Messerschmitt Foundation

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The fresco in the Villnößer Ranuihof from 1682, renovated by the Messerschmitt Foundation in 1983

The Messerschmitt Foundation is a monument foundation that was founded in 1969 by Willy Messerschmitt .

History and foundation

After Willy Messerschmitt's death in 1978, all of his assets were transferred to the Messerschmitt Foundation. Originally, it promoted science and research in the field of aerospace. Today it is based in Munich and has also been registered as a foundation in Vaduz since 1975 (FL-0001.053.268-4). It promotes the preservation of German cultural assets in today's and former German-speaking areas, with a focus on their contemporary use. When selecting the properties to be renovated, the foundation board is supported by a professionally qualified foundation board. The foundation has a "cultural environmental protection" in mind, which guarantees the restoration of profane and sacred works of art. It is the largest German private monument protection organization with an annual budget of around 11 million euros, which is secured by two separate assets in the accounting. One of these consisted of shares in the Bavarian Süd-Chemie AG Munich until 2007 . It maintains a further stake in the Messerschmitt-Stiftung Gesellschaft mbH in Innsbruck (commercial register no. FN 055146y, capital € 3 million) and the Naumburg construction works.

The current chairman of the foundation is Hans Heinrich von Srbik. Among other things, he is involved in lift operations in Ehrwald ( Tyrol ) and on the board of trustees of the DENK-MAL-STIFTUNG and the “Ilse Kubaschewski Center for Humane Care in Old Age” as well as on the board of trustees of the “World Heritage City of Bamberg” foundation. Von Srbik is the descendant of the historian Heinrich von Srbik . Hellmuth W. Schmid (Munich, Deputy Chairman) sits on the board. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees is Gero Madelung (Munich). One of the curators was the art historian Franz Hieronymus Riedl (1906–1994).

Perhaps the best-known of the objects funded by the foundation is Meseberg Castle . She rented it out to the federal government in 2007 for a symbolic rent of 1 euro as a guest house for 20 years. Other objects of the foundation are

The foundation also owns aircraft (some as replicas) from Messerschmitt . On the occasion of the hundredth birthday of Willi Messerschmitt, the foundation set up the Messerschmitt Flight Museum in Manching in cooperation with Cassidian ( An EADS Company ) .

In addition, the foundation has published the irregular book series, Reports of Monument Preservation , since 1986, which is published by various publishers.

Selection of objects refurbished or co-refurbished by the foundation

There is no detailed information about the total number of properties that have been renovated so far. The intent of the publication “Bewahrte Kostbarkeiten in Tirol” results in around 100 restored works of art and buildings in North, East and South Tyrol alone.

Sign on the village church in Ruest

Monument Preservation Reports

In the book series Reports of the Preservation of Monuments (also reports of the Messerschmitt Foundation for the Preservation of Monuments ) the following volumes have been published so far (the volume count is not consistent, the list below lists the volumes published by the year of publication):

  1. The epitaphs at the Frauenkirche in Munich. 1986, ISBN 3-7913-0769-X .
  2. The Hermitage of Maximilian of the German Master and the hermitages of Tyrol. 1986, ISBN 3-7022-1598-0 .
  3. Friedberg Castle and the Fieger in Tyrol. 1987, ISBN 3-7022-1625-1 .
  4. Noble hunting lodges in Tyrol. 1989, ISBN 3-7022-1702-9 .
  5. St. Elisabeth in the Deutschhaus in Sterzing. 1989, ISBN 3-7022-1719-3 .
  6. Weinberg Castle in the country above the Enns. 1991, ISBN 3-85214-551-1 .
  7. The Jöchlsthurn in Sterzing. 1992, ISBN 3-7022-1813-0 .
  8. The Haderbräu in Wolfratshausen - restaurant and brewery through four centuries. 1993, ISBN 3-486-56040-9 .
  9. The tomb of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria in the Munich Frauenkirche. 1997, ISBN 3-7954-1138-6 .
  10. The castle chapel of Hocheppan . 1998, ISBN 88-7014-957-9 .
  11. The Orlandoblock at Münchner Platzl - history of an architectural monument. 2000, ISBN 3-486-56507-9 .
  12. Grotto and bath - the summer house in the garden of Salaberg Palace in Lower Austria. 2003, ISBN 3-205-77095-1 .
  13. The “beautiful door” in the St. Anne's Church in Annaberg. 2003, ISBN 3-937602-04-6 .
  14. The Augustus Fountain in Augsburg. 2003, ISBN 3-7774-9890-4 .

literature

  • Cornelia Oelwein: Preserved Treasures in Tyrol - The Messerschmitt Foundation's Monument Preservation in North and South Tyrol . Innsbruck 1992, ISBN 3-7022-1887-4 .
  • Cornelia Oelwein: Preserved Treasures in Tyrol - The Preservation of Monuments by the Messerschmitt Foundation in North, East and South Tyrol 1994–2014 . Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7022-3341-9 .
  • Franz Huter: The Messerschmitt Foundation and Tyrol - With an initial overview of work (1981–1986) by HH v. Srbik. In: Tyrolean homeland . 50, Innsbruck 1986, ISSN  1013-8919 , pp. 307-313.
  • Otto Haudek, Paul Richter: Ehrwald - The Zugspitzdorf. Self-published by the Ehrwald municipality, 2003, p. 257.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://stiftungen.bayern.de/stiftung/4417;jsessionid=645A924643A69DA1E0EA24D0940A287F
  2. ↑ oera.li
  3. ↑ companyabc.at
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Gumprich: Viewing day: View behind the castle walls. June 16, 2019, accessed January 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Flugmuseum-messerschmitt.de