Old tax office (Kitzbühel)

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Old tax office, facade

The old tax office is a striking building in Kitzbühel's inner city and is located in Hinterstadt no.15. The former official building, whose first known mention dates back to 1582, served as a mountain court until 1821. The vulgar names "old tax office" and "mountain court" are still used today.

history

The prestigiously designed building was first mentioned in a document in 1535 as the home of Ruepprecht Humbpühler and his wife Martha Wonnherrin. In the following period there were several short-term owners, with Sigmundt Neissl (spelling also Neussl) being mentioned for the first time in 1543. 1562 the "Neisslhaus" is from the mining authority as the seat of the mountain judge leased and 1587 purchased by this. In 1631 mountain judge Carl Ruedl, 1645 Mathias Undterrainer, 1671 Sebastian Undterrainer and 1692 the mountain judge and woodruff master Georg Budina are named. After the abolition of the Kitzbühel Mountain Court at the end of the 18th century, the house - further under the name Berggerichtshaus - was the official seat of the Mountain Court Substitution for Kitzbühel and the Kitzbühel Forest Office, from 1818 then probably only the seat of the Forest Office and belonged to the Forest District. As a result, it became the seat of the tax authority before becoming the tax office around 1935 and remaining until 2002. The building stood empty until the end of 2011 and was left to decay. In January 2012 the building was acquired by the German multi-entrepreneur Peter Löw . In 2013, the permit for extensive expansion and conversion work was granted. As a result, the old structure was renovated, the building sins of the past eradicated and the original condition of the building restored. Particular attention was paid to making the openings smaller and smaller, which were made during renovations in the past in order to bring the typical Kitzbühel wall back to the fore. As part of the renovation project, the rededication of the building's purpose was also approved. Today there is a new main entrance and business premises on the ground floor. A restaurant is located on the first floor and a separate residential unit is located on the second floor and the top floor.

Architectural features

State 2012

The mighty, free-standing, four-story building with a gable roof rises above a rectangular floor plan. It is the tallest secular building in the Kitzbühel core city. All four corners of the building are bevelled up to window height on the ground floor . The facades are not structured and characterized by an irregular axis arrangement. The two outer left axes protrude from the gable end facing the rear town. In the corner formed in this way, a two-story wide bay window is inserted, which extends over the second and third floors. There are three coupled window axes on the eastern front. Here a square, stone-framed window from the 16th century has been preserved in the central axis on the ground floor. In the middle of the western front there is a high, beveled arched portal . The inside of the building is accessed via a hall-like ground floor corridor, which is now open to the public as a retail space. Particularly noteworthy is the late Gothic reticulated vault , which adorns almost the entire ceiling in largely original preservation. The upper floors are accessible via the vaulted staircases on the right side. The interior has other original Gothic vaults on the first and second floors. Conversions, especially in the upper floors, were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. and performed in the 20th century. The last structural changes took place around 1963 before the building underwent extensive renovation in 2014.

Web links

Commons : Altes Finanzamt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b M. Rupert: On the history of mining and metallurgy in the Kitzbühel rulership up to the 17th century. Innsbruck 1985 (dissertation), pp. 159–163, especially note 648.
  2. ↑ a b Kitzbühel City Book , Volume III., 1970
  3. ^ Text Stefan Hasenauer / SOG 8.3.16 for publication: Christoph Höz / Nikolaus Juen (eds.), Continuity and Change. City and townscape protection in Tyrol 1976 - 2016, p. 238.
  4. ^ Dehio Tirol. Vienna 1980, p. 426

Coordinates: 47 ° 26 ′ 46 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 27 ″  E