Museum at the Kastenturm
The museum at the Kastenturm was located in the Kastenhof in the town of Bischofshofen in the St. Johann im Pongau district in the State of Salzburg (Rathausplatz 5). The building is a listed building .
history
In the 12th century a collegiate pen was as Augustinian Monastery founded, which in 1216 with the founding of the Diocese of Chiemsee by Archbishop Eberhard II. The new diocese as endowment has been assigned. The resulting Chiemsee Hofmark von Bischofshofen was administered from the Kastenhof. In the Kastenhof, the so-called prince rooms were created for the Chiemsee bishops to descend. The Kastenhof also served as a grain bin and was the central collection point for the tithe that the farmers had to deliver. When the Gainfeldbach flooded in 1775, the other buildings in the Kastenhof were torn away. In the course of secularization , the property came to the Kameral- Arar in 1803 . In 1917 the tower was bought by Anton Wickler. The Kastenturm Museum, founded in 1998, was housed in the Kasten residential tower.
Kastenhof
The Kastenhof is to the northwest, right next to the parish church of St. Maximilian . Two-story buildings stand around an irregular courtyard, overlooked by the medieval residential tower. The Romanesque box tower with a protruding foundation plinth made of mighty blocks in layered masonry has late Romanesque bi-porch windows on the upper floors. The tower is entered from the courtyard through a narrow arched wall. The courtyard buildings, which were destroyed by mudslides in 1755, were rebuilt in the second half of the 18th century and significantly rebuilt in the 20th century.
Museum at the Kastenturm
The five thousand year history of settlement in the Bischofshofen area was shown in the museum. Archaeological finds were exhibited (clay bowls, decorative fibulae, a replica of a furnace) and works of sacred art (such as the Georg table, a Gothic half-relief, chalices, monstrances and pictures from the Baroque period) were on display. By mining explorer Robert Pils a show was about the research project in Arthurstollen on Palfnerkogel as a new focus of mining archeology established.
In 1998, during excavations by the Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum in the parish church of Bischofshofen, a piece of copper sheet from the Rupertus Cross was found in the parish church with the archaeologist Eva Maria Feldinger . The Rupertus Cross dates from the early Middle Ages and is regarded as the main work of Anglo-Saxon art on the mainland. A copy is exhibited in the museum. The museum was closed on February 28, 2015.
Recognitions
- 2002 Culture Prize of the City of Bischofshofen
- 2006 Austrian Museum Seal of Approval
- 2007 Salzburg Museum Key
literature
- Friederike Zaisberger , Walter Schlegel : Castles and palaces in Salzburg. Pongau, Pinzgau, Lungau. Birch series, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-85030-037-4 .
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Salzburg 1986 . Bischofshofen, Kastenhof, p. 51.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archaeologist of the SMCA makes a sensational discovery of the famous Rupertus Cross from Bischofshofen ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '52.7 " N , 13 ° 13' 6.6" E