Überetscher style
The Überetscher style (sometimes also: Eppan style ) is a regional German architectural style in the period 1550–1650. The name comes from its main distribution area, the Überetsch in South Tyrol , and was coined by Josef Weingartner .
main features
It is a late Gothic style of construction in which elements of the Italian Renaissance have been incorporated. A regular room arrangement (grouping around a large hall or central hall), crenellated walls, bay windows , open stairs , double-arched windows with slender central columns, loggias and column arcades are characteristic . The structures in the Überetscher style are often mansions .
distribution
The Überetscher style is found almost exclusively in the south of South Tyrol, mainly in Appiano , Kaltern and Bozen . In the Meran area only sporadically, in the Brixner area the influence of the Überetscher style ceases completely. Despite its Italian elements, this style is nowhere to be found in neighboring Italian-speaking areas (such as Trento ).
Examples of particularly typical buildings in the Überetsch style are the Wohlgemuth (Hammerstein) and Thalegg residences in Eppan, the cemetery in St. Pauls , the Hörtenberg residence and several arbor houses in Bozen and the Schwanburg in Nals .
In the fin de siècle , the Überetscher style was historically revisited in Bolzano as a South Tyrolean version of the homeland style . So was z. B. the city museum in the Sparkassenstrasse was built 1901–1905. The Überetsch styles owed their revival in particular to the South Tyrolean construction company Musch & Lun , which from 1880 created a large number of private and public buildings, especially in the Merano area.
literature
- Josef Weingartner : The Überetscher style . In: Der Schlern 5, 1922, pp. 158–167 (online) .
- Bettina Schlorhaufer : Historicism and the Rise of Regionalism as “Style”: South Tyrol's Successful Special Path . In: Georg Grote , Hannes Obermair (Ed.): A Land on the Threshold. South Tyrolean Transformations, 1915-2015 . Peter Lang, Oxford-Bern-New York 2017, ISBN 978-3-0343-2240-9 , pp. 217-237 .
- Working group house research South Tyrol (ed.): The Überetscher style. Renaissance architecture at the intersection of north and south. Athesia, Bozen 2018, ISBN 978-88-6839-394-6 .