2023-10-23 04:11:01
History lives from stories. The history of communities or cities can be told even better through people and passed on to future generations.
Anyone who looks at people’s faces in historical photos will sometimes wonder what a woman or a man, a child or a grandfather might have thought back then. A new online portal now reveals the story of Pasching – and wants to tell it further.
Gaining insights into the thinking and wisdom of previous generations also contributes to a better understanding of the time. To do this, however, you have to be able to tell people’s stories.
Chronicle as a basis
The Linz local historian Manfred Carrington has lost his heart to collecting what was. He has not only been rummaging through old photos and archives in his hometown for a long time now, but in conversations with contemporary witnesses he is looking for these stories that become history and give it the emotional underpinnings.
Pasching’s story, which will be made available online starting this week, did not transform Carrington into a readable and easily consumable form overnight. In 2018 he published the Paschinger Chronicle in collaboration with the community. 488 pages long, rich in historical images and facts, emotional stories and special events. Five years later, this chronicle forms the basis for the new online portal, for which Carrington has chosen his own motto: “If you don’t know where you come from, you don’t know where you’re going, because you don’t know where you are.”
Preserving history, especially in those areas of life that directly affect us because they surround us, is fascinating work, says the local historian. “Many things that we take for granted today often have very interesting origins. Unfortunately, the origin stories are always lost. Contemporary witnesses die, the heirs have no interest in their stories and the traditions are lost.”
Carrington wants to break this cycle and has therefore kept the history of the place and the country alive in pictures and texts in his Lentia publishing house in countless books.
Presentation with lecture
The new online portal is intended to keep Pasching’s history alive in digital form, make it accessible to a wider audience, but above all it will continue to expand the historical spectrum. “Because what happens today is already history tomorrow,” says Carrington.
The comprehensive history internet portal will be presented on Tuesday, October 24th, with a lecture by Carrington. It starts at 6:30 p.m. in the TiL (meeting point in Langholzfeld, Adalbert-Stifter-Straße 31), entry is free. The portal will then be online at www.geschichte.pasching.at
Anyone who would like to contribute memories or old photos to the history of Pasching can send them to [email protected].
Author
Reinhold Gruber
Local editor Linz
Reinhold Gruber
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