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1. June 2021

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. […]

24. May 2021

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 […]

1. May 2021

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, […]

30. April 2021

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 […]

29. April 2021

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 […]

22. April 2021

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 […]

21. April 2021

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 […]

13. April 2021

Topotheque Entries | Million is knocking

As luck would have it, the current „round“, namely the nine hundert thousandth entry in a Topotheque, is a contemplative picture with the evangelist Mark. He seems quite thoughtful next to the demolition of the former citizens‘ hospital in the Lower Austrian city of Langenlois […]

10. April 2021

GER / Leipzig | Illustrate the city with letterheads

It doesn‘t always have to be the photo: even old invoices with their splendid depictions of factories and commercial buildings explain a city in a special way, especially when they can be compared in a Topotheque. Torsten Wehlmann has now started to open up this […]

1. April 2021

A / NOE | Gablitz Topotheque online

In the time when there were no events, the team of the Topotheque of Gablitz took advantage of the opportunity and simply relocated the opening of the Topotheque to the Internet. With success! Although you don‘t get into the valuable unplanned discussions at the […]