Tyrolean Kaiserjäger Museum
 Tyrolean Kaiserjäger Museum |
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| place | innsbruck |
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Museum of the infantry troops of the Kaiserjäger
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| opening | October 4, 1880 |
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The Tyrolean Kaiserjägermuseum is a museum opened on October 4, 1880 about the history of the infantry troops of the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserjäger in Innsbruck . Within the museum there is also the Andreas Hofer Gallery and the Tyrolean Hall of Honor .
location
The museum is located on the Bergisel plateau in Innsbruck (Tyrol / Austria) in the immediate vicinity of the Andreas Hofer monument, inaugurated in 1893 . Emperor Franz Joseph I personally took part in the unveiling of the Andreas Hofer monument . During excavations on the plateau, grave fields were found dating back to 1000 BC. Christ could be dated. The foundation walls of the Roman Castells Veldidena and a monastery founded in 870, which was handed over to the Premonstratensians before 1138 , are located in Wilten below the Bergisel near the museum. On November 16, 1917, the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wilten , on whose premises the museum was located, in admiration of the heroic deeds of the patriotic troops, especially the Kaiserjäger , transferred these parts of the Bergisel to the property of the four Kaiserjäger regiments.
History of the museum
The museum was built in 1878 by the emperor hunters and 1880 by Colonel Knöpfler, the former regiment commander of the Tyrolean I. Jägerregiment Emperor Franz Joseph opened. It contains memorabilia, weapons, uniforms and pictures of personalities who were related to the hunters and pictures of the regimental history. The honor grave of the unknown Kaiserjäger, completed in 1923, is in the open-air site . It is intended to commemorate the total of 20,000 Kaiserjäger who fell in the First World War.
In the decade after the First World War, the museum and assets of the Kaiserjäger were merged into a foundation . The museum was bombed during World War II . In 1959 there was a substantial extension with a state memorial chapel and two showrooms. There you will find the 154 volumes of the Tyrolean Book of Honor , in which the dead of Tyrol in the wars from 1796 to 1945 are recorded by name.
Special exhibitions
- Bosnia 1878–1918 (1998)
- War in the Dolomites 1915/17 (1999)
- Battle on Monte Pasubio (2000)
- Glacier War 1915/18 (2001)
- Cortina between two armies (2002)
- The fighting on the Isonzo (2003)
- World War 1914–1918 - fateful year 1914 (2004)
- War on the Tyrolean border 1915/15 (2005)
- World War 1914-18 - May offensive 1916 with consequences (2006)
- World War 1914-18 - From Isonzo to Piave (2007)
after renovation next special exhibition in KJM 2012
literature
- Anton Graf Bossi-Fedrigotti: Kaiserjäger - Fame and End . Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 1977
- "Non solo armi" Pasubio 1915–1918 Published as a book in cooperation with the " Museo della Guerra Rovereto ". Bilingual illustrated book with 199 pages.
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 2.9 ″ N , 11 ° 24 ′ 4.1 ″ E