Freedom Street (Bolzano)

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Bozner Freiheitsstraße (looking west at night)
Bolzano city map from 1940 (detail, west) with the fascist street name Corso IX Maggio

The Freiheitsstraße ( Italian Corso della Libertà ) is a monumental boulevard in Bozen , the provincial capital of South Tyrol , which was laid out in the time of fascism and is noticeable for its largely uniform architectural style of rationalism .

history

Freedom Road was built from 1935-36 in the context of the fascist new plans for a italianisiertes the "Greater Bolzano" according to land use plan by Marcello Piacentini created and billed as the "most important street of Neubolzano". In order to gain space for the new facility, some existing buildings from the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy were demolished, including the Kuendlhof, the Black Brewery and the Hotel Badl. The original street name was "Corso dell'Impero" or "Corso IX Maggio", since on May 9, 1936, dictator Benito Mussolini had proclaimed the Italian Empire as a result of the campaign of conquest in Abyssinia . During the National Socialist occupation of South Tyrol in 1943/45 , the street name was also retained in German as May 9th Street . Only after the liberation from Nazi fascism in 1945 did the street get its current name, which explicitly refers to the fall of the fascist dictatorships.

Advertisement in the National Socialist Bozner Tagblatt dated July 8, 1944 with the mention of May 9th Street

The axially designed road connects the Talfer Bridge and the area of ​​the Victory Monument in a straight line with Grieser Platz . In the middle of the street is interrupted by today's Mazziniplatz, where the Rai Südtirol radio station is located. The eastern starting point of the road around the Victory Monument formed the “Victory Forum” in line with the fascist plans, which is flanked by the stage-like buildings of the Istituto Nazionale Assicurazioni , a state insurance company, and the INPS , the National Institute for Social Welfare designed by architects Paolo Rossi de Paoli and Michele Busiri Vici.

The former central building of the boulevard was the "Palace of Tourism" (later the "Corso Cinema"), built in 1938/40 according to a design by the Verona-born architect Armando Ronca . For reasons of building speculation, the aesthetically high-quality building was demolished in 1988 and replaced with anonymous functional architecture.

literature

  • Hannes Obermair , Fabrizio Miori, Maurizio Pacchiani (eds.): Lavori in Corso - The Bozner Freiheitsstraße . La Fabbrica del Tempo - The Time Factory, Bozen 2020, ISBN 978-88-943205-2-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alpenzeitung of October 15, 1936, p. 5: "Streets and squares of the new center"
  2. ↑ Hannes Obermair, Fabrizio Miori, Maurizio Pacchiani (eds.): Lavori in Corso - The Bozner Freiheitsstraße . La Fabbrica del Tempo - The Time Factory, Bozen 2020, ISBN 978-88-943205-2-7 , p. 50-61 .
  3. ↑ a b Hannes Obermair, Fabrizio Miori, Maurizio Pacchiani (ed.): Lavori in Corso - The Bozner Freiheitsstraße . La Fabbrica del Tempo - The Time Factory, Bozen 2020, ISBN 978-88-943205-2-7 , p. 24-27 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 5 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 30 ″  E