Thonetschlössl
The Thonetschlössl houses part of the district museum in the town of Mödling .
The history of the house
Johann Baptist Verda von Verdenberg founded a Capuchin monastery in 1631 . The monastery was destroyed in the Turkish War in 1683 and rebuilt in 1684. The monastery was secularized under Joseph II in 1785 and acquired by Giacomo Caliano in 1786 and used to produce silk and cloths. Around 1806 the building was used as a chemical bleaching plant and around 1821 as a theater. In 1833 the entomologist Ernst Heeger bought it at auction and it was used as a silk factory. The next owner from 1845, former Countess Elise von Salm , a native of Liechtenstein, had the building remodeled like a castle. According to other sources, the castle was owned by the married couple Maria and Joseph von Demel from 1845–1862, who also lived in what is now Demelgasse . The Thonet family bought the building in 1889 . Acquired in 1931 by the Sparkasse der Stadt Mödling, the district museum, which had existed since 1904, was housed.
After the Anschluss , various Wehrmacht offices were housed before the building served as a police station until 1954 after the end of the war. After the separation from Greater Vienna , the gendarmerie was also based here. In 1958 the building was acquired by the city of Mödling and used again as a district museum from 1965.
The building
The symmetrical building with a raised three-storey middle section and two-storey side wings under hipped roofs shows a strictly historical facade on the square with a square base zone and pilaster strips and on the garden side a portal-balcony-window group and in the stepped gable the alliance coat of arms of the Salm / Liechtenstein from the middle of the 19th century. Century. The nave of the monastery, which is essentially baroque, has been preserved in the central projection. The former barrel-shaped church vaults have been preserved on the upper floor in the ballroom. The vaults were provided with neo-baroque stucco decoration in the third quarter of the 19th century.
Museum park
The also listed museum park was opened in 1957 and includes a Baroque fountain basin , a Pietà group on a base of 1756, three inscriptions-grave stones from the 16th and 17th centuries, a Protestant stone with 1581 Wolfgangus and Zezilia riding Perger Protestant councilor and market Judge , a Fragment of a Gothic column damaged in 1529 and 1683 by the St. Stephan Dombauhütte .
The museum
The museum documents the development of the Mödling landscape, shows rocks and fossils; Prehistory, also has one of the first avar collections in Austria. History, such as Mödling's fate in the Turkish wars, is documented as well as the biographies of famous residents of the city, such as Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi or those of the anatomist Josef Hyrtl .
Parts of the museum come from the private paleontological collection of local history researcher Oskar Spiegel. It was purchased for the museum with the support of the federal government and the state of Lower Austria as well as the city of Mödling.
Another large part is made by Joseph Hyrtl's library , including editions by Paracelsus and Johannes Wesling . These were digitized and made available to the general public on the Internet.
Since 2008 the museum association has published a culture magazine called medilihha every six months .
literature
- Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 , Mödling, Monumentalbauten, DISTRICT MUSEUM, formerly Thonet-Schlössl, p. 1467; Parks and landscaping, MUSEUM PARK, p. 1493f.
Web links
- Museum website
- Entry via Thonetschlössl to Burgen-Austria
- Thonetschlössl in RegiowikiAT
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Schwetz: Mödling's streets and squares in the home book for the Mödling district, 1958, p. 80
- ^ Mödling 1945 from the perspective of a contemporary witness in Medelihha , No. 15/2016, p. 23
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 12 " N , 16 ° 17 ′ 16.5" E