Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Museum St. Florian
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| place | St. Florian, A-4490, Stiftstrasse 2 |
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History museum, fire department museum
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| opening | May 20, 1984 |
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Association of the historic fire department St. Florian
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E-ABI Erwin Chalupar
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The Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Museum St. Florian is a special museum of the Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Association . It is located in the former Meierhof of the Augustinian Canons of St. Florian in the market town of St. Florian .
The museum presents the fire fighting system in Upper Austria. It is the largest fire brigade museum in Austria and one of the largest of its kind in the world.
The baroque museum building, known as the Historic Fire Department St. Florian , was erected in the second half of the 17th century and restored in the 1970s.
History of the fire brigade museum
In 1929 the State Fire Brigade Association set up the first small fire brigade museum in the newly opened Linz fire brigade school. In the 1970s, the idea of an Upper Austrian fire brigade museum was expressed in the magazine of the Austrian fire brigades.
In 1979, St. Florian, the place of activity of the patron saint of fire services, St. Florian , was recognized as the ideal location for the fire brigade museum. In 1979 the association for the preservation of the baroque Stiftsmeierhof St. Florian, founded at the end of 1968, was renamed the Association of the Historic Fire Department St. Florian . The renovation of the roof, structure and facades, carried out from 1969 to 1979, was completed by this time.
The respective state fire brigade commander has since headed the museum association as president. The task of the renamed association was the interior work and the establishment of the fire brigade museum. The first part of the museum was opened in 1984 and the second part in 1985. In addition to other private donors and the public sector as sponsors , the 70,000 fire fighters from Upper Austria developed a special initiative for the financing . With a fire brigade shilling and a building block campaign, they collected 1.3 million schillings, which is the equivalent of almost 100,000 euros, for the fire brigade museum.
In 1997 an air raid shelter was set up where the situation during the Second World War can be recreated during air raids . In 2002 exhibits were regrouped and the exhibition area was expanded. In 2005 the entrance area was redesigned.
exhibition
The museum concept was created by Fritz Heiserer . Husky was standing with his company, the company Rosenbauer as patron behind the museum idea. He made essential exhibits from his private collection available to the museum . The fire service should be presented as both a technical and an economic facility. The initiators at the time assumed that they would build the world's largest fire brigade museum in stages on an exhibition area of 2,500 square meters.
The museum's exhibition now covers an exhibition area of around 3,000 square meters. Around 15,000 exhibits are on display. It is the largest fire brigade museum in Austria and one of the largest of its kind in the world. The museum is open every day except Monday from early May to late October. The different main topics are revealed to the visitor as part of a tour.
The exhibition spaces enclose two inner courtyards, each around 2,500 square meters in size, in the former Baroque Stiftsmeierhof , architecturally designed as a double square courtyard . The viewing of the exhibits takes place as part of a tour through 14 of the 15 halls. One hall is used for special exhibitions, can be reached via an open gate in the entrance hall and is not part of the tour.
The museum shows the development of fire fighting from a technical and social point of view. In addition to historical fire fighting equipment such as hand-operated syringes , horse-drawn vehicles and motorized vintage cars from the 1920s, modern technology is also on display. This enables a comparison between historical and modern extinguishing technology.
Uniforms and personal equipment of firefighters complete the collection. The exhibits from the individual time periods allow conclusions and hints about the position of the fire service in society. Accordingly, importance is attached to the topic of fire prevention.
The focus of the exhibition is the history of the Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Association, the Upper Austrian Fire Brigade School, fire insurance in Upper Austria, the Upper Austria fire prevention agency and the three largest Upper Austria fire brigades from the cities of Linz , Wels and Steyr . These represent the historical development of the fire service sector in Upper Austria.
The museum was certified in 2009 by the International Technical Committee for Preventive Fire Protection and Fire Extinguishing , using the museum definition of the International Museum Council (ICOM) .
Hall 1
The first hall is the entrance area and location of the visitors' cash desk, booking office for tours and the museum shop as well as the management office and guest toilet.
Hall 2
The second hall can be reached via the courtyard passage, which connects the first part of the double square courtyard with the second part. This is dedicated on the one hand to the history of the state fire brigade association and the topics of fire insurance and fire prevention, and on the other hand to historical fire brigade items and large equipment from the 18th and 19th centuries. There you can also see hand pressure syringes and equipment on the subject of “fire brigades in society”.
Hand pressure sprayer for horse train I
Hand pressure sprayer for horse train II
Koebe hand pressure syringe with a delivery rate of 175 l per min.
