St. Oswald (Bolzano)

St. Oswald's Church in 1912 before it was destroyed (lithograph by Richard Wolff)

St. Oswald was a church on Oswaldweg in Bozen (district of Zwölfmalgrei ), which was dedicated to St. Oswald of Northumbria . The late Romanesque east tower church is mentioned for the first time in 1288 ( "sanctus Oswaldus" and "next to sant Oswalten" ), it was consecrated again in 1323 and 1405 after being damaged by landslides , and in 1412 it was called "sant Oswalt pey Poczen" . When Bolzano was bombed in World War II , it was destroyed by an American aerial bomb on December 2, 1943 . Only the foundation walls are preserved. These have been under monument protection since 1951.

From the years 1481 to 1800 there are over 60 account books of St. Oswald in the Bolzano City Archives (Hss. 1398–1461), which were kept by the respective church princes .

Bozen's Oswaldpromenade is named after the church; its city-side feeder starts almost from the former church square, while the higher junction to St. Magdalena along the mountain slope was built in 1937 with donations from the benefactor Karl von Müller .

Web links

Commons : St. Oswald - collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . Volume 1. Bozen: Stadtgemeinde Bozen 2005. ISBN 88-9018700X , p. 109 No. 73. - Oswald Zingerle (Ed.): Meinhards II. Urbare der Grafschaft Tirol. (= Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Diplomataria et acta 55 / I). Vienna 1890, p. 124, no. 173.
^ Hannes Obermair: Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 , vol. 2, Bozen: Stadtgemeinde Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-90187018 , p. 48 No. 930.
^ Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol. Volume 2, 7th edition, Athesia / Tyrolia, Bozen / Innsbruck 1991, p. 54.
↑ Bruno Mahlknecht : Bombs on Bozen . In: Südtiroler Hauskalender 2014, p. 109.
^ Hannes Obermair: Multiple Pasts - Collecting for the City? The Bolzano City Archives 3.0 . In: Philipp Tolloi (Ed.): Archives in South Tyrol: History and Perspectives / Archivi in Provincia di Bolzano: storia e prospettive (= publications of the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives 45 ). Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7030-0992-1 , p. 211–224, reference: p. 214 .

46.503896 11.359362Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 14 " N , 11 ° 21 ′ 33.7" E

[1] Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . Volume 1. Bozen: Stadtgemeinde Bozen 2005. ISBN 88-9018700X , p. 109 No. 73. - Oswald Zingerle (Ed.): Meinhards II. Urbare der Grafschaft Tirol. (= Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Diplomataria et acta 55 / I). Vienna 1890, p. 124, no. 173.

[2] Hannes Obermair: Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 , vol. 2, Bozen: Stadtgemeinde Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-90187018 , p. 48 No. 930.

[3] Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol. Volume 2, 7th edition, Athesia / Tyrolia, Bozen / Innsbruck 1991, p. 54.

[4] Bruno Mahlknecht : Bombs on Bozen . In: Südtiroler Hauskalender 2014, p. 109.

[5] Hannes Obermair: Multiple Pasts - Collecting for the City? The Bolzano City Archives 3.0 . In: Philipp Tolloi (Ed.): Archives in South Tyrol: History and Perspectives / Archivi in Provincia di Bolzano: storia e prospettive (= publications of the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives 45 ). Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7030-0992-1 , p. 211–224, reference: p. 214 .