OOE | Upper Austria honors two Topothequers

The two Upper Austrian Topothequers Anton Brand from Rohrbach-Berg and Wolfgang Sauber from Sarleinsbach were awarded the Golden Culture Medal of the Province of Upper Austria by Governor Thomas Stelzer for their services in the field of culture. The two honorees have long […]

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A / NOE | Bad Traunstein Topotheque online

In the southern part of the Zwettl district and thus in the southwest of the Waldviertel in Lower Austria is the market town of Bad Traunstein, which has now made its Topotheque visible online. In doing so, it consolidates the network of Topotheques in the region, because the […]

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A / NOE: City of Melk: Topotheque online

History can be so exciting: The Topotheque of the city of Melk starts with a few special retrospectives. The flying cross can be admired in one of several films from 1961. Here it is lifted back onto the church roof in a restored condition. Workers who are free from […]

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SF / Kuru Topotheque online

Full speed ahead into the past: The municipality of Kuru is located in southern Finland near the city of Tampere. In March of this year a small team started the “Kurun Memory Project”, the processing of local history in a Topotheque. […]

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D / Bavaria | Waldkirchen: Topotheque online

Of course, our cover photo does not show the opening of the Topotheque, but the celebration when Waldkirchen was chartered to become the youngest town in the Lower Bavarian district of Freyung-Grafenau. It is precisely this date, 1972, that was given as the guideline date for the […]

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A / NOE | City of Hollabrunn + Breitenwaida: taking off

Hollabrunn Stadt and Hollabrunn Breitenwaida, as pioneers of the Hollabrunn municipality which is a district capital in the north west of Vienna, went online with their two Topotheques at the same time. Just like the municipality of Poysdorf, but unlike the municipality of Krems, […]

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EU + HR / Zagreb | They: Live Student’s Lives as EU Project

A new EU project, in which Topotheque also plays a role, has been started. Based on the documentation of student life in different European cities, this project called „They: Live“ aims to develop an efficient interdisciplinary method that includes digital archives as […]

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IQ / Erbil | Digital rescue of ecclesiastical documents

A Topotheque can also be a valuable tool in times of crisis. Almost irretrievably lost treasures could at least be saved digitally. The old manuscripts, documents and photographs of the Chaldean Catholic Church that were stored in Mosul were saved from destruction on the […]

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A / NOE | Sallingberg Topotheque online

The look back, as shown on our picture, is now also possible in the market town of Sallingberg in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel. How far the people were and are „blessed“ here – this means the first part of the word of the place name – will be shown by the further entries in this […]

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SF / Suodenniemi | Anticipating the future

The sports hall, which will be replaced by a new one in the coming summer, has been documented one last time. The pictures have been stored in the Topotheque of Suodenniemi so that the building will be remembered for all the people who were enthusiastic about […]

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