Caring for a piece of home – caring for your home. The Burghauser Heimatverein as well as the Burghauser and Raitenhaslach city and local homeland curators have dedicated themselves to this task.
In order to care for their home town of Burghausen, they deal with everything worth knowing and handed down about the history and present of the city of Burghausen and its region. They focus on historical circumstances, customs and traditions and thus maintain and preserve local history as well as customs and dialect. They integrate the new into the existing.
"It is important to me that the value of the historic city is appreciated and linked to today's requirements. It is also important to me that the city is alive and not becoming a museum. If you only keep the old, there will be no development”
Friederike Stückler, Burghausen city home nurse
Town Nurse
Since 2021, Friederike Stückler has held the office of Burghausen town homestead curator. Born in Mannheim, she is predestined for the post of city homeland curator for many reasons: She has lived in Burghausen for more than 40 years and has a close connection to Burghausen. As an architect by training and former owner of her own architecture office in Burghausen, Stückler brings with her a great deal of specialist knowledge on the subject of construction, which she brings to her work as a town homemaker. During her ten years on the city council, she also dealt with construction issues and changes in the city: initially as a member of the Free Voters, later with the Independent Voters Burghausen (UWB).
For Friederike Stückler, respectful treatment of the historical peculiarities of the city is important. Values of historical, scientific, artistic and urban significance created in the past should be preserved and cared for. Changes have repeatedly taken place in Burghausen over many centuries. And so, according to Friederike Stückler, today's requirements in relation to living, working, leisure time, but also new technologies and design requirements bring new challenges.
Friederike Stückler wants to concentrate on a holistic approach. If you only look at a single construction project, this leads to a limited view of the cityscape. For Friederike Stückler, the new and old town belong together.
Burghausen's home caretaker grew up in Munich and studied architecture and urban planning at the Technical University of Munich. After successfully completing her studies, she completed an apprenticeship as a government master builder. Friederike Stückler came to Burghausen for family reasons.
Tasks
Friederike's Stückler's duties as a town home caretaker include, among others
- In accordance with the Monument Protection Act, the home caretakers support the State Office for Monument Preservation, advise builders and builders
- Meeting with the district home care
- Dealing with questions of urban development in relation to the historical importance of Burghausen
- Submission of own proposals for the design of the town square, for the preservation of the houses in the pits including their contemporary use and for the renovation of the salt flats
- Cooperation with other institutions and organizations
Contact
Dipl. Ing. Architect, government architect
Friederike Stueckler
Barbarinostrasse 6
84489 Burghausen
T. + 49 8677 3238
friederike.stueckler@t-online.de
local home carer
Since 1980, Wolfgang Hopfgartner has held the office of local home caretaker in Raitenhaslach. At that time, the native of Raitenhaslach began to record and restore the field monuments of the former community of Raitenhaslach. Wolfgang Hopfgartner wrote the book “Denk mal nach” about this work.
A matter of the heart for Wolfgang Hopfgartner is the Electrical Museum in the Marienberg power plant, which he built himself with several thousand exhibits. While the exhibition rooms in the upper area of the building show what was or is being done with the electricity generated by the plant, the historic machine set is still running on the ground floor and producing electricity.
During the renovation phase in the Raitenhaslach monastery church, local home caretaker Wolfgang Hopfgartner carried out excavations, through which he found out a lot about the history of the building. Wolfgang Hopfgartner researched the history of the Raitenhaslach monastery in archives in Munich and Salzburg. For the local history, the local homeland curator collects historical contemporary documents and old photos and archives them. Wolfgang Hopfgartner is also responsible for numerous publications about the history of the place and monastery.
Although Wolfgang Hopfgartner has been involved as a local heritage carer since 1980, the work still fascinates him. Again and again he finds something new and can thus continue to complete the story about the monastery and Raitenhaslach.
Wolfgang Hopfgartner attended elementary school in Raitenhaslach and was interested in the history of Raitenhaslach all his life. He worked as an electrician for a total of 45 years. In the early years of this period, his interest in old technology and old machines was awakened. Among other things, Wolfgang Hopfgartner worked in an electrical company in Raitenhaslach. His then senior boss was a technology pioneer, his machines from 1919 are still operational today.
