Evangelical Museum Upper Austria

Evangelical Museum in Rutzenmoos

The Evangelical Museum Upper Austria deals with the history of the Evangelicals in Upper Austria . It was created at the end of the 20th century and is located in the old, listed primary school of Rutzenmoos in the market town of Regau in the Vöcklabruck district in Upper Austria .

history

History of the Protestant school in Rutzenmoos

The construction of the school house of the Protestant parish Rutzenmoos began in 1839. It consisted of a single classroom and a teacher's apartment and cost 3,000 guilders . The school was granted public rights in 1871 , had to be rebuilt in 1906 and expanded to two classes. The Duke of Cumberland donated a harmonium at the opening . In 1927 45 boys and 64 girls attended school. From 1938 the school became a public school at the request of the National Socialist School Council . In 1946 142 students, including 27 refugees, were taught. The property served as a school building until the opening of a new four-class elementary school in 1996 .

History of the Protestant Museum in Rutzenmoos

Long-term plans for a museum of the history of Protestantism in Upper Austria became more concrete in 1991 with the decision on the primary school building in Rutzenmoos, for which an adequate subsequent use had to be found from 1995.

The selection of the location resulted largely from the historical character of Rutzenmoos, where an ensemble of Protestant church, rectory and school building had been preserved in the town center. The objects were essentially built in the 19th century, while the Protestant tradition in the place goes back much longer.

Peter Kuglstätter was commissioned with the architectural planning of the restoration and revitalization of the old school building . At the same time, several committees also dealt with the content-related creation and implementation of a museum concept. Roland Juranek acted as the first chairman of the museum association founded in 1995 on the initiative of the then Protestant superintendent in Upper Austria , Hansjörg Eichmeyer . Günter Merz was responsible for collecting and selecting the exhibits and bringing them together to form a coherent whole . The exhibition design, the visual design of the object ensembles and the overall dramaturgical staging were assigned to experts such as Waltraud Pichler and Daniel Pascal .

After the adaptation as a museum building with funding from the State of Upper Austria and the Protestant church administration as well as private funds, the Evangelical Museum Upper Austria was officially opened on September 16, 2000.

History of the Protestant community in Rutzenmoos

Rutzenmoos is one of the nine Upper Austrian tolerance communities that publicly acknowledged the Protestant faith, which had been cultivated for centuries, partly in secret , as early as 1782, one year after Emperor Josef II issued the tolerance patent . With the construction of the public prayer house in Rutzenmoos in 1783, the foundation stone for the free practice of religion was laid.

As a result, other parishes emerged, for example in Attersee am Attersee , Gmunden , Vöcklabruck , Schwanenstadt , Lenzing-Kammer , Stadl-Paura and Timelkam . Subsidiaries took place further away in Salzburg , Hallein , Braunau am Inn and Innsbruck . Believers belonging to the parish of Rutzenmoos still live scattered in parts of the political parishes of Regau , Attnang-Puchheim , Desselbrunn , Ohlsdorf , Pinsdorf , Aurach am Hongar and Schörfling am Attersee .

Premises

The museum's premises are spread over four levels and are barrier-free . From the foyer , the tour leads first to the basement to a multimedia show about the Reformation and then via a spiral staircase to the exhibition rooms on the ground floor and first floor. The second floor serves exclusively as an event and communication room. Currently (2017) 13 rooms are used on three floors.

In terms of content, the museum offers an overview of the Protestant church and religious history in Upper Austria. Starting with the reception of Lutheran theology in Upper Austria, the arc spans the oppression during the Counter Reformation and the five generations of secret Protestantism to the patent of tolerance. Other focal points are the ups and downs of evangelical life in the 19th and 20th centuries, the path of the Reformation through Europe and the importance of printing for the spread of the Reformation. The design of a school class is reminiscent of the original function of the museum building as a Protestant elementary school.

collection

So-called "Landhausbibel" - New Testament (1579) with Luther portrait on the cover

The collection was brought together successively and includes a. valuable exhibits from the book collection of superintendent Friedrich Koch (1838 to 1929), from the small Bible museum in Rutzenmoos, from the archives of the Protestant parishes and from private collections.

Exhibitions and events

The Evangelical Museum Upper Austria hosted special exhibitions every year from 2006 to 2010. In 2010 the museum was also the location of the Upper Austrian Provincial Exhibition Renaissance and Reformation . The supplementary event program has been expanded over the years into a cultural program with several events per year.

• The Upper Austrian Peasant War Leader Stefan Fadinger (2006)
• Traveling exhibition Falling in the spokes of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life (2006)
• Bible treasures on loan from the Schlägl and Kremsmünster monasteries (2007)
• Treasures with other loans from Kremsmünster Abbey (2008)
• Valuables u. a. with original exhibits on the life of rural residents in Transylvania (2009)
• Happy Resurrection (2010)

Museum Association

The Evangelical Museum Upper Austria is operated by a sponsoring association. The founding chairman Roland Juranek was succeeded by Ulrike Eichmeyer-Schmid in 2006, who also acts as museum director.

literature

• Association Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich (Ed.): Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich, Linz, 2001, 127 p

Web links

Commons : Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the Evangelical Museum Upper Austria u. a. with a video film of a museum tour

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anton P. Gattinger: History of the Protestant School Rutzenmoos , in: Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich Rutzenmoos, Verein Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich (publisher), p. 82
2. ↑ Thomas Ring: OÖN Architecture Prize vis à vis: From Cult to Culture , in: Oberösterreichische Nachrichten of November 21, 2009
3. ^ Peter Kraft , A House for Protestant Remembrance , in: Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich Rutzenmoos, Verein Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich (editor), p. 83f
4. ^ Peter Kraft, A House for Protestant Remembrance , in: Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich Rutzenmoos, Verein Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich (publisher), p. 83
5. ↑ Tour of the exhibition , in: Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich Rutzenmoos, Verein Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich (publisher), p. 17.
6. ^ Evangelical parish AB Rutzenmoos: Museum ; Retrieved Oct. 29, 2017
7. ↑ Working group: Museum Guide Three-Country Region South Bohemia-Upper Austria-Lower Bavaria: Evangelical Museum Upper Austria, in: Museums in the Three Country Region South Bohemia, Upper Austria, Lower Bavaria, p. 137, PDF ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link became automatic used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Günter Merz, The Exhibition , in: Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich Rutzenmoos, Association Evangelisches Museum Oberösterreich (editor), p. 18f.

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