Palace of Justice (Bolzano)

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The Bolzano Courthouse (2019)
The relief with the personified Justitia (1939)

The Palace of Justice (also called the courthouse ; Italian Palazzo di Giustizia ) in Bozen ( South Tyrol ) is the central seat of the local judicial authorities. Located on the court square in the Gries-Quirein district, the expansive building was built in the rationalist style of late fascism based on the designs of the architects Paolo Rossi de Paoli and Michele Busiri Vici from 1939, but was not completed and occupied until 1956. Today the offices and courtrooms of the Bolzano Regional Court and the local public prosecutor's office are located here .

The front of the building, clad in white travertine panels and decorated with exposed brickwork on the back, has a monumental entrance staircase; the concave curvature of the facade corresponds to the tax offices facing south (until 1943 as Casa Littoria the seat of the local section of the fascist party ). Above the entrance area there is a relief showing the goddess Justitia , which is shown without a blindfold, but with a direct view of the former fascist party building.

The Latin inscription on the architrave of the Palace of Justice Pro Italico Imperio virtute iustitia hierarchia unguibus et rostris ("For the Italian Empire in virtue, justice and hierarchy with claws and teeth") refers to the original function with its explicit reference to the fascist Mediterranean empire proclaimed in 1936 of the building, together with the party headquarters and the diagonally offset Christ the King 's Church to serve the glorification of the regime and along the former Julius-Caesar-Allee (today's Italienallee) "the function of an ideologically charged portal to the new fascist" Greater Bozen "[to] fulfill".

On September 12, 1948, the first post-war international sample fair in Bolzano took place in the unfinished building or on the court square . The trade fair location was relocated to the area of ​​the now demolished ice rink on Romstrasse in the 1950s.

In December 2017, the building, which had previously been state-owned, became the property of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol, which has been responsible for the maintenance of the building ever since.

Web links

Commons : Palace of Justice (Bolzano)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald Dunajtschik, Aram Mattioli : Eroberung durch Architektur. The fascist remodeling and redesign projects in Bolzano. In: Petra Terhoeven (Hrsg.): Italy, views: new perspectives on Italian history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-55785-3 , pp. 87-106, here pp. 100-101.
  2. ↑ Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 201 .
  3. ^ Helmut Alexander: Startbahn Wirtschaft. South Tyrol on the way to growth and prosperity . In: Gottfried Solderer (Ed.): The 20th Century in South Tyrol . Volume III: 1940-1959. Bolzano: Raetia 2001. ISBN 88-72831520 , p. 166.
  4. ^ Il Palazzo di Giustizia passa dallo Stato alla Provincia di Bolzano. In: agenziademanio.it. Retrieved February 3, 2020 (Italian).

Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 53.5 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 20.8 ″  E