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The intangible cultural heritage in Austria is documented in the national directory of the Austrian Commission for UNESCO . As of September 13, 2017, there were 103 entries in the directory.

Intangible cultural heritage in Austria

In 2003, as part of the 32nd General Assembly of UNESCO, the Convention for the Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage was adopted, supplementing the earlier Convention on Intellectual Cultural Heritage . It came into force in April 2006, Austria has been a contracting state since July 9, 2009 (ratification document deposited in Paris on April 8, Austria is the 112th member state to the Convention), and in March 2010 began to draw up a national register of intangible cultural heritage .

National Agency for Intangible Cultural Heritage

National Agency for the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Austrian Commission for UNESCO
Organization type	society
Abbreviation	-
management	Maria Walcher
status	National Agency
Founded	January 1, 2006
Headquarters	Vienna 1 , Universitätsstrasse 5
Upper organization	Austrian UNESCO Commission
intangible cultural heritage.unesco.at

For the implementation of the convention, the National Agency for Intangible Cultural Heritage was set up within the Austrian Commission for UNESCO on January 1, 2006 in order to accompany the ratification process . When Austria acceded to the convention in 2009, it was entrusted with the creation of a national register of the intangible cultural heritage in Austria. All recorded elements are accessible in an online database . The National Agency endeavors to ensure respect for and promote awareness of the importance of the intangible cultural heritage. It is the interface for national and international cooperation and a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue.

It is located in Vienna, in the 1st district, Universitätsstrasse 5 at the headquarters of the Austrian UNESCO Commission. After initially being located on the website www.kulturleben.at, the culture platform of the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture , it was later given its own website.

National register of intangible cultural heritage in Austria

Legend

Intangible cultural heritage is expressed in five areas, the transitions of which are fluid:

B ... area (column sorts in this order)

M… Orally transmitted traditions and forms of expression , including language as the bearer of intangible cultural heritage

D… performing arts

G… social practices, rituals and celebrations

U ... knowledge and practices in dealing with nature

H… traditional craft techniques

A… year of inclusion in the national register

W ... accepted / nominated for inclusion (... in brackets) in the worldwide Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

