Empress Elisabeth School

Dante Alighieri School 2012, formerly Empress Elisabeth School

The Empress Elisabeth School (today: Dante School ) has been a listed building in Bolzano since 1985 . It is located at Sparkassenstrasse 24.

The neo-Romanesque Elisabethschule opened in 1911 (the full name was: Knaben-Volks und Bürgereschule Kaiserin Elisabeth ) is Gustav Nolte's main work and one of the most important buildings of the Perathoner era . With this "bourgeois total work of art" the national liberal city tour wanted to set a monument for itself .

City architect Nolte's plan was based on the example of the Munich school building and the then new concept of the work school . Inside, the school was extremely well equipped, thanks to the generosity of the individual artists, some of whom carried out the work for free. Albert Stolz made portraits of the classes and professions on the wooden ceilings of the changing hall on the third floor . Tony Grubhofer executed numerous wall paintings with South Tyrolean castle and landscape motifs inside the school .

During the march on Bozen on 1st / 2nd In October 1922 the school was occupied by fascist squadrists under the direction of Achille Starace and others, who refused entry to German students and teachers and forced the conversion into an Italian elementary school. In 1923, school instruction in German was abolished , and in 1927 the school name was changed to Regina Elena (after the Italian Queen Elena of Montenegro ). The school now houses an Italian primary school. It has been called the Dante Alighieri School since 1946, and part of it was named in 2017 after the murdered journalist Ilaria Alpi .

Individual evidence

↑ Renate Brenn-Rammlmair: The boys 'people and citizens' school Empress Elisabeth - a bourgeois total work of art. In: City architect Gustav Nolte. The Heimatstil in Bozen 1908–1924 , Athesia, Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-88-8266-361-2 , pp. 39–70
↑ Hannes Obermair , Sabrina Michielli (ed.): Cultures of remembrance of the 20th century in comparison - Culture della memoria del Novecento a confronto . City Archives Bozen , Bozen 2014, ISBN 978-88-907060-9-7 , p. 52 .
^ Norbert Mumelter: Bolzano history on the roadside . Athesia, Bozen 1990, p. 75

Web links

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

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

46.498274 11.348963Coordinates: 46 ° 29 '53.8 " N , 11 ° 20' 56.3" E

[1] Renate Brenn-Rammlmair: The boys 'people and citizens' school Empress Elisabeth - a bourgeois total work of art. In: City architect Gustav Nolte. The Heimatstil in Bozen 1908–1924 , Athesia, Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-88-8266-361-2 , pp. 39–70

[2] Hannes Obermair , Sabrina Michielli (ed.): Cultures of remembrance of the 20th century in comparison - Culture della memoria del Novecento a confronto . City Archives Bozen , Bozen 2014, ISBN 978-88-907060-9-7 , p. 52 .

[3] Norbert Mumelter: Bolzano history on the roadside . Athesia, Bozen 1990, p. 75