Gand (Eppan)

The Gand ( Italian Ganda ) is a village settlement and a fraction of the South Tyrolean municipality Eppan in the Überetsch region . The settlement area is located south of the main town of St. Michael on the border with the neighboring municipality of Kaltern at heights between 405 and 520 m . Although an early human use from the immediate vicinity of the Gand is known archaeologically and in documents, today's settlement was not built until after the Second World War and has no historical buildings.

history

The Gand is a large landslide area under the Gandberg, where the Eppan ice holes are also located. A legend tells of a large city that is said to have existed here once and was buried by the rock masses due to the blasphemous behavior of the inhabitants. The area name is documented in 1491 as "in der Gand" .

Early human settlement traces have been archaeologically excavated in the immediate vicinity of the Gand . In 1927 and in subsequent years was found on the Gandgütern near St. Michael stone box graves with offerings whose age v to the period around the 2200th Was estimated. An early mention of the area dates back to 1237 in connection with the church of St. Georg in der Gand , the remains of which are today in Oberplanitzing in the municipality of Kaltern.

The settlement that exists today goes back to the second half of the 20th century. The first houses were built in the Lower Gand area in the 1950s . Was known back then as the village shards quarter , as also an open garbage landfill was that until the end of the 80's was closed. After the building sites of the Lower Gand were exhausted, a new residential area was built from the 1970s above Andreas-Hofer-Strasse in the Upper Gand .

Today the Gand is a pure residential area with almost no service providers. In 2016, the settlement, which now has 2,100 inhabitants, was raised to a separate fraction of the municipality of Eppan.

literature

Eduard Widmoser: South Tyrol A – Z. Volume 2: G – Ko . Innsbruck / Munich 1983

Individual evidence

^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 212, No. 1275 .

Web links

Reinhard Gaiser: The Gand - from the shard district to an independent parliamentary group . Eppan municipality, October 24, 2016

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[1] Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 212, No. 1275 .