List of intangible cultural heritage in Austria

image	B.	A.	W.	heritage Site	state	description
	H	March 2010		Pharmacy's own house specialties	all federal states	Pharmacy's own house specialties, the knowledge of their production and the necessary equipment have long been part of the active pharmacy tradition and represent a specialist knowledge of remedies and healing knowledge as well as dealing with nature that was originally passed down orally and later recorded in recipe books.
	G	March 2010		Ehrwald mountain fire	Tyrol	Every year at the summer solstice on June 21, the mountain fires light up in the Ehrwald valley basin . The elaborate preparation is in the hands of several groups, each of which chooses its own motif, which is drawn to scale, stretched according to the slope of the terrain and placed with fuel. There is complete silence until June 21st about these motifs, which are always topical.
	G	March 2010		Bleiberger miners' culture	Carinthia	For centuries, mining was the economic livelihood for the residents of Bad Bleiberg . Although the mine was closed in 1992, many initiatives in the area try to preserve and pass on the traditional traditions of the miners ' culture : the miner's language , the Schrämstollen, the Bleiberger miners ' game , the Barbaramesse , the leather jump, etc. The miner's culture forms an important part of identity the community . Their traces can be found in house and field names , the performing arts and in the social fabric.
	H	March 2010		Bodensee-Radhaube in Laméspitze	Vorarlberg	The Bodensee - Radhaube is characterized above all by the ornament made of gold or silver threads on both sides . It is made of the same quality on the front and back and is worn by traditional costumes around Lake Constance on special occasions, such as dance performances or celebrations, as well as for representation purposes.
	H	March 2010		Burgenland indigo hand blue print	Burgenland	Under Indigo -hand blue pressure refers to the staining of fabrics by means of a special reserve printing technique. A pattern is applied to the fabric by hand with wooden models and cardboard and dyed with real indigo . The fabric printing technique was probably discovered by chance and can be traced back many centuries in numerous countries - including Hungary , the Czech Republic , Slovakia , but also in China , India and Egypt .
	U	March 2010	Dec. 2012 (2010)	falconry	all federal states	Falconry is the art of hunting with birds . In the narrowest sense, the term “falconry” includes hunting with specially trained falcons , but hawks , sparrowhawks and eagles are also used. In addition to hunting , falconry is also used to breed birds of prey .
	G	March 2010	Dec. 2012 (2010)	Carnival Imst - Schemenlauf	Tyrol	Schemenlaufen is in Imst a move to the carnival season with 26 different types of masks called. This event takes place every four years.
	H	March 2010		Ferlach gunsmith	Carinthia	The gunsmithing trade in Ferlach has been based on the collaboration of specialists for generations. Stockmakers design the woodwork of the rifle stock, engravers take care of the surface design of the metal parts and gunsmiths bring the various parts into the necessary shape. After government orders declined at the beginning of the 19th century, there was a switch to the production of hunting weapons .
	G	Sep 2010		Spark Sunday	Vorarlberg	The practice of Spark Sunday is common throughout Vorarlberg . On the Sunday after Ash Wednesday, each parish has its own spark to round off the old carnival . In the largest municipality in Vorarlberg, Dornbirn , there are even a large number of sparks organized by various spark guilds.
	D.	Sep 2010		Heiligenbluter carol singers	Carinthia	The tradition of the Heiligenblut star singing , which presumably dates back to the 16th century, has largely been preserved in its original form to this day. Elements such as the star song or the blessing of the house by affixing the blessing Christ Mansionem Benedicat (CMB) above the front door are an integral part of this tradition to this day.
	U	March 2010		Healing knowledge of the Pinzgau inside	Salzburg	The traditional healing knowledge of the Pinzgau women and its practical application were collected for the first time in 2005 and documented in writing. There is a list with so far 106 remedies as well as their indications and effects. The remedies used, such as pitch , arnica or St. John's wort, are available locally, embedded in the cultural context and thus inextricably linked to the region. The empirical knowledge is passed on orally and practically according to the "master-student principle". For a recipe to be passed on, its effectiveness must have been proven over the centuries.
	G	March 2010		Dog toarang fishing	Salzburg	The Ranggeln on High Hundstein in Pinzgau is probably the oldest in the Alpine region discharged sport . Its roots go back to the 14th century.
	M.	March 2010	Dec 2015	Classical horsemanship and the high school of the Spanish Riding School	Vienna	The knowledge of the classical art of riding and the high school on and above the earth is passed on orally from one generation of riders to the next at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna and presented to the public in national and international riding demonstrations. The young Eleven and Assistant Rider not only learn from their older colleagues but also by school stallions themselves.
	H	March 2010		Lesachtaler bread production	Carinthia	The traditional bread-making in Lesachtal , particularly in Maria Luggau and Liesing comprising cereal crops and seed extraction in a mining region , the knowledge of the mill construction , dialect expressions , rituals (for example, drawing of three crosses in front of slicing the bread, or the insertion of a Palmkreuzchens in the field ) , the annual mill festival in Maria Luggau and the Lesachtal village and bread festival.
	M.	March 2010		To tell fairytales	all federal states	Telling fairy tales is the art of entertaining people with stories in a playful and mentally stimulating way.
	H	Sep 2010		Stove and fireplace masonry in Burgenland	Burgenland	The craft of stove and chimney masons is particularly characteristic of the Burgenland communities of Neutal , Ritzing and Sigless. Both the families in which the craft is practiced and the entire villages have a strong connection to the stove and fireplace walls.
	G	Sep 2010		Perchtoldsdorfer Guard Entry	Lower Austria	The move into the guard is an integral part of the Perchtoldsdorfer Weinhauer annual course , even if the job description of the guard became obsolete and disappeared in the course of the 1970s.
