Guntschnaberg

View of Bolzano with the Gries district in the foreground from the heights of the Guntschnaberg, in the middle distance the Föhrner and Kristplon wine yards

Historical photo of Grieser Platz from 1927 in front of the slopes of Guntschaberg (with Hotel Germania halfway up )

Advertisement by the Reichrieglerhof am Guntschnaberg in the Bozner Nachrichten of March 2, 1913

The Guntschnaberg (also Guntscha or Guntschnaer Berg ; Italian Guncina ) is a broad, rocky mountain slope that closes the valley basin of Bozen north above the district of Gries-Quirein at an altitude of 300 m to 550 m and is in turn dominated by the Altenberg (Altenberg) .

geology

Geologically, the rock as a Guntschna formation forms part of the Etschtal volcanic group of the Unterperm (formerly also called Bozener quartz porphyry ). It closes the arching west ridge of the Sarntal Alps to the south and is the last branch of the Tschögglberg .

history

The heights of the Guntschnabergs, protected from the floods of the valley floor, are old settlements . Bronze Age finds have been documented at the Bühlerhof .

Ersturkundlich the mountainside is in a traditional note of Brixen Bishopric of about 1157-1164 as "apud Bauzanum mons qui dicitur Camp Nage" , as here testifies viticulture was donated to the Episcopal Church of Bressanone. The younger names Gontschnaw, Gonschnaw and Ganschnaw appear in the church provost accounts of the St. Mary's Parish Church in Gries from 1420-1440 .

The wine industry later formed the economic backbone of the numerous farms on the Berglehne. These include the farms Bühler, Föhrner , Fronhofer (Kui, Koy), Kristplon (Kristplun), Maggner, Nussbaumer, Plattner, Riegler (on site), Schacher, Schaler, Schuster, Steinwendter, Strecker, Unterrainer and Winter (Winterle). The most important high and late medieval manors on Guntschnaberg included the Freising monastery and the Schäftlarn monastery , which had extensive estates and corresponding income here since the 12th century.

In the district court code of Gries-Bozen from 1487, Niclas Unterrainer appears as his own district captain “on Contschná” , who also functions as the sovereign tax collector .

Development

An old slab path (Ochsenweg) starts from the Berndorf residence and leads to the Guntschaberg (via Hof Föhrner) and on to the hamlet of Glaning .

The lower area of the Berglehne, starting from the old parish church of Gries , is accessed through the Guntschnapromenade (Erzherzog-Heinrich-Promenade), which was laid out in 1890/91 and leads via the former Hotel Germania to the Reichrieglerhof .

From 1912 to 1966 the hill was also accessible from Gries with the Guntschnabahn , a funicular .

Since the 1980s, a long bend in the state road to Jenesien has crossed the Guntschnaberg.

literature

Wilhelm Pfaff : Guide through the parks and promenades of Bozen and Gries . Innsbruck 1912, pp. 63-88 OCLC 255770749 . (on-line)
Josef Tarneller : The castle, court and field names in the market town of Gries near Bozen. (Schlern writings 6). Innsbruck: Wagner 1924, pp. 23–26 ( Guntschna district ). (on-line)

Web links

Commons : Guntschnaberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Klötzli, Volkmar Mair, Giuseppe Maria Bargossi: The "Bozener Quarzporphyr" (Southern Alps, Italy): Single zircon U / Pb age evidence for 10 million years of magmatic activity in the Lower Permian. In: Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogische Gesellschaft 148, 2003, pp. 187–188.
^ Günther Kaufmann: The settlement of Guntschnabühel (Bühlerhof): Conclusions on the Bronze Age settlement development in the Bozen valley basin. In: Der Schlern 76, 2002, pp. 15–48.
^ Oswald Redlich : The traditional books of the Brixen monastery from the tenth to the fourteenth century (Acta Tirolensia 1). Wagner: Innsbruck 1886, pp. 114–115, no. 254.
↑ Volker Stamm , Hannes Obermair : On the economy of a rural parish in the late Middle Ages. The account book of the Marienpfarrkirche Gries (Bozen) from 1422 to 1440. (= publications of the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives. 33). Athesia publishing house, Bozen 2011. ISBN 978-88-8266-381-0 , passim.
↑ Andreas Otto Weber: Studies on the viticulture of the old Bavarian monasteries in the Middle Ages. Old Bavaria - Austrian Danube Region - South Tyrol . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-515-07290-8 , p. 307ff.
^ 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. 191 ff., No. 1230 .

46.50949 11.33463Coordinates: 46 ° 30 '34.2 " N , 11 ° 20' 4.7" E

[1] Urs Klötzli, Volkmar Mair, Giuseppe Maria Bargossi: The "Bozener Quarzporphyr" (Southern Alps, Italy): Single zircon U / Pb age evidence for 10 million years of magmatic activity in the Lower Permian. In: Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Mineralogische Gesellschaft 148, 2003, pp. 187–188.

[2] Günther Kaufmann: The settlement of Guntschnabühel (Bühlerhof): Conclusions on the Bronze Age settlement development in the Bozen valley basin. In: Der Schlern 76, 2002, pp. 15–48.

[3] Oswald Redlich : The traditional books of the Brixen monastery from the tenth to the fourteenth century (Acta Tirolensia 1). Wagner: Innsbruck 1886, pp. 114–115, no. 254.

[4] Volker Stamm , Hannes Obermair : On the economy of a rural parish in the late Middle Ages. The account book of the Marienpfarrkirche Gries (Bozen) from 1422 to 1440. (= publications of the South Tyrolean Provincial Archives. 33). Athesia publishing house, Bozen 2011. ISBN 978-88-8266-381-0 , passim.

[5] Andreas Otto Weber: Studies on the viticulture of the old Bavarian monasteries in the Middle Ages. Old Bavaria - Austrian Danube Region - South Tyrol . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-515-07290-8 , p. 307ff.

[6] 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. 191 ff., No. 1230 .