World document heritage in Austria
The World Document Heritage in Austria is a directory within the framework of the World Document Heritage program of UNESCO . With the award - as with the other World Heritage programs - the home state undertakes to ensure the "preservation and availability" of the respective documentary heritage in the service of the global community.
Memory of the World in Austria
Valuable book stocks , manuscripts , scores , unique items , image , sound and film documents , "which represent the collective memory of people in the various countries of our world" are to be recorded. From Austria's extensive heritage, which goes back to the collections and bequests of the Habsburgs interested in art , church and monastery treasures as well as numerous actors in Austrian culture , only a few individual items have been included in the world list.
The national document heritage is looked after by the Austrian Commission for UNESCO . The international headquarters is the World Heritage Committee .
The Memory of the World program will be continued with the Charter for the Preservation of Digital Cultural Heritage 2003, on the question of the long-term archiving of digitized documents and of exclusively digitally available materials. In cooperation with the Austrian National Library or the Digital Preservation Working Group of the Austrian Computer Society, intensive work is being carried out on implementation in Austria.
International document register - entries from Austria
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1997 | Vienna Dioscurides manuscript | Vienna , Austrian National Library | Late antique collective manuscript , made before 512 AD. The Dioscurides is a pharmacognostic lexicon of late antiquity , and was used as a reference work for remedies and as a therapeutic basis as a standard work through the Middle Ages and Renaissance up to the early modern period . |
| 1997 | Final document of the Congress of Vienna 1815 (Congress Act) | Vienna , Austrian State Archives |
Collective file of all important separate and general resolutions and treaties from 1815, contains 121 articles . As a pan-European body, the Congress of Vienna ended the period of the Napoleonic Wars , which had put Europe in instability for two decades and made the long peace period of the Biedermeier and Restoration possible. The final act was signed on June 9, 1815 by the signatory powers Austria, Russia, Prussia, Great Britain, France, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, the only time the Congress of Vienna met in full. |
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1997 | Historical collections (1899–1950) of the phonogram archive | Vienna , Austrian Academy of Sciences | 4000 audio documents (from the total inventory of 50,000 recordings with around 7,000 hours of material). The phonogram archive is the oldest phonotheque in the world, founded by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in 1899. In particular, it collected ethnographic and historical sound documents. Together with the Berlin Phonogram Archive , it is the most important source for oral history and acoustic originals |
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2001 | Papyrus collection (Archduke Rainer Collection) | Vienna , Austrian National Library | 180,000 papyri from Egypt , between 1500 BC AD ( Egyptian Book of the Dead ) and AD 1500 (printed Haggadah ). Examples of hieroglyphics , hieratic , demotic , Coptic as well as ancient Greek , Latin , Hebrew and Aramaic , Syriac , Pahlavi and Arabic . Archduke Rainer built up what is probably the most extensive and most comprehensive collection of written works on papyrus . In 1883, on the advice of Joseph von Karabacek , he acquired 10,000 papyri from the 1st Fayyum Fund and continuously expanded the collection; Today with a museum that shows around 400 representative exhibits in 53 showcases. |
| 2001 | Schubert Collection | Vienna , Vienna Library in the City Hall |
Music : autographs and all first editions , documents and testimonies. Nikolaus Dumba , art patron and collector, began collecting through the composer and musician Franz Schubert in the 1850s, and acquired over 200 manuscripts, which he bequeathed to the City of Vienna in his will. Today it is the world's largest collection of Schubertiana and an important source archive for music research as well as a fund for Schubert exhibitions. |
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2003 | Atlas Blaeu – Van der Hem | Vienna , Austrian National Library | 50 volume map collection with colored hand drawings and engravings, 1662–1678. Laurens van der Hem , judge in Amsterdam, acquired the Atlas Maior des Joan Blaeu , the most expensive book of the 17th century, and on this basis compiled an atlas that covers the entire surface of the earth and, in addition to maps and plans , cityscapes , architectural drawings and portraits and other things, especially hand-drawn maps and topographical sketches of the Dutch East India Company . The work is lavishly printed and furnished by well-known contemporary painters. |
| 2005 | Brahms Collection | Vienna , Society of Friends of Music in Vienna |
Music : autographs , first editions , documents and testimonies. The core of the collection is the estate of Johannes Brahms . The collection was expanded by the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, of which Brahms was a member as concert director from 1872 to 1875, and today it is not only an exceptionally complete collection on the musician himself, but also on the entire history of Viennese music from the second half of the 19th century |
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| 2005 | Gothic construction plans | Vienna , Academy of Fine Arts | 425 Gothic architectural drawings . The collection includes original plans, drafts and detailed drawings from the medieval construction huts . The importance of the collection lies in the fact that there are only around 500 copies of this genre worldwide, including the Viennese holdings: In the Gothic period, building drawings were primarily made on the drawing floor . This makes the Vienna Collection the main source of the roots of modern architectural drawing |
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| 2005 | Bibliotheca Corviniana | Vienna , Austrian National Library (together with Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy) | 39 volumes of handwritten copies of important medieval works. The book collection of the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus was the largest collection of writings of its time after the Vatican library (it is assumed that it comprised 2,000 volumes), and represented the state of knowledge of the Renaissance . It fell apart after the king's death; of the slightly more than 200 proven Corvins, Austria has the second largest population after Hungary. |
