Peter Rosegger Landhaus & Museum
The Rosegger Museum in Krieglach is housed in the former country house of the Styrian poet and journalist Peter Rosegger . Rosegger used the country house as a summer residence until he died there in 1918. The premises have been open to the public as a museum since 1948 and provide insight into the poet's life and work.
history
In May 1877, Peter Rosegger bought a field in Krieglach with an area of almost one yoke with the proceeds from his first books . In the same year he had a country house built on it. He sketched the plans himself. Even before the groundbreaking ceremony, he began planting the property. After all, there were 60 little trees that surrounded his new home.
He now spent the summer months with his family in Krieglach every year. Rosegger wrote about his house:
“Strangers would sometimes come to see the summer residence, they were looking for a Swiss-style villa, an architectural salon Tyrolean like that, and passed my roof. The house doesn't look very delicate on the outside, with its thick walls it is quite rough and square, with no other purpose than to be a solid keep in its seven small living rooms with accessories. "
As the family grew, Peter Rosegger had the house expanded and in 1896 even a “wooden house with three rooms”, the so-called “Almhaus” - today “Studierhäusl” - built in the garden.
The poet died on June 26, 1918 in Krieglach. His widow Anna tried to sift through the estate and locked Rosegger's study and death room on the upper floor in order to preserve it for posterity.
In 1943 the state of Styria acquired the house on the occasion of the poet's 100th birthday and opened it to the public as a memorial in 1948 . The building is a listed building .
The study house
The “Almhaus”, as Rosegger called it, built entirely of wood in 1896, was intended to alleviate his asthma symptoms. It served him as a retreat from the noisy family life and as guest accommodation for his numerous visitors.
After Rosegger's death, his son Hans Ludwig used the building. In 1966, the state of Styria acquired the wooden house from his widow Emilie Rosegger and made it available to the Roseggerbund, which ran a local museum there from 1968 to 2014. Since 2015 it has served the Rosegger Museum as a location for temporary exhibitions.
museum
In 1948, the two original rooms on the upper floor of the country house were opened to the public for the first time. Gradually, the rooms on the ground floor were also used as a museum . The museum was run as a state memorial until the museum was transferred to the Universalmuseum Joanneum in mid-2013 . The exhibitions in the Rosegger Museum show the life and work of Rosegger with changing thematic focuses.
literature
- Sabine Marketz: biography of Peter Rosegger. In: Gerald Schöpfer (Ed.): Peter Rosegger 1843–1918. Styrian State Exhibition 1993, Graz 1993.
- Otto Leipelt: Historical guide through the Rosegger home. Reclam-Verlag, Graz 1946.
- Peter Rosegger: My world life. Staackmann publishing house, Munich.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Wagner, Max Kaiser, Werner Michler (eds.): Peter Rosegger, Gustav Heckenast - Correspondence 1869–1878 (= Klaus Amann, Hubert Lengauer, Karl Wagner [ed.]: History of literature in studies and sources . Volume 6 ). Böhlau, 2003, ISBN 3-205-99482-5 , ISSN 1728-4325 , p. 427 .
- ↑ Peter Rosegger: My world life . Staackmann, Munich, p. 151 .
- ↑ Peter Rosegger: My world life . Staakmann, Munich, p. 155 .
- ↑ Otto Janda: Peter Rosegger. Life in his letters . Böhlau, Graz 1948, p. 206 .
- ↑ The study house. Universalmuseum Joanneum, accessed on January 31, 2018 .
- ^ Website of the Rosegger Museum. Universalmuseum Joanneum, accessed on January 28, 2018 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 32 ′ 48.3 " N , 15 ° 33 ′ 51.6" E