Sand host
The Sandwirt , actually meant in the entirety of the property, but often synonymous with the Sandhof , is an inn near St. Leonhard in the Passeier Valley in South Tyrol . It is the birthplace of Andreas Hofer , who was born here on November 22nd, 1767. The building has been a listed building since 1982 . The Sandwirt is the heart of the MuseumPasseier .
Location and naming
The inn is located about 1.5 kilometers south of St. Leonhard on Strada Statale 44 in the direction of St. Martin in Passeier . This location was important in earlier times, as the Passeier Valley was the connection between Merano and the further course of the long-distance trade routes over the Timmelsjoch into the Ötztal and over the Jaufenpass to Sterzing , from where the Brennerpass can be reached.
It owes its name to its location in the immediate vicinity of the Passer river that flows past . The river was not regulated until the 1840s; in the previous centuries, it dumped sand and debris at this point during floods or snowmelt.
history
The farm has been known here since the Middle Ages, originally it was owned by the Lords of Passeier. Ownership changed several times between aristocratic and peasant families, it came to the Hofer family in 1680. Originally, a mill was part of the building stock.
He belonged to the group of so-called closed courtyards . The area, as it was entered in the land register, could not be divided by inheritance, sale, etc., it always remained the same area. The background was that they wanted to ensure that at least the family living in the yard with the fields, the meadows and pastures and the forest was guaranteed to survive. A source is also available to this day.
Today's pub sign is still the original from 1698; an ancestor of Andreas Hofer, Caspar Hofer, donated it. He had returned safely from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land .
The aforementioned location of the farm meant that Andreas Hofer, who himself was the landlord of the Sandhof , i.e. Sandwirt, was well informed about the situation in Tyrol and beyond at all times . In no other place did so much information come together in the shortest possible time as in the inns, precisely because of the connecting routes through the valleys. Therefore he knew exactly when the right time was for the Tyrolean people's uprising, which was agreed with Austria . After the House of Habsburg finally dropped him, he stayed near the inn with his family for a short time before he was betrayed and executed in Mantua .
After the execution, his widow and son could return to the Sandwirt, but the farm was doomed. One of his great-grandchildren tried to sell him, but his demands were probably excessive. It was not until 1890 that the Tyrolean nobility register , today the register foundation of Tyrol , which owns the buildings to this day, acquired the buildings in return for an annuity for the seller and his family. Since the farm still did not work economically in the next decades, it was decided to fundamentally separate the profitable restaurant from the other activities and properties.
Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria visited the Sandwirt on September 21, 1899, a memorial plaque provides information about this.
In the period that followed, the buildings were partially rebuilt and supplemented.
Todays situation
Inn building and exhibitions
Today the Sandwirt consists of the inn itself, which is adjoined by a modern building with a museum that was newly established in 2009. This explains in a modern staging how the Tyrolean uprising against the rule of Bavaria and the French came about in 1809 and how Andreas Hofer later became a Tyrolean national hero, despite the failed uprising. This permanent exhibition with the title "Helden & Hofer" will be supplemented by a new exhibition in summer 2013. "Heroes & We" will be about today's hero images and their influence on society. In the tavern there is an Andreas Hofer parlor next to the guest room on the ground floor.
More buildings
An open-air museum has also been set up on the site. For this purpose, a heap yard typical of the Passeier Valley was built, consisting of original buildings from the 16th to the 19th century. A little to the north of the museum are two chapels, a Holy Sepulcher Chapel from 1698 and the Hofer Memorial Chapel , a jubilee chapel, started in 1883. It was the consecration of this chapel that Emperor Franz Joseph traveled to in 1899. The valuable target rifle that was presented to him disappeared from the Vienna Hofburg at the end of the Second World War and only came to light many years later at an auction in the USA. The rifle can now be seen in the museum with other objects.
The museum is open every day except Monday from Easter to November.
Further occurrences of the name
- Sandwirt's twenty, a 20-Kreuzer piece minted during the Tyrolean struggle for freedom
Web links
- MuseumPasseier
- Entry on the Sandhof in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
Individual evidence
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↑ Hofer Memorial Chapel, museum.passeier.it;
Andreas Hofer Monument Church, say.at - ^ Rohrer: Helden & Hofer , p. 99.
literature
- Manfred Schwarz: The Sandhof in the Passeier Valley. From the farm and inn to the “place of pilgrimage” and the memorial . In: Brigitte Mazohl, Bernhard Mertelseder (Ed.): Farewell to the fight for freedom? Tyrol and, 1809 'between political reality and transfiguration , (Schlern-Schriften 346). Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, pp. 435–459.
- Josef Rohrer: Heroes & Hofer. When Andreas Hofer came to the museum. The book accompanying the exhibition at MuseumPasseier , 2009, ISBN 978-88-89474-10-5
- Walter Pippke, Ida Pallhuber: South Tyrol - encounters of northern and southern art tradition in the landscape between Brenner and Salurner Klause , DuMont art travel guide, 4th edition, DuMont book publisher, Cologne 1984 ISBN 3-7701-1188-5
- Hermann Frass, Franz Riedl: Historic restaurants in South Tyrol , Bozen 1978
- Egon Eyrl: The Sandhof in Passeier in: Der Schlern , monthly magazine for South Tyrolean regional studies; Geography of the Passeier Valley, 48th year 1974, pp. 433–436.
Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ 5.3 " N , 11 ° 14 ′ 19.7" E