Stefan-Zweig-Platz (Salzburg)

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Stefan-Zweig-Platz in Salzburg

The Stefan-Zweig Square , formerly Cornelius Reitsamer Square is a public square in the old town of Salzburg officially and since February 21, 2019 by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig named (1881-1942).

Location and building

View from the Franziskuspforte onto the square

The Stefan-Zweig-Platz is located in the right old town of Salzburg. It is the southern widening of Priesterhausgasse from Richard-Mayr-Gasse to Linzer Gasse and is therefore in the area designated as a pedestrian zone. The square takes up an area of ​​around 40 x 15 meters.

On the west side of the square is the historic Gablerbräu , which was first mentioned in 1429 and extends to Linzer Gasse.

On the south side of the square is the house Linzer Gasse 14 with the Franziskuspforte, where the stairs to the Capuchin monastery on the Kapuzinerberg begin. This path has been named the Stefan-Zweig-Weg since 1956 and has led from the monastery over the Kapuzinerberg to the Franziskischlössl since 1996 . During his stay in Salzburg from 1919 to 1934, Stefan Zweig lived in the Kapuzinerberg 5 house ( Paschinger Schlössl , now also known as the Stefan-Zweig-Villa ) at the lower part of this path .

history

Previously attached street name sign

Since 1955 the extended area of ​​the Priesterhausgasse was named after Cornelius Reitsamer (* 1857 in Villach , † 1930 in Salzburg) as Cornelius-Reitsamer-Platz . Reitsamer was goldsmith and also long-time commander of the local volunteer fire brigade and fire director of the city in Salzburg. In 1920 he had received honorary citizenship of Salzburg for his expansion of fire fighting in the city .

Demands for the naming of a public area in the city of Salzburg after Stefan Zweig had been brought to the city government several times, among others by Klemens Renoldner , the first director of the Stefan Zweig Center , and Marko Feingold , the president of the Salzburg Israelitische Kultusgemeinde. There was also a proposal to rename the central state bridge to the Stefan-Zweig-Brücke . These demands are also in the context of other demands for public memorial objects in Salzburg that are more closely or more closely related to the time of National Socialism , such as the one for a memorial to the Salzburg book burning in 1938 . Because Stefan Zweig was hostile in Salzburg as a Jewish fellow citizen, so that he ultimately felt compelled to leave the city on February 20, 1934.

Current additional board with an explanation of the eponymous person

On December 12, 2018, the Salzburg municipal council passed the resolution to rename Cornelius-Reitsamer-Platz, and on February 21, 2019, more or less exactly 85 years after Zweig's emigration, this took place with a ceremony at the square.

With the renaming of the square after the writer, Cornelius Reitsamer received his further memorial in Salzburg, as the previously unnamed passage through the Bruderhof from Linzer Gasse to Paris-Lodron-Strasse is now known as Cornelius-Reitsamer-Passage . Until 1999, a fire engine from the Salzburg volunteer fire brigade, in which Reitsamer had worked, was housed there under the name of the Bruderhof fire station .

Although there are numbered buildings on both Stefan-Zweig-Platz and Stefan-Zweig-Weg, they have not yet received a postal address with these names. The houses on Stefan-Zweig-Platz have unchanged house numbers on Priesterhausgasse and the buildings on Stefan-Zweig-Weg are numbered houses with the address Kapuzinerberg . The reason given is that the owner and neighbors refuse to rename.

Web links

Commons : Stefan-Zweig-Platz, Salzburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Measurement on the official geographic information system of the State of Salzburg (SAGIS).
  2. ^ A b Franz Martin : Salzburg street names. List of streets, alleys, squares, paths, bridges, gates and parks with an explanation of their names. 5th, substantially revised edition by Willa Leitner-Martin and Andreas Martin. Announcements of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , 25th supplement, self-published by the Society, Salzburg 2006.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Kriechbaum: Everyone where they belong. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ ORF Salzburg: Stefan-Zweig-Platz fixed in Salzburg's old town. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Salzburger Nachrichten: Stadtpolitik renames the square after Stefan Zweig. November 28, 2018, accessed June 6, 2019 .
  6. ^ City of Salzburg: Renaming of Cornelius-Reitsamer-Platz to Stefan-Zweig-Platz. February 21, 2019, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  7. ^ City of Salzburg: naming Stefan-Zweig-Platz. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  8. ↑ See Salzburg Geographical Information System (SAGIS).

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 13 ° 2 ′ 44.4 ″  E