Waltherplatz
| Waltherplatz Walther-von-der-Vogelweide-Platz |
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 View of Waltherplatz with the Walther monument |
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| place | Bolzano |
| District | Old town |
| Created | early 19th century |
| Hist. Names | Maximilianplatz, Johannsplatz |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , events |
The Walther Square ( Italian Piazza Walther ), announced Walther von der Vogelweide Square , located in the district center of the South Tyrolean provincial capital Bolzano . It owes its name to the poet Walther von der Vogelweide , to whom the Walther monument in the middle of the square, created by Heinrich Natter from Lasa marble , is dedicated. Waltherplatz is one of the most striking points and the social center of the city. Significant buildings in the immediate vicinity include the parish church of Maria Himmelfahrt as the southern boundary, the Palais Menz , the Palais Campofranco and the city hotel built by the brothers Alois and Gustav Ludwig in 1912/13 as well as the Hotel Greif on the east side; to the north, the old town of Bolzano connects with the Kornplatz and the arcades .
Waltherplatz serves as the venue for numerous events throughout the year. These include the Christkindlmarkt , the South Tyrol Jazz Festival and the BOclassic New Year's Eve run .
history
In the Middle Ages, Waltherplatz was on the outskirts of Bozen, south of the former city wall and old town area. On Matthäus Merian's view of the city from 1649, a vineyard is drawn in its place . In 1808, the Bavarian King Maximilian sold the winery to the city of Bozen, which initially named the square built on it Maximilianplatz , after the return of Tyrol to Austria as a result of the Vienna Congress Johannsplatz (after Archduke Johann of Austria ). After the Walther monument was erected there in 1889 as an expression of the “cultural-national options of the German liberal citizenship in the late Habsburg monarchy ”, the square was given its current name. A station of the Renon Railway has been located here since 1908 . Under fascism , the name was changed to Piazza Vittorio Emanuele in 1925 . In 1935 the Walther memorial, which was erected in the peripherally located Peter-Rosegger-Park, was removed. In 1945 the square was briefly renamed Marienplatz before Walther von der Vogelweide was named after it again. In the early 1980s, an underground car park was built below Waltherplatz (the first in Bolzano), which enabled the surface to be transformed into a pedestrian zone . In 1981 the Walther memorial returned to Waltherplatz.
literature
- Oswald Egger , Hermann Gummerer (ed.): Walther - poet and monument. Edition per procura, Vienna / Lana 1990.
- Gotthard Andergassen, Ettore Frangipane: 1808–2008: 200 years of Waltherplatz in Bolzano in pictures - 200 years of Piazza Walther a Bolzano in Immagini . Edition Raetia, Bozen 2008. ISBN 978-88-7283-330-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Heiss , Hannes Obermair : cultures of remembrance in conflict. The example of the city of Bozen / Bolzano 2000–2010 . In: Patrick Ostermann, Claudia Müller, Karl-Siegbert Rehberg (eds.): The border area as a place of remembrance. On the change to a post-national culture of remembrance in Europe (Histoire 34). Bielefeld: transcript 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2066-5 , pp. 63–79, reference p. 66.
- ^ Hannes Obermair: Walther's poet exile 80 years ago . In: City Archives Bozen (Ed.): The exhibit of the month of the City Archives Bozen . No. 46 , October 2015 ( online [PDF; accessed October 25, 2015]).
Web links
- Information about Waltherplatz on bolzano.net
Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 54.3 " N , 11 ° 21 ′ 16.7" E