Stadtmuseum Wienertor
Town museum in Hainburg's medieval Wienertor with prehistory and early history, an armoury and the history of the tobacco factory.
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About the museum
The Wienertor is the most striking structure of Hainburg's town fortifications. The lower double-tower gate of rusticated ashlar was built around 1225, and in the second half of the 13th century it was monumentally built over in the Early Gothic style; the complex is regarded as one of the largest medieval town gates in Europe.
The museum's history begins in 1928, when Bruno Jahn showed a first collection of historic items in a room of the primary school. When the objects outgrew the classroom, the town museum moved into the Wienertor in 1936. After the war the holdings had partly disappeared and fallen into neglect; in the 1960s volunteers revived them, and at the end of the 1970s this developed into the voluntary working group Stadtmuseum Wienertor, which runs the museum to this day.
On several floors the museum shows prehistory and early history from the Neolithic to the Roman period, the Middle Ages and Renaissance in the former armoury, and the modern era with the history of the Hainburg tobacco factory (1723 to 2011), the cadet schools, the Pressburg railway and the floods. In addition there are craft guilds, finds from the Turkish Wars and shooting targets. A depot also preserves chronicles, posters and over 100,000 photographs of Hainburg.
Highlights
- One of the largest medieval town gates in Europe
- Roughly 7,000-year-old child burial from the Neolithic
- Finds from the Celtic hilltop settlement on the Braunsberg and from the Roman period
- Weapons from the Turkish siege of 1683 and a Renaissance portal from the Hundsheimerhof
- History of the Hainburg tobacco factory from 1723 to 2011
- Collection of historic shooting targets
Permanent exhibitions
- Ur- und Frühgeschichte – Finds from the Neolithic to the Roman period, including a roughly 7,000-year-old child burial and artefacts from the Celtic hilltop settlement on the Braunsberg.
- Mittelalter und Renaissance – In the former armoury: halberds, parts of armour, swords, weapons from the Turkish siege of 1683 and a complete Renaissance portal.
- Die Neuzeit – History of the Hainburg tobacco factory 1723–2011, the cadet schools and barracks, the Pressburg railway and the floods.
- Founded
- 1928
- Operated by
- Arbeitsgruppe Stadtmuseum Wienertor (ehrenamtlich)
Admission & discounts
| Adults | €5 |
|---|---|
| Children & teens | freefree up to age 16 · Children and young people up to age 16 have free admission. |
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Getting there & parking
By public transit
Hainburg Kulturfabrik
S-Bahn S7 from Wien Praterstern towards Wolfsthal to Hainburg Kulturfabrik.
By car from Vienna on the A4 towards Budapest, exit Fischamend, then on the B9 towards Hainburg (around 52 km); from Bratislava via Berg on the B9 (around 20 km).
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