	G	Sep 2010		Salzburg festival shooting	Salzburg	The festival shooting is part of the tradition in the entire state of Salzburg . Although the equipment used for shooting differs massively from place to place - the bows range from traditional wooden rifles to pillory sockets and firecrackers - the tasks performed by the rifle clubs in the communities are very similar.
	G	Sep 2010		Samson wear in Lungau and Murau district	Salzburg	In Austria, the custom of the Samson figures, a parade with gigantic figures, is only at home in Salzburg's Lungau and two communities in neighboring Styria . It is an integral part of the regional customs calendar and is always popular.
					Styria
	H	Sep 2010		Forging in Ybbsitz	Lower Austria	In Ybbsitz , forging can look back on centuries of history. Some blacksmith dynasties, which used to be referred to as “black counts” in reference to their craft and their considerable wealth, can look back on a family tradition of over 200 years. The Wels smithy, for example, is now in the 15th generation in the possession of one and the same family.
	M.	March 2010		Slovenian field and farm names in Carinthia	Carinthia	The traditional Slovene field and farm names are an important source of understanding for the economic, socio-historical and linguistic developments in the Carinthian region. They are part of the cultural heritage of the Carinthian Slovenes as well as the German-speaking residents of the region.
	D.	March 2010		Carol singing in Villgratental (Ausser- villgraten and Innervillgraten)	Tyrol	Every year between Christmas and the feast of the Magi, the traditional carol singing takes place in Villgratental . For two days, two groups go from house to house in specially made clothes and sing traditional New Year's songs .
	G	Sep 2010		Ebenseer Glöcklerlauf	Upper Austria	Starting from Ebensee , the custom of the Glöcklerlauf spread across the entire Salzkammergut and the Wolfgangsee region as far as Styria . This custom, which takes place annually on January 5th, is characterized by the typical white robe of all passports, the wearing and ringing of large bells, the walking of various figures and the wearing of light caps.
	U	March 2010		Salzkammergut bird trapping	Upper Austria	The tradition of bird trapping in the Salzkammergut includes catching individual native forest birds in autumn, keeping the birds outside of the fishing season in aviaries , and the forest bird exhibition on the Sunday before Kathrein (November 25), in which the most beautiful birds due to their splendor of color, integrity and their own in perfect condition. The birds are provided with domestic food collected over the year. In spring, the birds, with the exception of the decoys, are released back into the wild.
	G	March 2010		Association for mutual help in the event of fire "ancillary service"	Lower Austria	The association for mutual help in the event of fire "ancillary service" is a self-help organization in St. Oswald im Yspertal, which provides help in the event of fire in the region in the form of work, natural goods or money.
	G	March 2010		United to Tamsweg	Salzburg	The "United to Tamsweg" is the oldest, continuously existing association of working men in the regional area of ​​Tamsweg and was founded by Lungau craftsmen in 1738 as a burial brotherhood. To this day, the members attend funerals , take part in church processions and hold the United Octave every year between January 1st and the Saturday after Ash Wednesday - a festival week in which not only Tamsweger take part, but also members of the brotherhood from the federal states.
	G	Sep 2010		Vienna Ball	Vienna	The beginnings of today's Viennese ball culture can be found in the 19th century, at the time of the Vienna Congress . The Viennese ball tradition is characterized by the fact that it was able to combine traditional elements with new fashion trends and thus create a bridge between the generations. Today, for example, dances and music from the 19th century are performed as well as the world dance program of the 20th century. Removed from the UNESCO list again in 2012.
	D.	Sep 2010		Viennese dudler	Vienna	Doodling is an important part of Viennese singing culture . Its origins can be traced back to the beginning of the 19th century, when Tyrolean singers went on tours through the cities of Europe and thus brought the custom of yodelling closer to the city's population . In Vienna, doodling developed primarily in the Ottakring and Hernals districts .
	M.	Sep 2010		Ötztal dialect	Tyrol	The Ötztal dialect represents the strongest and most formative element of the local identity of the people of the Ötztal . It looks back on around 900 years of tradition.
	G	Sep 2010		Telfer sneaking out	Tyrol	Around 500 men actively participate in the tradition of the Telfer Schleicherlauf. Every five years they come together again in their carnival groups. Various carnival chronicles show that many families have been taking part in the Telfer Schleicherlauf for generations. A large part of the Telfer population is also involved in the carnival preparations through the preparation of their robes, the mending of jewelry, etc.
	M.	March 2011		Roman - the language of the Burgenland Roma	Burgenland	The novel is a variety of Romani that is specific to the Roma living in Burgenland ( Burgenlandroma ) and is spoken exclusively on Austrian territory. The novel can look back on more than 500 years of tradition and is used today in all common media of the Burgenland Roma. Roman is spoken mainly in the family environment, but also with friends and other members of the ethnic group . The novel is passed on primarily outside the family in the form of language courses for different age groups.
	M.	March 2011		Vorarlberg field names	Vorarlberg	Since corridors and fields are often far away from the villages and farms, their exact local names were of great importance for the conclusion of contracts, the preparation of directions and the calculation of taxes to be paid. For centuries, the location and thereby the resulting formed Fieldnames a natural part of the rural life reality. Only in the course of the far-reaching agricultural restructuring after the Second World War, and especially from the 1960s, did many field names become obsolete and threatened to be forgotten.
	D.	March 2011		Dürrnberg sword dance	Salzburg	The Dürrnberg sword dance has been practiced for around 500 years and is closely linked to the Salzburg saltworks industry and mining . It is a round and chain dance rooted in the medieval tradition of craftsmen and standing dances , which was originally performed by miners at professional festivals and other special days. To this day, the sword dance is exclusively reserved for special occasions. The dance itself contains a series of sequences of steps and complicated dance figures , using the sword as a link. In addition, a special miner's costume is worn with the miners' professional props and status symbols. Until the salt works closed in 1989, the sword dance was performed every four years under the chairmanship of the salt works director and mine manager. Since then, the association of former miners has dedicated itself to the cultivation of dance.
