MuseumPasseier

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The MuseumPasseier is located in St. Leonhard in Passeier in South Tyrol . His main house is in the listed farm building ( barn ) of the Sandhof , the birthplace of the freedom fighter Andreas Hofer (1767-1810). This includes the permanent exhibitions " Helden & Hofer ", Helden & Wir and "Tol & Leit" in the open-air area . The MuseumPasseier also has branch offices.

The museum is supported by the Andreas Hofer Talmuseum-Sandhof association ; its members are the three communities of the Passeier Valley - St. Martin in Passeier , St. Leonhard in Passeier and Moos in Passeier -, the Tyrolean Matriculation Foundation and the St. Martin Museum Association.

Museum areas

Heroes and Hofers

In the expanded stables of the Sandhof, visitors can experience a 500 m² course that focuses on the history of the Tyrolean uprisings of 1809 and the person of Andreas Hofer. A collection of original furnishings, pictures, drawings and maps, coins, letters and documents had been on the ground floor of the building since 2002. Since 2009, the permanent exhibition “Helden & Hofer”, supported by video animations, films, audio stations and a children's track, has shown the events 200 years ago from a European perspective and plays with changing perspectives. The general theme “Heroes” expands the view beyond the borders of Tyrol .

In this respect, the museum is daring a new interpretation of Andreas Hofer and the uprising of 1809. An attempt is made to illuminate his person and historical role from a critical perspective. While the patriotic side of the hero used to be emphasized and the Bavarians and the French were portrayed one-sidedly as "enemies", the intention of the MuseumPasseier is that the visitor should understand the profound Napoleonic reforms that the Bavarians had undertaken and understand the difficulties as progressive Thoughts came across a conservative Tyrolean population arrested in religious superstition. This differentiated view leads to a demythologization of Hofer's person, a remarkable approach especially at the birthplace of the failed rebel. The jury of the European Museum Forum, for whose prize the MuseumPasseier was nominated in 2012, praised Hofer's interesting arc to today's heroes - "a pleasant surprise for visitors at the end of a remote Alpine valley".

One of the most valuable exhibits is Hofer's massive silver ring (around 1790) with the initials AH SW ( Andreas Hofer - Sandwirt ), which a Jew from Merano gave away and which found its way back to its place of origin in 2001. The rifle flag from 1796 survived the era of fascism and was brought back from Innsbruck in 1959. In terms of art history, an oil study by Franz von Defregger , Andreas Hofer's last course (1878), a gift from Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria to his brother, Emperor Franz Joseph , and Sissi in 1879 for their silver wedding anniversary (permanent loan from the Unterberger Collection in Merano) is worth mentioning .

Heroes and Us

A rich folklore collection has been exhibited on the first floor of the museum since 2001. This was outsourced in 2013 to make room for “Helden & Wir”, a logical addition to “Helden & Hofer”. We, that is the audience in general, in their admiration for heroes, stars and role models who are being produced by the media machinery today at an apparently ever faster pace. The design team used the great height of the former barn and hung six large cones in the gable - a symbol of the light cones in which heroes and stars usually stand. Their position in the gable forces you to look up. Each cone of light deals with a facet of the complex subject of hero worship: What distinguishes heroes from stars, and who is also a role model? Where does courage come from? And what do these figures that we look up to stand for? Philosophical questions to which "Heroes & We" does not provide answers. Rather, the few texts in the exhibition try to encourage visitors to reflect on their own heroes and role models. The essentials should happen in the head. In line with this, the museum has published special materials for schools that incorporate questioning of role models into the classroom. To compensate for the top-heaviness, the museum collects personal items from today's stars and heroes. From Hermann Maier, for example, a ski that he wore in his legendary fall on the Nagano combined descent can be seen until further notice, from the Dalai Lama a small prayer wheel and from the walker Alex Schwazer, who is celebrated as a sports hero in South Tyrol, a pair of trainers , in which he won Olympic gold over 50 kilometers in Beijing.

Open air area

In the open-air area the visitor will find a typical Passeirer Haufenhof with a blacksmith's forge and schnapps distillery , water-powered mill and loden whale , grain box , oven , bowling alley , apiary , residential building and farm building. The buildings were removed from their original locations and rebuilt on the Sandhof site. The permanent exhibition Miër Psairer, opened in 2015, puts the numerous folklore objects in a new light and connects them with the character traits of the Psairer. A viewing depot shows what used to come into the museum as typical Psaier and raises the question: What should one collect today? An exhibition on agricultural implements as well as the Sacred Heart Chapel (1899) and the Holy Sepulcher Church (1697) can also be viewed in the open-air area. In the Herz-Jesu-Kapelle there is a picture cycle with 11 scenes from the life of Hofer by Edmund von Wörndle (1896; late work by this artist).

Branch offices

Jaufenburg

The Jaufenburg above St. Leonhard in Passeier is located at the foot of the Jaufenpass and houses an exhibition on the history of the valley and wall paintings by Bartlmä Dill Riemenschneider from 1538. Furthermore, you get an insight into the building history, as well as information about the residents and owners of the castle and their activities in and outside the Passeiertal .

Pfandler Alm

The Pfandleralm is located above St. Martin in Passeier at 1,350 meters and is the place of escape, betrayal and the capture of Andreas Hofer. It can be reached on foot in two hours from the museum or in forty minutes from the hiking car park above the Pfandlerhof. There are 15 explanatory boards on the hiking trail, in which the last phase of Hofer's life - from his hiding on the alpine pasture on December 11, 1809 to his shooting in Mantua on February 20, 1810 - is documented.

In front of the hut in which Andreas Hofer stayed for the last 6 weeks before his capture on January 28, 1810, a marble plaque was erected as early as 1880 . The old hut burned down after an accident in 1919 and was only rebuilt true to the original in 1983 by the Passeier riflemen. The South Tyrolean Schützenbund donated a new memorial plaque. Both panels are located at the newly built hut, which is now privately owned. On them is the same text - in the style of the 19th century - written: "In this hut, the patriotic hero ANDREAS HOFER was captured by the French on January 28, 1810".

Pfistradalm

The Pfistradalm is 1,350 meters above sea level and can be reached on foot in 1.5 hours from St. Leonhard in Passeier. Here is one of the oldest and best preserved kaser in Tyrol thanks to the restoration in 2000 . The focus is on traditional alpine life and you can visit an old alpine kitchen and various utensils from earlier alpine life. The St. Anna Church is also open to visitors. The Kaser passed in 1833 from the Counts Fuchs von Fuchsberg (who were also lords of the Jaufenburg until then) into the possession of the municipality of Latsch in Vinschgau and is still administered by them today, together with the “self-administration for rights of use”.

French cemetery

The French cemetery is located in the south of St. Leonhard in Passeier and is a memorial for the French soldiers who fell in the last November fighting in 1809 in the Passeier Valley.

literature

  • Harald Haller: The old Kaser in the Pfistrad. From the medieval house to the Alm-Museum , [o. O.] 2001.
  • Josef Rohrer: Heroes & Hofer . When Andreas Hofer came to the museum. The book for the exhibition in the Museum Passeier, Bozen 2009.
  • Museum brochure for MuseumPasseier.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Passeier

Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 5.3 "  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 19.4"  E