The Rosegger-Museum's park

Flowering spirea bushes in the park the Rosegger-Museum in the background.

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The historical garden

Written memories of Peter Rosegger and anecdotes from his surroundings suggest what the green spaces around the country house in Krieglach looked like and how they were used in Rosegger's time:

"Behind the house a vegetable and fruit garden, in which I had a neat wooden cell placed, in front of the house a wild garden, whose planted little trees did not know for years whether they should grow into the earth or out of it, but which almost suddenly decided in favor of the latter. The whole property is surrounded by a wooden fence, which of course has to be completed every year because some poor villagers used to get their firewood from it. I don't keep track of who does it, because what I don't know doesn't make me hotʻ. But it warms them, and so there should be no enmity [...]

I have lived in the house with my family summer after summer for many years. The wild garden gives its sweet scent of flowers, its pleasant shade, its whispering and birdsong; the vegetable garden never tires of sending the best greens to the kitchen all summer long, and the fruit trees give us many a basket of delicious apples to take back to the city in the fall when we leave with the swallows. The estate is very small, and yet the awareness of having founded it ourselves creates a good feeling of comfort."

Peter Rosegger is sitting on a bench under a tree, on which a plaque with the inscription "Reininghaus Linde" is attached, black and white.

Peter Rosegger under a lime tree.

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Members of the Rosegger family playing croquet in the garden in front of the summer house, black and white.

The croquet match

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The park of the Rosegger-Museum from the street with the Mauracher-statue and museum in the background, black and white.

Picture postcard of the Krieglach country house

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The garden today

The newly designed park around the museum with its resting places invites you to relax.

The park is freely accessible during the museum's opening hours.

The garden around the house where Peter Rosegger died was redesigned in 1951. At the front of the grounds, an area accessible to the public was set aside and equipped with a mighty column to draw attention to the house behind it. The academic sculptor Hans Mauracher (1885-1957) made the column from an oak trunk. He saw it as a symbol, animated by motifs that symbolize Rosegger's work and spirit and point the way through the garden to a world beyond.

After the garden was redesigned to create barrier-free access to the museum, the column was removed from the front garden and repositioned in front of the poet's summer house. An information board now provides information about the production and symbolic content of the column.