Maria Theresa Bastion
The Maria-Theresa-Bastion ( Romanian Bastionul Maria Terezia ), also Maria-Theresia-Bastion is a listed historical fortress in the western Romanian city of Timișoara . It is located in the inner city , south of the Piața Dr. IC Brătianu on Strada Hector. In the city itself one usually speaks briefly of the bastion .
history
The then Timisoara with the surrounding Banat was secured by the Habsburgs in the course of the expansion of the military border with a strong fortress of the Vauban type , which was built between 1723 and 1765 by the governor of the region, Claudius Florimund Mercy . It replaced obsolete buildings and the smaller Ottoman citadel . The Timisoara fortress ( Romanian Cetate or Cetatea Timișoara , Latin Castrum Timensiensis ) consisted of nine bastions . In the second half of the 19th century, most of the fortification walls were torn down to make way for the rapidly expanding inner city.
The Maria Theresa Bastion, named after the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa , was built from bricks between 1730 and 1735 and is the largest part of the protective wall that has been preserved from the old Timisoara fortress . It covers around 1.7 hectares of the city center.
The Maria-Theresia-Bastion was also already intended for demolition , but the extensive structure was integrated into the cityscape at the beginning of the 1970s. A main road passes the facility with five passages, the numerous casemates under the vaults have been restored and made usable. Since then, shops and restaurants have settled here, as well as a discotheque, a casino, a bookstore and two permanent exhibitions of the Banat National Museum (exhibition information and communication, technology and the violin - a lifelong passion ) and the ethnography section of the village museum . As a junction between the historic city center and the newer districts, the area connects different development periods of the city.
From 2008 the bastion was restored on a grand scale in five construction phases . 20,000 square meters of masonry were cleaned by sandblasting and damaged areas were replaced. The scope of work included, among other things, demolition and excavation work , foundation protection and crack grouting , sound insulation and heat protection as well as the redesign of the interior. The total investment was 9.7 million euros, five million of which came from the European Union's PHARE fund , 2.3 million euros from the Timisoara district council and 750,000 euros from the Timisoara town hall. The start of construction work had been delayed several times due to legal actions by business owners. In January 2011, the renovation work was largely completed.
More fragments of the fortress
In addition to the Maria Theresa Bastion, there are four other fortress fragments, namely on Strada Alexandru Ioan Cuza , in the Botanical Garden of Timișoara and on Piața Timișoara 700 - there once north and once south of Strada Coriolan Brediceanu.
Fragment on Strada Alexandru Ioan Cuza , former powder store
Fragment in the botanical garden
Fragment on the Piața Timișoara 700, north of the Strada Coriolan Brediceanu
Fragment on Piața Timișoara 700, south of Strada Coriolan Brediceanu
Web links
- Pictures of the Maria-Theresia-Bastion: picture 1 • picture 2 • picture 3 • picture 4
- banaterra.eu , interior view of the Maria Theresa Bastion
- banaterzeitungonline.wordpress.com , Olivian Ieremiciu: Renovation work on the “Theresien” bastion completed , Banater Zeitung from October 15, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ gtztm.ro ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 246 kB), Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2004 des Județ Timiș , 68 TM-II-aA-06103 Cetatea Timișoara, in Romanian
- ↑ Temesvar, fortress plan from 1742 (military map collection in the Swedish Imperial Archives Stockholm) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ViaPontica.Wordpress.com , Vauban-type fortresses in Romania, in English
- ↑ KarpatenWilli.com , Franz Engelmann: Shop stroll through Temeswar's past
- ↑ Bennert.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bennert GmbH: References - fortarei "Bastion Theresia" Timișoara
- ↑ Bennert.de ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Mammoth project in Timișoara (Romania) ended
- ↑ Temeswar.Diplo.de , German Consulate in Timisoara, press evaluation March 15-22, 2010, information from the Agenda Zilei
- ↑ Temeswar.Diplo.de , German Consulate in Timisoara, press evaluation 8. – 14. October 2007, article from the Renașterea bănăţeană, the Agenda Zilei and the Ziua de Vest on the topic of Bastion , October 13, 2007
- ↑ Temeswar.Diplo.de , German Consulate in Timisoara, press evaluation 4. – 10. February 2008, Renașterea bănăţeană: Further problems with the bastion complex , February 7th, 2008
- ↑ Temeswar.Diplo.de , German Consulate in Timisoara, press evaluation 11. – 17. February 2008, Ziua de Vest: Mess at the Bastei , February 14, 2008
- ↑ Temeswar.Diplo.de , German Consulate in Timisoara, press evaluation January 29 - 31, 2011, Ziua de Vest
Coordinates: 45 ° 45 ′ 25 ″ N , 21 ° 14 ′ 0 ″ E