Goethe School (Bozen)

The Goethe School with the school yard

The Goethe School (formerly Emperor Franz Joseph's School for Girls ) has been a listed building in Bolzano since 1985 .

The Goetheschule, a primary school with German as the language of instruction, is located opposite the Franziskanergymnasium on Marienplatz. It was built in 1908 as a primary and community school for girls and named in honor of the 60th anniversary of the reign of the Austrian Emperor, the Kaiser-Franz-Joseph School. School operations began on November 14, 1908. At the opening, the Wiener Zeitung wrote the interesting sheet :

“With the establishment of a new girls' school, Bozen has overtaken most of the Austrian cities, if not all. ... The city of Bolzano spent almost half a million crowns on the construction of the Franz Joseph Girls' School, which rises in Vintlerstrasse and is available to the builders, city architects, furriers, builders Weber, the advisory board of the meat district school inspector, the community, the tradespeople and artists does all honor. "

The monumental school building represents a high point of the building program of the German-free mayor of Bozen, Julius Perathoner . The plan by city architect Wilhelm Kürschner was based on the example of the Munich school building and the then new concept of the work school . Albert Stolz framed the ceilings in the stairwell and some doors to the classrooms with wreaths of alpine flowers and small animals; the walls he decorated with different lithography -Rahmenbildern with motifs from fairy tales and folk songs , landscapes or other youth stimulating objects.

During fascism , as part of the Italianization measures , the school became the Italian- speaking Adelaide Cairoli School. The fascist regime also dismissed founding director Emma von Leurs, who then became involved in the South Tyrolean catacomb school .

In the Marienpark in front of the school there has been a Marian column made in 1893 by the sculptor Andreas Kompatscher since 1909 .

The Franz Joseph School shortly after it opened around 1910, to the right of it the gymnastics home of the Bozen gymnastics club
Relief Hansel and Gretel on the school facade

Individual evidence

^ Goethe School: History. Primary school district Bozen (Goethe-Wolff-Chini), accessed on November 25, 2013 .
^ The Interesting Sheet , vol. 27, 1908, No. 50.
↑ Renate burning Rammlmair: city architect Gustav Nolte. The Heimatstil in Bozen , Athesia, Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-88-8266-361-2 , pp. 20 and 39 f.

Web links

Commons : Goetheschule Bozen - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office

46.502007 11.354491Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 7.2 ″ N , 11 ° 21 ′ 16.2 ″ E

[1] Goethe School: History. Primary school district Bozen (Goethe-Wolff-Chini), accessed on November 25, 2013 .

[2] The Interesting Sheet , vol. 27, 1908, No. 50.

[3] Renate burning Rammlmair: city architect Gustav Nolte. The Heimatstil in Bozen , Athesia, Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-88-8266-361-2 , pp. 20 and 39 f.