Armory (Innsbruck)
The armory in Innsbruck was a weapons arsenal and is now a museum. It is located in the Dreiheiligen district and is one of the five houses of the Tyrolean state museums .
history
Maximilian I had the armory , located on the Sill and at that time at the gates of the city, built from 1500 to 1505. It consists of two 80 × 10 m, two-storey wing buildings and two narrow gate and connecting wings that enclose a large inner courtyard. War material was stored here and there were ancillary businesses around the armory. In addition to guns, many small arms were also stored.
In 1503 a brass works was built in Mühlau . Decisive for the choice of location was the location of the city as a traffic junction and the flourishing copper mining in Tyrol, which had created a flourishing arms industry around Innsbruck.
In 1503 the armory housed around 150 artillery pieces.
Until the end of the monarchy in 1918, the building was used as an "armory barracks". It was restored from 1964 to 1969 and opened in 1973 as the Tyrolean Regional History Museum. The revitalization of the complex, which was only used as a cable warehouse in the post-war years, was planned by Robert Schuller . In doing so, the basic structure was supplemented with new materials according to the then modern monument conservation guidelines, with a clear distinction from the historical substance. The wooden tram ceiling above the ground floor was rebuilt using a narrow exposed concrete rib ceiling. The historical facade was preserved by recessed concrete supports and the arches reopened with the windows divided according to the original iron grilles. The upper floor can therefore be used without any columns , preserved with the original collar beam roof structure from 1500.
In August 1985 the armory was inundated by the flood-leading Sill. The natural history collections stored in the cellar were badly affected. Some of it was completely destroyed, but large parts of it were painstakingly restored.
museum
Today the armory houses a branch of the Tyrolean State Museum. It offers a historical and technical collection on the cultural history of Tyrol from early to recent history.
Changing special exhibitions are offered. In summer, the arsenal courtyard is the setting for an open-air cinema and concerts.
literature
- Hartwig Neumann: The armory. The development of a building type from the late medieval armory to the arsenal in the German-speaking area from the XV. until XIX. Century. 2 vol . Koblenz 1990/91.
- Wolfgang Meighörner ; Claudia Sporer-Heis: The emperor's stuff. Maximilian's armory in Innsbruck. Tyrolia Innsbruck-Vienna 2019. ISBN 978-3-7022-3816-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Regina Öschlberger: Robert Schuller. Architect and university teacher in Tyrol (1929–1990). Dissertation, University of Innsbruck, 2012.
- ^ Hannes Kühtreiber: New life for the herbarium of the Tyrolean state museums . In: Neues Museum, Die Österreichische Museumzeitschrift, July 2008, pp. 19–24 ( PDF; 5.2 MB )
Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 14.7 " N , 11 ° 24 ′ 27" E