Museum village of Niedersulz

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The visitor center or museum portal (opened in 2012)
Access area between parking lot and entrance
Information board at the parking lot (legible)

The museum village of Niedersulz in Niedersulz is the largest open-air museum in Lower Austria . The beginnings of the museum go back to 1979. Numerous historic houses and farms from the Weinviertel as well as a South Moravian farm are currently on display on around 20 hectares .

The museum was initially run by an association. In 2008/09, a foundation and an operating company were established to secure the future of the museum village. This was followed by a renovation and expansion of the museum by around 9 million euros in the early 2010s.

Emergence

In 1977 Josef Geissler from Lower Sulz opened the Weinviertel Village Museum in the closed elementary school in Lower Sulz and presented his folklore collection there. In 1979 the foundation stone for the museum village was laid. The municipality of Sulz provided an acidic meadow of around 5 hectares on the Sulzbach. The first building was a Weinviertel Streckhof , which was threatened with demolition. In the meantime, 75 buildings have been transferred to the museum village. Relocatable components such as wooden constructions, windows, but also roof tiles are reused, the masonry, which is mostly made of unfired clay bricks, is built from new material. Until the end of 2007, the museum was run by a voluntary association.

In 2008 the buildings and collections were transferred to a charitable foundation . The Weinviertel Museumsdorf Niedersulz Errichtungs- und BetriebsGmbH, a subsidiary of Kultur.Region.Niederösterreich , operates and maintains the facility .

In May 2010, the Lower Austrian Parliament decided to expand the museum village. The total area was expanded from 3 to 20 hectares, the infrastructure was renewed, a building yard with restoration workshops, depot and nursery was built and a new driveway was built. The landmark of the expansion project is the MuseumsPortal, a new entrance with a visitor center, museum shop, gastronomy and administration. Between the new entrance and the existing village, 1.5 hectares of new garden areas were created, including the reconstruction of the school garden according to original plans from the 1880s. The MuseumPortal and the new areas opened on May 16, 2012.

In 2014 an earth building competence center was established in the museum village of Niedersulz. In addition to an exhibition on the methods and techniques of earth building, visitors can also build adobe bricks themselves. In 2015 a wagon factory from Hollabrunn was rebuilt in the museum village, and in 2017 the former school from Radlbrunn was built as a seminar center.

In 2018 the museum village of Niedersulz was integrated into the Lower Austrian Kulturwirtschaft GesmbH .

Village ensemble

typical cottage garden , planted according to old models

A special feature of the museum, also in comparison with other, comparable open-air museums, is the representation of a single village of considerable size in the diversity of its areas of life - an approach that for open-air museums consisting essentially of relocated buildings is only available in the open-air museum Den Fynske Landsby in Odense.

75 properties from almost the entire region form a village ensemble with a village square, paths and cellar lane. In addition to the hook and stretching yards typical of the Weinviertel , you will find farm buildings, craft houses, dovecot, a functioning water mill and three Catholic churches and chapels in the museum village. The Lutheran Chapel from Niederfellabrunn is a specialty . An authentic historical inn is operated in the museum village and typical domestic animals are kept on a farm. The entire area is designed as a natural garden, in which both old fruit tree varieties are grown and typical Weinviertel farm gardens are laid out.

Baptist Museum

In 2007 and 2008 the Kleinhäuslerhaus was transferred from Wilfersdorf . This building houses a documentation of the history of the Anabaptists in Lower Austria . From 1528 Hutterer settled in the Liechtenstein possessions in South Moravia and in the adjacent Weinviertel . After the Battle of White Mountain , the Hutterites were expelled and settled in today's Slovakia . Descendants still live in Bruderhöfe in Canada and the USA. The museum documents the history and culture of the Hutterites and their traces in Lower Austria.

Südmährerhof

Entrance gate to the Südmährerhof

In the north-west of the museum village, a South Moravian farm from Neudek an der Thaya (today a district of Lednice ) was reconstructed. The Südmährerhof documents the history and culture of the former German-speaking South Moravian districts of Neubistritz , Zlabings , Znojmo and Nikolsburg .

See also

Web links

Commons : Museumsdorf Niedersulz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Fuhrmann, Edgar Niemeczek, Sebastian Reimer: Kultur.Region.Niederösterreich in Heimo Konrad: Legal Problems in the Cultural Industry, Facultas 2015, ISBN 978-3-7089-0949-3
  2. ↑ http://www.landtag-noe.at/service/politik/landtag/lvxvii/05/542/542.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.noe.gv.at/Presse/Pressedienst/Pressearchiv/101455_museumsdorf.html
  4. ↑ Earth building is becoming more important. In: kurier.at. April 16, 2015, accessed December 30, 2017 .
  5. ↑ http://www.noen.at/niederoesterreich/kultur-festivals/museumsdorf-niedersulz-die-schule-mit-der-alles-begann/44.884.467
  6. ↑ Change to "Kultur.Region.Niederösterreich" on ORF on June 28, 2018, accessed on June 28, 2018

Coordinates: 48 ° 29 ′ 4 "  N , 16 ° 40 ′ 38"  E