Vienna Crime Museum
 The crime museum in the soap boiler house |
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| place | Große Sperlgasse 24, 1020 Vienna |
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Crime story
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| opening | November 8, 1991 |
| management |
Harald Seyrl
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| Website |
www.kriminalmuseum.at
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The Vienna Crime Museum is a museum in the 2nd district of Vienna , Leopoldstadt , in the district of the same name .
Location
The museum that emerged at the end of 1991 from the Criminal Police Museum of the Federal Police Directorate Vienna (founded in 1984), successor to the former Imperial and Royal Police Museum (founded in 1899), is located in the Seifensiederhaus , one of the oldest houses in the 2nd district, at Grosse Sperlgasse 24 (until 1862: Herrengasse 297). It stands where the parish hall had previously been in the (expelled) Jewish community and was built in 1685 (marked on the wedge of the portal). The name of the house is based on the fact that it was bought by a soap maker in 1794. Today the museum is located roughly between the Karmelitermarkt and Leopoldskirche .
There is a coffee house in the courtyard of the building .
exhibition
The museum consists of 20 rooms in which the history of the judiciary , the police system and also crime from the Middle Ages to modern times is presented. Medieval prison systems and the last public executions in Vienna are presented. Individual interesting criminal cases such as that of the poisoner Hofrichter or the Josefine Luner case from the interwar period are also shown.
The exhibits include numerous original documents and reproductions of criminal cases, crime scene photos and court texts as well as body parts of executed criminals, including the heads of Juliana Hummel and Franz Hebenstreit . After protests, Hebenstreit's head was removed from the collection in 2012.
The director of the museum is Harald Seyrl, who has dealt with the matter since 1984, suggested the location of the museum and has been running the house since 1991.
See also
- Former police museum in the police building Rossauer Lände
- Police Directorate Vienna (Schottenring 11) , former building
- Police Directorate Vienna (Schottenring 7–9) , today's building
- Federal Police Directorate Vienna , former
- Detective Corps , former
- State Police Directorate Vienna , today's organizational unit of police work in Vienna
Individual evidence
- ↑ Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien , Volume 5, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 196
Web links
- Official website of the Vienna Crime Museum
- Brigitt Albrecht: The dark history of Vienna , in: Zeitschriftationale Sicherheit , Wien, Issue 5–6 / 2005, pp. 118 ff. (PDF file; 1.15 MB)
Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 6 ″ N , 16 ° 22 ′ 42.4 ″ E