Museum Sankt Veit an der Glan
The Museum of Transport and City History in Sankt Veit an der Glan is a museum that was opened in 2004 on the main square of the municipality and presents the transport history of the region and the city history of St. Veit under one roof. It emerged from several predecessor institutions and is run jointly by the Association of St. Veit Transport Museum and the municipality.
History of the museum
For decades, the museum landscape in the city of St. Veit was characterized by the fact that there were individual, scattered cultural institutions in the city such as For example, there was the town museum in the castle founded in 1886, the satellite museum in the former citizens' hospital and the transport museum founded in 1982 in the town hall and then in the former housekeeping school (from 1987).
In 2003, the decision of those responsible to create a center for all museums in the city of St. Veit matured. It was decided that the existing house on Hauptplatz No. 29, which houses the Transport Museum, should be expanded to be spacious and handicapped accessible. On November 17, 2003, after the end of the season, the construction site was set up and renovation work began. The existing staircase was dismantled and a new glass extension was built next to a panorama lift. The top floor was generously expanded and now presents the areas of the city's history, a 900-year city past. The Museum St. Veit now offers its visitors the opportunity to visit all the museum facilities previously scattered in the city in one center on an area of 1000 m², and those responsible a suitable environment to preserve, research and explore over 3000 exhibits convey.
The St. Veit Museum is run jointly by the St. Veit Transport Museum and the St. Veit municipality. In 2008 the Transport Museum received the Austrian Museum Seal of Approval .
Museum building
The museum building is located on the north-west corner of the main square in St. Veit. Johanna Dickmann Secherau, born von Schwerenfeld, gave the house to the city with a deed of gift / Vienna October 24, 1829 to accommodate a German school. Since it was half a fire site, the city neither had the means nor, at the time, the obligation to use the building for the intended purpose. In 1856 Miss Rosalia Milessi bequeathed a legacy of 4,000 guilders in her will for the establishment of a girls' school in which school sisters were to teach. This legacy was made by Mrs. Franziska Rainer, geb. Buzzi added to 8000 guilders. Now the community is preparing the building and in 1860 handed it over to the school sisters in Kaltern in Tyrol, who gradually expanded the school into a four-class private girls' school with public rights and passed on the educational goods to the female youth of St. Veit for half a century. In 1911 the school sisters withdrew to the mother house. Since 1912, the premises have been used by the elementary, middle and secondary schools to accommodate emergency classes. From September 1919 to March 1920 the headquarters of the state agitation management were located in the house. Under difficult political circumstances, the basic prerequisites for the Carinthian referendum of 1920 were created here under the direction of Arthur Lemisch. Since 1932 it was used as a housekeeping school. In 1985 the housekeeping school moved to the school center and the building was adapted as a museum by the municipality under Mayor Friedrich Wolte. On June 20, 1987 the Transport Museum, which originally emerged from the Railway Museum (founded August 27, 1982, in a room in the town hall), opened here.
After the renovation in 2003/04, the St. Veit Museum was built to house the railway ground. H. Transport Museum and the City Museum (the latter previously in the castle until 2003). The old stone wall to the Bräuhausgasse had to be demolished due to the age (several meters collapsed) and a concrete wall was created. In addition to a lot of renovation work, a staircase with a panoramic elevator and a glass extension and a lapidarium were built. In addition, the attic was expanded. This is how the humble railway museum from the very beginning became the St. Veit Museum (1 museum - 7 topics), which houses all of the museum facilities in the town of St. Veit an der Glan. The St. Veit Museum was officially opened on August 21, 2004.
Transportation History Department
The history of traffic, post and telecommunications and model making are presented on the first two floors. Since these rooms were home to the Transport Museum even before the expansion or renovation, adaptation measures were carried out in the individual rooms and new forms of design were chosen and a lot of attention was paid to interactive forms of presentation.