Hall 3
The third, much smaller hall contains numerous showcases and showcases, where decorations and medals of honor from different periods of the fire service history are presented in glazed showcases.
Hall 4
The fourth hall is used for the exhibition of motorized syringes and fire fighting vehicles from the years 1923 to 1938 as well as an ambulance with a horse-drawn train.
Motorized sprayer from Rosenbauer, 500 l / min
Ambulance for horse train
Hall 5
The fifth hall serves as an exhibition hall for ladders and special vehicles. You can find many historical wooden ladders that were used in the past century for rescuing people but also to support fire fighting.
Halls 6 and 7
Fire service uniforms, international couplings, some portable pumps and exhibits from the water service will be on display in Halls six and seven .
Hall 8
Fire trucks from the period from 1938 to 1945 can be seen in the eighth hall. During the Second World War , the fire police vehicles were painted green. The old tank fire engine of the St. Florian volunteer fire brigade does not come from the war . The Steyr 680 was in service as an emergency vehicle for this fire service from 1970 to 1992 and served as the fire service's own vintage vehicle from 1992. In the anniversary year 2009, the restored fire truck, which is still roadworthy, was given to the fire brigade museum on permanent loan.
Steyr 680 as TLF 4000 of the FF St. Florian
Fire engine from World War II
Halls 9–11
The ninth hall houses historical international fire brigade uniforms and the tenth and eleventh halls focus on the three largest fire brigades in Upper Austria. The exhibits of the Steyr volunteer fire brigade, the Wels volunteer fire brigade and the Linz professional fire brigade were made available to the museum on permanent loan.
International fire brigade uniforms
Foundation book of FF Steyr
International fire uniforms
Hall 12
Special exhibitions are shown in Hall 12.
Topics of previous special exhibitions
- Fire departments from all over the world (1987)
- Development of respiratory protection (1988)
- Fire brigade youth in Austria (1990)
- Florian Fire Brigades (1993)
- Freistadt Fire Department (1998)
- Fire Brigade District Linz-Land (2000)
- Fire brigades in the Passau region (2006)
- 135 years of Hungarian fire brigades (2006)
- Fire departments from all over the world (2007)
- 50 years of diving service for the Upper Austrian fire brigades (2008)
- Respiratory protection in fire services (2011)
Special exhibition of respiratory protection in the fire service
Respiratory protection masks have been used by fire departments since the end of the 19th century . In May 2011, a three-year special exhibition on the subject of "100 years of respiratory protection in fire service" was opened in the fire department museum.
The development of gas protection devices was driven by the use of poisonous gases during the First World War . Remaining stocks of these devices were converted for fire-fighting purposes after the war. Then new masks and filters were developed during World War II. It was also common for a full-gas mask to be readily available over the bed at this time.
From 1938 the mask models GM 30 and GM 38 for the military , fire brigade and air raid protection were introduced from the military leather masks ; To distinguish them, they were given different color markings to distinguish the military from the civilian forces.
After the war, the two-pane masks for fire brigades and industry were replaced by single-pane ("panorama") masks. From the 1950s / 1960s onwards, respiratory protection was expanded to include "body protection" as a whole ( heat protection suits , radiation protection suits) and finally full protection suits. In addition, the exhibition shows gas measuring devices and resuscitation devices .
Halls 13–15
Halls thirteen and fourteen are the exhibition space for portable fire extinguishers , portable fire pumps and fire engines from 1946 onwards.
Fire extinguishers on wheels
portable fire extinguishers
Cutaway model of the normal high pressure pump
Museum building
The Meierhof of St. Florian Monastery was built from 1676 to 1685 under Provost David Fuhrmann. The building is architecturally a double square courtyard. The external dimensions are 84 × 71 meters, the utility wing has a roof height of 19 meters and the two inner courtyards are each around 2,500 square meters. The stables were on the ground floor and above them the grain chambers and feed stores. For centuries, the building was considered one of the most important economic structures in Upper Austria. It was used by the monastery until the 1950s for various business activities belonging to the monastery. In 1885 the farm accommodated 60 people, 36 horses and 150 cows.
The roof area is approx. 7,200 m². It is covered by 220,000 plain tiles. The roof structure has numerous dormers . With the mentioned roof height of 19 meters, the Stiftsmeierhof of St. Florian was one of the highest Meierhöfe in Upper Austria.
The entrance hall (Hall 1) served as the Meierhofstube until the 1950s. Hall 2 was a cowshed with 49 spaces. Hall 4 was formerly used as a laundry room, bath room and garage for the monastery brewery. The monastery brewery was housed in Hall 5. Halls 6 and 7 served as storage for beer kegs. The brewery's malt cellar was located in Hall 8. Hall 9 housed the bookbindery, where the books from the abbey library were restored. The stables (fattening ox stalls and young cattle stalls) were located in halls 13 to 15.
