Burgenland State Museum

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State Museum, inner courtyard covered (2011)

The Landesmuseum Burgenland in Eisenstadt shows the development of Burgenland in the Pannonian region. Its sub-areas include, on the one hand, natural history such as geology and biology of the country and, on the other hand, the impact of humans with archeology, art, culture, folklore, economic and contemporary history.

history

After Burgenland became the ninth federal state to join Austria in 1921 , the Eisenstadt wine merchant Sándor Wolf set up a state museum that was supposed to represent the identity of the new federal state. He became the founding director, but had to leave Austria after the “Anschluss” . His collection was "Aryanized" , but restituted after the war. A part with archaeological artifacts could be acquired again at an auction in 1958 and is still part of the collection today.

building

The museum was located in the Leinnerhaus from 1926 to 1938 , which was owned by the wine merchant family Leopold Wolf's Söhne . At Museumsgasse 1 to 11, where the Burgenland State Museum was founded from 1938 to 1939, houses from the 17th to 19th centuries stood and still stand. Sándor Wolf's house is at number 5, a group of buildings with different stylistic elements and remarkable wrought iron work. Wolf had already built up a collection of antiquities here, which is owned by the State Museum. Houses nos. 9 and 11 were demolished in 1968, the museum was expanded with a modern extension according to the plans of the architects Hans Puchhammer and Gunther Wawrik and opened in 1976.

Exhibitions

  • 2011: Burgenland : 90 years - 90 stories.
  • 2011: Franz Liszt : The genius from raiding. Born to be a superstar.

Museum management

State Museum in the First Republic
Landscape museum as a branch of the Landesmuseum Niederösterreich in Vienna during National Socialism
  • Karl Kritsch, Chairman of the Burgenland Heritage and Nature Conservation Association
  • 1939-1942 Richard Pittioni
  • 1942 Prof. Gruzecki and then Reg. Rat Prof. Eitler
State Museum in the Second Republic

literature

  • Margit Pflagner , J. Marco (photos): Burgenland. 80 color pictures with explanations in German and English. Frick Verlag, Vienna 1970, photo 9, description: courtyard of the State Museum in Eisenstadt at no.5.
  • Dehio Burgenland 1976 , Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt Unterberg (Esterházyscher Meierhof and formerly Jewish ghetto), Museumsgasse. P. 85f.

Web links

Commons : Landesmuseum Burgenland  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of museum use ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2012 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. Landesmuseum Burgenland, accessed on February 11, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / landesmuseum-burgenland.at

Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '46.3 "  N , 16 ° 31' 2.8"  E