Pfarrplatz (Bozen)
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 The Dompfarrkirche with the approach of the parish square |
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| place | Bolzano |
| District | Old town |
| Created | 13th Century |
| Hist. Names | Playground |
| Confluent streets | Eisackstrasse, Pfarrgasse |
| Buildings | Dompfarrkirche Bolzano , (former) St. Nicholas Church , rectory (Propstei), parsonage, Peter Mayr monument |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , motor traffic , events |
The Pfarrplatz ( Italian Piazza Parrocchia ) is located in the old town of the South Tyrolean capital Bozen . Located southwest of Waltherplatz , it encloses the Dompfarrkirche Bolzano to the west and south and widens like a square to the provost building and the parish hall. To the south of it is the cathedral square, which forms the inner courtyard of the diocesan and pastoral center of Bozen, built in 1997.
The historically significant square has always been a pivotal point in the early history of Bolzano . Up until the demolition in 1886, in the place of today's main post office, stood the spacious buildings of the former Heiliggeistspital , one of the central charitable institutions of the premodern Bolzano.
On the main part of the parish square to the south of the cathedral parish church, the foundation walls of the former St. Nicholas Church have been preserved, which - like the main church and the provost building itself - were badly hit by Allied air raids on the foothills of the Alps in 1943/44 and afterwards was completely demolished.
Adjacent to Eisackstrasse on Pfarrplatz is the monument dedicated to Peter Mayr , one of the protagonists of the Tyrolean uprising of 1809 and unveiled in 1900, which was designed based on a design by Georg von Hauberrisser and renewed in 2010 after the war damage was restored.
The museum of the Bolzano Cathedral Treasury is housed in the Propsteig building.
history
The historically significant square has always been a pivotal point in the early history of Bolzano . Up until its demolition in 1886, at the site of today's main post office, stood the spacious buildings of the former Heiliggeistspital , one of the central social and charitable institutions of the premodern Bolzano.
The older name of the square was "Spielhof", which was used to designate the Dingstätte - the public court of the Counts of Tyrol - which was attested here in the 13th century . In 1369 the location is expressly referred to as the via communis que der Spilhoff dicitur . The old centrality of the place was its proximity to the old Eisackbrücke conditions that served the trans-regional traffic to and from Bolzano and their legal relations in an already 1239 Weistum were regulated in detail. This required the dual function of today's parish square as a "peace area and communication center" and at the same time as a "natural reference point for the connecting paths that cross here" of the old Bolzano.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Theodor Hoeniger : Altbozner picture book. 100 illustrations and 40 essays on the city's history. 3. Edition. Bolzano: Ferrari-Auer 1968, p. 30.
- ^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 370, no.761 .
- ↑ Hannes Obermair: Church and city development. The parish church of Bozen in the High Middle Ages (11th – 13th centuries) . In: The Sciliar . 1995, p. 449–474, here: p. 458 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 50.1 ″ N , 11 ° 21 ′ 13.8 ″ E