Salzburg Old Town Conservation Act
The old town area of the city of Salzburg in its unique and characteristic shape is protected by the Old Town Conservation Act. In addition to the medieval old town , the area built up in the early days and at the beginning of the 20th century is historically significant and worthy of preservation . Today the law is also the national legal instrument of the protection goals of the UNESCO World Heritage Historic Center of the City of Salzburg .
Legal Regulations
The Salzburg Old Town Conservation Act has been regulating the construction of the old town of Salzburg since 1967. There were amendments to the law in 1980 (inclusion of the inside of the building and the open spaces) and 1995 (expansion of the protected area to include Wilhelminian style areas). The Salzburg Old Town Preservation Act was the first law of its kind in Austria and had an exemplary effect on Vienna (Old Town Preservation Amendment to the Building Regulations), Graz (Old Town Preservation Act) and the states of Salzburg , Tyrol , Styria , Carinthia and Upper Austria with site protection laws.
To enforce these goals, the law contains special building law provisions for the maintenance of buildings that are important for the characteristic character of the cityscape or the urban fabric, as well as provisions for the design of other buildings and open spaces.
Municipal Department 5, Spatial Planning and Building Authority, of the City of Salzburg is responsible for enforcing the law. The authorities include an expert opinion from the expert commission before the official execution (notification, ordinance). Consultations shorten procedures and solve problems amicably as possible.
The area of protection zones I and II covers about 330 hectares. Of the 1400 buildings there, around 1000 are classified as characteristic .
The Expert Commission
The Expert Commission was set up at the Office of the State Government as an independent expert body. It is made up of experts in architecture, the building trade, the cityscape and art history. The five main members and the substitute members are appointed for five years: two experts each are appointed by the city of Salzburg and the state government and one member by the Federal Monuments Office. An average of 300–400 reviews are carried out each year. The necessary advisory work, including inquiries, requires 45 meetings a year with a total of 900–1000 items on the agenda. The assessment extends to all questions relating to the historically valuable building fabric and the questions relevant to the cityscape and urban structure. Only minor measures (plug-in signs, advertising measures, awnings) are excluded.
In 1983 the work of the commission received international recognition when it was awarded the European Prize for Monument Preservation .
The expert commission and design advisory board of the city of Salzburg , which has been responsible for major projects outside the protection zone since 1983 and oversees many of Salzburg's current prominent building projects, are repeatedly in conflict, and a merger of the two institutions has also been discussed repeatedly. The communication between the municipal institutions and the World Heritage Committee responsible for the UNESCO World Heritage and ICOMOS , and the Federal Monuments Office is also repeatedly assessed as less than satisfactory.
The Old Town Conservation Fund
The Old Town Conservation Fund has the task of promoting the preservation and maintenance of the shape, structure and fabric of the protected area and of preserving and developing the diverse urban functions in the city's living space. It has its own legal personality and is based in the city of Salzburg.
The fund is mainly fed by grants from the state and city of Salzburg. Funding is granted on the basis of a legal claim or as free funding. In the case of characteristic buildings, funding based on legal entitlement includes, for example, those additional costs that go beyond the proper maintenance of the building.
The City of Salzburg's Magistrate, Old Town Secretariat, is responsible for building law and questions about the Old Town Maintenance Fund.
Questions about the design of the historical building fabric or its compliance with the Old Town Conservation Act can be answered by the Old Town Preservation Department - Office of the Expert Commission at the Office of the Salzburg State Government, Chiemseegasse 6.
Literature and Sources
- Kurt Straub: Development and aspects of the Salzburg Old Town Conservation Act. In: Bastei - magazine of the Salzburg City Association for the preservation and care of buildings, culture and society. Volume 49, Volume 3, Salzburg 2000, pp. 3ff.
Web links
- Preservation of the old town in Salzburg , salzburg.gv.at
- The expert commission for the preservation of the old town in Salzburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Expert Commission for the Preservation of the Old Town in Salzburg ( Memento of the original dated February 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , salzburg.gv.at
- ↑ Design Advisory Board ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , stadt-salzburg.at
- ↑ Unrecognized quality of a lap dog - Salzburg primarily has an image problem. Behind the scenes there is a small, thriving architectural scene . In: derStandard .at. April 30, 2008
- ^ Norbert Mayr: City stage and head of the valley. Building culture in the city and state of Salzburg. Otto Müller Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-7013-1117-X , chapter Expert Commission versus Design Advisory Board - 1995/2006 , pp. 104–116.
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↑ about: Outdated guidelines? Fierce discussion about old town protection , sbg.orf.at, November 9, 2005;
Claudia Schmidt: Dissolution of the Altadtkommission completely wrong signal! ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ÖVPsbg, January 30, 2009 -
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Claudia Lagler: World Heritage: Trouble about Salzburg. The organization Icomos, which watches over the world cultural heritage, is alienated by Salzburg's approach: They are not involved in current construction projects. In: Die Presse online, October 21, 2012.
Claudia Lagler: “Unesco angry about Salzburg”. The outgoing state curator Ronald Gobiet criticizes the lack of commitment in Salzburg. In: Die Presse online, December 2, 2012.
