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Zeitbrücke Museum (Gars am Kamp)
Zeitbrücke Museum, Gars am Kamp
“Zeitbrücke Museum”, Gars am Kamp
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place Kollergasse 155, 3571 Gars am Kamp
Art
architect Leopold Wieser
opening 1902
operator
Municipality of Gars am Kamp, Museum Association Zeitbrücke Gars am Kamp
management
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The Zeitbrücke Museum is a regional museum in the market town of Gars am Kamp ( Horn district , Lower Austria ). It is one of the ten oldest municipal museums in Lower Austria that are still open to the public today, and is known for its Franz von Suppè memorial , among other things . The building is a listed building ( list entry ).

building

The two-storey, late-historical corner building (Kollergasse / Horner Straße) was built in 1883 by master mason Leopold Wieser, who built Franz von Suppès Garser Villa (Kremser Straße 40 and later also Kremser Straße 41) in 1879/80 and the village chapel of Etzmannsdorf in 1884/86 Citizen school built and inaugurated and opened by the community of Gars on September 18, 1884 and used as a secondary school from 1927.

history

Suppès also built by Leopold Wieser where he lived and worked in Gars (Kremser Straße 40–41)

Founded around 1900, the “Zeitbrücke Museum” is one of the ten oldest municipal museums in Lower Austria that are still open to the public today. The establishment of the Gars market and local museum was suggested in 1898 by the " kk Central Commission for Research and Conservation of Art and Historical Monuments , as well as the Conservator for the Political District of Horn in Lower Austria P [ater] Friedrich Endl, Stiftarchivars in Altenburg " In 1902 decided by the Gars municipal council. The holdings of the former market and local museum were presented from July 1973 in the “Heimatmuseum” (Hauptplatz 4) and in the “Suppè Memorial” (Kremser Straße 40). In 1979, the museum moved to its current location (Kollergasse 155), where it has been combining the following collections on three floors since 2002 as the "Zeitbrücke Museum": "Archeology in the Gars area", " Babenberg and castle area", local history with guild and handicrafts , Trade Museum “Commerce in Transition”, “Franz von Suppè Memorial Site” as well as “ Sommerfrische Gars” and contemporary history . In addition to these permanent exhibition modules, several special exhibitions can be seen in a specially designated exhibition room during the year.

Exhibition focus

“Localmuseum in Gars” from “ Das Vaterland ”. December 12, 1898, p. 2.

"Archeology in the Gars area"

The basement of the Zeitbrücke Museum offers an overview of research history and material culture from prehistoric times with the permanent exhibition “ Archeology in the Garser Raum” . The focus is on the " Late Bronze Age " and the "Early Middle Ages ".

"Babenberger and Castle Area"

This exhibition module uses architectural models, pictures, original finds and coats of arms to illuminate the history of Gars Castle, where Leopold II from Babenberg had his seat, and his canonized son Leopold III. is Lower Austrian state patron . The exhibition is rounded off by depictions of and from the Gertrudskirche , which, together with the Gars castle ruins, characterize the Gars skyline . Noteworthy are figures from the Gertrudskirche, such as Anna selbdritt around 1450 and a stone Pietà from the 1st half of the 15th century with its original setting.

Local history with guild and craft

“A Museum in Gars” from “ Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt ”. August 1, 1902, p. 6.

This department provides impressions of a long past time, when, in addition to shameful fiddles , guild flags , Bader tools, selected furniture from a good middle-class house, chests for storing valuable documents and utensils, as well as tools from old craft businesses can be seen. Historical oil paintings show the handover of the market certificate by Duke Albrecht IV to the representatives of the Gars market (1403) as well as a view of the Gars market during the Biedermeier period .

"Trade in Transition" ("1st Austrian Trade Museum")

The "1. Austrian Trade Museum ”shows the history of trade based on the Garser company Kiennast , which is Austria's oldest trading house due to the business being founded by Stephan Schury in 1585. With display boards and objects, the history of commerce of the early history is displayed up to the present, wherein a Greißlerladen (1900), the former grocery assortment as well as a self-service shop are special show pieces.

"The old school class"

The old school class consisting of historical school furniture, old teaching aids, slates , inkwells, natural history murals and objects gives a vivid impression of everyday school life around a hundred years ago. In addition, photo boards provide information about the history of the schools in Gars and the surrounding area.

Summer freshness and contemporary history

Early note about the "Franz von Suppe Museum" in Gars am Kamp (from "Signals for the musical world". Issue 53, 1897, p. 7.)

The focus of this exhibition module is on the changing development of the summer resort Gars-Thunau, which began around 1860 until it went out of fashion in the mid-1970s, before being introduced to Willi Dungl's " bio-training center " in the field of health care since the mid-1980s. and wellness - Tourism has established. Numerous contemporary historical exhibits as well as photo documentation deal with the formative changes and cuts that Gars experienced through his discovery as a summer resort after the Kamptal was opened up as a summer resort by the Kamptalbahn in 1889 . After all, the summer freshness boom was combined with a massive expansion of the entire infrastructure so that Gars could develop into the leading Kamptal summer freshness.

