Bezegg-Sul

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Bezegg-Sul
Bezegg-Sul

The Bezegg-Sul (also: "Bezeggsul") is a neo-Gothic memorial column on the pass of the 800 meter high Bezegg in the municipality of the Bregenzerwald municipality of Andelsbuch in the Bregenz district in Vorarlberg . It is a listed building .

history

After 1380 a self-administration of the forest peasantry developed in the Inner Bregenz Forest (the so-called “forest republic”), with its own free rural community, its own constitution (country custom) and high and blood jurisdiction. A Landammann was elected as headmaster , mostly from the most respected families in the Bregenzerwald. The Landammann was appointed freely, his town hall was on the Bezegg, the geographical center of the Bregenzerwald on the way from Bezau to Andelsbuch. There, laws and issues of importance for the Bregenzerwald were passed by the Landammann and the councilors, which were included in the "land custom".

The town hall was a wooden building that rested on four high stone pillars and had large shop openings on all four sides. The building was accessible from below through a trap door in the floor via a ladder. It was raised during the meeting of the councils and only lowered again when a deliberation was reached.

The town hall on the Bezegg was demolished in 1807 as part of the Bavarian judicial and administrative reform. In 1871 the "Bezegg-Sul" was built on this site in neo-Gothic style according to plans by the then Viennese master builder Friedrich von Schmidt . It reminds of the location of this building and the time of the extensive special rights of the forests. About 7000 people attended the inauguration on August 20, 1871.

In 1930 the municipality of Andelsbuch integrated the Bezeggsul into its coat of arms.

architecture

The approximately three and a half meter high hexagonal memorial column is made of Farnach sandstone. It bears the following inscription: “At this point stood the wooden town hall of the Inner Bregenzerwald, which was demolished in 1807 and in which the freely elected mayor and town councilor for centuries advised the affairs of the communities according to old country customs, decided and. have managed ".

literature

  • DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Memorial column on the Bezegg. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , p. 9.
  • Samuel Plattner: " The Bezegg in the Bregenzerwald and its meaning ", " A memorial sheet - remembrance of the ceremonial opening of the Bezegg Monument on August 20, 1871" , Verlag der Wagner'schen Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Bregenz & Feldkirch 1871.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The history of the "Forests Peasant Republic"
  2. ↑ a b c The Bezegg-Sul
  3. ↑ Samuel Plattner: "The Bezegg in the Bregenzerwald and its meaning", "A memorial sheet - remembrance of the ceremonial opening of the Bezegg monument on August 20, 1871", p. 26.

Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '32.2 "  N , 9 ° 53' 5.6"  E