Gmund (Pfatten)

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Gmund ( Italian Monte ) is a hamlet in the municipality of Pfatten in the Unterland in South Tyrol . The small settlement is located at the southern end of the Mitterberg , a striking mountain ridge running in a north-south direction in the middle of the Adige Valley .

Above Gmund, the Gmundner Kopf forms the southernmost elevation of the Mitterberg, on which prehistoric finds were made in 1943. Historically, Gmund belonged to the Laimburg court , according to the property tax cadastre of 1749 to its Unterviertl , which was ecclesiastically under the parish of Kaltern in the Überetsch .

The place name is documented as early as 1291 as "ad Munt" . In 1408 the place was called "Munt" . Only in the Atlas Tyrolensis of 1760/70 does the place appear as "Gemunt" . Suggest the names of evidence that the basic word mons is a (mountain), although the adoption of an eponymous mouth of Tillgrabens into the Adige can not be excluded.

Gmund is known as part of the name of the river regulation association Bonification Consortium Gmund- Salurn . Since the 19th century, when the course of the river was artificially straightened and fortified, he has been responsible for regulating the Adige in the southern lowlands and preventing the once frequent flooding of the valley floor.

The Etsch Bridge near Gmund has been attested since the early 15th century and is an important transition between the two sides of the valley. The Brenner Railway and the Brenner Motorway run through the eastern edge of Gmund .

literature

  • Christian Unterhuber, Franz Hauser (photographer): 100 Years of Adige Regulation & Soil Improvement in the South Tyrolean Unterland: Festschrift 1893–1993 of the Gmund-Salurn bonus certification consortium. Neumarkt: Gmund-Salurn Bonification Consortium 1993.

Remarks

  1. ^ Georg Innerebner: The wall castles of South Tyrol . Volume 2. Bozen: Verlagsanstalt Athesia 1975, p. 188.
  2. ↑ Otto Stolz : Political-historical description of the country of South Tyrol. Part 2: Quarter on the Adige. Innsbruck: Wagner 1938, p. 203 ( online )
  3. ^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 116, No. 93 .
  4. ^ Hannes Obermair: The documents of the deanery archives Neumarkt (South Tyrol) 1297–1841 (=  Schlern-Schriften 289 ). Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 1993, ISBN 3-7030-0261-1 , p. 76 f., No. 25 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 21 '  N , 11 ° 17'  E