Monument Day
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Monument Day is the name under which Austria took part in the European cultural event “ European Heritage Days ” (EHD), which was founded in 1991, from the mid-1990s .
Monument Day - European Heritage Days in Austria
In Austria, Monument Day always takes place on the last Sunday of September as a fixed date. While in most European countries the implementation of the European Heritage Days is not the responsibility of the respective state preservation institutions, but is outsourced, the Austrian contribution to the campaign is organized and financed by the Federal Monuments Office , the authority responsible for monument protection and preservation in Austria. As in other European countries, all events in Austria (with very few exceptions) can be attended free of charge. The aim of the campaign is to give the population access to monuments that are otherwise not open to the public. The experts from the BDA and partner organizations try to convey the objects, but also the work of monument preservation and thus the complexity and responsibility of preserving and protecting and life with and in the monument, together with the committed owners on special tours.
history
In 1995 Austria was represented for the first time with nine Upper Austrian program items in this European idea, making it the first Austrian federal state to join the Council of Europe resolution adopted in 1985 . The event, still called "Open Monument Day", took place on October 7, 1995 and had around 10,000 visitors. The first nationwide participation took place in 1998, although no uniform topic had yet been specified. A year later, the uniform motto was introduced throughout Austria.
Since 2010 the Federal Monuments Office has been running its own website for the campaign with detailed information on the respective objects. The Federal Monuments Office also publishes the program in printed form for each federal state separately as a brochure.
statistics
The following statistics are published by the Federal Monuments Office.
| year | theme | Number of objects | Number of visitors | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Church monument preservation | 112 | 17,750 | |
| 2000 | Historic gardens | 102 | 12.110 | |
| 2001 | City palaces | 141 | 17,000 | |
| 2002 | Technical monuments | 121 | 22,550 | |
| 2003 | Monasteries and monasteries | 75 | 10,815 | |
| 2004 | Old buildings - new use | 56 | 11,188 | |
| 2005 | Reconstruction! | 75 | 9,870 | |
| 2006 | At the water | 135 | 18,960 | |
| 2007 | Earthly - underground | 179 | 37,878 | |
| 2008 | Culture import | 195 | 39,263 | |
| 2009 | Creativity and innovation | 208 | 54,891 | |
| 2010 | Places of enjoyment | 260 | 67,350 | |
| 2011 | wooden | 271 | 65,750 | nine of which are in the Czech Republic and eight in South Tyrol |
| 2012 | Story (s) in the memorial | 275 | 68,500 | |
| 2013 | out of stone? | 305 | 70,700 | |
| 2014 | illusion | 287 | 73,000 | |
| 2015 | fire and flame | 233 | 58,000 | |
| 2016 | Out and about together | 260 | 64,400 | with Slovenia |
| 2017 | Home of big daughters - 300th birthday of Maria Theresa | 293 | 67,000 | with one venue in Slovakia, one in South Tyrol and two in Hungary |
| 2018 | Sharing treasures - European Cultural Heritage Year 2018 | |||
| 2019 | Emperors, kings and philosophers - 100 years of women's suffrage |
The links to the dates lead to the corresponding pages of the Wiki Loves Monuments project .
In recent years, more and more monuments near the border in the Czech Republic , Slovakia and Hungary have been included in the Austrian action days , in 2011 it was also Slovenia and Italy / South Tyrol .
The topics of the events are also the international protection of cultural property during UN operations and other multinational operations as well as Blue Shield International Fact Finding Missions (Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Syria, Chad, Yugoslavia, Cyprus) by Austrian civil and military experts.
There was also an international reference at a memorial day event in 2019 from Blue Shield, the UNESCO chair for the conservation of cultural heritage at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the competence center for cultural heritage, cultural management and communication - Blue Shield Center at the University of Vienna and ICOMOS Austria. At this "Vienna Reconstruction Workshop", the experiences of past reconstruction projects with regard to examples in the Middle East (from Jerusalem to Beirut to Aleppo and Mosul), in Central Europe (from Vienna to Berlin), in the Balkans (from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik), in Haiti (Port -au-Prince) and in Nepal (from Patan to Kathmandu) comparatively discussed and projected on future reconstruction projects. Because even in the course of reconstruction, further and often more lasting destruction can occur for a wide variety of reasons.
See also
- Open Monument Day in Germany
- European Monument Day in Switzerland
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ European Heritage Days from the website of the Council of Europe, accessed on September 11, 2011
- ↑ Kunstgeschichte aktuell 2/10, vol. XXVII, p. 6 Kunstgeschichte aktuell 2/10, vol. XXVII, p. 6 on the website of the Association of Austrian Art Historians, accessed on September 13, 2011
- ↑ a b Federal Monuments Office: Monument Day in Austria ; Retrieved on Aug. 20, 2017
- ^ Province of Upper Austria: Press kit for the 20th Monument Day in Upper Austria ; Retrieved on Aug. 20, 2017
- ^ Erwin Garstenauer: Association for the Preservation of Monuments in Upper Austria. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Year 141, Linz 1996, p. 145 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ; accessed on August 20, 2017).
- ↑ Statistics. In: tagdesdenkmals.at. Federal Monuments Office, accessed on August 9, 2017 .