Turrach Mining Museum
The Montanmuseum Turrach is a Styrian museum. It houses a full-size model of the Bessemer pear , which was first used in Turrach in the 19th century on mainland Europe.
The museum is located in Turrach at about 1,300 meters above sea level and documents 250 years (mid-17th to early 20th century) of mining and iron-processing economic activity in the village. There are also documents on display that tell of the life and work of the mining pioneers Peter Tunner the Elder and Peter Tunner . You can find out interesting facts about the "brother's shop", a forerunner of social security and the creation of the "Turracher Heimatlied".
literature
- Alois Rohrgger: Monograph on Turrach , Iris-Verlag, 1938
- Styria (Austria). Kulturreferat: Der Bergmann der Hüttenmann: Gestalter der Steiermark: Catalog of the 4th State Exhibition 1968: Festhalle Graz, May 22 to October 31, 1968 , Verlag Das Kulturreferat, 1968
- Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute, Volume 144, Die Anstalt publishing house, 2004
- Günter Bayerl , Torsten Meyer, Marcus Popplow: Technology, work and the environment in history: Günter Bayerl for his 60th birthday , Waxmann Verlag, 2006. ISBN 978-3-83091-685-7
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Coordinates: 46 ° 57 '37.6 " N , 13 ° 52' 57.7" E