Margreid

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Margreid on the Wine Route
(Italian: Magrè sulla Strada del Vino )
coat of arms
Coat of arms of Margreid on the Wine Route
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Margreid on the Wine Route in South Tyrol - Positionskarte.svg
State : Italy
Region : Trentino-South Tyrol
Province : Bolzano - South Tyrol
District community : Überetsch-Unterland
Inhabitants :
(VZ 2011 / 31.12.2019) 		1.281 / 1.281
Language groups :
(according to 2011 census ) 		84.33% German
15.22% Italian
0.45% Ladin
Coordinates 46 ° 17 '  N , 11 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 17 '  N , 11 ° 13'  E
Altitude : 207– 1260  m slm (center: 241  m slm )
Surface: 13.86 km²
Permanent settlement area: 5.7 km²
Parliamentary groups : Unterfennberg
Neighboring municipalities: Neumarkt , Kurtatsch , Kurtinig , Roverè della Luna (Eichholz, TN), Salurn
Partnership with : Ottobrunn near Munich
Postal code : 39040
Area code : 0471
ISTAT number: 021045
Tax number: 80010550210
Mayor  (2015): Theresia Degasperi ( SVP )

Margreid an der Weinstrasse ([ marˈgraɪ̯t ]; Italian Magrè sulla Strada del Vino ) is an Italian municipality with 1281 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the South Tyrolean lowlands .

The structural appearance of the place reveals its rural character. Fruit growing and viticulture still play an important role in Margreid, which is crossed by the South Tyrolean Wine Route .

geography

View of the center of Margreid

The municipality of Margreid, a total of 13.86 km², is about the same distance from Bolzano and Trento in the Unterland , a section of the Adige Valley in the south of South Tyrol. The community center (210- 240  m slm ) is located on the west, right bank side of the valley on the flat of the alluvial Fenner Bach . The section of the valley floor belonging to Margreid extends to the Adige and borders the areas of the neighboring communities Neumarkt , Kurtatsch , Kurtinig , Salurn and Roverè della Luna .

Immediately southwest of the community center rises the Fennberg , a plateau mountain in front of the Mendelkamm (part of the Nonsberg group ). The Fennberg, the Geier to the southeast and the Salurner Klause are the southern border between South Tyrol and Trentino and thus also between the German and Italian-speaking areas. While the northern half of the Fennberg high plateau belongs to Kurtatsch, the southern part with the scattered courtyards of Unterfennberg and the Fennberger See ( 1034  m ) is located in the municipality of Margreid.

Population development

history

Margreid is first mentioned in 1181 as "Magretum" . In 1215 today's Italian name "Magre" appears in the documents. Names from which the current German place name probably comes from ( "Margrid" and "Margreit" ) were first mentioned in 1292. The name "Margreid" in its modern form is first attested in 1409.

The first written entry on the Margreider parish church dates from 1343, and in 1370 the same is expanded. In 1513/14 the tower of the parish church was raised by two floors, in 1526/30 the richly decorated "spoonbill" bells were cast, of which only the big bell hangs in the tower today. At the beginning of the 16th century, styles of the South German Gothic were still used in the old parish church, a little later the Renaissance from the south influenced the architectural style. The current parish church of Margreid was built in 1681 because the previous building offered too little space for the growing community (the Gothic church was demolished, the parish church was consecrated to St. Gertraud ). In 1612 the parish seat of St. Florian, which was on the other side of the Adige (today the municipality of Neumarkt ), was moved to Margreid. In 1774, under the direction of Ing. Zallinger drained the valley floor and made it fertile. In 1779 Margreid and Kurtatsch were judicially united with Tramin and given to Count Zenobio as a fief. In 1895, Karl Felderer , the composer of the Bozen mountaineering song , was born in Margreid . In 1968 the municipality was given the coat of arms : The shield colors correspond to the coat of arms of the formerly resident family “Ob der Platten”, the horn already appears in the municipality seal from 1780. The patron saint of Margreid is St. Gertraud, so the church consecration day falls on March 17th.

