Gustav Nolte

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Dante Alighieri School in Bozen 2012, formerly Empress Elisabeth School

Gustav Nolte (born September 3, 1877 in Süstedt , † July 17, 1924 in Bozen ) was a German architect of historicism . From 1908 to 1924 he was the city ​​architect in Bozen. The Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Schule and the school in Oberau are among his masterpieces .

Life

Gustav Friedrich Albrecht Nolte came from the then Prussian province of Hanover . After primary and secondary school, he studied architecture in Munich. A trip to Italy took the young Nolte to Bolzano, where he found work in the city building department in 1902. Bolzano experienced brisk construction activity for years under Mayor Julius Perathoner . In 1908, Nolte took over the management of the municipal building department from Wilhelm Kürschner .

In 1910 Gustav Nolte married Maria Foradori, a nineteen-year-old girl from Bolzano, with whom he had three children. The native of Lower Saxony grew increasingly fused with his new home. He was an active member of the Heimatschutzverein, the museum association, the engineers and architects association as well as the artist association.

By using local motifs such as the Überetsch residence architecture in the sense of the homeland style , Nolte managed to adapt the communal buildings to the Bolzano cityscape. At the same time, they show the city's ties to German culture.

When he died of an acute bowel disease on July 17, 1924, he was buried in the evangelical cemetery in Bolzano at the city's expense.

Nolte was extremely valued by the Bolzano people. So it says in an obituary:

Gustav Nolte was one of us. What was ephemeral about him found its final resting place in the already existing part of his cemetery in Oberau, at the foot of the venerable Haselburg . But his spirit hovers over his works, which may be landmarks for us and our descendants on the path that our homeland art and love of homeland have to go .

Buildings (selection)

Here is a list of buildings from his hand:

  • 1908/10 the imperial jubilee houses and the retirement home in Loreto
  • 1911/12 elementary school and kindergarten in Oberau (based on the Wohlgemuth residence in Eppan )
  • 1908/11 Empress Elisabeth School in Sparkassenstrasse , today the Italian Dante Alighieri Elementary School
  • 1916/17 redesign and expansion of the military cemetery in St. Jakob
  • 1917: Redesign and expansion of Rentscher Strasse

Web links

literature

  • Renate Brenn-Rammlmair: City architect Gustav Nolte. The Heimatstil in Bozen 1908–1924 , Athesia, Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-88-82663612

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renate burning Rammlmair: city architect Gustav Nolte. The Heimatstil in Bozen 1908-1924 , Athesia, Bozen 2007, p. 24 f.
  2. ↑ Gustav Nolte † , in: Der Schlern 5, 1924, p. 229 f. (on-line)
  3. ↑ Renate burning Rammlmair: city architect Gustav Nolte. The Heimatstil in Bozen 1908–1924 , Athesia, Bozen 2007, p. 187
personal data
SURNAME Nolte, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German builder of historicism
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Süstedt
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1924
Place of death Bolzano