Palais Menz
The Palais Menz is one of the most important patrician houses in Bolzano . It is located in Mustergasse and has been a listed building since 1977.
Around 1800 the Menz family was the richest merchant family in Bolzano. In 1721 the family had acquired the imperial nobility with the special privilege of doing business. In 1753 the house came into the possession of Georg Paul von Menz. On the occasion of his wedding to Clara Amorth in 1776 he had it renovated and the Bolzano painter Carl Henrici furnished the hall of honor with large frescoes . Henrici painted the triumph of Cupid with the gods of Olympus on the ceiling in a light Rococo style and scenes of a Venetian masked ball on the west and east walls. After several changes of ownership (1817 Johann Fidel Hosp, 1854 Joseph Stiler, 1868 Franz Schgagnitz), the Bolzano merchant Franz Perger acquired the building in 1883; His son of the same name had the facade of the house rebuilt in 1914 by the Ludwig brothers in historicist styles. In 2013, the Tyrolean investor René Benko acquired the palace and initiated its renovation.
Web links
- Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
- Mustergasse, where the gentlemen were at home
Individual evidence
- ↑ Florian Huber: Elites in Bozen: Persistence and Change between 1800 and 1820 , in: Bellabarba / Forster / Heiss / Leonardi / Mazohl (ed.): Elites in Tyrol between the Ancien Régime and Vormärz . Studienverlag Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2010, p. 246.
- ↑ Carl von Braitenberg: The Oberbozner Schützengesellschaft , in: Franz von Walther (Ed.): The Schützenscheiben von Oberbozen . Edition Raetia Bozen 1994, p. 18.
- ↑ Bozen Chamber of Commerce: The Menz family and the city of Bozen . Catalog, Bozen 2009, p. 23.
- ^ Lia Camerlengo: Palais Menz . Vicenza 2002, ISBN 88-87760-57-8 , pp. 13ff.
- ↑ Benko is planning “urban renewal” in Bolzano with Chipperfield
Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 55.3 " N , 11 ° 21 ′ 14.4" E