Peter Solderer
Peter Solderer (* 1690 in Bad Mitterndorf near Sankt Veit , Styria , Austria ; † February 22, 1741 in Timisoara , Temescher Banat , today Romania ) was Mayor of Timisoara (1721–1741).
Life
Peter Solderer was born in 1690 in the Austrian province of Styria . On December 17, 1717 he was naturalized in Timisoara. After the divorce from his second wife, he moved into the hostel Zum golden Rössl on today's V. Alecsandri Street , opposite the house at Zu den 3 Kronen .
mayor
Peter Solderer was elected mayor on August 13, 1721 and confirmed in office on February 5, 1722 . He held this position with short interruptions until the end of his life.
On December 24, 1731, he laid the foundation stone of the German Town Hall (today the Old Town Hall , Romanian Primaria Veche ), which was built according to the plans of the Italian architect Pietro del Bronzo and inaugurated on February 15, 1735. The town hall was built on the foundations of a Turkish bath that was destroyed in the Turkish war on the then parade square (today Piața Libertății ). After the completion of the mayor election, held for the first time in the new town hall on February 15, 1735, the office again fell to Peter Solderer.
During his tenure, the plague broke out throughout the Banat in 1738, brought in by an infantry battalion. In Timisoara alone there were around 2000 victims among the 5000 inhabitants. A famine accompanied the collapse of the infrastructure.
First apartment building in the city
Peter Solderer was the builder of the first tenement house in Timisoara. He bought the property on Prinz–Eugen–Str./Ecke Wiener – Str . and had a two-story tenement built at his own expense. Construction work began in 1739. Thanks to the apartments on the ground floor and on the two upper floors , an important housing problem in the city was solved. The tenants were mainly civil servants and traders . On the ground floor, the pub Zu den Drei Kronen , after which the house was named, moved in. In the corner on the ground floor it worked business of Armenian dealer, further a small loading of a Sephardic Jews . The mayor's office rented a vault in the house, which housed the goods that were confiscated from the market square.
Peter Solderer died on February 27, 1741 and was buried in the crypt of the Jesuit church in the city center (at today's St. Georgs Platz ).
See also
literature
- Anton Peter Petri : Biographical Lexicon of the Banater Deutschtums , Marquartstein, 1992, ISBN 3-922046-76-2
- Bela Schiff: Our "Old Temesvar". The first part , Timișoara 1937, 202 pp.
- N. Ilieșiu, Timișoara, monografie istorică , Timișoara, 1943
Web links
- Banat Culture , The Mayor Peter Solderer
- Historical timeline , HOG Birda
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Solderer, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mayor of Timisoara |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1690 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Mitterndorf , Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 1741 |
| Place of death | Timișoara |