Waggerlhaus
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| place | Karl-Heinrich-Waggerl-Strasse 1, Wagrain |
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Wagrain market town
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Kulturverein Blaues Fenster
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The Waggerlhaus , officially Waggerl Haus , in Wagrain ( Land Salzburg ) was the home of the poet Karl Heinrich Waggerl (1897–1973) for over 50 years and has served as a museum since 1994. The 18th century building is a listed building .
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history
Waggerl was born in poor conditions in Bad Gastein in 1897 . Together with his wife Edith († 1990) he moved to Wagrain as a teacher in 1920. He lived in the Waggerl House until his death in 1973 . It was first mentioned in a document as early as 1776 as the Aignerhaus . The couple initially lived in two attic chambers in the 1920s, but gradually acquired half the house by 1955. All of his literary works were created here.
A donation from Edith Waggerl enabled the market town of Wagrain to redesign the house in cooperation with the Wagrain cultural association Blue Window and scientists as a museum. The opening was celebrated in 1994.
Just as Waggerl left the most important rooms, they were preserved. His handicrafts were exhibited as bookbinders, painters, draftsmen, photographers and collectors. Critical and informative boards, showcases, audio stations and video films about the person and his work were set up in some rooms. The aim of the museum is to provide access to the poet and his work.
The majority of the exhibits come from the collection of the Waggerl Archive, founded in 1987. When the building was converted into a museum, the building fabric was changed as little as possible in order to preserve the original character and at the same time preserve the memory of traditional rural architecture.
Special exhibitions
- 2013: Watches from the Dolezal and Waggerl collection
Elisabeth Dolezal, who was born in Vienna and came to Wagrain as a teenager in the 1920s, spent every summer with her family in the Pflegeerschlössl from then on . Over the years she got to love Wagrain and so she maintained close contacts with the initiators of the local museum association Erwin Exner, Karl Heinrich Waggerl, Alois Doppler and Ursula Seiwald. Because of her ties to Wagrain, she left the valuable family collection, consisting of clocks and other antique objects, to the local museum association. The “Blaues Fenster” cultural association is now taking care of the estate and in 2013 presented the objects in a special exhibition.
- 2014/2015: “Letters to loved ones” - Waggerl, Wagrain and the First World War
“Letters to loved ones” primarily contains the entries from Waggerl's war diary, in which the later poet describes his experiences. The exhibition links the descriptions with the events taking place in Wagrain at the same time. Using press releases, diaries, letters, postcards, souvenir pictures, private photos, posters and militaria, a picture is to be drawn of life at the front, everyday life in Wagrain and media life in the days of the First World War. Loans from Wagrainers as well as from the museums in Bad Gastein, Bad Hofgastein and the Erick Eybl poster collection will be shown.
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Silent night space
Since 2006, a room in the museum has been dedicated to the vicar and lyricist Joseph Mohr , who wrote the text for the Christmas carol " Silent Night, Holy Night " in 1816 , which Franz Xaver Gruber set to music two years later . Joseph Mohr came to Wagrain in 1837. He remained in the historical memory of the place as the founder of a new school building and the depository system for the elderly.
Awards
- 2001 Salzburg Museum Key Recognition Award
- Austrian Museum Seal of Approval since 2002
literature
- Market town of Wagrain and the Blue Window cultural association (ed.): Karl Heinrich Waggerl Haus , museum guide, Wagrain 1994.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ This is the official spelling.
Coordinates: 47 ° 20 ′ 1.4 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 3.7 ″ E