Kiens

Kiens
(Italian: Chienes )
coat of arms	map
State :	Italy
Region :	Trentino-South Tyrol
Province :	Bolzano - South Tyrol
District community :	Val Pusteria
Inhabitants : (VZ 2011 / 31.12.2019)	2,696 / 2,927
Language groups : (according to 2011 census )	96.73% German 2.32% Italian 0.95% Ladin
Coordinates	46 ° 48 ′ N , 11 ° 50 ′ E Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ′ N , 11 ° 50 ′ E46.806666666667 11.836666666667 790
Altitude :	786– 1100 m slm (center: 790 m slm )
Surface:	33.84 km²
Permanent settlement area:	km²
Parliamentary groups :	Ehrenburg , Getzenberg , Hofern , St. Sigmund
Neighboring municipalities:	Terenten , Pfalzen , Rodeneck , St. Lorenzen , Mühlwald , Vintl
Partnership with :	Weiterstadt , Hesse
Postal code :	39030
Area code :	0474
ISTAT number:	021021
Tax number:
Mayor (2015):	Andreas Falkensteiner ( SVP )

Kiens ([ kiə̯ns ]; Italian : Chienes ) is an Italian municipality in the Puster Valley with 2927 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in South Tyrol .

geography

View from the south of Ehrenburg in the foreground and the main town of Kiens behind it

The municipality of Kiens is located in the lower Puster Valley near Bruneck in the northeast of South Tyrol and extends with its total area of 33.84 km² from the valley floor to the heights of the mountain ridges that accompany the valley. The largest village settlements are lined up near the valley floor of the east-west direction Pustertal between Vintl and St. Lorenzen . On alluvial north of Rienz the capital Kiens are (770- 860 m slm ) and slightly west of the Group St. Sigmund (760- 810 m ), opposite is of Kien and beyond the Rienz Ehrenburg (780- 830 m ).

In the north, the municipality extends with a narrow wedge on a sun-exposed mountain terrace between Pfalzen and Terenten up where the fraction Hofern (1110- 1120 m of) takes place, and on up to the summits of that ridge Zillertal Alps , the Pustertal from Mühlwalder valley separates and thus the municipal border with Mühlwald forms. Here, Kiens on Mutenock reaches its highest point at 2484 m . On the opposite shady side of the Pustertal, on the northern slopes of the Lüsner Mountains (a subgroup of the Dolomites ), the farms of the Getzenberg fraction are scattered. Behind it, the municipality continues to rise up to the heights of the Lüsner and Rodenecker Alm .

history

Kiens is first mentioned in the tradition book of the Hochstift Freising in a record from 1005-1039 as “locus Kiehna” . A nobleman named Aribo transferred Kiener goods to the cathedral chapter of Freising for the maintenance of the urban altar in the Freising cathedral church .

traffic

Ehrenburg station

The municipality of Kiens is crossed by the Pustertalstrasse and the Pustertalbahn (Ehrenburg station).

education

In the municipality there are three primary schools in the main town of Kiens, in Ehrenburg and in St. Sigmund, which together are connected to the German school district of the nearby town of Bruneck II .

Population development

year	population
2001	2,641
1991	2,476
1981	2,410
1971	2,198
1961	1,948
1951	1,750
1936	1,696
1931	1,594
1921	1,479

Source: Istat

Worth seeing

Schöneck Castle , the presumed birthplace of the minstrel Oswald von Wolkenstein
Gothic church in St. Sigmund with winged altar of the Danube School around 1440
Ehrenburg Palace in Ehrenburg (originally from the 12th century, ancestral seat of the Counts Künigl)
The pilgrimage church "Maria Himmelfahrt" in Ehrenburg, built at the end of the 14th century, around 1700 the interior was redesigned in Baroque style. In the crypt chapel there are three remarkable representations of the Madonna (including the "Mother of the Corn")
Issinger See
Gatscher Show Dairy

politics

Municipal Council (2015)

14th

1

14th 1

A total of 15 seats

South Tyrolean People's Party : 14
The Freedom : 1

Mayor since 1952:

Peter Gatterer: 1952–1969
Rudolf Wierer: 1969–1974
Bruno Falkensteiner: 1974–1990
Karl Pfeifhofer: 1990-2000
Reinhard Niederkofler: 2000–2015
Andreas Falkensteiner: since 2015

Sons and daughters

Luigi Perenni (1913–1943), Italian skier and officer
Anna Rogler-Kammerer (* 1943), Austrian artist
Paul Hildgartner (* 1952), Italian luge rider

literature

Agnes Erardi-Gasser: Home book of the municipality of Kiens . Bruneck 1988 (online)
Paul Tschurtschenthaler : On the history of the village Chienes in the Pustertal. In: Der Schlern 1926, pp. 342–349. (on-line)

Web links

Commons : Kiens - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry in the Tirol Atlas of the Institute for Geography at the University of Innsbruck
Kiens municipality
Landscape plan of the municipality of Chienes . Office for Landscape Ecology, Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol (PDF file)

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 153, no.182 .
^ School district Bruneck II. South Tyrolean Citizens' Network , accessed on October 25, 2014 .
↑ The mayors of the South Tyrolean municipalities since 1952. (PDF; 15 MB) In: Festschrift 50 Years of the South Tyrolean Association of Municipalities 1954–2004. Association of South Tyrolean municipalities, pp. 139–159 , accessed on November 16, 2015 .

[1] Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 153, no.182 .

[2] School district Bruneck II. South Tyrolean Citizens' Network , accessed on October 25, 2014 .

[3] The mayors of the South Tyrolean municipalities since 1952. (PDF; 15 MB) In: Festschrift 50 Years of the South Tyrolean Association of Municipalities 1954–2004. Association of South Tyrolean municipalities, pp. 139–159 , accessed on November 16, 2015 .