Toggenburg Palace

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Palais Toggenburg (entrance to the park)
Palais Toggenburg (southwest view)

The Palais Toggenburg (still called Palais Sarnthein after the previous owners in 1888 , house number Franziskanergasse 2) is one of the most stately houses in Bolzano with an extensive park. It is located at the beginning of Runkelsteiner Straße and has been a listed building since 1951. Was when the country by the French threat, met here in 1796, the Tyrolean Estates for Sacred Heart oath .

The house was originally the court of the Lords of Wangen . Later it first came into the possession of the Lords of Völs and then that of Selva . At the beginning of the 19th century it was acquired by the wealthy Menz family from Bolzano. Annette von Menz had the whole house redesigned in Empire style and built a large, two-story hall with a gallery. The most important municipal music salon of the 19th century was established here. The hall became a meeting point for domestic and foreign composers such as Johann Gänsbacher . The Menz'sche Bibliothek comprises an extensive collection of opera prints as well as receipts of accounts with orchestral musicians and vocal soloists who performed in the Palais Menz on Mustergasse . By inheritance on the count's family Sarnthein the Palais went to the originally from Graubünden, who came to Tyrol Counts of Toggenburg over. A memorial plaque created by Andreas Kompatscher was attached to the eastern outer wall on June 1, 1896 to commemorate the consecration of the State of Tyrol to the Sacred Heart . It says:

“In this house the Landscape Congress decided on June 1st, 1796, in a difficult time, the union of Tyrol with the divine Heart of Jesus, which brought our people their everlasting war glory and blessed years of peace. Erected on June 1, 1896 by Virginie Graefin v. Toggenburg born Countess v. Sarnthein. "

Cultural events take place regularly in the Palais Toggenburg.

Web links

Commons : Palais Toggenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report on the funeral of Georg von Toggenburg in the " Innsbrucker Nachrichten " dd March 15, 1888
  2. ^ Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol . Volume 2, 7th edition, Athesia / Tyrolia Bozen / Innsbruck 1991, p. 91
  3. ↑ Bolzano. Paths through theater, film and drama (PDF; 2.0 MB)
  4. ↑ TO Weigel: German count houses of the present . Volume 2, Leipzig 1853, p. 346 f.
  5. ^ South Tyrolean Provincial Archives, aristocratic, family and house archives: Toggenburg archive
  6. ↑ Josef Weingartner : The art monuments Bolzano . Österreichische Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna / Augsburg 1926, p. 177
  7. ^ Bruno Mahlknecht : The memorial plaque at Palais Toggenburg . In: Bozen through the centuries, Vol. 2. Bozen 2006, ISBN 88-6011-021-1 , pp. 164-145
  8. ↑ The European Youth Orchestra in the park of the Palais Toggenburg ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Palais Talks

Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 5.9 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 14.3 ″  E