	D.	March 2011		Austrian folk dance movement	all federal states	The Austrian folk dance movement is rooted in the research and collecting activities of some personalities of the late 19th century and borrowed from rural traditions, often only in remnants. At the same time as the systematisation and recording of the various dances began, the focus on Austrian peculiarities began. The dances were not only collected and saved for posterity, they were also taught more intensively and thus saved from extinction.
	G	March 2011		Knuckle in the Tyrolean lowlands	Tyrol	The Anklöpfeln is in the Tyrolean Lower Inn Valley kept hot . A group of mostly male singers disguise themselves as shepherds and then pay a visit to the houses in the neighborhood on the three Thursdays before Christmas (Klöpflnächte). The singers are invited into the house and sing a few songs that proclaim the Christmas message of the birth of Jesus.
	G	March 2011		Ebenseer scraps	Upper Austria	When Ebenseer Fetzenzug is a year on Shrove Monday in and around Ebensee held carnival parade , whose exact origins are unclear. The participants, the “scraps”, dress in old women's robes with rags sewn to them. They wear a tattered hat and an artistically carved wooden mask. The train traditionally meets at an inn in Kohlstatt and then moves to the town hall of the market town of Ebensee . This is where the real high point of the event begins, the "blessing": The scraps tell their fellow citizens what they think in a disguised voice. The aim is not to be recognized. The hustle and bustle is accompanied by the “Parapluie March”, also known as the “Shredded March”.
	G	March 2011		Gastein Perchten	Salzburg	The tradition of the Gasteiner Perchtenlauf goes back to the Carnival runs of the Renaissance and Rococo times and takes place every four years between New Years and Epiphany in the Bad Gastein and Bad Hofgastein area . Among the approximately 140 different figures traveling with them there are also around 30 cap wearers, who wear impressive headdresses, usually several meters high. The cap bearers bring the audience along the way in the form of a short dance performance and a bow on the orders of the Perchten captain, congratulations and blessings.
	G	March 2011		Light roast Monday in Bad Ischl	Upper Austria	Every year on the Monday after Michaelmas (September 29th), the light roast Monday is celebrated in Bad Ischl . This refers to a custom in which the master used to buy his employees a "Bratl" because that was the first day that artificial light had to be used again. Today it is a class meeting of all round jubilees over 50 of each year, who were born in Bad Ischl or have their main residence there.
	G	March 2011		Mullen and Matschgern in the MARTHA villages	Tyrol	The custom of mulling or muddy-mashing (masking / masking) practiced during Carnival can look back on centuries of tradition in the MARTHA villages northeast of Innsbruck . Each figure has a special role, so the witches act as pioneers, other figures such as the mirror tuxer impress with their imposing appearance and still others act as law enforcement officers. The exuberant and colorful hustle and bustle culminates in the so-called Mullen or Abmullen, a kind of honor in which the customary chooses a person from the crowd, rubs his shoulder and gives him a small blow.
	G	March 2011		Silent Night - the song for Christmas	all federal states	The Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night , composed in 1818, is a fixed point on Christmas Eve for many people and is an indispensable part of celebrations in family and friends as well as church celebrations, especially Christmas mass. For many, it is the epitome of the Christmas carol . The Silent Night Society , which takes on the care of the legacy of the songs, sees the song endangered in corruption or reduction to the first verse.
	G	March 2011		Windischgarstner Niglo parade	Upper Austria	The Niglo parade on the eve of St. Nicholas Day (December 6th) is an annual fixture of the Advent season in Windischgarsten . It consists of about 30 people: the night watchman , the Nigloherrn (a gentleman in urban clothing) and the Niglofrau (a younger woman with white dress and crown), several Nigeln (in fur-clad Krampusse with larvae to the body clamps and birch rods supporting ), several angels, the devil, Saint Nicholas and various secondary characters. The colorful company gathers at the Heimathaus and then moves through the market into the town hall courtyard, where the figures present themselves on the stage and the Nigloherr and Nikolaus each recite a poem. At the end of the day, the children present receive a small present.
	G	March 2011		Wirlinger gunmen	Upper Austria	The main task of the traditional rifle club Wirling is to help shape religious and secular celebrations such as weddings, church festivals and parades as well as the rough night shooting through gunfire. A specially designed cannon is brought into position on a hill and fired at precisely defined times depending on the occasion. It is important that you always wait for the echo of the firecrackers bang, which can last up to twelve seconds, before firing the next shot.
	U	March 2011		Three-stage agriculture in the Bregenz Forest	Vorarlberg	Since most of the farms in the Bregenzerwald do not have enough forage to feed their cattle all year round, farmers in the Bregenzerwald still use a tried and tested form of farming, namely three-tier farming . In the seasonal cycle, the families or part of the family move with the cattle from the farm in late spring first to the Vorsäß (a low-lying alpine pasture) and around the beginning of July to the alp . Today the economy follows the hay milk criteria of silo-free production.
	H	March 2011		Charcoal burning	all federal states	When charcoal is a craft technique from the rural environment, primarily the production of charcoal is used. Using dry distillation , wood is heated in the absence of air and charred over a period of several weeks, converting it into the purest possible carbon .
	H	March 2011		Bad luck in Lower Austria	Lower Austria	Under the resin extraction means a centuries common hand that the extraction of resin from Föhrenbäumen serves. The trunk of the tree is superficially wounded in order to artificially stimulate the flow of resin. The resin obtained , also known as pitch, is processed in refineries and boilers to make turpentine oil and rosin . Until the second half of the 20th century, these intermediate products were the basis for the industrial production of paper, varnishes, paints, soap and many other products.
