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Frauenmuseum, Hittisau

The first women’s museum in Austria, award-winning wooden architecture and a woman-specific approach to culture. A female perspective on all areas of life provides uplifting and enlightening insights into living tradition. More than just customs, more than home care, more than routine.

Frauenmuseum Hittisau
Platz 501, 6952 Hittisau
0043 5513 20537

Guidet Tours
Lydia Hagspiel
0043 664 8843 1964
fuehrungen@frauenmuseum.at

March 06 to October 30, 2022
Tuesday to Sunday 10.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m

Juppenwerkstatt, Riefensberg

The Juppen Werkstatt in Riefensberg resumes a craft that seemed to have died out. When Luise and Manfred Fitz had to announce the end of their manufactory in Egg in 1993 for reasons of age, the last days of the glamor Juppe seemed to have dawned. A piece of the Bregenzerwald identity that was well-known all over the world was under acute threat!

But then the municipality of Riefensberg, the state of Vorarlberg, the state costume association, the Vorarlberger Heimatwerk and the Heimatpflegeverein entered the scene and got to work. Employees tested the former “Krone” inn for its suitability as a museum workshop, and it got an excellent rating. This is how the new center of Juppen production came to be in the municipality from which the oldest depiction of the forest interior costume to date comes.

Juppenwerkstatt Riefensberg
Dorf 52, 6943 Riefensberg
0043 5513 835615

June 1 to October 31, 2022
Tuesday 10.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m
Friday 10.00 a.m. – 12.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.

Kunsthaus Bregenz

The KUB was designed by the renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. The multi-award-winning architecture is one of the most important museum buildings of contemporary architecture in the world. Conceived as a daylight museum, the building impresses with its significant external shape and the uncompromising implementation of its spatial concept. With their sublime material and form aesthetics, the ground floor and the three floors stacked on top of each other form a closed unit with great artistic potential. For the artists, the architecture becomes a real benchmark and conceptual impulse for their exhibition appearances, especially in the case of the new production of entire series of works. The architecture is therefore an indispensable platform for the international exhibition program.

Barock Baumeister Museum

The former curate house in Au/Rehmen, built in 1780, was once the home of a priest who looked after the curate church in Rehmen and was “loosely” connected to the parish of Au. Before that, the very famous portrait and miniature painter Wendelin Moosbrugger (1760 Au/Rehmen – 1849 Aarau) lived in this house. He sold the house to a citizen of Rehm, who then gave the building to the curate and thus offered the curate a place to stay.

The house has now stood empty for many years, but is a listed building. A renovation was not possible for the parish alone, so it was decided to use the building for multiple purposes: a museum for the Baroque master builders and the Auer guild is to be created on the ground floor, the Au nursing association will have premises on the first floor and a small apartment for the attic the parish.

A place of remembrance was created in the Kurathus, space for learning, discovering, studying, networking & meeting place, a platform for discussions & encounters, workshop & showroom

Werkraum Bregenzerwald, Andelsbuch

Four years of intensive planning, in July 2013 the Werkraum building in Andelsbuch was opened. The architect of the house is Peter Zumthor from Switzerland, an internationally renowned architect who is closely connected to the craft. He got to know and appreciate the craftsmen in the Werkraum Bregenzerwald through the construction of the Kunsthaus in Bregenz. Since then, many craftsmen from the Bregenzerwald have been working for the Maestro from Switzerland. His design for the Werkraum house is based on two basic ideas. On the one hand, the building serves as a meeting place and on the other hand as a large showcase – as a showcase for the handicraft culture in the Bregenzerwald. An expression of this idea is a cantilevered roof made of wood and a facade made of glass. The separation between inside and outside is abolished, the landscape flows through the building. The artisan community of Andelsbuch is getting a new face in the middle of the village.

Werkstatt Petra Raid

Petra Raid works with clay, she initiates and moderates learning and creativity processes that change the way the entire region sees itself.

Petra Raid is refreshingly down to earth. That’s why her work with earth, with clay, seems particularly natural.
She specializes in smoke fire technology. The tone is burned as earthy as the colors are earthy.

Her Juppenfiguren in the crown: “The noble appearance, the Gothic sublimity of the figures reminds of the upright gait (internally and externally) of the proud forest women” (Elisabeth Stöckler).

Die Kapelle Salgenreute

a special room in a special place.

The Salgenreute chapel lies like a gem on a Nagelfluh ridge near Krumbach. Built in wood and stone, the simple basic form on the floor plan of the old Lourdes chapel takes up the historical tradition of the Bregenzerwald building culture and at the same time dares a new spatial form. The chapel designed by Bernardo Bader emerged from a creative process of planning and building that was characterized by an extraordinary collaboration between the citizens of Krumbach, the craftsmen and the architect.

The present book Chapel Salgenreute – bernardo bader architekten is a document of communal building culture and at the same time a monograph of the chapel as the epitome of timeless and landscape-related architecture.

BUS:STOP Krumbach

New views of the villages

On the “Bregenzerwald Circuit” through 13 villages, you will discover the creative power of the people in this region.

So there they are. Slim, hard and rusty. Of course it’s patina – you don’t treat yourself to anything else when you’re a steel pillar on the edge of the paths of the “Bregenzerwald bypass”. And what are the pillars for? To get attention. They want to offer the guests a bit of additional entertainment along the way, preferably unobtrusively, but with depth – and they refer to the magnificent exhibits along the way, mostly Bregenzerwald houses with an impressive timber construction tradition. Or the new architectural jewels, which some visitors ask with astonishment who built them here. Actually, the pillars should answer such questions. But then they wouldn’t be Bregenzerwald pillars who, like everyone else here, answer a question with a counter-question. This will become clear to you at the latest when you see the light.

Werkraum Krone

In 2007, the cooperation between the Werkraum Bregenzerwald and the Hotel Gasthof Krone in Hittisau set a first visible sign, the Werkraum rooms were created, which were followed in 2010 by the Bregenzerwald rooms . The Bregenzerwald architect Bernardo Bader was responsible for the planning and various craftsmen from the Werkraum Bregenzerwald for the performance. You can not only inhabit the cooperation, but read about it in the book Werkraum Krone, unfortunately the book is sold out and only available second-hand. Of course there is a copy in every hotel room and in our library to browse through.

The Werkraum Haus in Andelsbuch, designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, is a 15-minute drive away.

Energy region Vorderwald

The eight Vorderwald municipalities (Doren, Hittisau, Krumbach, Langenegg, Lingenau, Riefensberg, Sibratsgfäll and Sulzberg) have joined forces to create a sustainable energy and climate policy.

One step along the way is to make energy conscious, visible and tangible. Many objects – from biomass heating plants to buildings to water hiking trails – already make this possible in the energy model region.

HolzKultur in Hittisau