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Chronicle 2025
Women's Day Concert
with the Young Talents
Anna Fink and Simon Oberrauch
in cooperation with the Klausen Education Committee on March 9, 2025
Annual General Meeting
and short presentation by Christoph Gasser
"It was very nice, I was very pleased."
Anecdotes from Klausen's Inn History
on July 20, 2025
Guided tours by Roman Demattia, Sepp Krismer, Elsa Gantioler, Lukas Krismer, 10.30 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.
As early as 1233, the malgrei of Faray in the district of Gufidaun is mentioned in a written document. At that time, there is no evidence yet of a healing spring or bath, but a legend tells that Saint Theobald spent some time here as a hermit and was healed of an affliction by the curative waters.
Although Theobald (†1066) likely never set foot in Tyrol, the foundation legend makes him the patron saint of Bad Froy, and the chapel built there is dedicated to him.
The first mention of a padmaister (bath master) in Frayen dates to 1547. An illustration of the site from 1654, preserved in the old chapel, shows a bathhouse to the left of the stream, near the iron-rich spring, and a chapel on the right side of the Froy stream.
The growing number of visitors—by the mid-19th century, around five hundred annually—led to the expansion of the bathhouse, which eventually extended across the stream.
Lecture
by Gustav Pfeifer (South Tyrolean Provincial Archives)
on October 23, 2025
“Castle Gate,” City Wall, and Cemetery. New Documentary Evidence on Klausen around 1300"
Charters are among the most essential written sources from the Middle Ages. These are typically documents written on parchment or paper, authenticated by witnesses, seals, and/or notaries, and concerning legal matters.
Beyond the legal act itself, they can also record facts that are of broader historical significance.
The focus of this lecture will be a little-known charter from the year 1304. It contains what are currently the earliest known references to the city wall enclosing the core of Klausen and to the cemetery near St. Andrew’s Church. It also includes the first written mentions of mills and a public bathhouse in the southern suburb. Finally, it provides the oldest known written record of the so-called "Castle Gate," the earlier name of the Brixen Gate.
These references to key urban elements show that Klausen should not be considered a city only from the time of its first explicit mention as such (in 1308). Rather, the process of becoming a city was a gradual development that had already begun earlier.
(Photo: Alessandro Campaner, South Tyrolean Provincial Archives)
Chronicle 2024
“Sabiona - The Sacred Mountain"
Anniversary project 25 years Cultural Property Association Klausen e.O.
As a continuation of the digital tour through the old town ofStealThe Klausen Cultural Heritage Association is realizing another course to Säben in cooperation with the Burgenstraße Südtirol and the Klausen Tourism Cooperative. Starting from the Säben entrance to the Holy Cross Church, the most important stages of Säben's rich history are explained with an audio guide in the three national languages and in English.
Numerous names such as “Holy Mountain”, “Cradle of Christianity in Tyrol”, “Acropolis of Tyrol” testify to the importance of the place. Visible from afar, the striking castle hill with its numerous churches is an important landmark for the thousands of travelers on the Brenner motorway and the railway. For many believers it is a popular place of pilgrimager the Klausner*innen a valued local recreation area. What is considered a popular photo opportunity also needs to be experienced. This digital adventure provides interesting insights for everyone, from near and far.
With the “Culture in Hand” project in 2012, the Klausen Cultural Heritage Association offered a very innovative, modern opportunity for the time to get to know the past of the city of Klausen through QR codes on historic buildings. In this sense, the planned project is certainly a welcome expansion of the offering.
The cultural property association takes on all tasks of content design, organization and coordination.
Lecture and book presentation
in cooperation with the Klausen City Library
Hartmann O. Wirth
March 21, 2024
“Tyrolean dialect dictionary“
"A Work not only for today, but also for future generations are interested in the language of their ancestors. Vocabulary and pronunciation in everyday conversation are currently changing rapidly.
In this book you will find explanations of over 75,000 locations and thousands of everyday expressions. Hartmann O. Wirth has spent many years researching the meaning and origin of dialectal names in everyday Tyrolean usage. The results of this research are collected in this book."
Documentary Film
"Saeben - Stories from the Women's Convent"
Screened on June 9, 2024, at the Church of Our Lady
The documentary tells the story of women who follow St. Benedict's Creed: Ora, labora et lectio. A documentary film by Edith Eisenstecken and Evi Oberkofler. Produced by Ingrid Facchinelli
Annual general meeting
April 20, 2024
with lecture by Dr. von Hohenbühel
"The customs files of Klausen - glimpses through the centuries"
The history of Klausen is essentially linked to the prince-bishop's customs office. The Brixen Court Archives keep numerous files from that time. Dr. Alexander von Hohenbühel will be with us this evening
Provide insight into the inventory. Exciting and interesting details await us.
