!!!Heimatwerk

Heimatwerk, independent bodies under public law in the provinces, 
aimed at the cultivation of "traditional folk art, craft products and 
traditional costumes" (as stipulated in the charter). They sell their 
products, partly hand-crafted, partly manufactured in small workshops 
(e.g. rural pottery, wooden vessels, traditional costumes, articles 
for interior decoration, embroidery) in all the provincial capitals. 
The first Austrian Heimatwerk was founded 1933/34 in Styria by V.  
Geramb modelled on Sweden and Switzerland; further branches were set 
up in Linz 1941 and in Salzburg 1942. After World War II the 
Heimatwerk expanded to all the provinces.

!Literature
25 Jahre oberoesterreichisches Heimatwerk, 1977; 
Kuratorium Oesterreichisches Heimatwerk (ed.), Das Heimatwerk in 
Oesterreich, 1981; K. Beitl (ed.), Volkskundeinstitutionen in 
Oesterreich, 1992.


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