Town Hall (Bozen)

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The Bolzano City Hall
The ceiling painting by Gottfried Hofer in the Bolzano council chamber
Allegorical motif from the Bolzano town hall cellar
The memorial plaque in the Bolzano town hall commemorating the fascist attack of 1922

The neo-baroque town hall of the South Tyrolean capital Bozen is located on the town hall square at the eastern end of the arcades . It has been a listed building since 1977 .

From 1455 to 1907, the seat of the Bolzano city ​​administration was housed in the old town hall in house Lauben No. 30. After the city grew rapidly in the second half of the 19th century, the city council decided in 1901 to build a new, larger town hall. For this purpose, two houses at the southern end of Dreifaltigkeitsplatz (today: Rathausplatz) were purchased and then demolished. City architect Wilhelm Kürschner initially created a preliminary project for the new building , which was revised into the final project by Munich professor Carl Hocheder . Construction started in 1904. The successor of Kürschner Gustav Nolte took over the construction management . The inauguration took place on December 22nd, 1907.

The emblematic meeting room of the municipal council on the second floor with allegorical frescoes by Gottfried Hofer deserves a special mention . At the request of Mayor Julius Perathoner and following a detailed program, Hofer painted the ceiling fresco in the council chamber as a demonstration of national-liberal thought. A young man triumphantly holds up the flame of knowledge - in the German colors of black, red and gold - and thus drives away the dark clouds on the right edge of the picture, which are held back by the personification of the school (a woman with a book). An old man accompanies a boy with school books under his arm, who looks back with a fearful look to see whether the dark clouds are just not catching up with him.

Following the example of Vienna , a town hall cellar was also built as a restaurant and wine bar in 1912. The paneled rooms were decorated with frescoes by Albert Stolz . One of the wall paintings depicts a circle of famous personalities on the terrace of the Unterpayrsberg residence by Mayor Joseph Streiter . A discotheque for a short time from the 1970s , the Rathauskeller has not been open to the public for many years. After restoration in 2008/09, it became the seat of the City Club Circolo cittadino .

To the southwest of the representative building, which was completed in 1907, in Gumergasse there are modern town hall wings.

On October 2, 1922, the town hall was also the scene of the march on Bolzano , with which the fascists forcibly forced the freely elected mayor Julius Perathoner and the city council to resign. In 2012, the city administration commemorated the events by putting up a warning plaque.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arnold Becke (Ed.): Etschländer Weinbuch: a collection of selected articles with many single and multi-colored pictures, overview maps of the Etschländer wine-growing region. Bozen: Vogelweider 1930, p. 145.
  2. ↑ City Club: completion of the renovation work , accessed June 7 2020th
  3. ↑ Hannes Obermair , Sabrina Michielli (ed.): Cultures of remembrance of the 20th century in comparison - Culture della memoria del Novecento a confronto (booklets on the history of Bozen 7). City of Bolzano: Bozen 2014. ISBN 978-88-907060-9-7 . Pp. 52-53.
  4. ↑ Official memorial event of the city of Bolzano , accessed on April 12, 2017

Web links

Commons : Rathaus (Bozen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 57.9 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 24 ″  E