	M.	Oct 2011		Songs of Lovara	Burgenland	Songs are an important part of the Lovara cultural tradition . The songs are mostly about the family and the community, but they also reflect the role of the individual and the previous way of life of the Lovara. In addition, the songs are a memory of the language, they contain but for this novel variant typical phrases, metaphors, speech formulas or individual expressions today in everyday use little more (or no) use find.
					Vienna
	G	Oct 2011		Bloch pulling in Fiss	Tyrol	The bloch pulling in Fiss is one of the largest carnival customs in the Alpine region. It takes place every two years, with the adults pulling the Bloch alternating with that of the 6-14 year olds, the children's Bloch pulling. The bloch tree is fetched in late autumn: a stately Swiss stone pine is felled, guarded and placed on three sledges two days before the move. On the day of the parade, the participating figures gather in the center of the village and, at the command of the carter , the bloch begins to move, pushed by numerous masked people. Witches and "Schwoaftuifl" try to make progress more difficult. Playful elements are not only essential details, but also serve to entertain the audience. After the Bloch has reached the school building, it is auctioned.
	G	Oct 2011		Murau carnival race	Styria	This exhausting and time-consuming process of moving and preying is practiced at regular intervals of two to five years on a certain day of the year, usually on Mardi Gras, in several places in the Murau district . The equipment of the carnival racers is reminiscent of the former clothing of the threshers. Nevertheless, the external appearance and the number of carnival racers and their companions show slight local differences. The participating groups and individual figures move either in vehicles or on foot from courtyard to courtyard and have to overcome obstacles before entering: either overcome a tensioned chain (Speng) or accept the challenge of a duel.
	G	Oct 2011		Viennese coffee house culture	Vienna	The tradition of Viennese coffee house culture goes back to the end of the 17th century and is characterized by a very special atmosphere. Typical of a Viennese coffee house are marble tables on which coffee is served, Thonet chairs , boxes, newspaper tables and interior details in the style of historicism . The coffee houses are a place “where time and space are consumed, but only the coffee is on the bill”.
	U	Oct 2011		Knowledge of the hazel spruce as tonewood	Tyrol	Hazel spruce , a growth variant of normal mountain spruce with a penchant for wimmerigemn annual rings (growth hazelnuts), mostly of coming into the forests Alps over 1,200 meters above sea level before. Only a few wood experts are able to recognize this characteristic of wood on a standing tree. The hazel spruce can be clearly identified if you remove a piece of bark - on the rolls running in the longitudinal direction. Due to its specific properties, the wood of the hazel spruce has always been used as tonewood for musical instrument making, where the highest demands are placed on the quality of the wood.
	U	Oct 2011		Transhumance - Sheep migration in the Ötztal Alps	Tyrol	The transhumance in the Oetztal Alps is a special type of sheep Fugue , which on old grazing rights based. The hikes run from South Tyrol via the Timmelsjoch  (2,509 m), the Hochjoch  (2,885 m) and the Niederjoch  (3,017 m) into the North Tyrolean Ötztal and are considered the only cross-border transhumance in the Alps that leads over glaciers . Not only climatic but also national borders are exceeded. Every year around 5,000 to 5,500 sheep are driven into the Ötztal alpine pastures in early summer and back again in autumn.
	M.	Sep 2012		Storytelling in the Montafon	Vorarlberg	In the Montafon mountain valley, narrative communities developed as part of daily communication. The content, values ​​and patterns of the local legends and stories go back to the 19th and 20th centuries. The storytelling tradition is still an important part of the community and is cultivated in everyday life as well as on special occasions. Numerous cultural initiatives and cultural carriers in the Montafon actively contribute to the collection and preservation of the local stories that have been researched since the 19th century.
	D.	Sep 2012		Jew's harp game in Austria	all federal states	The Jew's Harp is one of the oldest musical practices of mankind and is particularly widespread among the Asian Turkic peoples and in Europe. The Jew's Harp is a drone instrument made from various metals and bamboo. Centers of production and play have emerged, each with their own characteristics, grown historically and embedded in the respective regional folk culture. In Austria, Molln / Upper Austria is such a center (entry The production of the Mollner Jew's Harp ). Here, with the typical "solo instrument", a style of playing has developed in which a player uses two to four differently tuned jew's harps as a musical innovation.
	G	Sep 2012		Festive use of the civil and rifle guards of the Murau district	Styria	Five citizens and protecting Garden are organized in the district association Murau: the Murauer Civil Guard, the Guard Protect Krakaudorf , the shooters Guard Krakauebene , the Prang Protect Guard Ranten and Protect Guard of the parish of St. Peter am Kammersberg . As an honorary guard, they go out several times a year on festive occasions (anniversaries, weddings, visits to high-ranking people) and church processions (Corpus Christi and patronage festival). They are characterized by traditional uniforms and equipment as well as their typical march.
	G	Sep 2012		Fasnacht Nassereith - Schellerlaufen	Tyrol	The Nassereith Fasnacht, also known as "Schellerlauf" (Schellerlauf) since 1951, is a custom that takes place every three years in Nassereith , Imst district, on one day between Epiphany (January 6th) and Ash Wednesday. The focus is on the move, which is characterized by a splendid color and typical wooden larvae. Exactly handed down rules and the knowledge about the production of masks, costumes and utensils are passed on from generation to generation. A carnival committee has been elected to organize the organization every six years since 1923.
	H	Sep 2012		Reverse glass painting in Sandl	Upper Austria	As a result of the immigration of North Bohemian specialists in glass refinement, reverse glass painting came to Buchers and Sandl in the Mühlviertel around 1760 , which, together with the Waldviertel and South Bohemia, is still known today for its glass refinement. The good availability of the raw materials wood and quartz sand favored the development of reverse glass painting. In Sandl the images were produced in the surrounding glassworks and in-house commercial, hawked at fairs and places of pilgrimage and Kraxenträgern exported to all countries of the Danube monarchy. Today there is one full-time and several part-time reverse glass painter in Sandl.