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| 2007 | Tabula Peutingeriana | Vienna , Austrian National Library | Map collection, parchment copy from the end of the 12th century, single image in eleven parts. The map series covers the entire road network of the late Roman Empire. The Mappa mundi , a route map that is not true to area or direction, shows the geographic status of late antiquity and extends from Thule in the west to the Ganges and China in the east. The original map was probably made after 330 and is only preserved as a medieval copy. After it was acquired by Konrad Peutinger around 1507, a print by Ortelius was published in 1598 (Peutinger's copy was lost), which in the 18th century was about Prince Eugene and Charles VI. came to the Imperial Court Library. |
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| 2011 | Arnold Schönberg's estate | Vienna , Arnold Schönberg Center | Extensive collection, around 20,000 pages of music and text manuscript, historical photographs, personal documents, diaries, concert programs, Schönberg's library, memorabilia and instruments In addition to music, Arnold Schönberg was also interested in painting, education, aesthetics, Judaism, politics, philosophy and religion. In the 1970s Vienna was selected for the location of the Schönbergiana, and the Arnold Schönberg Center was founded for this purpose. |
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2011 | Mainz Psalter | Vienna , Austrian National Library |
Collection of Psalms in Latin from 1457, multicolored print in black, red and blue. The early impression of Peter Schöffer and Johannes Fust , as incunabula executed expected after the Gutenberg Bible to be the mitbedeutenste work for the development of the printing press. Only 13 originals have survived, only seven intact, and of these only the Vienna and Dresden copies in parchment . |
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2013 | Golden bull | Vienna , Austrian State Archives | The Golden Bull was the most important of the documents of the Holy Roman Empire and regulated the modalities for the election and coronation of the Roman-German kings by the electors until the end of the Old Empire in 1806. Of the seven surviving versions, five are in different locations in Germany ( Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Nuremberg, Stuttgart) and two in Austria (both in Vienna). The documents were jointly declared document heritage for Germany and Austria. |
| 2017 | Philosophical legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein | Vienna , Austrian National Library and four other libraries in Canada, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands | The philosopher's legacy of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein comprises 83 manuscripts, 45 typescripts and 11 dictations with a total of around 20,000 pages. | |
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2017 | Documents for the construction of the Semmering Railway | Vienna , Technical Museum | A total of 164 notebooks, sketches, drawings, watercolors, lithographs and steel engravings for the construction of the Semmering Railway . |
Austrian national Memory of the World Register (selection)
In addition to the international document register with 15 entries from Austria (as of 2018), the Austrian national Memory of the World Register was opened in 2014. In 2018, 18 documents were added, including the Moscow Memorandum , so that in 2018 a total of 59 culturally and historically important documents and collections for Austria were listed in this directory.
| image | heritage Site | Place / institution | description | |
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| 2014 | Privilege Maius | Austrian State Archives | ||
| 2014 | Austrian State Treaty | Austrian State Archives | ||
| 2016 | The archive of the Wiener Zeitung | Austrian State Archives | ||
| 2018 | The archive of dialects in Austria | Vienna , Austrian Academy of Sciences | Sound recordings of Austrian dialects 1951–1983 with free speeches by the speakers | |
| 2018 | Moscow Memorandum | Austrian State Archives | Agreement between the Soviet and Austrian governments that made it possible to conclude the State Treaty | |
| 2018 | Archive holdings of Abbot Dominikus Hagenauer | Salzburg , St. Peter Abbey | Bundle of manuscripts and documents |
See also
- World Heritage in Austria , a complete overview
literature
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: Safeguarding the Documentary Heritage of Humanity (Brochure, pdf; 3.6 MB)
Web links
- Digital Heritage - Memory of the World , Austrian Commission for UNESCO
- UNESCO program Memory of the World / Gedächtnis der Menschheit (English)
- Austria , Memory of the World »Register» Access by region and country »Europe and North America (engl.)
- "Memory of Austria" - Austrian National Memory of the World Register
Individual evidence
- ^ Quote from the website of the Austrian Commission for UNESCO
- ↑ See The Memory of Mankind. The document heritage of UNESCO. Kunth-Verlag, Munich 2010, p. 5
- ↑ Charter for the Preservation of the Digital Cultural Heritage ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . (Full text in German, pdf, unesco.at; 82 kB)
- ↑ hearbar - excerpts from recordings , phonogrammarchiv.at; Further recordings: Voice portrait produced during the demonstration of Poulsen's "Telegraphon" in Vienna (recording on clay wire), 1901. and "Speech in favor of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Military Widows and Orphans Fund", Emperor Franz Joseph December 14, 1915 , both mediathek.at
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↑ Commons : Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem - collection of images, videos and audio files
- ↑ orf.at: The dialect archive is a UNESCO World Heritage Site . Article dated September 14, 2018, accessed September 15, 2018.
- ^ Memory of Austria: Austrian Commission for UNESCO . Retrieved September 15, 2018.
Vienna Dioscurides Manuscript (1997) | Final document of the Congress of Vienna (1997) | Historical collections of the phonogram archive (1999) | Archduke Rainer papyrus collection (2001) | Schubert Collection (2001) | Atlas Blaeu – Van der Hem (2003) | Brahms Collection (2005) | Gothic building plans (2005) | Bibliotheca Corviniana (2005) | Tabula Peutingeriana (2007) | Arnold Schönberg's estate (2011) | Mainz Psalter (2011) | Golden Bull (2013) | Philosophical legacy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (2017) | Documents on the construction of the Semmering Railway (2017)