Afing (Jenesien)

St. Nikolaus in Afing including the rectory

Afing ( Italian Avigna ) is a fraction of the municipality of Jenesien near Bozen in South Tyrol .

The hamlet is located on the southeastern roof of the Tschögglberg , a ridge of the Sarntal Alps that rises between the Etschtal and the Sarntal . The center of the village is at 870 m , while the numerous scattered courtyards in the districts of Hinterafing and Schwarzeck are at different altitudes.

Afing is first mentioned in the register of the Bozen notary Jakob Haas from 1242 with Goteschalcus de Auia .

The village center is located slightly above the late Gothic St. Nicholas Church, a two-aisled building with a three-sided choir and a side tower; the listed church was expanded in the 15th century and extended in 1912/14; it is attested as early as 1305 as "cappella sancti Nycolai ... in plebatu sancti Genesii in loco qui Auia appellatur", that is, as St. Nicholas' chapel in Afing in the parish of Jenesien.

Mair, Alpigoner, Dicker, Wieser, Platt and Weifner are among the older Afing farms.

Afing has been accessible since 1980 via an access road that branches off the main road from Bolzano to Jenesien. Previously, the place could only be reached via the route from Rafenstein and Jenesien.

Below Afings, above the Sarner Gorge , is the Afing castle ruin .

Individual evidence

↑ Hans von Voltelini , Franz Huter (edit.): The South Tyrolean notarial imbreviatures of the thirteenth century. Part 2 (Acta Tirolensia 4). Innsbruck: Wagner 1951, p. 5, No. 10.
^ Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol. Part 1: Renon, Sarntal, Tschöggelberg. Vienna-Augsburg 1929, p. 73. ( online )
^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . Volume 1. Bozen: Stadtgemeinde Bozen 2005. ISBN 88-901870-0-X , pp. 158–159, no. 202.
↑ Josef Tarneller : The court names in the Burggrafenamt and in the neighboring communities: Meraner area, Schnals, Passeier, Tschögglberg, Sarntal, Neuhaus court, Maienburg court, German area on the Nons, Ulten and Martell ( Archive for Austrian History 100). Vienna: Hölder 1909, pp. 354–360.

46.563519 11.35698Coordinates: 46 ° 34 ' N , 11 ° 21' E

[1] Hans von Voltelini , Franz Huter (edit.): The South Tyrolean notarial imbreviatures of the thirteenth century. Part 2 (Acta Tirolensia 4). Innsbruck: Wagner 1951, p. 5, No. 10.

[2] Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol. Part 1: Renon, Sarntal, Tschöggelberg. Vienna-Augsburg 1929, p. 73. ( online )

[3] Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . Volume 1. Bozen: Stadtgemeinde Bozen 2005. ISBN 88-901870-0-X , pp. 158–159, no. 202.

[4] Josef Tarneller : The court names in the Burggrafenamt and in the neighboring communities: Meraner area, Schnals, Passeier, Tschögglberg, Sarntal, Neuhaus court, Maienburg court, German area on the Nons, Ulten and Martell ( Archive for Austrian History 100). Vienna: Hölder 1909, pp. 354–360.