Project Peasant Wars digital approved

On July 15, the project selection committee of the LEADER region Pongau – Tennengau approved the project “Peasant Wars digital”, a cooperation project between the University of Salzburg (project manager Eugen Unterberger, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces) and Salzburger Burgen und Schlösser GmbH. (cooperation partner Marcus Hank – administrator of Hohenwerfen Castle).

The project focuses on the Salzburg Peasants’ Wars, which are having their five hundredth anniversary this year. To mark this anniversary, the siege of Hohenwerfen Castle was re-enacted in the documentary theater “The Uprising” on June 21, 2025. This documentary theater and other historical information, some of it newly researched, culminate in a special exhibition on the Peasants’ Wars at Hohenwerfen Castle.

Thanks to the Peasant Wars digital project, it is now possible to implement many stations of the exhibition in a multimedial, digital and interactive way.

In a second step, this setting will make it possible to conduct a scientific study in which the effect of digital and analog content on different groups of people will be examined.

This research provides the foundation for the creation of a strategy for dealing with digitization in the cultural heritage sector, which is the third major project content. There are many approaches to using digital tools in the cultural heritage sector. What is missing, however, is an overview of the possibilities and consequences that the respective decisions entail.