Cavalese

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Cavalese
coat of arms
Cavalese (Italy)
Cavalese
Country Italy
region Trentino-South Tyrol
province Trento  (TN)
Coordinates 46 ° 17 '  N , 11 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 17 '26 "  N , 11 ° 27' 34"  E
height 1000  m slm
surface 45 km²
Residents 4,112 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 91 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 38033
prefix 0462
ISTAT number 022050
Popular name Cavalesani
Patron saint San Sebastiano
Website www.comunecavalese.it

Cavalese (German outdated Gablös ) is an Italian municipality ( comune ) with 4112 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the autonomous province of Trento (Trentino), about 20 km south of Bolzano and 30 km from Trento . It is the administrative center of the valley community Val di Fiemme ( Italian Comunità territorial della Val di Fiemme ).

In the center of Cavalese with the tower of the church of San Sebastiano

Administrative division

In addition to Cavalese, the municipality also includes the fraction : Masi and the hamlets and individual settlements : Milon, Chelò, Baldessalon, Schinza, Palua, Paluatti, Pozze, Coa, Micelette, Celten, Cavazzal with Lusana and Galina and Marco with the individual settlements Gretel and Predazzani.

history

In the 16th and 17th centuries, bishops and nobles from Trentino built their palaces in Cavalese. In 1810 the bishop's palace was raised to the administrative seat of the valley community of Fleims (Italian Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme ). The coat of arms was given to the community in 1588 by Cardinal Ludovico Madruzzo and consists of six white and red ribbons surmounted by a cross. Until 1919 Cavalese belonged to the ducal county of Tyrol and thus to Austria-Hungary . Cavalese was a garrison town of the Austro-Hungarian Army . In 1914, the Bohemian Feldjäger Battalion No. 12 was stationed here.

Attractions

San Sebastiano Church

San Sebastiano in Cavalese

As early as 1464 there was a small chapel in the same place as a votive church , which was built by the townspeople as a thank you for saving the population from a severe plague epidemic that had ravaged the region. Around 1870, about a century after the church had been expanded, the existing building was demolished and a new church rebuilt with a different orientation, leaving the bell tower built in 1805 based on a design by Antonio Longo and being incorporated into the new facade. The church with the bell tower, which also functions as a citizen tower, is, together with the bishop's palace, a symbol of the city's administrative autonomy. Since 1739 the small building at the foot of the tower has housed the statue of Johannes Nepomuk to protect the Cavalese from flooding.

Episcopal Palace

Former Episcopal Palace in Cavalese, now the administrative seat of the Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme

One of the predecessors of the later building complex dates from the 12th century. Probably towards the end of the 13th century, the palace was built at the behest of the bishops of Trento to offer their pastors a seat in the Val di Fiemme, but also to serve as a summer residence. After 1314, the palace became the permanent seat of the bishop's representative and during the course of the century it was used by the bishop prince as a summer residence. From the 15th century, the bishops subjected the building to multiple conversions. Ulrich von Frundsberg (Prince-Bishop 1488–1493) brought the building to its present size by combining the structures built in earlier periods into a single ensemble. Under Bernardo Clesio (1514–1539) and his successor Cristoforo Madruzzo (1539–1567), the building was significantly redesigned, especially between 1537 and 1540. A large audience hall was set up on the second floor, while new prison rooms were created on the ground floor. As a result, one of the most important Renaissance residences in the entire Trentino can be seen to this day . Since 1810 the building has been the administrative seat of the valley community of Fleims, which it bought in 1850. In the 20th century, the community carried out several restoration campaigns, around 1935 and 1938. Since the last restoration, which was completed in 2009, the second floor of the former bishop's palace has been used as an art museum. The offices of the Fleims valley community and its archive, which contains numerous parchments from the 13th to the 18th century, are now on the first floor.

Infrastructure

In Cavalese the Fiemme Valley Railway reached the valley floor again after overcoming the San Lugano saddle .

Sports

The Marcialonga cross-country skiing marathon , one of sixteen runs in the Worldloppet series, runs through Cavalese .

Serious accidents

The place got into the international headlines due to two serious accidents of the cable car leading to Monte Cermis :

On January 5, 2013, an accident occurred near Cavalese, in which eight Russian winter sports enthusiasts, who were traveling with a snowmobile with an attached sledge, got off the piste on the “Olimpia II” run on Monte Cermis. They fell down a slope about 100 meters deep. Six of them died and two survived seriously injured.

Personalities

Cavalese is the birthplace of:

See also

Web links

Commons : Cavalese  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ The German language islands in Northern Italy , Bernhard Wurzer, Athesia , 1977, p. 135.
  3. ↑ Municipal statute in Italian (PDF; 272 kB), accessed on November 9, 2018.
  4. ↑ Six Russians killed in a snowmobile accident in Italy. In: Spiegel Online . January 5, 2013, accessed January 6, 2013 .