Tasks
Among other things, Wolfgang Hopfgartner's duties as a local home caretaker include:
- Dealing with the history of the formerly independent municipality of Raitenhaslach and the former Cistercian monastery of Raitenhaslach
- the preservation of chapels, corridors and small monuments as well as other listed objects worthy of preservation
- Supervision of the electrical museum in the Marienberg power station
- Guided tours through the Raitenhaslach monastery and Marienberg
- Creation and maintenance of the Raitenhaslach photo archive
Contact
Wolfgang Hopfgartner
Kulnikweg 4
84489 Burghausen
T. + 49 8677 3588
wolfgang.hopfgartner@burghausen.de
District home nurse
Since 2003, Renate Heinrich has held the office of District Home Nurse. She shares the tasks with her colleague Josef Steiner, who has also been working as a district home nurse since 2017. While Josef Steiner from Unterneukirch is responsible for the areas of folk music, costume, customs and dialect, Renate Heinrich is responsible for the main focus on building and archaeological preservation. In consultation, both take care of the areas of collection, mediation and promotion.
Over the past few years, Renate Heinrich has been entrusted with tasks relating to the preservation of buildings and archaeological monuments in almost every municipality in the district. As a district home nurse, she was also involved in initiatives for various museums in the district. The mediation of museum objects as well as support for expansions, restorations or the like also belong to the sphere of action of the district home nurse. In addition, Renate Heinrich advises and supports home nurses in the district.
Renate Heinrich sees home care as "working with and for the citizens". She has realized this concern in recent years, especially at the numerous eyewitness meetings in the communities of the district. Thanks to this extremely extensive project, she secured a large treasure trove of image documents and memories of the most diverse events and places in the district, which would certainly not have been preserved otherwise.
Renate Heinrich is also fascinated by volunteering for homeland care because of the constant opportunity to expand her knowledge: "Every task, every question whose answer is not immediately obvious must be worked on and every solved task and question represents a new experience", she explains.
For the district home nurse, the district of Altötting, with its numerous historical sites, has an extraordinary appeal. For Renate Heinrich, for example, the combination of architectural and archaeological monuments with attractive landscapes such as the Alztal with the Alz, which in prehistoric times served as a connection to the Black Sea for the settlers from Lake Chiemsee and the Alps via the Inn and Danube, is fascinating. The various archaeological excavations in the district repeatedly reveal traces of human life from a wide variety of eras, which, according to Renate Heinrichs, expand knowledge about the region and open up new, more in-depth questions.
As part of his voluntary work as a district home caretaker, Josef Steiner encourages people to play folk music. In addition, he takes care of preserving traditional texts, melodies and dances. It is important to him to emphasize the social and cultural importance of customs and folk music and to strengthen awareness of the homeland. To this end, Josef Steiner supports associations that organize folk music and traditional events.
Tasks
Renate Heinrichs and Josef Steiner's duties as district home caretakers include, according to the "Guideline on home care in the districts, urban districts and large district towns" (Home directive HeiPflR) among other things
- Protection and preservation of monuments
- Construction industry
- Cultivation of customs, dialects and costumes
- Cultivation of folk songs, folk music and folk dance
- collect and document historical knowledge
- Promote cultural integration
- imparting knowledge
Contact
Renate Heinrich
Bahnhofstrasse 38
84503 Altötting
T. +49 8671 502-202
renate.heinrich@lra-aoe.de
Joseph Steiner
Fief 53
84518 Garching an der Alz
T. + 49 8634 5046 or +49 (177)337 1995
jsteiner. Brauchtum-volksmusik@web.de
Home club Burghausen
The Burghausen Heimatverein is dedicated to preserving and promoting local ties in Burghausen and its region. To this end, he organizes, among other things, guided tours, lectures and publications about the homeland of Burghausen and makes submissions to authorities, institutions and individuals.
Other goals of the Burghausen Heimatverein include, for example, the preservation and promotion of the Burghausen City Museum as well as the preservation of the local landscape and the preservation of local cultural assets.
You can find out more about the work and commitment of the Burghausen Heimatverein at heimatverein-burghausen.de.
Contact
Heimatverein Burghausen an der Salzach e. V
dr Ulrich Kanz
Eichendorffstrasse 4
84533 Marktl
info@heimatverein-burghausen.de