Old Town Hall (Bozen)

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The old Bolzano City Hall: the north-facing facade in Dr.-Streiter-Gasse

The old town hall of the city of Bolzano is located under the arbors in house number 30. Today it houses the Bolzano city archives . From 1455 until the move to the new town hall in 1907, it was the seat of the Bolzano city ​​administration . It has been a listed building since 1977 .

On January 24th, 1455, Jakob Kürschner from Brixen sold the house that had burned down shortly before - after its previous owners, the Lords of Villanders , at that time still called von Vilanders haws - to the city of Bozen, which then adapted it as the town hall . The building complex extends from Laubengasse to Dr.-Streiter-Gasse and arches over a much-used passage, an atrium and a loggia . The buildings were rebuilt at the beginning of the 16th century and underwent further refinements in the 17th century. In the rear part of the building towards Dr.-Streiter-Gasse , rebuilt in 1597/98 by the Lombard builder Antonio Carlone , there is also the old council chamber with wall paintings by Georg Müller from Bamberg (1597) and the historic meeting room of the Tyrolean Parliament whose elaborately crafted wooden ceiling is decorated with the Tyrolean eagle with the honorary wreath. In the part of the building under the arcades, which was partially destroyed by air raids in World War II , the original street-side vaults with late Gothic frescoes by Conrad Waider from Straubing have been preserved.

  • The Bolzano city arms on the old town hall

  • Kay [serlich] König [liches] city Polizey amt - inscription from the early 19th century. on the facade of Dr.-Streiter-Gasse

  • The Tyrolean eagle on the ceiling in the old town hall of Bolzano

  • Frescoes by Georg Müller - symbol of the iustitia commutativa : a merchant ship in distress near the port, from which ballast is thrown to avoid capsizing ( sea ​​litter )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the purchase process and ownership history, see Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord: Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500. Vol. 2: Regest of the communal holdings 1401–1500 . Bozen: City of Bozen 2008, p. 114 No. 1059.
  2. ^ Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol II. Bozen and surroundings, Unterland, Burggrafenamt, Vinschgau. 7th edition. Bozen: Athesia 1991. ISBN 978-88-7014-642-4 , p. 77.
  3. ^ Heinrich Spanner, Toni Kinast: Conrad Waider: late Gothic painters: Bavaria - South Tyrol - Trentino. Bolzano 1990.

literature

  • Josef Weingartner : Die Kunstdenkmäler Bolzano , Österreichische Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna / Augsburg 1926, p. 160.
  • Leo Andergassen : Cicero in the town hall. The renaissance paintings by Georg Müller in the Bozen council chamber , in: Arx 1, 1996, pp. 3–10.

Web links

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Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 59.1 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 17.7 ″  E