Blumau (South Tyrol)
| Blumau | |||
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| Italian name : Prato all'Isarco | |||
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| The parish church of Blumau | |||
| Country | Italy | ||
| region | Trentino-South Tyrol | ||
| province | South Tyrol (BZ) | ||
| local community | Karneid | ||
| 2. Parish | Fiè allo Sciliar | ||
| 3. Parish | Renon (municipality) | ||
| Coordinates | 46 ° 30 ' N , 11 ° 27' E | ||
| Demonym | Blumauer | ||
| patron | Anthony of Padua | ||
| Church day | June 13th | ||
| Telephone code | 0471 | CAP | 39053 39050 |
Blumau ( Italian Prato all'Isarco ) is a village in South Tyrol ( Italy ) about 8 km east of Bolzano . It is located in the lower, gorge-like section of the Eisack Valley . At Blumau, the Tierser Tal branches off from the Eisack valley to the south-east into the Dolomites . The small town center lies in the narrow valley floor at the confluence of the Tierser or Breibach in the Eisack .
The place name - the first time in 1381 as "Plumau" testified - has nothing to do with "Flower Au" but emerged from the Middle High German word flower or Plumme for wood raft, because there the felled timber for the Verflößung in the Po Valley has been compiled , and the suffix -au . The italianisierte name Prato all'Isarco , the retranslated meadow at Eisack means is thus also a typical example of the procedure when preparing the Prontuario by Ettore Tolomei .
Blumau also became known through a beer brewery owned by Josef Kräutner, which was one of the leading breweries in South Tyrol in the 19th and early 20th centuries and merged in 1924 with the brewery Vilpian of the Erwin and Oswald Schwarz brothers from Bozen to form the Blumau-Vilpian GmbH brewery . The site of the former brewery served the fascists from 1941 to 1943 as the Campo di concentramento di Prato Isarco internment camp , which mainly housed prisoners of war from the Allied forces .
Community membership
Blumau belongs to three communities, the borders of which are formed by the Eisack and the Tierser Bach. Most of the village, west of the Tierser Bach and south of the Eisack, belongs to Karneid . In the Karneider part are the schools, the train station, the post office, the only bank branch and most of the shops and restaurants.
All houses north of the Eisack belong to the municipality of Ritten . These include some of the town's larger businesses.
The area east of the Tierser Bach is part of the municipality of Völs am Schlern . There you will find, among other things, the parish church with the cemetery, an inn (Blumauer Hof), a butcher's shop, Loacker Remedia GmbH (partner of the German Homeopathy Union ) and a nursery.
schools
In Blumau there is a kindergarten and a primary school as well as the middle school for the pupils of the communities Tiers and Völs as well as the Karneider fractions Steinegg and Blumau.
mobility
Blumau is a traffic junction for public and private transport: the Brennerstaatsstraße runs right through the village. The roads to Steinegg , the Schlern area and the old road to Tiers branch off from here. Therefore, numerous bus lines stop in Blumau. However, a bypass of the state road is planned.
The Brenner motorway winds its way on high bridges through the narrow Eisack valley past Blumau; the Bozen Nord motorway exit is only a few kilometers southwest of Blumau in the municipality of Karneider.
The Brennerbahn also runs through Blumau. However, since 1999 no passenger trains have stopped at the station, designed by Wilhelm von Flattich in 1867 . The route through Blumau is a short, open stretch between two longer tunnels, the Schlern tunnel (13,307 meters) and the Kardaun tunnel (3,939 meters).
In Blumau there is an end point of the “ Augenreise ” cycle art path , which is a section of the Eisack Valley cycle route .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Egon Kühebacher : The place names of South Tyrol and their history. Volume 1. Bozen: Athesia 1991. ISBN 88-7014-634-0 , p. 55.
- ↑ See the statute of the Blumau-Vilpian Gesellschaft mbH brewery in Bozen . Bolzano: Tyrolia 1925.
- ^ Thomas Vikoler: The discovery of Blumau. In: New South Tyrolean daily newspaper . September 14, 2018, accessed July 5, 2019 . - According to this, the patriotic movement of the South Tyrolean Heimatbund had stylized the internment camp into a concentration camp in order to make political capital out of it.
- ↑ https://www.tageszeitung.it/2017/08/16/umführung-fuer-blumau/