Erbsengasse (Bozen)

Erbsengasse 8

Advertisement in the Bozner Nachrichten of January 5, 1919 mentioning the Erbsengasse

Stumbling block for Adalgisa Ascoli, Erbsengasse 8

The Erbsengasse ( Italian Vicolo delle Erbe ) is a narrow alley in the old town area of the South Tyrolean capital Bolzano , which branches off on the south side of the Museumstraße , shortly before it converges on the Obstplatz .

history

The Erbsengasse is attested in 1372 as contrata posterior, ubi itur ad macellum superiorem , in 1546 as clain mistgassl, so to the Fleischgassen , and in 1597 as Koth- or Arbisgassl ; The name Erbsengasse could therefore come from an Arbeys schneider who lived there in 1472 . In the 19th century, the street was popularly called Judengassl , as there was a Jewish prayer room here and Jewish families had lived here since the 16th century (Gerson-Marx). In the time of fascism , the street was renamed monolingual to Via dei Cavallari (Rossknechtgasse) in 1923 , before the old name (including a new Italian translation) was restored in 1946.

The eastern row of houses forms the rear of the block edge construction of the fruit square. Particularly characteristic in the narrow and slightly angled Erbsengasse are an old, brick-built, flat arched balcony at house no.11 and an arched corridor between houses no.6 and 7 stretched across the alley.

In 1875, the future film director Cornelius Hintner was born in Erbsengasse 12 .

In 2015, a stumbling block for the Holocaust victim Adalgisa Ascoli (1887–1943 [?]), Who lived here , was laid in front of house number 8 on Erbsengasse .

The Erbsengasse is part of Bolzano's pedestrian zone .

literature

• Josef Weingartner : The art monuments Bolzano . Vienna-Augsburg: Hölzel 1926, p. 141 (online)

Web links

Commons : Erbsengasse (Bozen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 57.5 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 7.2 ″  E

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Theodor Hoeniger : A list of houses in the old town of Bozen from 1497 (=  Schlern-Schriften . Volume 92 ). Universitäts-Verlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1951, p. 10 .
2. ↑ Francesco Saracino: Appunti per una storia della Bolzano ebraica e le vicende della famiglia Gerson-Marx vissuta in città tra il XVI e il XX sec. In: Geschichte und Region / Storia e regione . 12 (2003), pp. 145-170.
3. ↑ Sabine Mayr, Hannes Obermair : Speaking about the Holocaust. The Jewish victims in Bolzano - a preliminary assessment . In: The Sciliar . Monthly magazine for South Tyrolean regional studies. No. 88 , 2014, ISSN  0036-6145 , issue 3, p. 4–36, reference: p. 20 .