Tscherms

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Tscherms
(Italian: Cermes )
coat of arms
Coat of arms of Tscherms
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Tscherms in South Tyrol - Positionskarte.svg
State : Italy
Region : Trentino-South Tyrol
Province : Bolzano - South Tyrol
District community : Burgrave Office
Inhabitants :
(VZ 2011 / 31.12.2019) 		1.412 / 1.544
Language groups :
(according to 2011 census ) 		94.92% German
4.86% Italian
0.23% Ladin
Coordinates 46 ° 38 '  N , 11 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 38 '  N , 11 ° 9'  E
Altitude : 292  m slm
Surface: 6.6 km²
Permanent settlement area: 3.6 km²
Neighboring municipalities: Lana , Marling , Meran
Partnership with : Grassau , Oberhofen im Inntal
Postal code : 39010
Area code : 0473
ISTAT number: 021020
Tax number: 00356410217
Mayor  (2015): Roland Pernthaler ( SVP )

Tscherms ([ tʃɛrms ]; Italian Cermes ) is an Italian municipality with 1544 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in South Tyrol near Merano .

geography

View of Tscherms and the Adige Valley

The municipality of Tscherms is located in the Burggrafenamt on the orographic right side of the Etsch Valley on the southwestern edge of the Merano valley basin. The village center is located at 292  m above sea level at the foot of the slope to the east under the ridge of the Vigiljoch , which forms the northeasternmost foothills of the Ortler Alps in the Zufrittkamm . At the Vigiljoch, more precisely at the Larchbichl at 1837  m , the municipality finds its highest point. In the east it extends over the valley floor to the Adige .

politics

mayor

Mayor since 1952:

  • Alois Golser: 1952-1963
  • Karl Innerhofer: 1963–1990
  • Karl Huber: 1990-2010
  • Roland Pernthaler: since 2010

Community friendship

There is a community friendship with the Bavarian market town of Altomünster . In Tscherms, the Altomünster monastery used to have vineyards and estates and obtained mass and drinking wine from there until the early 17th century.

Attractions

Lebenberg Castle

Lebenberg Castle was built in the 13th century by the Lords of Marling and passed to the Lords of Fuchs in 1426. The three-storey castle chapel originally dates from the 14th century.

The renaissance mansion Kränzl (also: Kränzlhof), which is owned by the Count von Pfeil, is also significant . The house archive contains, among other things, wine bills that go back to the 16th century and document old trade relations in the Swabian region.

traffic

Tscherms was on the Lana – Meran local railway and was connected to Lana and Meran via this until 1950 .

Personalities

literature

  • Cermes community (ed.): Cermes: village book with contributions to local and local history . Tappeiner, Lana 1997, ISBN 88-7073-234-7 ( online )

Web links

Commons : Tscherms  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ^ Hannes Obermair : Kränzl-Pfeil family archive, Tscherms (South Tyrol). Inventory . Ed .: South Tyrolean Provincial Archives . Bolzano 2001 ( academia.edu [accessed June 20, 2019]).
  3. ^ Bishop Karl Golser. Diocese of Bozen-Brixen, accessed on December 1, 2010 .