Gratsch (Merano)

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The parish church of St. Peter ob Gratsch
St. Magdalena in Gratsch

Gratsch ( Italian Quarazze ) is a district of the South Tyrolean city ​​of Merano .

location

Gratsch is located in the north of the Merano valley basin (in the extreme northwest of the urban area) at the foot of the slope of the Texel Group below Schloss Tirol .

history

The Gratscher parish church St. Peter ob Gratsch , located in the municipality of Tyrol , is of early medieval origin. The current church is from the 8th or early 9th century. The numerous preserved frescoes date back to around 1100.

From the High Middle Ages until secularization, the Upper Bavarian Wessobrunn Monastery was an important landowner with its own Mairhof in Gratsch.

The church of St. Magdalena was burned down by the latter during the war between Margaret of Tyrol and Charles of Bohemia and restored in 1348. In terms of canon law, Gratsch still belongs to the parish church of St. Peter. The pastoral church has been St. Magdalena since 1905. In 1957, the stone chamber grave of Gratsch was discovered about 150 meters south of the church .

In 1910, the hotelier and councilor Alois Walser (1858–1926) initiated the construction of König-Laurin-Strasse, which leads from St. Magdalena via Thurnstein Castle to St. Peter. A memorial stone at the driveway with a marble plaque and the inscription Walser-Rast, in the year of the comet 1910 , commemorates the construction project.

The previously independent farming community of Gratsch was incorporated into Merano in 1924 - just like Upper and Lower Maize . In the years before the First World War, Gratsch achieved some international fame thanks to the location here and the medical council Dr. Norbert von Kaan directed the Nobel Sanatorium Martinsbrunn . In the years around and after 1900, illustrious patients frequented it, including the composer Max Reger , who composed several works in the house in 1914.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Winhard: Monastery Wessobrunn and Tyrol . In: « Der Schlern » 63 (1989), pp. 382–389.
  2. ↑ Susanne Popp: “But who is supposed to drive the devil out of me?” - Max Reger . In: Ewald Kontschieder, Josef Lanz (ed.): Meran and the artists. Bozen, Athesia 2001, pp. 113-125.

literature

  • Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol . 7th edition, Athesia, Bozen 1991, p. 649 ff.
  • Mathias Ladurner Parthanes : Gratsch, the old village at the foot of Tyrol Castle . 1981, ed. from the band and the Gratsch volunteer fire brigade.
  • Ewald Kontschieder, Josef Lanz (Ed.): Meran und die Künstler (Italian: Artisti a Merano ), Bozen, Athesia 2001, ISBN 978-88-8266-115-1 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 46 ° 41 ′  N , 11 ° 9 ′  E