Restoration of the Mount of Olives scene
Restoration in July 2024
The sculpture shows Jesus on the Mount of Olives, the angel holding out a cup and the sleeping disciples. In the background, Jerusalem stretches out under a cloudy sky. Judas and his henchmen enter the gate. The masterful relief was made around 1600 by an unknown artist. Stylistically it belongs to the late Gothic period. Visit: freely accessible, the wooden sculpture is on the outside of the parish church to the right of the side portal
Pictured: Restorer Engl, July 2024
Mount of Olives scene
Statement and meaning of the pictorial representation of the Mount of Olives relief
Lecture by Maria Theresia Ploner
on October 24, 2024
at 7:30 p.m. in the Walther Hall
Bad Froy
“A once important spa recalled from the past”
Lecture by Roman Demattia
on October 10th 2024
at 7.30 p.m. in the Walthersaal Klausen
Workshop/Factory discussion
with Hermann Plieger
Hermann Plieger is a well-known blacksmith who continues to practice his craft with great skill and ability to this day. With this event he gives us an insight into his work and perhaps also tells us some anecdotes from Alt-Klausen. After the event, an apple mulled mix will be offered; the cultural goods association is looking forward to lively participation and interesting discussions in the get-together.
on November 7th, 2024
at 7:30 p.m. in his work place factory
Chronicle 2023
of the Klausen Cultural Property Association
on March 26, 2023
Because of the secluded life of the religious community, Säben Monastery has always had a mysterious impression.
It has now been empty for a year and a half. BevoIn order for it to be given a new purpose, the Klausen Cultural Heritage Association has invited people to visit the rooms that were used during the Klwere not accessible to the general public at Easter.
The cultural heritage association attached particular importance to treating this historically significant place with its over three centuries of monastery and women's history with due respect and also paid attention to this with all visitors.
Lecture
by Eva Gratl
May 9, 2023
"If Art that excites people and turns people into vandals.”
This year, 2023, marks the 90th anniversary of the book burning on Berlin's Opera Square
(May 10, 1933, today Bebelplatz).
This date serves as an opportunity to reflect on the value of culture and cultural treasures and to show how history is full of terrible examples of their destruction.
Bombs destroy culture in order to hit the opponent's self-confidence: the daily headlines underline the topicality of the topic. Not yesterday, but today, works of art, cultural sites, museums are being looted, damaged and wiped out. Destroyed art means lost art, the list is long, the topic is depressing and painful. Vandalism and iconoclasm don't just belong to bygone eras. Using a few selected examples, we will show when, where, how and why art excites people, it also turns people into vandals and history is full of terrible examples of vandalism and iconoclasm.
Annual general meeting
with elections
April 22, 2023
with lecture by Prof. Andreas Conca
"Where to culture?
A contribution to their indispensability."
Commemoration: The Tinne Bridge in Klausen turns 100 years old
The restoration of the stone relief was by onecommissioned by interested citizens of Klausen
Event on September 30th: Christoph Gasser spoke about the history, musical accompaniment of an ensemble from the youth band
Restoration of the Mount of Olives scene
restoration of the relief is planned for 2024
Benefit concert in the parish church on September 30th
Magdalena Lang
Verena Gamper
Mirjam Gamper
Otto Chizzali
DThe sculpture shows Jesus on the Mount of Olives, the angel giving him a cuph holds out and the sleeping disciples. In the background, Jerusalem stretches out under a cloudy sky. Judas and his henchmen enter the gate.
The masterly Relief was made around 1600 by an unknown artist. Stylistically it belongs to the late Gothic period.
Visit: freely accessible, the wooden sculpture is on the outside of the parish church to the right of the side portal
Chronicle 2022
AGM of the KGV
with lecture by Rut Bernardi
on April 30, 2022
Jevun y la Ladinia / Säben und Ladinia
Rut Bernardi tries to find legendary and historical Romanesque roots and Ladin traces in Klausen. These include sources and anecdotes about King Arostages and his daughter Larthia, the Rë de Sabiona, as well as Romanesque graves on Säben and Ladin toponyms.
Stories about the Graubünden Anabaptist Jörg Cajakob, the Val Gardena district judge Josef David Insam in Gufidaun, Ladin monastery women and the Val Badia pilgrims also fit into this topic.
concert on 06/06/2022
at 7 p.m. in the Knappensaal Klausen
Airy heights (vento) and soft string sounds (archi) create a special musical event. The ark stands for the starting point of a constantly changing meeting of wind instruments and strings. A special kind of sound laboratory whose name stands for itself.
