Eyrs
Eyrs is a fraction of the municipality of Laas in South Tyrol . The village is located in Vinschgau on the orographic left , northern side of the Adige Valley at the foot of the Sonnenberg . It lies on the alluvial cone of the Tanaser Bach (formerly: Veldenbach or "Lebewohlgraben"), which flows into the Etsch below the village .
history
Formerly called "Ewrs" or "Eures", Eyrs was originally owned by the Hochstift Freising together with Kortsch and was administered by a provost . In 1238, Eyrs became sovereign property, but was still referred to as a provost for a long time.
For centuries, the small town was threatened by mudslides from the brook. Most of the Eyrser Hofstätten are said to have stood in the upper village around St. Bartlmä Church, while there are said to have been only seven houses along today's Moosburgstrasse. At the end of the 13th century, the upper village and the church were completely destroyed by a huge mudslide, whereupon the new village was built at the present location.
In the early 19th century, Eyrs was one of the most important stagecoach stations in Vinschgau, as can be seen from the dimensions of the former station building. The elevation to the kk stagecoach station took place on December 19, 1822. This also resulted in an economic upswing, which collapsed again due to the First World War and the subsequent period of fascist rule, so that Eyrs was later almost exclusively agricultural.
Before the start of the Second World War , Eyrs still had about 450 inhabitants. After the emigration through the option (not all returned in 1946) and the human losses due to the effects of the war, the population decreased to about 300 after the end of the war.
In 1950, Moosburgstrasse was replaced as the former main thoroughfare by state road 38, which runs between the village and the Adige. Due to the new commercial operations and the designation of a new residential building zone, the population of Eyrs has increased again since the late 1960s and amounted to around 800 people in 2015.
Numerous hiking trails surround the village. Not far are the Eyrser Auen biotope landscape , which is home to rare animals and plants. These were designated as a protected biotope landscape in 1976 and, together with the Tschenglser and Schludernser Auen, declared a Natura 2000 area in 2004 .
education
There is a primary school in Eyrs that belongs to the Lasa school district. In the school year 1812-13 there were 37 children attending school in Eyrs. Only one teacher was available for this. The school in Eyrs was under the Deanery of Schlanders. Classes were initially held in Widum, and from 1930 also in the old parish hall. This year the number of students was already 85, which is why they had to be divided into individual classes. From then on there were lower grades (1st and 2nd grades) and upper grades (3rd, 4th and 5th grades). There was also an Italian school class with an average of 10 students.
In 1973/74 the new school building in Tanaser Weg no.15 could be moved into. In the summer of 2010, a wooden extension had to be added as the building threatened to become too small due to the growing number of students. In the 2015/16 school year, Eyrs Primary School had five classes.
The village has a kindergarten that belongs to the Schlanders kindergarten district.
Church building
The Church of St. Remigius is a branch church of the parish of Laas. There is also the abandoned St. Josef Chapel on Moosburgstrasse .
Others
The weather office of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol maintains a weather station in Eyrs.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 38 ' N , 10 ° 39' E