Museum St. Peter an der Sperr

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Museum St. Peter an der Sperr (2019)
City Museum Wiener Neustadt (2009)

The St. Peter an der Sperr Museum is located on Petersgasse in the statutory city of Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria . The former Dominican convent or Dominican convent is under monument protection ( list entry ). The city ​​museum is structurally connected to the exhibition church of St. Peter an der Sperr .

The Antiques Cabinet

In the town hall of the city there was a collection, which was called Antiques Cabinet . In 1824 the mayor Felix Mießl commissioned the city official Ferdinand Carl Boeheim to organize and categorize the antiques according to the instructions of the art-savvy magistrate Johannes Nepomuk Fronner . The result was a printed inventory book with 72 object descriptions, including the Corvinus beaker , a silver gospel book, and several oil paintings by the history painter Ferdinand Josef Waßhuber from Wiener Neustadt. In 1825 there was a list in the town hall curated by Boeheim and Fronner.

As a result of further collecting activities, guild objects, coins, art objects from abandoned monasteries, porcelain and furniture from the Biedermeier period were added, so that parts of the collection, such as the collection of the De Cente pottery factory , were relocated to Neukloster Abbey .

The honorary curator of the extended collection, Cistercian Father Bernhard Otter, planned a new museum building on the area of ​​today's Esperanto Park, where, according to a design by the Viennese architect Richard Jordan , an archive, a city library, a reading room, as well as offices, depots and workrooms are planned were. However, this plan was not implemented.

After the troop hospital moved to a new building in Ungargasse in 1903, the collection and archive were able to move into the vacated former Jesuit residence near the Vorstadtkirche in 1904 , creating the Wiener Neustadt City Museum and City Archives in a separate building. The director of the teacher training institute and city councilor Josef Mayer, who wrote a four-volume city chronicle, was responsible for setting up the museum collection.

Redesign and modernization

After around nine months of construction and redesign, the new permanent collection of the Wiener Neustädter Stadtmuseum was opened on April 10, 2016 with an “Open House”. The most important goal in the repositioning of the permanent collection was a new approach based on the particularities of the city's history, as well as the traceability of development lines from the city's history to the present day.

During excavations in advance of planned renovation work for the Lower Austrian State Exhibition 2019 entitled "World in Motion - City.History.Mobility" , archaeologists came across two medieval graves in front of the museum in August 2016. In the run-up to the state exhibition, the mayor's garden in front of the museum, the forecourt and the entrance portal were redesigned. In addition, new passageways and crossings between the former city museum and the museum church of St. Peter an der Sperr were created and the monastery corridors were revitalized. Historic stones and wall decorations were exposed and old windows restored. The museum was named Museum St. Peter an der Sperr . The architectural office koup architekten ZT gmbh was responsible for the renovation , the revitalization of the building cost five million euros.

museum

From 11th to 12th January 2020, the Wiener Neustädter Artists' Association opened a short-term exhibition of fine arts in the exhibition church of St. Peter an der Sperr. The museum itself has to be rebuilt first.

Special exhibitions

  • 2007 Model maker Koloman Mayrhofer: 1: 1 model Albatros D.III 253.01, ÖFFAG . A legendary plane returns home to Wiener Neustadt.
  • 2010 of two options take the third. Pen drawings, mixed media, watercolors. 1983-2009. the painter Elfi Macek
  • 2011 Paths of Fate. The Jewish community in Wiener Neustadt , with a supplementary exhibition about the stumbling blocks for Wiener Neustadt (The biographies of the Jewish families Müller (Baumkirchnerring 5) and Buxbaum (Gröhrmühlgasse 31))
  • 2012 Long Flight Day 2012 , UNHCR , photo exhibition 60 years 60 lives. with Magnum Photos photographers Antoine D'Agata and Moises Saman

Museum management

  • after the end of the Second World War Georg Niemetz (honorary curator)
  • from October 1st, 1959 Gertrud Gerhartl
  • 1997-2008 Norbert Koppensteiner
  • since 2009 Eveline Klein

Publications

  • Maximilian I. The rise of an emperor. From his birth to sole rule 1459 - 1493. Exhibition March 25th - July 2nd, 2000, authors: Christa Angermann and others, editors: Norbert Koppensteiner, Ingrid Riegler. Wiener Neustadt 2000, ISBN 3-85098-248-3 .
  • Ferdinand I ruler between the blood court and Turkish wars. Exhibition September 26, 2003 - January 6, 2004, authors: Christian Beaufort-Spontin and others. Editor: Norbert Koppensteiner, Ingrid Riegler. Wiener Neustadt 2003, ISBN 3-200-00020-1 .

literature

  • Gertrud Buttlar-Elberberg : City Museum Wiener Neustadt. Published by the cultural office of the statutory city of Wiener Neustadt, Merbod, Wiener Neustadt 1995, ISBN 3-900844-39-9 .
  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Wiener Neustadt, Profanized sacred buildings, St. Peter an der Sperr, Former Dominican monastery, today City Museum and Exhibition Center, Petersgasse No. 2 / 2a, Johannes-von-Nepomuk-Platz No. 1. pp. 2634–2636.

Web links

Commons : Stadtmuseum Wiener Neustadt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Redesign of the Wiener Neustadt City Museum completed. Retrieved May 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ orf.at: State exhibition means "World in Motion" . Article from January 19, 2018, accessed on January 20, 2018.
  3. ↑ derStandard.at - Wiener Neustadt: Archaeologists discover medieval monastery cemetery . Article dated August 26, 2016, accessed August 28, 2016.
  4. ^ Kurier: Wiener Neustadt: Museum awakens from a deep slumber . Article dated October 12, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ "St. Peter an der Sperr ”in new splendor on ORF Lower Austria from October 14, 2018, accessed on October 15, 2018
  6. ↑ There will be temporary exhibitions from April to October 2020. stadtmuseum.wiener-neustadt.at, accessed on January 14, 2020.
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Special exhibition Albatros D.III 253.01, ÖFFAG May 11 to September 2, 2007.
  8. ^ Long day of escape - photo exhibition "60 years 60 lives" district papers Wiener Neustadt
  9. ↑ Wiener Neustadt: Mag. Eveline Klein takes over the management of the City Museum  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Wiener Neustadt, November 19, 2008.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wiener-neustadt.gv.at  

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 57.5 ″  N , 16 ° 14 ′ 36.5 ″  E