In the west of Lower Austria, between the hills of the Mostviertel and the Danube, lies the municipality of Ardagger. The monastery, which was founded in 1049 and was dissolved by Emperor Joseph II in 1784, is known beyond the borders, but is still in private hands today. Here in Ardagger the Topotheque was published on September 1st and will be presented to the interested public at a community event on September 27th. Photos and documents, that were digitized years ago, serve as the first content, and the Topotheque will subsequently be expanded to include images and memorabilia from private holdings. Already now you can catch some remarkable flashes from Ardagger‘s past, such as the correspondence for the subsidy of a water source from 1957, casual bicyclists (for whom the term can even apply in a double sense because there are two of them) , several maps and a rare souvenir that will evoke childlike feelings in many older people: the “bow”, as we called it (in fact the sleeve), from a small Bensdorp chocolate. Perhaps some people still remember that, compared to other packaging, these Bensdorp bows were securities that were taken out of wastepaper baskets and street dirt, because they could always be „redeemed“ before Christmas. This meant that you received a discount in the form of small chocolate bars, and you could end up with a nice package over the course of the year. At least in Vienna that‘s how it was when you came straight to the factory (this photo is in the Vienna-Random-Topothek) in Weinberggasse to trade in the bows. It‘s brilliant that Rudolf Enengl, organizer of the Ardagger Topotheque, kept this paper for so long! Even now, when you can no longer exchange it, it has gone from a waste paper to a paper with historical value.