Andrea Mairhofer Flute
Verena Gamper Violin
Sylvia Lanz Viola
Roland Mitterer Cello
Visit with a guide
Cold trenches
Visit with a guide( September 2022)
Built 108 years ago to withstand the enemy, the Tels trenches now have to stand up to nature. The ditches, corridors and arrow slits hewn into the hill are silent witnesses that survived two wars. A working group is researching the Teiser weir system in order to make history tangible - and understandable.
Speech
am October 25, 2022
Elisabeth Klotz-Pauer
"Arthur von Wallpach. Poetry between homeland and hustle and bustle"
Arthur von Wallpach (1866 – 1946), a businessman in Innsbruck, bought Anger Castle in Klausen in 1894 and redesigned the neglected property. In the years that followed, Anger became a meeting place for artist friends and a center of anti-clerical tendencies.
Biographical notes, also based on poems
The historical background
and the pan-German movement around Georg Ritter von Schönerer, Neu-Heidentum, pantheism, the "Los von Rom" movement and the Kulturkampf in Tyrol are explained - plus examples of poems
Critical reflections on dealing with the understanding of home andnd a brief overview of the literary work (also an excursus on the Hetz poems in the magazine "Der Scherer")
Chronik 2021
book launch
A.Scheidle – A Tyrolean entrepreneurial family in the textile industry
November 29, 2022
Presenter: Gerd Staffler
Interview partners: the author Arthur Scheidle and the former mayor of the municipality of Brixen Zeno Giacomuzzi
Content overview:
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Lechtal roots
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From the Lech Valley to the Burggrafenamt
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Focus on the textile industry
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Textile sector in transition
In addition to the family and company biography, the work also deals with part of the city's history.
concert & reading
concert ones Ensembles of the Klausen youth band
with a reading by the dialect poet Anna Steinacher
in December 2022
Chronicle 2021
Music Festival
on August 20th and 21st, 2021
Project as a master's thesis in instrumental and vocal pedagogy
by Jasmin Vorhauser
"Klausen sounds"
Concerts planned in Klausen and in the churches of Säben
Speech on September 7, 2021
John Ortner
"Origin and meaning of place, farm and field names in Klausen and surroundings (Verdings, Pardell, Latzfons, Griesbruck, Gufidaun, Villanders, Lajen)
Speech on September 23, 2021
Oswald Mederle
"Defenses in and around Chiusa"
Between 1833 and 1915 a whole series of considerations were made in Vienna for the defense of the central Eisack valley. Especially the wayside cross towards Brenner or Pustertal had to be defended much better after the painful experiences of 1809.
First it was the fortified town of Brixen, then the massive Klausen-Villnöss field barrier and finally the trenches from Verdings to Gufidaun and Teis.
If desired and if there is still time, he will comment on the Standschützen Battalion Klausen and show some news.
Speech on October 07, 2021
Alexander Pramstraller
Director in the Office for Civil Protection of the Autonomous Province of Bozen South Tyrol
"Flood Chiusa"
The lecture will be a synopsis in which both forestry and geological aspects will be addressed. The torrent control work will be carried out by Dr. Bring in Pramstraller on the basis of the applicable hazard zone plan and the interventions in the past and he will conclude the presentation with an appeal that is directed towards the future.
advent magic
in the Advent season 2021
"Advent Magic" is a project of the youth band in cooperation with the KGV Klausen and BA Klausen. Small ensembles of young musicians play at historic locations in Chiusa.
The videos were published in the run-up to Christmas 2021
Chronicle 2020
quiz
"Do you know the city of Chiusa?"
Leaflet with 20 questions on the following main topics: Klausen, Klausner history and cultural treasures, immaterial cultural assets (dialect), technical cultural assets.
The interest of the population for Klausner's history and their stories should be awakened, made aware of the cultural treasures and the special features of the city.
The awareness of living in a city with an interesting history should be strengthened.
bound inserts in the July issue of theclausa
Period: September 2020
The awarding and presentation of the prizes will take place at the end of September 2020 in the as part of a closing event with experts.
Speech
The British Library and medieval documents from the Isarco Valley
dr Hannes Obermair
Wednesday February 26, 2020 at 7.30 p.m. in the Walther Hall
The British Library in London, one of the largest and most important libraries in the world, also keeps some South Tyrolean documents from the late Middle Ages (13th century) among its almost inexhaustible holdings. They come from the Eisacktal area and made their way to the United Kingdom via winding paths in the 19th century. The lecture presents the finds and also goes into the cultural-historical interesting phenomenon of the old European dualism of traditional notes (or seal documents) and notarial deeds, which used to meet abruptly in the Klausen border area between the diocese of Trent and Brixen.
The speaker is Hannes Obermair from Bozen, senior researcher at the European Academy there, historian and exhibition curator.
