Weighhaus (Bozen)

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The Bolzano weighing house from the southeast
Inscription of the KuK Hof jeweler A. Dinzl on the weighing house under the arbors with the double-headed eagle
The logo of the cultural center Waag (2020)
The still veiled Waaghaus in summer 2019 with its new logo

The Waaghaus at Kornplatz is the former city ​​scales of Bozen , the South Tyrolean capital.

The building is located between the southern arcades and the former central grain marketplace and until 1780 was the seat of the public front scale, where grain and liquids were measured or weighed according to the old market regulations . On a Schwibbogen , which connects the house with the next arbor, the scales are depicted in a fresco by Albert Stolz from the early 20th century. On the opposite side, under the arbors, there is a crucifixion fresco by Silvester Müller from the early 16th century. In terms of architectural history, it is essentially an originally Romanesque house complex from the 13th century, whose regularly leveled masonry on the eastern outer wall has been partially preserved. The gable-end building has an overhanging hipped roof . The central double-arched window on the facade is framed by painted corner pilasters from the 16th century. Next to it there are coats of arms ( Austria , Tyrol , Bozen), with the Austrian shield and the Tyrolean eagle being repeated.

With the lucrative office of grain supervision and the “fronwage zu Bozen” , the Counts of Tyrol ( Margrave Ludwig von Brandenburg ) enfeoffed the Cuen while Frizen sun at the Obern tor ze Bozen and the angel Hans des Cuenen sun from Bozen. From 1368 the Vintler family held the weighing office, from 1580 the Counts of Wolkenstein , who held it until 1633. In the Bozen market regulation of approx. 1450, any weighing of goods outside the “right sworn wag” is punishable forbidden. In a document from 1450, the Waaghaus ( to Botzen in dem Waghus ) functions as a public pawn shop for Augsburg actants.

On January 1, 1855, the first branch of the Südtiroler Sparkasse , called Bozner Sparkasse, opened in the Waaghaus . After extensive structural and energetic renovation, the Waag cultural meeting point has been housed in the building since 2020 . Since 2020, the Bolzano offices of the European Region Tyrol – South Tyrol – Trentino have also been located here .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Weingartner : The art monuments Bolzano . Vienna-Augsburg: Hölzel 1926, p. 145.
  2. ^ 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. 298, No. 579 .
  3. ^ Karl Theodor Hoeniger : A list of houses in the old town of Bozen from 1497 (=  Schlern-Schriften . Volume 92 ). Universitäts-Verlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1951, p. 26, no. 59 .
  4. ^ 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. 102, no.1031 .
  5. ↑ Hannes Obermair, Heinz Noflatscher, Evi Pechlaner: Archive Payrsberg (Oberpayrsberg). South Tyrolean Provincial Archives , March 1, 2014, p. 73, item 245 , accessed on July 21, 2020 .
  6. ↑ For the energetic renovation of the weighing house, see Exner, D .; Larcher, M .; Belleri, A .; Troi, A .; Haas, F .: The “Waaghaus” of Bolzano: Energy efficiency, hygrothermal risk and ventilation strategy evaluation for a heritage building. In: Conference Report: The 3rd International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings. Uppsala University, Department of Art History, 2019. ISBN 978-91-519-0838-0 , pp. 135-144.
  7. ↑ Euregio moves into new headquarters in the heart of Bolzano Press release of July 1, 2020, accessed on July 6, 2020.

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Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 57.9 ″  N , 11 ° 21 ′ 18.9 ″  E