The development of traffic begins with the horse-drawn railway and ends with the electric locomotive, includes track construction and signaling. Also the area of the station service or the "railway worker" as a new type of occupation is presented. The machine service covers the steam age up to electrification and shows the part of a driver's cab of a steam locomotive and a functioning Rh 1042. The subject of electrification is clearly demonstrated by an operable pantograph . The history of the engine ranges from the mule trains on the invention of the Marcus car to the internal combustion engine and a gasoline engine. The end of the gendarmerie in Austria is also commemorated with a permanent exhibition. The time-honored guard "lives on" in a special exhibition area. Post and telecommunications show the historical development of communications. A functional rotary dial office and an original post office, which was in use until 1980, illustrate this area.
A special highlight is a model railway system in nominal size H0 , which is being expanded to 35 m². The model railway will have a track length of approx. 400 m with over 70 switches and will be computer-controlled Selectrix (Rautenhaus - Digital) system and the software TrainController 5.8 operated by Jürgen Freiwald. The system was planned and built by Helmut Pressen and his team in 1986/87. Since April 1, 2007, the expansion work has been carried out under the direction of Josef Wastian with three employees. A garden railway was erected on the roof of the glass auditorium: four trains run simultaneously in a landscape with train stations (true to the original replica of the St. Veit an der Glan passenger station), a tunnel, a castle, bridges and a pond. The system is supplemented by a flying ÖAMTC helicopter over a motorway with an accident site. The system was planned and manufactured by Helmut Sablattnig.
Another attraction of the St. Veit Museum is the "4030 Driving Simulator", because with this system an almost perfect simulation of the guidance of a 4030 railcar is possible. All switching and operating elements are activated and all processes and functions correspond to the original.
City History Department
The 900-year history of St. Veit is documented in the newly expanded attic with numerous culturally and historically valuable exhibits. When adapting the attic, an additional level in the form of a gallery was added. When designing this area, it was possible to fall back on a rich art-historical fund of exhibits from the former city museum, although not all objects can be shown due to the exhibition space and are housed in additional storage rooms. This means that those responsible for the museum can hold special exhibitions from the existing holdings alone.
The city's history has been prepared thematically and strikes a broad historical arc with the main focus:
- St. Veit as a city
- St. Vitus under the Habsburg dukes
- Art and culture in St. Veit
- The St. Veit portrait painter August Prinzhofer
- Mining, trade and commerce
- "St. Veiter Circle "
- Coinage
- Satellites
- Gold bonnet women
- Archery.
In the area of city history, one is particularly proud of a large collection of Baroque shooting targets , of which the museum owns 74 pieces.
The lapidarium with Roman stones and grave slabs rounds off the part of the city's history. In the courtyard there is a stagecoach (1900), exhibits from the railway sector such as a boiler, a water crane , a drive wheel of a Rh 52 locomotive, a coal hunt and a track measuring device.
In the sense of a modern museum, those responsible try to set activities in the museum (special exhibition "Old Toys" at Christmas time, exhibition about "Terracotta soldiers from Xi'an - China" 2005, shooting target exhibition 2006).
Transport Museum Association
As early as the 1970s, St. Veiter's railway workers began collecting museum items from the railway sector, which were finally shown to the public in an exhibition. The exhibition met with such great interest that the St. Veit an der Glan Railway Museum Association was founded in 1982 . Soon afterwards, a small museum was opened in the city hall, in the former premises of the city police. Soon the available space was no longer sufficient and the exhibition moved to a vacant building, which today houses the museum center, and was opened as such on June 20, 1987.
With the participation of the St. Veit an der Glan Chamber of Commerce and the Carinthian Post and Telegraph Directorate, the museum was expanded to include road traffic and post and telecommunications. The name change in 2004 to the St. Veit Transport Museum is primarily intended to preserve and maintain objects, in particular from the field of transport (railroad, post office and telecommunications, road traffic). The model assembly group formed in the association complements the tasks with the construction of model railways, the true-to-scale replication of production facilities such as B. railway stations and the ongoing maintenance of these systems. In addition, the association aims to provide up-to-date adult education and museum collections as well as the implementation of exhibitions and other events. The association exclusively and directly pursues charitable purposes within the meaning of the Federal Tax Code, is impartial and not oriented towards profit.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Veit Transport Museum, accessed on March 26, 2011
Coordinates: 46 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 21 ′ 25 ″ E