Princely office building

The Prince's Office House (east view from Andreas-Hofer-Strasse )

The Prince's Office House in Bindergasse in Bozen , also known as the Maximilian Office House, has been home to the South Tyrolean Nature Museum since 1997 . It has been a listed building since 1948 .

Mentioned for the first time in 1500, in the following years under Emperor Maximilian the house received its present external form with the late Gothic hipped roof . The Bolzano bailiff residing here was an important point of contact for the Innsbruck government for centuries . Its building served in particular as a customs office . 1551/1552 and 1556 regional parliaments took place in the Imperial Hall. The so-called Hansgraf , an economic officer mentioned in 1504, also had his official seat here.

Around 1500 Hans Abmstorfer (Abenstorffer) is attested as the Bolzano bailiff. On April 28, 1500, Maximilian I gave him the order to have the existing older office building in today's Bindergasse rebuilt and expanded. In 1501, the Innsbruck court glazier Oswald Tosch commissioned the glazing of the building, and in 1502 Abmstorfer was to have the rooms of the new office building prepared for residential and official purposes. In 1503 the new building is referred to as " new ambthaws zu Botzn ".

In 2019 the special exhibition "The Emperor's Office" commemorated the 500th year of Emperor Maximilian's death.

literature

Helmut Stampfer (ed.): The Prince's Office House in Bozen - From the Maximilian Office Building to the Nature Museum . Folio Verlag, Vienna / Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85256-373-2

Web links

Commons : Landesfürstliches Amtshaus - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Remarks

↑ See Hans Kramer: New contributions to the history of Bozen under Maximilian I. In: Tirolensia. On the 80th birthday of Konrad Fischnaler (= Schlern-Schriften 30), Wagner, Innsbruck 1935, pp. 89–99.
^ For the first time in 1496 as " Hanns Abenstorffer der herschetzt amptman ": Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 228, no.1313 .
↑ Kramer, op. Cit. , P. 89f.
↑ Kramer, op. Cit. , P. 90.
↑ New South Tyrolean daily newspaper: “Das Amtshaus des Kasiers” , report from February 19, 2019

46.501143 11.357052Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 4.1 ″ N , 11 ° 21 ′ 25.4 ″ E

[1] See Hans Kramer: New contributions to the history of Bozen under Maximilian I. In: Tirolensia. On the 80th birthday of Konrad Fischnaler (= Schlern-Schriften 30), Wagner, Innsbruck 1935, pp. 89–99.

[2] For the first time in 1496 as " Hanns Abenstorffer der herschetzt amptman ": Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 228, no.1313 .

[3] Kramer, op. Cit. , P. 89f.

[4] Kramer, op. Cit. , P. 90.

[5] New South Tyrolean daily newspaper: “Das Amtshaus des Kasiers” , report from February 19, 2019