stone was erected for him.

Collections

The focus of the museum includes the emergence of the landscape to the left of the Danube , the beginning of steam navigation , the history of the railway and the local knowledge of the district.

Exhibitions

• 2002: Othmar Wundsam : Austria's mountains. Watercolors (solo exhibition)
• 2006: Karl Nieschlag , memorial exhibition, now permanent exhibition in the Weinviertel museum village of Niedersulz
• 2009: Battle in the "Schwarzen Lacken Au", 200 years ago, to Johann von O'Brien , Joseph Armand von Nordmann and other military strategists
• 2016/2017: 100 years of Floridsdorfer Hochbahn .

Web links

Commons : Bezirksmuseum Floridsdorf  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• District Museum Floridsdorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ursula Draxler: Into the museum! ; University of Vienna, dissertation, 2014
2. ^ City of Vienna District Museum 21: Battle in the "Schwarzen Lacken Au", town hall correspondence June 26, 2009

Coordinates: 48 ° 15 '48 "  N , 16 ° 23' 38"  E