Raingasse (Bolzano)
The Raingasse ( Italian Via della Rena ) is a street in the old town area of the South Tyrolean capital Bozen . It connects the east end of Waltherplatz , where it begins south of the historic Hotel Greif, with Friedl-Volgger- Platz, branches off there to Weintraubengasse and Laurinstraße and continues on Gerbergasse .
The Raingasse corresponds to the old southern end of the medieval city center of Bolzano , which also sloped down towards the lowlands of the Eisack , which can still be seen today on the east-west slope of the street. The Rain was originally the raised edge of the terrain that was not considered to be flood-prone.
The name of the old road connection is documented as early as 1291 as " ame Rayne " (on the Rain). In the 14th and 15th centuries, the connection built on the northern edge was known as am Rain, Rayn or Raine zu Boczen . In the district court order of Gries-Bozen from 1487, Jacob Pfeffer is named as the captain responsible for the Rain .
At the north east end of the Raingasse was the late medieval Niederhaus residence, the seat of the Lords of Niederhaus, a ministerial family from the political environment of the noble free von Wangen , who originally came from the Sarntal and was attested since 1203/04 . In 1337, Duke Heinrich of Carinthia gave them the house in the same Niderhauser gazzen ze Poczen gehaizzen on the Raine as a princely fiefdom . The manor house, known as Niederhaus from this time on, had to give way in 1898 to the new building of the Grand Hotel Bristol, which housed the official German immigration and return office (ADERSt) between 1939 and 1943, which dealt with the resettlement of the Optanten from South Tyrol. The hotel building was demolished in 1961 for the construction of a commercial and residential building.
From 1868 to 1918, Raingasse 15 (the former Rieglheim residence, privy to Adam Atzwanger in 1633) was home to the Bolzano district administration , which after its dissolution as a result of the annexation of South Tyrol by Italy in 1919/20 became the seat of a state police station.
In 2005, the Raingasse was supplemented by a roofed pedestrian passage to the north, the Greifpassage , which compensates for the difference in level between Waltherplatz and Volggerplatz with a staircase or escalator.
Raingasse is part of Bolzano's pedestrian zone .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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. 116, no.91 .
- ^ Hannes Obermair: Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 293 .
- ^ Hannes Obermair: Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 191, no.1230 .
- ↑ Martin Bitschnau : Castle and Adel in Tyrol between 1050 and 1300: Fundamentals for their research (= session reports of the phil.-hist. Class . Volume 403 ). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1983, p. 388-389, No. 446 .
- ^ Otto Stolz : The expansion of Germanness in South Tyrol in the light of the documents. Volume 3, part 2. Munich-Berlin 1932, p. 36, no. 17.
- ^ Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol. Volume 2: Bozen and surroundings, Unterland, Burggrafenamt, Vinschgau. 7th edition, edit. by Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner. Bozen-Innsbruck-Vienna: Athesia-Tyrolia 1991. ISBN 88-7014-642-1 , p. 92.
- ^ Fritz Steinegger: 100 years of district authorities in Tyrol. Edited by the Tyrolean provincial government. Innsbruck 1972, pp. 219–221 (with a list of district captains).
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Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 53.3 " N , 11 ° 21 ′ 22.1" E