Inspection after renovation
Gasthaus Vogelweide with neighboring building
Zoppoltsche's house - the early knife house
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Guided tours from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m
Chronicle 2019
Guided day trip
to the monastery Marienberg and St. Jakob in Söles
mit Dr. needy
on Saturday May 25, 2019
concerts
String wind ensemble
Jasmin Vorhauser, Matthäus Pescoller, Georg Zopf, Desiree Wöhrer, Marlene Olbricht
in the parish church of Klausen on August 03, 2019
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Classic trio
Barbara Pasquazzo, Ester Carturan, Helmuth Erlacher
in the Knappensaal Seebegg on September 28, 2019
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bright spots
Magdalena Lang, Verena Gamper, and Eva Vinatzer
in the Knappensaal Seebegg on November 2, 2019
film premiere
"Hans Piffrader and the right to obey - A relief over time"
Friday, April 5, 2019 at 8 p.m. in the Dürersaal
Thoughts on the film and on the artist personality Hans Piffrader by Martina Genetti, designer at Mediaart
Lecture on "The Lonely Pietà" by Dr. Matthew Frei
Lecture at the AGM
The Hutterites
by Robert Hochgruber
Saturday March 9, 2019
concerts
Lauren Quartet
Verena Gamper, Barbara Mutschlechner, Sylvia Lanz, and Roland Mitterer
April 2018, Knappensaal Chiusa
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Gaudium vocal ensemble,
Saxophone quintet Klausen and Eva Vinatzer
September 2018, Church of Our Lady Säben
Speech
"Men from the lower Isarco Valley in the Abyssinian War"
by Hofer Franz
May 2018
cultural trip
Drive to the works of the artist
Hans Rabensteiner
with Maria Hölzl Stifter and Sepp Krismer
June 2018
by Jeremy Lentner
about the Jenner family
Your relationship and work in the city
Klausen
2018
Chronicle 2017
Former Capuchin monastery Klausen, Capuchin church, Loreto church and hermitage
September 2017
concerts
Magdalena Lang,
Othmar Trenner and Mirjam Gamper
August 2017, Apostelkirche Klausen
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Delected sensus varietas
Jasmin Vorhauser, Desiree Wöhrer, Marlene Olbricht, Matthäus Pescoller, Bernhard Patti
August 2017, parish church Chiusa
Speech
Hans Rabensteiner - A painter from the turn of the century
by Maria Hölzl Stifter
November 2017
Chronicle 2016
Open Monument Day
on Gravetsch, Villanders, Visit of the chapels, cellar, the knight's hall and much more, September 2016
Concerts 2016
Vocal ensemble Bozen, January 2016, parish church Chiusa
Nous Quartet, Apostle Church Klausen, Aug 2016
annual general meeting
Referat by Sepp Krismer on the mythological frescoes in the Knappensaal, March 2016
plaque
Unveiling of the commemorative plaque in memory of Heiner Gschwendt, at the Säbener Aufgang, March 2016
book presentation
The excavations in the late antique, early medieval bishopric of Sabiona - Säben in South Tyrol, February 2016
Chronicle 2015
Speech
The Jenners -
A successful Klausner gender with Sepp Krismer, July 2015
city tour
Night watchmen and cobblestones - everyday life in medieval Klausen with Markus Trocker, August 2015
Open Monument Day
on the Coburg in Gufidaun, August 2015
leadership and lecture
The old Val Gardena railway and the technology at the station with Michael Prader, September 2015
Speech
The Klausner artist colony with Christoph Gasser, October 2015
Cultural trip to Rovereto
to cultural sites with Sepp Krismer, May 2015
Speech
Looking over the shoulder of the historian with Christoph Gasser, April 2015
Chronicle 2014
Speech
The economic importance of mining in Chiusa through the centuries with Armin Torggler, November 2015
sightseeing
The restored houses in the lower town of Klausen (Säben staircase 2 "Haus am Bozner Tor" and Unterstadt 5), October 2014
Open Monument Day
Ansitz Lusenegg, You can visit the inner courtyard, the cellar, the Gothic and Renaissance rooms, Sep 2014
cultural trip
around the Brenta - Dolomiten with Sepp Krismer, June 2014
Chronicle 2013
concert
Martina Stifter, Christine Marsoner, Georg Hasler, Martin Senfter, Ulrike Ellemunter and Tamara Salcher, August 2013
Speech
Klausner personalities - a small selection of known and unknown people by Christoph Gasser, 2013
Speech
The excavations on Säben from Dr. Hans Nothdurfter, 2013
Chronicle 2012
Open Monument Day
at Summersberg Castle, Gufidaun, Sep 2012
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concert
Brass Vocal Ensemble, July 2012
