The "Gotzinger drum", which was carried on the Murder Christmas 1705, is no longer exhibited in Miesbach.
In order for this to happen again, the Gotzingen mountain rifles would like it to be awarded to a museum, for example Bad Tölz.
Bad Tölz / Miesbach
- In the Bavarian part of the Münchner Merkur it was recently read that the city of Miesbach no longer shows the famous piece and is only keeping it in a depot for a possible future museum.
The plans to accommodate this museum in a former monastery have significantly fewer chances since a children's house is to move there.
Museum piece belongs to the community of Weyarn
Is this famous museum piece of the Bavarian mountain riflemen just a stored item?
The mountain rifle company "Gotzinger drum" did not want to accept that and wrote a letter to the mayor of Weyarn.
The community of Gotzing, formally the owner of the drum, is now part of Weyarn.
The best-known symbol from 1705 was at many national exhibitions
In the letter from the GSK Gotzing dated October 4th it is explained that the "drum as the most famous symbol for 1705" has already been shown at various state exhibitions. It seems that she will no longer be publicly visible in Miesbach for the foreseeable future. The GSK therefore asked the mayor to check whether the original of the Gotzinger drum could not be recalled from Miesbach and "will be made available as a loan to an active local museum in the region". "The local museums Bad Tölz, Schliersee or Tegernsee" are suggested.
The Gotzinger advance was a surprise in Bad Tölz.
Second Mayor Christof Botzenhart, historian and cultural advisor, wants to avoid the impression that the city of Tölz is imposing and by no means actively advertise the valuable piece.
But, he says: "If you offer it to us, we would take it."
Governor wants to remain neutral, but ...
Martin Haberfellner from Kochel, governor of the Bavarian mountain rifles, is initially quite neutral: "For diplomatic reasons, I stay out of it." In the further conversation, however, he emphasizes the symbolic power of the historical object.
It is not for nothing that the drum is shown again and again at exhibitions.
He doesn't think it's right to just keep them in a depot.
The idea of exhibiting the drum in an existing museum (Tölz, Tegernsee, Schliersee) is "interesting".
After all, they would also see people there who have nothing to do with archery.
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It is even older than the drum: the country flag of the mountain riflemen, which was created in 1616/17 and was probably carried in Sendling in 1705.
Today the valuable piece is kept in the Tölz City Museum.
© Arndt Pröhl
And what does the Tölz museum director say about the proposal by GSK Gotzing?
Elisabeth Hinterstocker herself lives in Valley, an important center of the uprising movement at the time.
And, yes, she can personally imagine such a loan to Tölz.
After the redesign of the Tölzer Stadtmuseum, there is even a separate room for the time of the wars of succession and their consequences in this country.
The second important “relic” from 1705 is also in the Tölzer Museum: the country flag
The second "relic" of the popular uprising of 1705 can also be seen there: the restored white and blue country flag with Patrona Bavariae of the mountain riflemen from 1616/17.
It was probably supported by Tölzer riflemen in the Bavarian uprising against the Austrian occupiers, which ended in a bloodbath.
In Tölz, memories of Sendling's murderous Christmas are still alive in many ways, says Hinterstocker, referring to the frescoes on the Marienstift (blacksmith von Kochel) and the Leonhardi Chapel, which was donated by survivors of the uprising.
The application for a museum discussion in the Miesbach city council has already been submitted
The public discussion about the Gotzinger drum has meanwhile reached politics, which was probably also in the interests of the mountain riflemen.
She had provided her suggestion to loan it to a museum in Tölz, Tegernsee and Schliersee with the addition that the drum could be ordered back if the city of Miesbach opened a local museum again.
How the chances are there will be found out in one of the next city council meetings in Miesbach.
The FWG parliamentary group has submitted an application about the possibility of realizing a local history museum.
