The city of Marchtrenk is getting a new cultural center dedicated to the history of the city at Welser Straße 9, one of the oldest houses in Marchtrenk. On the national holiday, October 26th, the first Marchtrenker Museum in the Heidehaus will be ceremoniously opened at 10 a.m.
The project was initiated by Reinhard Gantner, chairman of the museum association. After reading in a newspaper that the 150-year-old Heidehaus was for sale, he turned to Mayor Paul Mahr with a request to secure the building for the city. Mahr took the initiative: The city bought the house and made it available to the museum association and the Goldkappenverein.
The Heidehaus, built in 1869, is located in a historically significant environment: together with the Roitmeier inn, the old church, the war memorial, the Fischer inn, the rectory and the new church, it forms an ensemble that will be preserved for future generations.
Exceptional exhibits
In the future, the new Marchtrenker Museum will have a permanent exhibition as well as changing exhibitions on local historical topics. Two special displays will be presented at the opening:
The so-called “Iron Table”, an artistically carved wooden table that was created in Marchtrenk after the First World War as part of a so-called “nailing” that took place in almost every community in 1915. At that time, donations were collected for war orphans and widows by hammering nails into wooden objects for money – a social event at the time. The table was made by prisoners of war. Donation books document the names and even photos of the donors at the time. A new book called “The Iron Table” sheds light on this part of local history.
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