Huber-Hus Museum

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Huber-Hus (2011)

The Huber-Hus in Lech was built at the end of the 16th century. The house has been accessible as a museum since 2005 and gives its visitors an insight into rural living and working culture in the showrooms of the permanent exhibition. In addition to the permanent exhibition, changing special exhibitions take place every year. The Huber-Hus also houses the historical archive of the Lech community and a library that contains publications relevant to Lech and the Arlberg region in terms of cultural history.

History of origin - from house to museum

According to the dendrochronological examination of the wood, the Huber-Hus was dated to the year 1590. There are no clear sources as to who the builders of the house were. However, it can be assumed that the Fritz family built the house. Perhaps it was the couple Thoma Fritz and Agatha Strolz who were the first to live in what would later become the “Huber House”. At the beginning of the 19th century the house came into the possession of Anna Katharina Fritz, who married Josef Huber. Since then, the Huber-Hus has been owned by the Huber family and therefore bears his name. The last residents of the house were the brothers Emil, Otto and Hugo Huber, who lived in the house together with their housekeeper Maria Konzett-Pircher. After the three brothers had no descendants, Emil and Otto Huber sold the Huber house to the community of Lech in the early 1980s in order to preserve the rural living culture for posterity and to turn the house into a museum. Since then, the Huber-Haus has also been a listed building. After the last of the three brothers Otto died in 1996, Maria Konzett lived in the house until 2000. In 2004, the municipality of Lech and the Federal Monuments Office in Bregenz began renovating and restoring the house. The Huber-Haus has been open to visitors as a museum since December 2005.

The house - the living quarters of the Huber family

The historically oldest core of the house is the kitchen, which gives visitors a glimpse of the kitchen situation in the 16th century. In the course of the restoration work, employees of the Lech community building yard discovered the stone floor in the kitchen for the first time in 2004, which dates back to the first phase of construction of the house. Next to the kitchen is the living room on the south side, which presents a living situation over several centuries. The oldest piece is the parlor table, which is particularly distinguished by its inlays and the slate . It bears the initials of Benedikt Fritz and dates from 1792. From the living room you get to the next chamber - the parents' bedroom. The house's cooper workshop is also worth seeing . Since the late 17th century, members of the family made all sorts of wooden vessels for storing dairy products here. Originally there was a stable for goats, sheep and pigs on the site of the workshop.

The special exhibitions

In the temporary exhibition area, cultural, social and economic-historical topics of the local and regional history of Lech and the surrounding area are dealt with.

  • 2005/06: Opening exhibition on house and family history
  • 2007: Walther Flaig. A legacy of skiing history on the Arlberg
  • 2007/08: Kästle . History of a ski brand
  • 2008/09: Lech community 1808 to 2008. A cross-section from 200 years of community history
  • 2009: snow. The raw material of art (in cooperation with the Vorarlberg State Museum)
  • 2009/10: Daisy High - Winter
  • 2010: Walser Menschenbilder - a family gallery
  • 2010/11: Lech & Zürs am Arlberg 1920–1940. Between tradition and modernity. Architecture-Technique-Art-Graphics-Photography-Film
  • 2011: Spindel, Strom & Jet Ski. The technological state of Vorarlberg through the ages
  • 2011/12: flowering time. Immerse yourself in the world of plants. An exhibition of the "naughty farmers" and women from Lech
  • 2012/13: Who or what is a Walser?
  • 2013/14: Dining culture and table discussions
  • 2014/15: Arlberg. Pass - Region - Brand
  • 2016/17: death
  • 2017/18: Walking on the mountain
  • 2018/19: TRACES. The exhibition on ski culture
  • 2019/20: THE SOUND OF LECH. The sound of a place

literature

  • Marcel Just, Birgit Ortner: Lech & Zürs am Arlberg 1920–1940. Between tradition and modernity. Architecture-Technique-Art-Graphics-Photography-Film. Catalog for the exhibition of the same name from December 12, 2010 to April 28, 2011 in the Museum Huber-Hus, Lech 2010, ISBN 978-3-9503026-0-8 .
  • heyday. immerse yourself in the world of plants. Exhibition booklet for the exhibition of the same name in the Museum Huber-Hus, Bregenz 2011.
  • Birgit Ortner (Ed.): Lech community book , Lech 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503026-3-9 (awarded the Austrian State Prize “Most Beautiful Books 2014” and “One of the Most Beautiful Books in Germany 2015”).
  • Thomas Felfer: Dining culture & table discussions . Catalog for the exhibition of the same name from December 10, 2013 to October 5, 2014 in the Museum Huber-Hus, Lech 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503026-2-2 .
  • Sabine Dettling, Bernhard Tschofen: Traces. Skikultur am Arlberg, published on behalf of ski.kultur.arlberg, ed. v. Gustav Schoder and Bernhard Tschofen, Bregenz 2014, ISBN 978-3-9502706-6-2 (German edition); ISBN 978-3-9502706-8-6 (English edition).

Web links

Commons : s  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lech.eu/gemeinde/kultursportfreizeit/museen/museum-huber-hus.html
  2. ^ Ida and Bruno Fritz, family tree Fritz, Nüziders 2010 [unpublished. Manuscript]
  3. ↑ Exhibition folder Museum Huber-Hus, Lech o. J.
  4. ↑ Exhibition folder Museum Huber-Hus, Lech o. J.

Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '44.9 "  N , 10 ° 8' 46.3"  E