Folgaria

Folgaria
Country	Italy
region	Trentino-South Tyrol
province	Trento  (TN)
Coordinates	45 ° 55 ′  N , 11 ° 11 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  E
height	1169  m slm
surface	71 km²
Residents	3,161 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	45 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	38064
prefix	0464
ISTAT number	022087
Popular name	Folgaretani
Website	www.comune.folgaria.tn.it
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Folgaria ( Cimbrian Folgrait , German Vielgereuth ) is an Italian commune ( comune ) with 3,161 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Trento , region of Trentino-South Tyrol . It belongs to the valley community Magnifica Comunità degli Altipiani Cimbri .

geography

The Folgaria plateau is located at an altitude of 900–1000 above sea level on the southern slopes of Monte Cornetto and includes the area that extends from the wide valley furrow of the Rio Cavallo to the border of the province of Vicenza .

The neighboring municipalities are Caldonazzo , Altopiano della Vigolana , Besenello , Calliano , Lavarone , Lastebasse ( VI ), Rovereto , Terragnolo , Laghi ( VI ).

language

The first Cimbrian settlement in Folgaria dates back to the 12th century. It is assumed that the settlers came from the Thirteen Municipalities, or rather from the seven municipalities on the Sleghe / Asiago plateau, which are older in terms of settlement history . Folgaria was to the 20th century together with the neighboring municipality of Lavarone part of today only from the community Lusern existing Cimbrian language island in Trentino. Today the German dialect has been completely replaced as a mother tongue by the Italian language. Numerous field names and local names still reveal the Cimbrian history of the places.

Cimbrian was spoken in Folgaria and Lavarone until the beginning of the 20th century, but during the Fascist period (1922–1943) all Cimbrian traditions and the language in the public and private sectors were suppressed and forbidden as a result of the policy of Italianization by Mussolini and Ettore Tolomei . In the eastern fractions of Carbonare (German: Kohligen, Cimbrian: Khoulegen) and San Sebastiano di Folgaria (German: Sankt Sebastian, Cimbrian: San Sebastiå), located in the direction of Lavarone / Lafraun, there were still a few elderly people, the Slambròt, until the 1950s , a local variant of Cimbrian, spoke.

Web links

Commons : Folgaria  - 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. ↑ Bruno Schweizer : Cimbric overall grammar. Ed .: James R. Dow, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2008.