Healthy skiing in the vortex of the exhaust: skijoring in the 1970s © Isidor Hofbauer

A / OOE: St. Radegund: opening of Topotheque

“St. Radegund is something to be proud of”: Under this motto, the newly opened Topotheque of St. Radegund invites you to browse through the pleaces past. On Sunday, December 10th, it was presented with music, speeches to a lot of interested people in the Gasthaus Hofbauer by Mayor Simon Sigl, vice mayor Josef Esterbauer, the Topothequers Wilhelm Peterlechner, Christiane Kramer, Gusti Altenbuchner and Rudi Huber as well as Alexander Schatek. In 2022, the community celebrated 650 years of its first documented mention and the 600th anniversary of the consecration of St. Radegundiskirche. A good time slot for launching the Topotheque. St. Radegund with the Ettenau parish is located in the Braunau district, not on the river Inn, but on the right bank of the Salzach. The community is known nationally as the birthplace and home of Franz Jägerstätter, who gained fame as a resistance fighter in World War II and was posthumously beatified by the Catholic Church in 2007. In order to document the history of the community from the very beginning, Topothequer Wilhelm Peterlechner also displayed the first documents that refer to the community. For hydrology enthusiasts, the maps and plans for river regulation and shipping from the 16th and 17th centuries are a special treat. A particular highlight of community life were the popular passion plays, which were performed from 1908 – 1933 and which are also commemorated in a photograph. Motorsport fans, on the other hand, can enjoy spectacular motorsport images from the 1970s. But between river regulation and motorsport, there is much more to discover in this new Topotheque.