Aschbach (Lagundo)
Aschbach ( Italian Rio Lagundo ) is a village in South Tyrol and a fraction of the municipality of Algund .
geography
Aschbach is located on a terrace under the Vigiljoch at an altitude of around 1350 m on the densely wooded Nördersberg in the lower Vinschgau . The small village is accessible to motor traffic via a long, winding mountain road that leads up from the Töll . However, it can be reached more quickly via the Aschbach cable car, which runs in summer . The small village is part of the municipality of Lagundo , the center of which is located northeast in the Burggrafenamt and is spatially separated from Aschbach by the municipality of Partschins . This makes Aschbach an administrative curiosity, as it forms one of only two territorial exclaves of a municipality in South Tyrol in conjunction with the hamlet of Ried located below in the Vinschger valley floor (the other exclave belongs to Tramin in the Unterland ).
history
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The name Aschbach (probably in Old High German aspa = " ash " and -ach = collective suffix , thus about "Eschenwald") as well as the farm and field names preserved there are - unusual for the Vinschgau - all of German origin, which is why the village was founded is to be set at the earliest in the High Middle Ages . There are no historical sources about the circumstances of this foundation. It is possible that the emergence of Aschbach can be associated with the lively construction and expansion of settlements by the Counts of Tyrol in the 13th and 14th centuries. The reasons for belonging to the municipality of Lagundo are also puzzling, especially since the course of the demarcation gives the impression that Ried and Aschbach were once part of the municipality of Partschins. Franz-Heinz Hye suspected that Aschbach was acquired by Lagundo as a forestry area, since the Burggräfler forest areas of Lagundo yielded only few suitable wood resources. In addition, Aschbach Lagundo farmers demonstrably also served as a mountain pasture area , which strengthens the assumption that economic interests could be behind the territorial annexation. Possible political motives were also discussed. The diocese of Regensburg once had a dominant position in the transition area between the Vinschgau and the burgrave office and thus also in Partschins with extensive property and feudal rights. Possibly the separation of Aschbach and its affiliation to Algund could be the interest of the Counts of Tyrol in breaking this supremacy and consolidating their own rule.
The Maria Snow Chapel on a ledge just below the village was built around 1695. The neo-Gothic Herz-Jesu-Kirche in the middle of the small town center was built in 1889 and consecrated in 1890.
literature
- Maria Kiem: 1000 years of Algund. Athesia, 2008, pp. 135-137 (online) .
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Coordinates: 46 ° 38 ′ 35.7 " N , 11 ° 4 ′ 22" E