Sparkassenstrasse (Bozen)

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Sparkassenstrasse in Bolzano
Sparkassenstrasse, northwest - Munich style houses

The Sparkassenstrasse ( Italian Via Cassa di Risparmio ) is a 400-meter-long street running parallel to the Talfer in the west of the old town of Bozen with largely preserved historical buildings.

history

Due to the population increase towards the end of the 19th century, a lack of living space became noticeable in Bozen. In order to remedy this and to revive the construction industry, Bozner Sparkasse bought the Hurlach residence in the west of the city and built a 400-meter-long and 15-meter-wide connecting road between Spitalgasse and Wangergasse between 1891 and 1897. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the government of Emperor Franz Joseph on December 2, 1898, the new street was donated to the city of Bolzano. The section north of Museumstrasse was named after the Sparkasse, the section south of it was named after Empress Elisabeth, who was murdered a few months earlier . After the annexation of South Tyrol to Italy, the name Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Strasse was removed on October 25, 1921. Since then, the southern part has also been called Sparkassenstrasse.

traffic

Until 1948 the tram , coming from Waltherplatz , drove on the section from the Aufschnaiterschule to the city ​​museum , where it turned left to the Talferbrücke to continue to Gries . City buses have been running on the same route since then . From south to north, Sparkassenstrasse is a one-way street .

Development

Sparkasse and City Museum in their original condition, picture postcard from around 1920

Sparkassenstrasse is lined on both sides by mostly renovated historicist residential buildings with four or five floors. The citizens of Bolzano, who bought the building site from the Sparkasse for 8 guilders per square meter, developed a brisk building activity along the street . The houses No. 6 and No. 8 on the west side were built in 1905 in the Nuremberg late Gothic style. Central and side risers , square and triangular bay windows, corner turrets and window frames characterize the facades. The houses No. 3, No. 5 and No. 7 on the east side are in the neo-baroque style and are reminiscent of the Viennese Ringstrasse architecture . Houses no.13 and no.15 were built by the entrepreneur Albert Canal, house no.18 was designed by Julius Mayreder from Vienna in 1900.

Michaelsburg

Johann Bittner designed the neo-Romanesque Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Rauschertorgasse (1897–1899) and in 1900/01 the Michaelsburg, the monastery of the Eucharist in Sparkassenstrasse 1. This building pointed the way for the further structural development of the city should, and introduced the so-called Überetscher style in Bolzano . At the Michaelsburg, coupled arched windows , a large archway and irregularly distributed windows on the facade, some with grating, are combined. The Michaelsburg is used today as the seat of the Caritas of the Diocese of Bozen-Brixen .

Savings bank

The savings bank had kept a large piece of land on the street for itself. The new headquarters of the bank were then built in the years 1904–1907 in Bavarian neo-baroque style based on plans by Wilhelm Kürschner . Since the building had an all too German character for the fascists , it was rebuilt in 1938 in a southern style with a flat roof and brick and marble cladding. For the same reason, the interior of the building was falsified so that it is difficult to see the original building elements today.

city ​​Museum

Bolzano City Museum 2012

The museum building, erected in the Überetsch style between 1901 and 1905, is directly opposite the Sparkasse building. The plans for it come from the academic painter Alois Delug , the construction management was in charge of the city architect, Wilhelm Kürschner. The interior was designed according to plans by the academic painter and later museum director Tony Grubhofer. In the years 1934–1938, the fascist city government had the city ​​museum rebuilt and all German stylistic elements, especially the tower and battlements, removed. The museum tower was rebuilt in 1992/93. It is the only publicly accessible tower in the center of Bolzano.

Austro-Hungarian Bank

South Tyrol Museum of Archeology 2012

In 1912–1913, a branch of the Austro-Hungarian Bank was built on the corner of Museumstrasse . In 1919 it became the property of the Italian central bank , which operated a branch there until 1988. Since 1998 the building has housed the South Tyrolean Archaeological Museum . The museum is where Ötzi exhibited .