	D.	March 2013		Innviertler Landler	Upper Austria	Innviertler collieries were purely peasant fellowships, these cultivated sociability and pub culture, and produced artistic achievements in the collective colliery dance - the Innviertler Landler . The Innviertler Landler is a combination of dance (die Eicht), music, poetry and singing - the melody, the special, attached yodel (Almer) and above all the "warped" rhythm in ¾-time make the Innviertler Landler a specific one Game form within the Austrian country family. Cultural heritage with a tradition of more than 250 years.
	D.	March 2013		Row dance in Sierning	Upper Austria	Until the 20th century, the Länders ' dance was a "dance for everyone" throughout the southern German-speaking area and beyond. In the Traunviertel a very special form of the Länders is handed down to this day by the Ruden, which are - mostly peasant - young men 's associations. The Sierninger Rudenkirtag has been held on Shrove Tuesday for 200 years , on which the Traunviertler Ruden (groups of around four to eight dance couples) come together. In addition to music, dance and singing, special attention is paid to the Gstanzl , which are rewritten every year and allude mockingly and critically to local, national and global political and social events.
	D.	March 2013		Passion Play Erl	Tyrol	For 400 years, the traditional Passion Play , which has its origins in the Christian Easter plays, has taken place in Erl every six years . Despite its now internationally renowned reputation and a lively audience, it is the residents of Erl in particular who stand up for the preservation and further development of these traditionally Christian games, around 600 of the town's 1,450 residents are on stage throughout the summer season. One year before the performance, members of the committee go from house to house and ask Erl's residents of all ages if they want to participate - with no claim to a specific role.
	D.	March 2013		Pinzgauer pomace dance of the Salzburg ALPINIA	Salzburg	The Pinzgauer Tresterertanz is a special regional form of the Schön perchtenlauf . The round dance with hopping and stomping steps and typical costumes is performed annually in the Pinzgau region of Salzburg on January 5th, the Perchten evening before the Epiphany, when it is dark as a circulating custom from house to house. The group of dancers is accompanied by musicians. The visit of the pomace is an honor and a good omen for the new year. Discovered in Krimml around 1909/10, performed from 1912 and recorded for the first time in 1942. The word pomace ('stamping, mashing in') goes back to the practice of leaking the grapes.
	G	March 2013		Aperschnalzen in the historic Rupertiwinkel	Salzburg	Aperschnalzen is a more than 200-year-old custom in the historic Rupertiwinkel , an area of ​​the prince archbishopric, which is practiced today in several villages on both sides of the border rivers Saalach and Salzach, i.e. in Bavaria and Salzburg. Between St. Stephen's Day and Shrove Tuesday, the pass (groups of nine people) click their Goaßln (whips, from 'Geissel') one after the other until they produce a certain beat. In addition to snapping at major official events, there are also traditional competitions, which are the respective community snaps and the Rupertigau price snapping that takes place once a year.
	H	March 2013		Lace making in Salzburg	Salzburg	The origin of lace goes back to the Renaissance. This should not only protect the edges of textile products from fraying, but also decorate them artfully. The great demand made the craft technique of lace in Salzburg grow into an economic branch of supraregional importance and an independent form of lace developed. Lace was mainly made in house industries and not only used for regional needs, but also exported abroad, making it an important source of income for countless families. After its heyday between 1600 and 1800, the craft was forgotten until it was rediscovered and revived in the middle of the 20th century.
	H	March 2013		Basket making - the art of weaving with wicker, straw and split wood	Styria	The millennia-old handicraft technique of making baskets from different natural materials has always been an important part of everyday life. The baskets, woven and sewn from wicker, straw and split wood, were used to carry and store all kinds of things. In many parts of Austria, wickerwork was an important domestic trade. Especially in the region of Southeast Styria (Vulkanland) an extensive variety of knowledge and variety in the art of braiding has developed.
	M.	Sep 2013		Austrian sign language	all federal states	The Austrian Sign Language  (ÖGS) forms the social and cultural foundation of the Austrian sign language community. It is the mother tongue of deaf people in Austria and thus an essential part of their identity and has been legally recognized as their own language since 2005 . The ÖGS is mainly spoken by the deaf and is also occasionally learned by hearing people as an additional language. It contains dialects that differ regionally and in terms of vocabulary. The first school for the deaf was founded in Vienna in 1779, and the language has been cultivated and passed on since then.
	G	Sep 2013		Exposure discharge at Maxlaun in Niederwölz	Styria	“The execution of the freedom” is the focus of the parade at “Maxlaun”. The Maxlaun market takes place annually on the second weekend in October and lasts for three days in Niederwölz , Murau district . The name is derived from the church patron Maximilian, whose festival is celebrated on October 12th.
	G	Sep 2013		Holy Grave Brotherhood of Pfunds	Tyrol	The “Holy Grave Brotherhood” has existed since 1511, which has made it its business to maintain the tradition of placing the Holy Sepulcher in the Church of Our Lady in Pfunds on the Saturday before Palm Sunday as well as the 24-hour uninterrupted adoration of the Holy of Holies from Good Friday to Holy Saturday .
	G	Sep 2013		Sacrament Guard in Tyrol	Tyrol	The Tyrolean Sacrament Guards were founded 500 years ago and arise from the honorable "rulers' escorts" for the sacrament in Spain from the 12th century, which also reached Austria via medals in the religious eddies of the Reformation in the early 16th century.
