Mining and Gothic Museum

The Mining Museum and Gothic Leogang is a mining museum in the village of huts of the community Leogang in Austria. The museum is located in the old mountain house managers of the former mining village huts. On three levels, partly underground, the mining history of the region and the medieval art of association is shown.

History

The museum was founded in 1992.

Collection

The museum acquired the Austrian Museum label and in 2003 the Museum Prize of the State of Salzburg. It houses a collection of Gothic saints from the Alpine region.

Mining culture

The life of the miners is illustrated especially in the Knapp kitchen, crafts room and Hoyer exchange. Thus, the Hoyer room deals with the expulsion of a total of 20,000 Lutherans, many of them miners, from the Archdiocese of Salzburg in 1731. Hoyer The brothers, who led the Lutherans, Leogang brought in the reputation of being the " worst heretics stove ".

Minerals

In the mineral Cabinet finds from the region are shown only. In the region over 60 different minerals have already been found, among other things Leogangit, which was found in 2004 on the hill of the tunnel and Daniel on the Inschlagalm.

Sacred Art

This topic shows Gothic statues of saints from the Alps, for example, the " Beautiful Lady ", which was made ​​in 1410 in either Salzburg or Prague. It shows a S- swing in body posture and bowl fold in the mantle. Both Mary and the child show a typical for this style smile and almond-shaped eyes. Similarly, the collection includes a rare " lion - Madonna " whose meaning is not clear in the art world and a prayer nut, the Emperor Maximilian and his first wife Mary of Burgundy shows.

Madonna

Erztrog

Safety lamp

Blasting machine

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