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2 Stübing

After several earlier attempts, the Österreichische
Freilichtmuseum (Austrian Open-Air Museum) was
started in 1962, when work was begun in the Styrian
village of Stübing by the renowned scholar Professor
Viktor Herbert Pöttler. It now occupies an area of
66 ha (24 acres), only 15 km (10 miles) north of Graz.
The museum displays are buildings that have been
moved here from other parts of Austria. This journey
across the country, from east to west, from Burgenland Farmstead from Alpbach
to Vorarlberg, reveals remarkable regional differences This Tyrolean farm is called Hanslerhof
in architecture, furnishings and workrooms, and and dates from 1660. It unites all the
essential areas of a farmstead under
document the everyday life of the houses’ one single roof.
former inhabitants.

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Pigsty from Gstadtterboden in
the Enns valley

Granary (1620) from
Hintertux in Tyrol Farm buildings
from Eastern
Styria

Chapel from Haag in
Upper Austria
8th-century farm
buildings from Waldviertel
in Lower Austria

Residential House
St Walburg in southern Tyrol is
the original location of this house.
It was reconstructed in its present
form following a fire in 1811.

Brenner Kreuz
House from Schwarzenberg A brick shrine from Ebene
This 17th-century building is Reichenau in Carinthia, this little
typical of the rural architecture chapel houses a statue of St Florian,
in Bregenzer Wald (the Bregenz the patron saint of fire fighters,
Forest) in Vorarlberg. who is invoked against fire.
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp295–6 and pp318–20

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