Heinrich Kunter

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Heinrich Kunter († 1317 ), citizen of the cities of Bozen and Hall , was a Tyrolean merchant , entrepreneur and builder of the Kuntersweg named after him .

Life

On September 22nd, 1314 Heinrich Kunter and his wife Kathrein received the right from Count Heinrich von Tirol, Prince of Tyrol , to create a (mule) path through the Eisack Gorge from Bolzano to Klausen and to raise a road toll for it and to run two taverns on it. The construction work is regarded as an example of “rudimentary early capitalist entrepreneurship”, which relied on the rapid amortization of considerable economic inputs.

The original road from Bozen northwards led to the construction of the Kuntersweg over the Renon and only reached the Eisack valley again at Kollmann . Thanks to the new path, travelers no longer had to cope with this incline (from 490 meters in Kollmann to 1164 meters in Lengmoos and back down to 265 meters to Bozen). As a result, the Brenner route has been greatly upgraded, making it possible for Bolzano to develop into the most important trading city in Tyrol. The losers were Gries and, above all, Merano .

Even though Heinrich Kunter died soon afterwards, his widow apparently continued to run the business of Kunterweg with care, because otherwise the sovereign would not have issued a decree in 1328 that Heinrich Kunter's heirs should have all rights to this path.

The Kuntersweg was expanded by blasting under the Prince Archduke Siegmund the Coin Rich around 1480 so that it could also be driven on by carts . The princely customs house on Kuntersweg in Kollmann is still there today and was exemplary restored in cooperation with the South Tyrolean Monuments Office 1979–1982. The municipality of Karneid had the Kuntersweg repaired as a hiking trail on the occasion of the Tyrolean commemorative year 1809–1984 . It's around five kilometers that can be covered in two and a half hours.

The business school “Heinrich Kunter” in Bozen is named after Kunter .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Nössing: The customs on Kuntersweg , in: Der Schlern 1986, pp. 88–95.
  2. ^ Hannes Obermair : City and Territory in Tyrol. Side lights from the Middle Ages and early modern times . In: Helmut Flachenecker , Hans Heiss (Ed.): Franconia and South Tyrol. Two cultural landscapes in comparison (=  publications of the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives ). tape 34 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2013, ISBN 978-3-7030-0803-0 , p. 121–131, reference p. 126 .
  3. ↑ Bruno Mahlknecht : Ritten. Famous low mountain range in the sight of the Dolomites . Athesia, Bozen 1998, 5th edition, p. 94.
  4. ^ Helmut Rizzolli: Bozen: the city of markets , in: Merkantilmuseum Bozen, catalog, Bozen 1998, p. 10.
  5. ↑ Norbert Mumelter: The Kuntersweg. Karneid Municipality, Bozen 1986, p. 16.
  6. ↑ Helmut Stampfer : Architecture and colors of the customs house in Kollmann , in: Der Schlern , 1986, pp. 96–114.
personal data
SURNAME Kunter, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tyrolean merchant and builder of the Kuntersweg named after him
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1317