Thurn Residence (Bozen)

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The Thurn residence with the arch spanning Dr.-Streiter-Gasse

The Ansitz Thurn is a building in Bozen ( South Tyrol ) between the Lauben and Dr.-Streiter-Gasse .

history

The residence was first mentioned at the end of the 13th century as the seat of the von Thurn ( de Turri ) family . It is an old residential tower that was part of the medieval city fortifications. The original tower has a floor plan of 10 × 9 meters and has a basement, ground floor and three upper floors.

At the beginning of the 16th century, major renovations took place, the mansion was brought into its present form and received its late Gothic appearance with stepped gables, corner cores and square frames in the plaster. The building was extended to the north by means of an arch spanning Dr.-Streiter-Gasse and furnished more representative. Inside there are two late Gothic halls that have largely been preserved in their original furnishings. In the so-called Petersaal there is a wooden coffered ceiling and stone-framed saddle doors, and in one of the windows there are remains of a Gothic biforic window that can be dated to the 14th century. The adjoining hall is furnished with a late Gothic and partly painted beamed ceiling and frescoes with decorative tendril paintings from the end of the 15th century. There you can see an alliance coat of arms of the Firmian and Tänzl von Tratzberg families .

After the von Thurn family died out in 1461, the building passed to the von Niedertor family; In 1497 it became the property of Bartholomew of Firmian. From 1571 the residence belonged to the barons and later counts Khuen von Belasy . In 1637 it passed to the von Zallinger family of merchants from Füssen , who took over the title zum Thurn ; since 1807 she has also owned the Stillendorf residence .

The original residential tower (Dr.-Streiter-Gasse 27-27a) has been a listed building since 1950, together with the house Lauben 32, which is adjacent to the south. The arch spanning Dr.-Streiter-Gasse was registered as a monument in 1977 together with the oil house adjacent to the north (Dr.-Streiter-Gasse 20).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bitschnau : Burg und Adel in Tirol between 1050 and 1300. Basics for their research (Austrian Academy of Sciences, phil.-hist. Class, session reports 403), Vienna 1983, p. 463 No. 553.
  2. ↑ Hannes Obermair , Helmut Stampfer : Urban living culture in late medieval Bolzano. In: Runkelstein Castle - the picture castle. Edited by the city of Bozen with the participation of the South Tyrolean Cultural Institute , Bozen: Athesia 2000. ISBN 88-8266-069-9 , pp. 397–409.
  3. ^ Josef Weingartner : Die Kunstdenkmäler Bozens (Die Kunstdenkmäler des Etschlandes 3/2), Vienna / Augsburg 1926, p. 187.

Web links

Commons : Ansitz Thurn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 0.3 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 16.9 ″  E