Überetsch

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A hilly landscape in South Tyrol on the orographically right , western side of the Adige Valley is called Überetsch ( Italian Oltradige ) . This is located in the south-west of Bolzano , at the foot of the Mendelkamm, for the most part at a height of around 250–600 m. In the west, the area is dominated by the Gantkofel ( 1866  m slm ) and the Penegal ( 1737  m ), the Mendelpass ( 1363  m ) provides a transition into the Val di Non . To the east, the Überetsch is separated from the Unterland or the valley floor of the Etsch by the Mitterberg .

The Überetsch includes the communities Eppan and Kaltern and is the most important wine-growing region in South Tyrol . Together with the Unterland, the Überetsch forms the district community of Überetsch-Unterland .

For the whole of Überetsch there is a joint municipal newspaper (weekly newspaper), the Raiffeisenkasse Überetsch and a section of the White Cross rescue service .

Between 1898 and 1974 the Überetscher Bahn connected the area with Bolzano .

In the so-called Überetscher architectural style , stately, manor-like country houses were built between 1550 and 1650 . A large central hall around which various smaller rooms are grouped is typical. The hall is provided with arched windows. Often there are bay windows or a loggia . Sophisticated wood paneling decorate and isolate the rooms. Northern and southern elements are combined in the Überetscher style.

In the Überetsch, on the border between Appiano and Kaltern, at the foot of the Gandberg, there is a landslide area that was probably formed towards the end of the last Ice Age. The rock debris made of rhyolite cover an area of ​​a good 1 km², have a total volume of approx. 10 million m³ and are partly overgrown with forest. The Eppan ice holes are located on this site . The name " in der Gand " (scree slope, dialect "Gont"), which was documented as early as 1491 , was later transferred to the settlement that had arisen in the area and also gave rise to legends .

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Panoramic view from Boymont Castle in a south-easterly direction of the Upper Etsch area around Appiano - on the left the Adige Valley with Bozen in the background

literature

  • Magdalena Hörmann (Ed.): Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume 10: Überetsch and South Tyrolean Unterland. Bozen-Innsbruck: Athesia-Tyrolia 2011, ISBN 978-88-8266-780-1 .
  • Günther Kaufmann (Ed.): Archeology in the Überetsch - Archeologia dell'Oltradige. (= Writings of the South Tyrolean Archaeological Museum 5). Innsbruck: Wagner 2015, ISBN 978-3-7030-0895-5 .
  • Gunther Langes : Überetsch and Bozner Unterland: Landscape and life in the lower Adige Valley (= South Tyrolean regional studies . Volume 3). 5th edition, Athesia, Bozen 1991, ISBN 88-7014-215-9 .
  • Helmut Stampfer (Ed.): Farms in South Tyrol. Volume 5: Bozner Weinleiten, Überetsch and Etschtal . Athesia, Bozen 2004, ISBN 88-8266-229-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500. Volume 2. Bozen: City of Bozen 2008. ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 212 no. 1275.
  2. ↑ Website Sagen.at: “The Buried City in the Gand” , accessed on December 26, 2014

Coordinates: 46 ° 26 '  N , 11 ° 15'  E