Annual calendar of the Museum Erding: Treasures from the picture archive

Created: 11/11/2022, 08:00

The annual calendar presented by museum director Harald Krause, Simone Lachmann (photo archive) and Mayor Max Gotz (from left) shows photos that tell stories.

Photo: Peter Bauersachs.

© Peter Bauersachs

Beautiful premiere: The Museum Erding publishes an annual calendar for the first time.

It contains treasures from the picture archive - and an April Fool's joke.

Erding – It can also be done without a computer: A photo in the annual calendar that the Museum Erding is offering for sale under the motto “Treasures from the Photo Archive” proves that photographers created perfect picture montages more than 100 years ago.

On the April 2023 issue you can see a zeppelin hovering over the city center between the city tower and the Frauenkircherls.

At the time, the airship had been put into the picture by the photographer as an "April Fool's joke" and sold as a postcard.

The flight actually existed: On April 1, 1909, Zeppelin Z 3 took off from Friedrichshafen, flew high over Erding to Munich, but was aborted.

So Z 3 landed at Dingolfing and only continued its flight to Munich the following day.

Simone Lachmann, who is responsible for the museum's image archive, researched this in the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen.

The annual calendar, which the museum is publishing for the first time, shows twelve black-and-white photographs from the 20th century.

The motto is: "A slightly different perspective of our city in historical photographs".

“At the start of the new calendar series, we did not commit ourselves to a specific epoch of the city's history.

Rather, it was about photographs that tell a little story or anecdote about our city and invite the viewer to rediscover it," explained museum director Harald Krause at the presentation.

Among the twelve pictures are several of our long-time local newspaper photographer Konrad Kressierer.

He left 12,000 archive images to the museum.

The museum's collection includes a total of more than 40,000 photographs, negatives, photo plates and picture postcards from 170 years.

The calendar costs 10 euros and can be purchased from November 15 in the museum and in the bookstores LeseGlück (Heilig-Geist-Hof 3) and Bookmark (Haager Straße 10).

Orders can also be placed at the museum on Tel. (0 81 22) 408-158.

Then, however, 3.75 euros are added for postage.

PETER BAUERSACHS