Empress Elisabeth Museum
The Kaiserin Elisabeth Museum in Pöcking is located in the historic Possenhofen train station.
building
The Possenhofen train station, now privately owned, was planned by King Max II of Bavaria near the ducal castle Possenhofen . After his death in 1864, King Ludwig II had the railway line expanded to Tutzing . For the construction of the Possenhofen and Feldafing railway stations , demolition and bricks were used that came from the palace under construction in Feldafing's Lenné Park . King Ludwig II was not interested in his father's huge castle project and had it torn down in favor of the two train stations. The Possenhofen train station was planned by the architect Georg von Dollmann , who later also built the castles Neuschwanstein , Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee for Ludwig II and is now a listed building. With the construction of the train station, Duke Max in Bavaria , the owner of Possenhofen Castle on Lake Starnberg , was quickly connected to the residential city of Munich , so that the ducal family could commute between their two residences, Munich and Possenhofen.
Empress Elisabeth first arrived in Possenhofen in her saloon car in July 1869 . In the station there was a stately waiting room, elegantly decorated with silk wallpaper, rich stucco and decorated with ceiling paintings medallions. This waiting room also had a public telephone room with additional direct access from the waiting room. The gentlemen could also freshen up and put on make-up in a toilet room, which also included a small toilet. Carriages drove from the train station to Possenhofen Castle, which can also be reached in ten minutes on foot.
exhibition
The documentation and exhibits in the museum depict the life of the empress.
The “Kaiserin Elisabeth Museum” of the municipality of Pöcking is located on the ground floor of the train station. At the entrance there is a picture of the enthroned youthful King Ludwig II , a linden wood model made in 1912 for a memorial by the Munich sculptor Eduard Beyrer (1866–1934), which was never executed. This is intended to establish a reference to the history of the Possenhofen train station, in whose royal salon the museum is housed.
A statue of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary has been decorating the square in front of the museum since October 2013. It is a work cast in bronze by the wood sculptor Jozek Nowak from Pöcking, who created the figure from a trunk of a plane tree one meter thick and about two meters high.
The museum is open on weekends and public holidays from May to mid-October.
Museum Association
A museum association wants to keep the memory of Empress Elisabeth alive and provide the museum with ideal and material support.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Sylvia Böhm-Haimerl: Kaiserliches Entrée , article in the Starnberg local edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung from October 7, 2013
Coordinates: 47 ° 57 ′ 42.6 ″ N , 11 ° 18 ′ 24.6 ″ E