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Bad Tatzmannsdorf, October 2020. The aim of the cooperation between the REDUCE Gesundheitsresort Bad Tatzmannsdorf and the Vienna University of Technology is to secure the special features of the buildings of the open-air museum in a book publication for posterity.

In the course of these preparations, the museum tour has now also been equipped with new information boards thanks to the initiative of Ao. Univ. Prof. DI Dr. Erich Lehner of the Vienna University of Technology. With today also in the presence of Eduard Nicka and Mag. Andreas Leitner, managing director REDUCE health resort bath Tatzmannsdorf, the info. round course was finished and attached the last plate together. "The open-air museum Bad Tatzmannsdorf is valuable cultural assets. The new information boards illustrate the way of life in southern Burgenland at that time. I am very pleased about the constructive cooperation and it is nice to be able to contribute to the preservation and revitalization of this museum," said Prof. Lehner.
In this context, Eduard Nicka also draws attention to the upcoming "Open Museum Door" day - October 26. All day long, visitors will have the opportunity to explore the area for themselves with free admission. In addition, interesting information will be provided during an entertaining museum tour with Eduard Nicka at 14:00.

About the museum and about the cooperation with the Vienna University of Technology
In 1967 an open-air museum was founded in Bad Tatzmannsdorf, which today comprises more than 20 objects from the period between the 18th century and the beginning of the 20th century. For the most part they are translocated original buildings, in some cases they are faithful replicas. The open-air museum, which belongs to REDUCE Gesundheitsresort Bad Tatzmannsdorf and is also managed by it, is the oldest of its kind in Burgenland and is listed by domestic and foreign tourism Internet portals in the leading position among the sights of Bad Tatzmannsdorf and the surrounding area.

In the museum complex, different traditional building types from the region of southern Burgenland were gathered, such as residential buildings, barns and other larger and smaller utility buildings, which are nowadays only available in a few examples. Thus, on the one hand, their substance was saved from disappearing and, on the other hand, they provide visitors with an overview of rural building in pre-modern times.

Since 2019, the Open Air Museum Bad Tatzmannsdorf is open to the public through the initiative of Ao. Univ. Prof. DI Dr. Erich Lehner and Doz. DI DDr. Hubert Feiglstorfer also in the focus of a scientific project.The concrete task in the context of the seminar of the TU Vienna "Comparative Building History" is a detailed documentation of the structural objects in the Open Air Museum Bad Tatzmannsdorf. The special features of the individual buildings are to be investigated and presented in comparison with corresponding regional building types. This requires building surveys by measuring the objects on site in the open-air museum, studies of spatial and constructive characteristics of the individual buildings by comparison with corresponding still existing building types in the region of southern Burgenland, literature studies on the function and history of the buildings, as well as the preparation in detailed descriptions, photographs, plans and CAD representations.

The aim of the seminar is to prepare a book publication jointly prepared by students and experts. This would preserve the knowledge about the building types collected in the Open Air Museum Bad Tatzmannsdorf for posterity and would be used for further comparative studies, even if in the course of time the exhibited objects should no longer exist due to natural decay.