Golden Roof

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Golden Roof
Reliefs on the bay window: Maximilian with Maria von Burgund and Bianca Maria Sforza (left) and surrounded by court jesters (right)
View from the south on Herzog-Friedrich-Strasse onto the bay window

The Golden Roof is a late Gothic splendor oriel at New Court in the Herzog-Friedrich-Strasse of Innsbruck's old town and is considered a landmark of the city. The roof of the bay window was covered with 2,657 fire-gilded copper shingles.

history

The building was built in 1420 as the residence ("Neuhof") of the Tyrolean sovereigns. On the occasion of the turn of the century (1500), Niklas Türing the Elder added the magnificent bay on behalf of the German king and later emperor Maximilian I in 1497 / 98–1500.

Jakob Hutter , preacher of the Anabaptists , was publicly burned alive in front of the Golden Roof on February 25, 1536 (during the reign of Archduke Ferdinand , a grandson of Maximilian I).

In 1996 the Maximilianeum Museum was established in the building, which was reopened as the Golden Roof Museum in 2007 after extensive expansion and renovation work .

The Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention has been located in the same building since 2003 .

Others

Reliefs on the bay window show Maximilian I with his two wives, chancellor, court jester, Morisk dancer and coat of arms (original reliefs in the Tyrolean State Museum ). In the background of the reliefs there is a banner with characters that were only partially deciphered in 2006 (4th "word" = Chryst ... , 10th "word" = nihil ). It is also u. a. around Latin , Greek and Hebrew letters , etc. U. also about Egyptian hieroglyphs .

On February 1, 1960, the Austrian Post issued a definitive stamp from the series of Austrian monuments to the value of 6.40 Schilling for this motif .

The Golden Roof is the namesake of the International Golden Roof Challenge , an annual athletics event that has been held on the street leading to the bay window since 2005, and indirectly also the Golden Fly Series , the logo of which contains the Golden Roof.

The Golden Roof Museum in Innsbruck was closed from the beginning of August 2018 to mid-January 2019. The reason was a renovation of the museum, which was made accessible. Among other things, the spiral staircase was removed and replaced by a lifting system.

Temporary shingle

As part of a month-long Transfair cultural project in October 2007, one of the gilded shingles was alternately exchanged for one of the wooden ones in a hay barn in Vals in the Wipptal (Innsbruck-Land district). The golden clapboard worth 1500 euros was stolen, but reappeared in June 2009.

On April 12, 2012, 8 of the gilded shingles were stolen when scaffolding was being erected for restoration work. The thieves had also overcome a 3 m high protective wall made of smooth formwork panels . The perpetrator and the motive remained unknown. Within a few days they all reappeared: 5 were stored in public places in Schwaz and Innsbruck in such a way that they should be found. Two more were deposited in a post box in Hall in Tirol on April 16, the last was sent by post to the Federal Monuments Office.

literature

Web links

Commons : Goldenes Dachl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Museum in the Golden Roof is being rebuilt. In: tirol.orf.at. July 31, 2018, accessed November 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Seven shingles stolen from the Golden Roof sn.at, Salzburger Nachrichten, April 13, 2012, accessed August 19, 2020.
  3. ↑ Elisabeth Schwarzl: Goldenes Dachl: Last of the eight stolen clapboards surfaced regionews.at, April 24, 2012, accessed August 19, 2020.

Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '6.9 "  N , 11 ° 23' 35.8"  E