Since the building was threatened with decay in the 1960s, the Association for the Preservation of the Stiftsmeierhof was founded in 1969 under the then state fire brigade commander Karl Salcher. This began immediately with the renovation of the damaged roof. After the restoration was completed, considerations existed about the purpose of dedicating the building as an agricultural museum until the decision to build a fire brigade museum was finally made in 1978 and gradually implemented. The Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Museum was housed in the rear part of the former Stiftsmeierhof.
Up until 2005, access to the exhibition was via a small hall reserved for the St. Florian Abbey Fire Brigade. This was the oldest Austrian company fire brigade, which was only incorporated into the Markt St. Florian volunteer fire brigade in 2005.
Model railway
On the upper floor of the Stiftsmeierhof there is a 400 m² loft room with a model railway based on Upper Austrian models.
Kleinreifling station
Steyr breakthrough power plant
literature
- Christoph Wagner: " Augustinian Canons of St. Florian ". Austria in the picture, ed. by Joachim Klinger. Christian Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-85447-184-X .
- Project team led by Dr. Alfred Zeilmayr: " Development of the fire service ". Issue 1/2009, ed. Oö. LFV. Verlag Repro Technik, Wels 2009, ISBN 978-3-902579-05-8 .
- Fire brigade museum (ed.): Historical fire brigade armory St. Florian. Museum guide. July 1995.
- Orientation plan: Historical fire department in the Stiftsmeierhof St. Florian.
- Special exhibition on respiratory protection: The history of respiratory protection in the Upper Austrian State Fire Brigade Association. Special brochure of the fire brigade museum.
- Austrian Federal Fire Brigade Association: Regulations for the competition for the fire service badge in gold for Upper Austria . State Fire Brigade Association. August 2010.
Web links
- Web presence of the Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Museum St. Florian
- Online tour of the fire brigade museum part 1
- Online tour of the fire brigade museum part 2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Upper Austria. Fire Brigade Museum St. Florian. Association of Upper Austrian Museums, accessed on July 25, 2013 .
- ↑ Upper Austria. Fire Brigade Museum St. Florian: "Experience fire brigade history up close". Upper Austria. Museum network, accessed on July 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Saint Florian - patron saint of the fire department. Platinum mesh. The portal for the young at heart, accessed on July 26, 2013 .
- ^ Fritz Heiserer: Efforts to create a fire brigade museum , in: Brennpunkt, Volume 27, Linz 1975, Volume 2, pp. 16-17 Activities in Upper Austria
- ↑ Fritz Heiserer: News from the Fire Brigade Museum , in: Brennpunkt, year 30, Linz 1978, part 3, planned for the Stiftsmeierhof St. Florian (market)
- ↑ Fritz Heiserer: Historic fire department St. Florian . In: Upper Austrian Museum Association (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association . Year 130. Linz 1985, p. 88–89 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed July 26, 2013]).
- ↑ Upper Austria. Fire Brigade Museum St. Florian: "Experience fire brigade history up close". Upper Austria. Museum network, accessed on July 26, 2013 .
- ^ Description of the exhibition. Cuscoon website, accessed on July 25, 2013 .
- ^ Museum definition of the CTIF. (No longer available online.) Federal Fire Brigade Association, archived from the original on December 4, 2013 ; Retrieved June 11, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 25 years Upper Austria. Fire Brigade Museum. Upper Austria. Fire Brigade Museum, accessed April 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Regulations FLA Gold OÖLFV: p.38
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Orientation plan: Historic fire brigade armory in the Stiftsmeierhof St. Florian. , 2012, p. 1.
- ↑ Steyr 680er transferred to the fire brigade museum. St. Florian Volunteer Fire Brigade, accessed on June 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Special exhibition respiratory protection special brochure of the museum
- ↑ Historical fire brigade armory: Museum Guide. 1995, p. 10
- ↑ Article on fire brigade history. (No longer available online.) Upper Austrian Fire Brigade Association, archived from the original on August 11, 2011 ; Retrieved May 3, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Development of the fire service. Issue 1/2009 pp. 127–128.
- ↑ Proof of the integration of the BTF pen. St. Florian Volunteer Fire Brigade, accessed on July 25, 2013 .
- ↑ St. Florian Model Railway Club
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 24.5 ″ N , 14 ° 22 ′ 37.1 ″ E