Batzenhäusl

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The Batzenhäusl on an old postcard (watercolor by Josef Marschall, 1914)

The Batzenhäusl is one of the oldest inns in Bolzano . It is located on Andreas-Hofer-Straße . It has been a listed building since 1953.

history

For centuries it was a tavern of the nearby Teutonic Order , whose coming was moved in 1404 to the nearby Weggenstein-Deutschhaus mansion . Its name may have something to do with the old denomination of the coin Batzen , especially since wine was always sold here. Around 1900 the Batzenhäusl developed into a poets and artists' bar known throughout the German-speaking area, which was depicted on many contemporary paintings and postcards. The house experienced its heyday as a meeting point for artists when the painter Franz Defregger (1835–1921) stayed in Bolzano. The artist's willingness to donate, encouraged by the capable landlord Engelbert Trebo and the wine, increased from year to year until 1914, when the Batzenhäusl was furnished with over 200 paintings, drawings and individual sculptures. The remainder of this Batzenhäusl picture collection is now at Prösels Castle in Völs am Schlern .

Since the First World War, when Bolzano became Italian, the house has also been called Cà de Bezzi . Above all, the decline in German guests caused the establishment to close on March 1, 1928 (for the first time in the 20th century).

Today the Batzenhäusl is an inn brewery .

literature

  • Mathias Frei: The picture collection from the Bozen Batzenhäusl in Castle Prösels, Fiè allo Sciliar . Edited by the Kuratorium Schloss Prösels. Brixen: Weger 1999.
  • Bruno Mahlknecht : The Bozen Batzenhäusl . In: Bozen through the centuries, vol. 2; Bolzano 2006, ISBN 88-6011-021-1 , pp. 146-153

Web links

Commons : Batzenhäusl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emanuel A. Eisenmeyer: The Batzenhäusl in Bozen: with 250 original paintings, sculptures and poems by famous masters . 2nd Edition. Innsbruck: Wagner 1910.
  2. ↑ From the Bolzano “Batzenhäusl”, which has now been closed. In:  Neuigkeits -Welt-Blatt , No. 53/1928 (LV. Volume), March 3, 1928, p. 5, top left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwb.

Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 5 "  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 27"  E