	H	Sep 2013		Pitch oil burning in the eastern Mühlviertel	Upper Austria	In the eastern Mühlviertel , pitch oil, a distillate made from pitch , is obtained with the help of numerous preserved pitch oil stones . The historical pitch oil stones are mostly made of granite and have grooves on their flat surface, similar to leaf veins. On the mostly slightly inclined stones, piles made of resin-rich pine wood are erected and covered with earth. Approximately two hours after the kiln has been ignited, the pitch oil begins to flow following the veins. In earlier folk medicine, pitch oil was widely used.
	U	Nov 2013		Knowledge of the locations, harvesting and processing of the dotted gentian	Tyrol	The harvest of the spotted gentian (Gentiana punctata) has been regulated for use as gentian schnapps in Paznaun, and especially in Galtür , since the 17th century . The knowledge about the locations is passed on in the family circle. This strict protection out of self-interest is an important contribution to nature conservation.
	D.	March 2014		Aberseer Schleuniger	Upper Austria
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	H	March 2014		The production of the Mollner Jew's Harp	Upper Austria	In Austria, Molln a center of Jew's harp makers guild . The guild files start with 1679, the first Handwerksordnung 1690. Today, there are three manufacturers. The entry Jew's harp game , for which Molln is also an important center, applies to all federal states
	G	March 2014		Gauder festival in Zell am Ziller	Tyrol	The Gauder Fest is a spring festival that originated around 1500. Today a big valley festival of the Zillertal with costume parade , competitions (Gauder ranggeln, Gauder Sechskampf etc.), field fair , craft and farmers market , animal breeding show and other supporting program, and the special Gauder bock beer . Takes place on the first weekend in May.
	G	March 2014		Liebstatt Sunday in Gmunden	Upper Austria	A feeding of the poor at Laetare (fourth Sunday of Lent), which was confirmed by the episcopal in 1641. Today, Liebstattsonntag takes place in several places in Upper Austria as a village festival with gingerbread hearts reminding of the meal.
	D.	March 2014		Metnitz Kinisingen	Carinthia
	H	March 2014		Austrian scythe forging	all federal states
	D.	March 2014		Reither Nikolausspiel	Tyrol
	D.	March 2014		Traunkirchen murderous shift	Upper Austria
	U	March 2014		Knowledge of traditional seed cultivation and production	all federal states	Old plant varieties played an important role in Austria with its small-scale and often extreme locations, and has produced numerous autochthonous varieties. The knowledge of seed cultivation, seed harvest, selection, cleaning and storage was passed on in the local community. This cultural asset has been increasingly cultivated again in recent years. The seed exchange association Noah's Ark and the register of traditional foods of the Ministry of Life are important contributions .
	U	Sep 2014		Knowledge of rafting on the Upper Drau	Carinthia
	D.	Sep 2014		Öblarn Krampus game	Styria
	G	Apr. 2015		Ram procession to Obermauern	Tyrol	A pilgrimage with a ram in Virgen and Prägraten on the first Saturday after Easter, White Saturday . The pilgrimage to the Maria Schnee church in Obermauern goes back to the gratitude for being saved from the plague during the Thirty Years' War.
	M.	Sep 2015		Ratcheting in the Holy Week	all federal states	Ratchets , noise with a wooden schrapinstrument is a noise custom . In Austria, according to Catholic custom, the church bells fall silent during Holy Week (“they fly to Rome”). During this time there is instead gossip, mainly by acolytes , boy scouts and the young crowd .
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	G	Sep 2015		Slamming the windows	Vorarlberg
	G	Sep 2015		Zachäussingen in Zirl	Tyrol	At Zachäussingen the Döfler open the church day on the third Sunday in October early in the morning with a common singing of a song for Zacchaeus the customs officer , with a church choir and a wind group. The song, which is about penance and repentance, was written in the 18th century by a Zirler messner.
	H	Sep 2015		Trattenbacher Taschenfeitel production	Upper Austria	In the Trattenbach valley near Ternberg , pocket knives , the so-called Trattenbach pocket knives , have been made in various workshops with the help of the water power of the Trattenbach since the 16th century . The tradition of making simple knives has been preserved to this day and is continued in two factories in the valley. Along a 1.5 km long path in the museum village of Trattenbach , the manufacture of the knives can be traced in various original workshops.
	D.	March 2016		Laßnitz folk plays	Carinthia
	G	March 2016		Kranzel riding to Weitensfeld	Carinthia	A horse parade on the weekend of Pentecost . On Sundays, events of the previous year are announced from house to house, accompanied by Gstanzl singers and the traditional costume band. On Mondays the actual wreath riding , a competition, takes place on the market square, the winner of which gets the wreath. It is in honor of Mary and salvation from the plague.
	G	March 2016		Perlåggen in the Tyrolean Oberland and in the Innsbruck area	Tyrol	Perlaggen is a Tyrolean card game.
	G	March 2016		Knowledge of the Lipizzaner breed	Styria	Caring for the Lipizzaner breed in the Piber Federal Stud . Settled there since 1920, it goes back to the horse breed founded in the late baroque in Lipica in Slovenia (at the time Carniola). Today, Piber, along with Lipica and the Italian state stud Monterotondo, is one of the three stud book keeping institutes. Piber also provides the Spanish Riding School with the school stallions.
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	M.	0Oct 2, 2018		Field names of the state of Tyrol	Tyrol
	D.	0Oct 2, 2018		The Kripperl game of the Steyrer Kripperl	Upper Austria
	D.	0Oct 2, 2018		Round dancing on the ice in Vienna	Vienna
	D.	0Oct 2, 2018		Impromptu play on the Tschaun stage	Vienna
	G	0Oct 2, 2018		Customs of the miners and smelters on the Styrian Eisenstrasse	Styria
	G	0Oct 2, 2018		Candlemas singing in southern Lower Austria	Lower Austria
	G	0Oct 2, 2018		Neckenmarkter flag waving	Burgenland
	G	0Oct 2, 2018		Untergailtal church customs and Untergailtal costume / Ziljski žegen in ziljska noša	Carinthia
	G	0Oct 2, 2018		Carrying cattle on the feast of St. George	Salzburg
	U	0Oct 2, 2018		Trickle irrigation in the Tyrolean Oberland	Tyrol
	H	0Oct 2, 2018		Cathedral construction industry in Austria (St. Stephan Vienna and Mariendom Linz)	Vienna, Upper Austria
	H	0Oct 2, 2018		Gold bat craft (gold, silver and metal bats)	Vienna, Lower Austria
	H	0Oct 2, 2018		Larch resin extraction	Carinthia
	H	0Oct 2, 2018		Paver crafts	all federal states
	H	Nov 28, 2018		Craft technique of blueprint	all federal states	together with Germany, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary
	H	Nov 29, 2018		Knowledge of how to deal with avalanche danger	all federal states	together with Switzerland

