Winter sports museum
The Mürzzuschlag Winter Sports Museum is located in the district capital of the district of the same name in northeast Styria (Austria).
history
The Mürzzuschlag innkeeper and ski pioneer Toni Schruf and the Graz sparkling wine manufacturer Max Kleinoscheg are considered to be the founders of alpine skiing in Central Europe .
The first ski competition in Central Europe was held in Mürzzuschlag on February 2, 1893. The race took place on the Wasserleitungswiese (Pernreit). The track was 10 m wide, approx. 600 m long, with an incline of approx. 9.5 °. 20 men, 5 women and 7 boys took part. Samson (a Norwegian) won the race. Mizzi Angerer from Vienna won the women's race. To the amusement of the audience, Samson then drove over a dung heap and jumped 6 meters.
For these reasons, it was decided on November 20, 1947 to set up the Mürzzuschlag Winter Sports Museum and Theodor Hüttenegger was entrusted with the establishment. Initially, only basement rooms in the Mürzzuschlag town hall could be made available. In 1966 the museum moved to the former forest building at Wienerstraße 79.
The custodian of the museum from 1982 onwards was Hans Heidinger, the successor to the founder Theodor Hüttenegger. In 1997 Hannes Nothnagl was entrusted with the management.
In Oslo in 1998 at the 1st FIS Ski History Conference, the Mürzzuschlag Winter Sports Museum was named an FIS Museum together with the museums in Oslo, Lahti and New Hampshire.
It soon became too narrow in Wienerstrasse. In 2004 the company moved to the city center of Mürzzuschlag. Today the Winter Sports Museum has the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of winter sports historical exhibits.
literature
- Franz Preitler , Thorsten Buhl: Toni Schruf - the biography - about the ski pioneer (September 2009), ISBN 9783854891628
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Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 21 ″ N , 15 ° 40 ′ 24 ″ E