Salzburg Cathedral Museum

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The Salzburg Cathedral Museum is located in the oratorios of the Salzburg Cathedral and in the southern arches of the cathedral. The museum is also the diocesan museum .

history

Even before the First World War, the Pinzgau canon Josef Lahnsteiner urged that the old collection be reconstructed and exhibited in Salzburg and began to collect for it on his own. In 1954, the first parts of the collection were shown on the occasion of the new cathedral consecration. The actual decision to re-establish a publicly accessible cathedral museum was made in 1972. It was to be divided into three areas:

  • the reconstructed chamber of art and curiosities
  • the cathedral treasure (as far as possible)
  • The "Old or Great Gallery at Hof" (since 1980)

It was opened in 1974. Since 2014, the Cathedral Museum has been part of the DomQuartier .

collection

The art treasures of the cathedral and Salzburg churches are exhibited. They include goldsmithing, textiles, sculptures, paintings from the Middle Ages and the Baroque ( Meinrad Guggenbichler , Georg Raphael Donner , Johann Michael Rottmayr and Paul Troger ) as well as liturgical vestments from the 12th to 18th centuries.

Important exhibits are among others

  • the Rupertus Cross from Bischofshofen , the largest surviving metal cross from the first Christian millennium, was probably made in the middle of the 8th century in southern England, and was probably erected in the first Salzburg Cathedral
  • a two-armed reliquary cross from Hungary (around 1100), possibly the oath cross of the Hungarian kings
  • a host dove from Limoges (late 13th century)
  • a panel of the Pfarrwerfener Altar (around 1425/30) with the representation of Christ in the temple (festival side) and the saints Leonhart and Rupert (working day side); Another panel of the former altar is in the Salzburg Museum
  • a Madonna from Michael Pacher's circle (around 1495/1500)
  • the artistic missal of Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau (1598/99), a work of the court goldsmith Hans Karl

The Salzburg Chamber of Art and Curiosities

In the southern arch of the cathedral is the chamber of art and curiosities that was laid out in the second half of the 17th century under Max Gandolf von Kuenburg and Guidobald von Thun . It was one of the most important such collections in Europe. Over 130 artfully cut rock crystal works (glasses, trophies, etc.) from the prince-archbishop's own grinding shop were once stored there, a stock that was only surpassed in Europe by the collections of Louis XIV and the Duke of Savoy. After the secularization , the vast majority of the collection was illegally removed from the country together with the cathedral treasury. Above all, Elector Ferdinand III. At the end of his reign, von Tuscany took large parts of the old prince-archbishop's collection with him to Florence. The French robbed the remaining pieces in the Napoleonic Wars, and the Bavarians also took small parts. Only a few pieces remained in St. Peter's natural science collection in Salzburg. A large part of the Salzburg Chamber of Art and Curiosities is now in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence .

It was not until 1974 that the chamber was reconstructed as a baroque chamber of art and curiosities . Today it contains diverse objects of nature and works of art. They are divided into 1. Rosaries, 2. Minerals, 3. Scientific instruments, 4. Ivory work, 5. Ibex horn work, 6. Artful rock crystal and serpentine work (from the archbishop's rock crystal cutting), 7. Exotic shells and snails and 8. Curiosities. Stuffed animals, baroque globes and fossils can also be admired here.

Directors

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ http://www.kirchen.net/dommuseum/museum/
  2. ↑ [1] Remodeling work in the cathedral museum (accessed on April 26, 2014)
  3. ^ [2] DomQuartier

Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '52.3 "  N , 13 ° 2' 47.9"  E