Empress Elisabeth School

Dante Alighieri School 2012, formerly Empress Elisabeth School

The neo-Romanesque Elisabethschule (the full name was: Knaben-Volks und Bürgereschule Kaiserin Elisabeth ) in Sparkassenstrasse 24 is Gustav Nolte's main work and one of the most important buildings of the Perathoner era . With this "bourgeois total work of art", the national liberal city tour wanted to set a monument for itself . Inside, the school was extremely well equipped, thanks to the generosity of the individual artists, some of whom carried out the work for free. Albert Stolz made portraits of the classes and professions on the wooden ceilings of the changing hall on the third floor . During the march on Bozen on 1st / 2nd In October 1922 the school was attacked by fascist hordes who refused entry to German students and teachers and wanted to force it to be converted into an Italian elementary school. In 1923, school instruction in German was abolished , and in 1927 the school name was changed to Regina Elena (after the Italian Queen Elena of Montenegro ). Since then, the building has housed a primary school with Italian as the language of instruction. Since 1946 it has been called the Dante Alighieri School .

Free University of Bozen

The Rectorate of the Free University of Bolzano at the southeast end of Sparkassenstraße 2012

At the southeast end of Sparkassenstrasse, Franz-Innerhofer -Platz, there are buildings of the Free University of Bozen, founded in 1997 .

Stumbling blocks

The stumbling blocks for the Carpi family

In 2015, five stumbling blocks were laid in the middle section of Sparkassenstrasse (in front of house number 16) , reminding of the fate of the Holocaust victims of the Carpi family of five from Bolzano.

literature

  • Norbert Mumelter: Bolzano history on the roadside . Athesia, Bolzano 1990
  • Irene Raifer: The creation of the Sparkassenstrasse in Bozen . Diploma thesis, Innsbruck 2005
  • Bruno Mahlknecht : Bozen through the centuries . tape 1 . Athesia Spectrum, Bozen 2005, ISBN 978-88-6011-020-6 , Die Bozner Sparkasse, p. 133-140 .
  • Renate Brenn-Rammlmair: City architect Gustav Nolte. The Heimatstil in Bozen 1908–1924 . Athesia, Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-88-8266-361-2
  • For the bank and for the city. 100 years of the Südtiroler Sparkasse in Bozner Sparkassenstrasse (1907–2007) . Südtiroler Sparkasse AG, Bolzano 2007.
  • Waltraud Kofler-Engl : Monument with changing biography. The savings bank building in Bolzano . In: Hannes Obermair et al. (Ed.): Regional civil society in motion - Cittadini innanzi tutto . Folio: Vienna-Bozen 2012. ISBN 978-3852566184 , pp. 541-563.

Web links

Commons : Sparkassenstraße (Bozen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Raifer: The development of the Sparkassenstrasse in Bozen . Diploma thesis, Innsbruck 2005, p. 53f.
  2. ^ Norbert Mumelter: Bolzano history on the roadside. Athesia, Bozen 1990, p. 74
  3. ↑ Renate burning Rammlmair: city architect Gustav Nolte. The Heimatstil in Bozen 1908–1924 , Athesia, Bozen 2007, p. 13
  4. ↑ For the bank and for the city. 100 years of the Südtiroler Sparkasse in Bozner Sparkassenstrasse (1907–2007). Südtiroler Sparkasse AG, Bozen 2007, p. 29
  5. ↑ For the bank and for the city. 100 years of the Südtiroler Sparkasse in Bozner Sparkassenstrasse (1907–2007). Südtiroler Sparkasse AG, Bozen 2007, p. 87
  6. ↑ For the bank and for the city. 100 years of the Südtiroler Sparkasse in Bozner Sparkassenstrasse (1907–2007). Südtiroler Sparkasse AG, Bozen 2007, p. 67
  7. ↑ Irene Raifer: The development of the Sparkassenstrasse in Bozen . Diploma thesis, Innsbruck 2005, p. 72
  8. ↑ Bruno Mahlknecht: From the history of the Bolzano City Museum , in: Südtiroler Hauskalender 2009, p. 115
  9. ↑ Irene Raifer: The development of the Sparkassenstrasse in Bozen . Diploma thesis, Innsbruck 2005, p. 87
  10. ↑ Renate burning Rammlmair: city architect Gustav Nolte. The Heimatstil in Bozen 1908–1924 . Athesia, Bozen 2007, pp. 39-70
  11. ^ Norbert Mumelter: Bolzano history on the roadside . Athesia, Bozen 1990, p. 75
  12. ↑ Sabine Mayr, Hannes Obermair: Speaking about the Holocaust. The Jewish victims in Bolzano - a preliminary assessment . In: The Sciliar . Monthly magazine for South Tyrolean regional studies. No. 88 , 2014, ISSN  0036-6145 , issue 3, p. 4–36, here: p. 23 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 58 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 57 ″  E