See also

• UNESCO cultural and natural heritage in Austria , a complete overview

literature

• Austrian Commission for UNESCO (ed.): Yearbook . Vienna, The Intangible Cultural Heritage ( unesco.at [PDF] ongoing years).
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Identifying and Inventorying Intangible Cultural Heritage. (Brochure, PDF; 1.9 MB)

Web links

Commons : Intangible cultural heritage in Austria  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• National Agency for Intangible Cultural Heritage , Austrian Commission for UNESCO
• Directory of the intangible cultural heritage in Austria , Austrian Commission for UNESCO

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Austrian Directory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. In: unesco.at. Archived from the original on February 10, 2019 ; accessed on February 10, 2019 . 
2. ↑ 2010 yearbook (PDF; 1.5 MB) In: unesco.at. Austrian Commission for UNESCO, 2011, p. 24 , accessed on April 20, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} way of working. In: unesco.at. Archived from the original on August 29, 2010 ; accessed on October 4, 2018 . Imprint. In: unesco.at. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on October 3, 2018 . Gabriele Eschig, Mona Mairitsch, Susanne Puchberger, Bettina Rossbacher, Maria Walcher [Editor], Austrian Commission for UNESCO (ed.): Yearbook 2006 . Vienna 2007, National Agency for Intangible Cultural Heritage , p. 
    
    26–28 ( unesco.at [PDF]). unesco.at ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Gabriele Eschig, Mona Mairitsch, Martina Mertl, Bettina Rossbacher, Eva Trötzmüller, Maria Walcher; [Editor], Austrian UNESCO Commission (ed.): Yearbook 2007 . Vienna 2008, National Agency for Intangible Cultural Heritage , p.  
    28–29 ( unesco.at [PDF]). unesco.at ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Falconry was included in the world list for several countries in 2010.
5. ↑ UNESCO officially includes Austrian falconry on the representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of mankind. In: falknerbund.com. Retrieved May 9, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Unesco removes “Wiener Ball” from the list of world cultural heritage sites. In: diepresse.com. January 19, 2012, accessed August 27, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Franz Kurz, Karl Zinnburg: 400 years Dürrenberger Knapp Music - 400 years Dürrenberger Knappen- or sword dance. 1586-1986. Ed .: Salinen Austria, Bad Ischl 1986, Austrian Library Association. ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
8. ↑ ^{a b} Virgentaler sacrificial aries becomes a cultural heritage. tirol.ORF.at, April 7, 2015.
9. ↑ The Sacrificial Aries - Procession in the Virgental (East Tyrol). Institute for History and European Ethnology, University of Innsbruck, uibk.ac.at;
   Louis Oberwalder: The Virgener Sacrificial Ram. In: Virgen in the Hohe Tauern National Park. Innsbruck 1999, p. 264 (on haben.at);
   An archaic ritual: the ram procession in the Virgen Valley. In: tirol.gschichten.com. May 5, 2014, archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} Good Friday ratchet is now an intangible cultural heritage. vol.at, September 28, 2015.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Zachäussingen is a UNESCO cultural heritage site. In: tirol.orf.at. September 28, 2015, accessed September 19, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Trattenbach Pocket Feitel production. In: unesco.at. Retrieved October 29, 2019 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b c d} 12th round of entries. intangible cultural heritage.unesco.at.
14. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} 16th round of entries. www.unesco.at.