Franz von Suppè memorial

Franz von Suppè permanent exhibition

The “Zeitbrücke Museum” in Gars am Kamp shows in its Franz von Suppè memorial some exhibits that were already presented between 1896 and 1908 in the “Suppè Museum” operated by Suppès' widow in his country house in Gars . Most of the exhibits come from the time after Suppès death or from the three or four houses that he and his widow owned after 1879 in Gars, which was first his summer retreat from 1876 to Suppès death (1895) and later his second home . For this reason, in addition to the “Suppè memorial room”, Gars also has Suppès country estate, which he acquired thanks to the income from his commercially successful operettas “Fatinitza” (1876) and “Boccaccio” (1879) by the regional master builder Leopold Wieser Incidentally, he also built the “Zeitbrücke Museum”, which Kremser Strasse (No. 40 and 41) was able to build. At the beginning of 1902, Suppè's widow Sofie donated the collection from her Garser “Suppè Museum” to the “Museum of the City of Vienna” (today: “ Wien Museum ”) for the establishment of a “Suppè Room”, which displayed the culturally valuable exhibits in 1908 Gars and presented it according to the dedication between 1912 and 1932. Since this Suppè estate entrusted to the “City of Vienna” has since been kept in their archives, depots and magazines, the Franz von Suppè memorial in the Zeitbrücke Museum is currently the only public permanent exhibition on Suppè in Europe.

On the occasion Suppes 200th birthday in 2019, the "Time Bridge Museum" does in one of Anton honor Berger and Andreas Weigel pieces depot Suppes privately owned curated additional special selected archive and shown, from the collection of the Wien Museum and the Austrian National Library come and made available to the general public for the first time since 1932. Following the exhibition, Andreas Weigel's richly illustrated Suppè monograph was published, in which, thanks to newly developed sources and archival material neglected by Suppè research, documented biographical facts were presented and discussed for the first time, including much that has so far been published about Suppè's life and work, have fundamentally corrected.

Cross-museum events

The "Zeitbrücke-Museum" regularly participates in cross-museum series of events such as " International Museum Day ", " Long Night of Museums ", "Museum Spring Lower Austria", "NöART" and "Monument Day".

Austrian museum seal of approval

The Austrian Museum Seal of Approval

In November 2002 the Zeitbrücke Museum was awarded the Austrian Museum Seal of Approval , a quality award given by Austrian museums since 2002 that indicates particularly excellent museum work.

Lower Austria CARD

Since the introduction of the “Niederösterreich-CARD” in 2006, the “Zeitbrücke-Museum” has participated in this “ Niederösterreich Werbung ” program, which means that all holders of a valid “Niederösterreich-CARD” enjoy free museum entry.

management

  • 1974–1989: Hans Heppenheimer
  • 1989–2000: Anton Ehrenberger
  • 2000-2002: Irmgard Groll
  • 2002–2012: Ingrid Scherney
  • since 2012: Anton Ehrenberger

Selected exhibition catalogs

  • Anton Ehrenberger and Gottfried Layr: "Gars around 1900. Image documentation on the occasion of the exhibition 'History of the market town of Gars at the turn of the century'". Gars am Kamp 1978.
  • Hans Heppenheimer u. a. (Ed.): “Festschrift 700 years of Markt Gars am Kamp. 1279–1979 ". Gars am Kamp 1979.
  • Bettina Nezval: "Summer vacation, imperial festival and villa district". Exhibition catalog of the special exhibition of the Gars local history museum. Gars am Kamp 1993.
  • Ingrid Scherney: “Franz von Suppè, versatile composer and author of the Viennese operetta. Franz-von-Suppè - memorial in the Zeitbrücke-Museum Gars am Kamp ”. Gars am Kamp 2005, ISBN 3-9501180-4-7 .
  • Anton Ehrenberger: “Gardens, villas, parks. Between private refuge and public space ”. Catalog for the special exhibition of the Zeitbrücke Museum. Gars am Kamp 2006.
  • Anton Ehrenberger, Oliver Fries and Ronald Kurt Salzer (eds.): Garser Burgen. Rulers from the early Middle Ages to modern times. 2015. ISBN 978-3-85028-731-9 .
  • Andreas Weigel: “Stars in Gars. Create and enjoy. Artists in the summer “. Published by the Gars Museum Association, Zeitbrücke-Museum Gars (Gars 2017). ISBN 978-3-9504427-0-0 .
  • Andreas Weigel: Franz von Suppè (1819–1895). Human. Myth. Musician. Honorary citizen of Gars. Accompanying publication to the anniversary exhibition of the Zeitbrücke Museum Gars. With contributions by Andreas Weigel, Anton Ehrenberger, Ingrid Scherney and Christine Steininger. 424 pages with approx. 200 illustrations. (Gars am Kamp) 2019. ISBN 978-3-9504427-4-8 .

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Gars am Kamp, Profanbauten, Kollergasse, Heimatmuseum, p. 243.
  • Ingrid Scherney and Anton Ehrenberger: 40 years of the Gars Museum Association. 1974–2014 (Gars Museum Association).
  • Ingrid Scherney: Museum Association Zeitbrücke Gars am Kamp. In: Bettina Marchart and Markus Holzweber (eds.): "Garser Geschichte n ". Gars am Kamp. Thousands of years of cultural landscape (2014). Pp. 742-745, ISBN 978-3-9503541-3-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum Management Lower Austria: Project "MuseumsMenschen" of the Department of Art and Cultural Studies at Danube University Krems .
  2. ↑ Julius Kiennast: Chronicle of the market in Gars in Lower Austria. Gars 1920. pp. 114–120, here p. 116.
  3. ^ Anton Ehrenberger: Architecture and Art in Gars. In: Bettina Marchart and Markus Holzweber (eds.): “Garser Stories”. Gars am Kamp. Thousands of years of cultural landscape (2014). Pp. 319-417, here pp. 361f. ISBN 978-3-9503541-3-3 .
  4. ^ "A museum in Gars." In: " Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt ". August 1, 1902, p. 6.
  5. ↑ Andreas Weigel: Press release from the “Zeitbrücke Museum” on the Suppè year 2019. View of the Garser Suppè exhibition and accompanying publication.

Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 51.4 "  N , 15 ° 39 ′ 34.7"  E