Graun (Graun im Vinschgau)
Graun ( Italian Curon ) is a village in South Tyrol and a fraction and administrative seat of the municipality of Graun in Vinschgau . The village is located in the Vinschgau or Vinschger Oberland at the point where the Langtaufer valley branches off from the Adige valley . The village crossed by the SS 40 is located at just over 1500 m altitude on the orographic left , eastern side of the valley, where the Karlinbach flows into the Reschensee . The Italian-Austrian border runs a few kilometers north of the Reschen Pass .
The original village of Graun was built a little closer to the valley floor. In 1949/50, however, the Montecatini Group, against the will of the residents, enforced the damming of Lake Reschen to generate electricity , which gradually let the old settlement go under. As an alternative, today's Graun was created a little higher on the slope. The tower of the old parish church of St. Katharina (location: ⊙ ) is reminiscent of the old village . Apart from the tower in Lake Reschen, there is still a late Gothic Anna chapel, consecrated in 1521, on a small hill on a small hill not far from the new town center.
literature
- Erich Pattis: The village of Neu-Graun in South Tyrol . In: Baumeister , 4/1953, pp. 225–229
- Marco Balzano: I'm staying here . Translated from the Italian by Maja Pflug. Diogenes, Zurich 2020
Web links
- Graun Dorf on suedtirolerland.it
- Lukas Eberle: Why the view of the lake in the village of Hass triggers . Die Welt , October 27, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview by Günter Keil: "Bringing silence to talk". Marco Balzano about Corona, the flooding of his South Tyrolean village Graun in 1949 and his novel . In: Der Standard daily newspaper , Vienna, June 20, 2020, album supplement, A 3
Coordinates: 46 ° 48 ' N , 10 ° 32' E