Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz
The Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz until 1994 and still colloquially Landhausplatz , is a place in the Innsbruck city center .
location
The trapezoidal square, which tapers towards the south, is located on the southern edge of the city center . It is bordered to the north by the Neues Landhaus , to the east by Wilhelm-Greil-Strasse and to the south by Salurner Strasse. On the west side, a row of houses with several passages, including Fuggergasse and Welsergasse, separates it from Maria-Theresien-Straße .
history
Today's square was originally an area built on with a residence, villas and gardens, which was traversed by the Fugger and Welsergasse in a south-easterly direction. After the annexation of Austria , the Gauhaus, today's New Country House, was built in 1938/39 according to plans by Walter and Ewald Guth as part of a planned Gauforum . In front of the front there was to be a larger square with a memorial for the Tyrolean National Socialists who died in the fight against the republic and the corporate state in 1938 . Two high stone sacrificial pylons were planned around the point where the Liberation Monument stands today. At the southern end, the “House of the German Mountaineers” was to be built as a counterpart to the Gauhaus, with a parade area planned for rallies and political celebrations in between. In 1939 the buildings between the Gauhaus and what was then Bismarckplatz (south of Salurner Strasse) were acquired. As a first step, the Fuggergasse that passed in front of the Gauhaus was widened so that a small square was created. The other plans were not implemented due to the Second World War .
After the end of the war, the heavily damaged buildings in the area of Fugger- and Welsergasse were removed. The city wanted to use the resulting open space partly as a parking lot and partly as a park. The French military administration chose the site as the location for the Liberation Monument, which was erected in 1948. This dominant monument was followed by other monuments that were erected across the square.
In the mid-1980s, an underground car park was built under the square and the surface south of the garage entrance was redesigned with irregular lawns, hedges and trees.
In 1994 the square was named after the long-time governor Eduard Wallnöfer .
In order to redesign the appearance of the square, which was perceived as unsatisfactory, in a contemporary manner, a Europe-wide competition was announced in 2008 , which was won by LAAC Architects . According to this draft, despite a negative opinion from the Federal Monuments Office , the square was covered with a 9000 m² large, corrugated, natural shape modeled concrete surface, which also hides a large part of the steps of the liberation monument. The smaller memorials and monuments were moved out of the longitudinal axis of the square and repositioned. The area in front of the country house is laid out as a level event area and designed with a threshold-free water feature.
Monuments
Liberation Monument
The memorial was erected in 1948 by the French military administration under Emile Béthouart based on plans by Jean Pascau in an axial alignment with the country house. The gate, clad in white marble, has five openings, in which there are wrought iron bars with the cross-shaped coats of arms of the federal states. The monument is crowned by a sculpture of the Tyrolean eagle designed by Emmerich Kerle .
Monument 600 years of Tyrol in Austria
The monument at the southern end of the square was erected in 1963 on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of Tyrol's membership in Austria on behalf of the state according to a concept by the architect Franz Kotek and inaugurated on September 28, 1963. It consists of an 8 m long and 1.15 m high base made of greenish Sarner porphyry and a bronze relief over the entire length. This was created by Josef Bachlechner the Younger and shows Margarete Maultasch's seal on the left and, next to it, the seals and names of the other princes who had confirmed the handover of Tyrol to the Habsburg Rudolf IV .
Pogrom memorial
The pogrom memorial was erected in 1997 in memory of the Innsbruck victims of the November pogroms in 1938 . It consists of a copper base with broken glass and the names of the victims and a seven meter high menorah .
Union Fountain
To commemorate the union of Wiltens and Pradl with Innsbruck in 1904, a fountain was erected in 1906 on Bahnhofsplatz (today's Südtiroler Platz), donated by Johann von Sieberer . This well was demolished in 1940 for traffic reasons. In 1992 a committee was formed to set up a new union fountain, which was finally realized in 1999 on the southern Landhausplatz - near the former border between Innsbruck and Wilten. The fountain designed by Peter A. Bär consists of two stones made of East Tyrolean serpentine with three or five openings, which stand for the eight communities that came to Innsbruck. A water fountain up to 5 m high rises between the two stones.
use
The open space between the country house and the liberation monument is used for events, political rallies or the traditional big tattoo of the armed forces on the eve of the national holiday . From 1994 to 2006, when he moved to the market square, a Christmas market was held on the square in Advent. The floor sculpture in the southern part with its obstacles and ramps is often used by skaters and BMX riders.
Web links
- The Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz in Innsbruck
- Redesign of Eduard Wallnöfer Platz - Landhausplatz . In: architektur im netz , nextroom.at.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Horst Schreiber: Landhaus and Landhausplatz (Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz) in Innsbruck
- ↑ a b Christoph Hölz, Klaus Tragbar, Veronika Weiss (ed.): Architectural guide Innsbruck . Haymon, Innsbruck 2017, ISBN 978-3-7099-7204-5 , pp. 64-65 .
- ↑ a b Kathrin Aste, Frank Ludin, Hannes Stiefel: Landhausplatz Innsbruck. Redesign of Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz. Innsbruck, 2010. In: zement + beton 3_12, pp. 36–39
- ↑ Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 17-18 .
- ^ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Culture Department (Ed.): Kulturberichte aus Tirol 2012. 63rd Monument Report. Innsbruck 2012, p. 75 ( PDF; 12 MB )
- ↑ Dave Bullock: Given back to the people. The newly designed Innsbruck Landhausplatz: Architectural symbol for openness and transparency. In: Tyrolean and South Tyrolean cultural departments (ed.): Art in public space. 2013/2014 cultural reports from Tyrol and South Tyrol. Bozen / Innsbruck 2014, pp. 45–47 ( PDF; 9.0 MB )
- ↑ Felmayer, Wiesauer: Franzosendenkmal, Liberation Monument. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved August 19, 2015 .
- ^ Felmayer, Wiesauer: Event memorial 600-year celebration of Tyrol's membership in Austria 1363-1963. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved August 10, 2015 .
- ^ Helmuth Oehler: Margarete's monument - very discreet (1963). In: Innsbruck informed, No. 8/2013, pp. 58–59 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Wiesauer: Progrom Monument. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Wiesauer: Laufbrunnen, Vereinigungsbrunnen. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
- ↑ A new union fountain is to be built on Landhausplatz. In: Innsbruck informed, April 1996, p. 17 ( digitized version )
- ^ Association fountain on Landhausplatz. In: Innsbruck informs, July 1999, p. 12 ( digitized version )
- ^ Bundesheer is also looking for personnel in Tyrol , tirol.orf.at of October 25, 2016
- ↑ So that the waiting for the Christ Child goes by in a flash. In: Innsbruck informed, December 2014, pp. 6–9 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Eduard Wallnöfer Platz (Landhausplatz) on innsbruck.info, accessed on March 11, 2020
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 49.3 " N , 11 ° 23 ′ 46" E