Coal breaker Kohlgrube

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Coal breaker Kohlgrube 2002

The coal crusher Kohlgrube is part of the historical lignite overhead systems of the former Wolfsegg-Traunthaler Kohlenwerk AG (WTK AG) and is located in the Upper Austrian Wolfsegg , district Kohlgrube . Today it houses the Kohlgrube cultural area .

Industrial history

The coal crushing and sorting plant was built in 1922/23 by the architect Wiechels (Steyr), after the mining industry was shut down in the 1960s, it was left to decay and finally burned out in 1968.

What was left was an imposing reinforced concrete structure known as the Kohlgrube coal mine .

Art room Kohlgrube

In 2001 the crusher was saved from demolition through private initiative (Peter Weinhäupl and Wolfgang Weinhäupl) by acquiring the area and repaired it for cultural use. From 2003 to 2010, the club operated Kohlgrube.at the art room coal mine .

In 2003 the area served as the opening location of the Festival of Regions , one of Austria's contemporary Landart cultural festivals. Since 2005, theater has been performed in the area. The initiator of the performances is the Theater Hausruck association . The coal crusher served as an impressive backdrop for the Franzobel premieres of Hunt - or the total February (2005/06) and Zipf - or the dark side of the moon (2007/08) . After the theater moved out in 2009, the area around the coal breaker will be converted for future cultural purposes.

Awards from performances at the Kolebrecher venue

  • 2005: Nestroy Theater Prize (special prize for the production of Hunt or Der totale Februar )
  • 2005: Upper Austria. Stage Art Prize (Theater Hausruck / Hunt or Der totale Februar)
  • 2006: Vöckla Kultur Award (Theater Hausruck / Hunt or Der totale Februar)

literature

  • Sandra Tretter: Cultural use of industrial monuments in rural areas based on the model Kunstraum Kohlgrube in Wolfsegg am Hausruck . Master thesis Univ. for ang. Art. Ed .: University of Applied Arts. Vienna 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Festival of the Regions 2003
  2. ↑ Kunstraum Kohlgrube successful with world premiere of Franzobel . Press release.
  3. ↑ Stephen Sokoloff: stage design with coal breaker and railway . 176. In: Linz active . Autumn. Linz 2005, p. 82 . on the play by Franzobel: “Hunt or the total February” about February events in 1934, performance in Wolfsegg, cf. also: Fritz Strohbach: Bloody September 1933 in Wolfsegg . In: Innviertler Volkskundehaus (Ed.): The Bundschuh . Series of publications Museum Innviertler Volkskundehaus . tape
     7 , 2004, p. 90-97 .
  4. ↑ http://www.nestroypreis.at/index.php?ID=28
  5. ↑ Upper Austria. Awarded stage arts prizes. In: oesterreich.orf.at. February 27, 2007, accessed November 26, 2017 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 7 ′ 29.1 ″  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 51.3 ″  E