Margreid belonged to the County of Tyrol and thus to Austria-Hungary until the end of the First World War . Within Tyrol, Margreid was assigned to the judicial district of Kaltern until 1913 , then to the judicial district of Neumarkt ; both were again part of the Bozen district . With the Treaty of Saint-Germain , Margreid came to Italy in 1920, along with most of Tyrol south of the main Alpine ridge . When the two provinces of Bolzano and Trento were established in these formerly Austrian areas in 1927, Margreid, like some other surrounding communities, was added to the predominantly Italian-speaking province of Trento. It was not until 1948 that Margreid was incorporated into the province of Bozen or South Tyrol.

climate

With an average annual temperature of around 12 degrees Celsius, the Adige Valley in South Tyrol is a veritable island of warmth, as demonstrated by the spontaneous sub-Mediterranean vegetation and planted subtropical species. Even the January average temperature doesn't go below freezing. On an annual average, five cold days (on which the temperature remains below freezing point) are more than outweighed by around a hundred summer days (with temperatures above 25 degrees). Most of the precipitation falls between the months of May and June and in autumn (around 800 millimeters annually in the valley, almost 1000 in the Unterfennberg fraction).

education

There is a German-speaking primary school in Margreid . This is connected to the school district of the neighboring municipality of Neumarkt. The school is located in the Salvadori Palais, a former estate of Countess Adele Crivelli. The stately palace from 1770 was converted into a school building with financial support from the Province of Bolzano.

tourism

Although tourism in South Tyrol is now one of the most important branches of the economy, it never really caught on in Margreid. In recent years, there has even been a slight decrease in both the number of beds and the number of arrivals. However, the deterioration in tourism is probably not only due to the limited number of commercial establishments, but above all to insufficient supply of private rooms and insufficient tourist infrastructure.

Attractions

The location on the language border also causes southern style influences in the architecture - curved alleys, archways and buildings as well as Gothic bay windows , seven stone village fountains and stone-framed arched windows with wrought-iron bars illustrate this. The oldest dated grapevine in Europe (1601) near the Augustin House in Grafengasse is still bearing fruit. It is designated as a natural monument .

Buildings

  • Birthplace of Karl Felderer , author of the South Tyrolean homeland song " The world is so big and wide "
  • Parish Church St. Gertraud: The church tower and the nave are separated from each other by the Pfarrgasse.

  • Church tower of the parish church

  • Interior of the parish church

  • Property in Margreid with the original vine

  • Margreider Urrebe

  • The house where Karl Felderer was born

  • Löwengang residence in Margreid

  • Description of the Margreider Urrebe from 1601

  • Löwengang residence in Margreid - South Tyrolean Wine Route

traffic

For motor traffic , Margreid is primarily accessible through Weinstrasse and Bahnhofstrasse, which pass close to the village center. Where the municipality reaches the Adige, it is crossed by the A22 . The Brennerbahn runs parallel to the motorway and offers an access point at the Margreid-Kurtatsch train station .

politics

Mayor since 1952:

  • Emil Ranigler: 1952–1957
  • Alois Barcatta: 1957-1967
  • Alois Cavos: 1967-1977
  • Kurt Pfaffstaller: 1977–1980
  • Arnold Stimpfl: 1980-2000
  • Johann Puntscher: 2000-2005
  • Theresia Degasperi: since 2005

Personalities

literature

  • Leo Andergassen : Churches in Margreid and Fennberg . Fotolito Varesco, Auer 2015.
  • Municipality of Margreid (Ed.): Margreid - Origin, Development and Present . Arkadia, Auer 2001, ISBN 88-8300-018-8 ( online )

Web links

Commons : Margreid an der Weinstrasse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Huter (edit.): Tiroler Urkundenbuch, I. Department: The documents on the history of the German Etschland and the Vintschgau. Volume 1. Ed. By the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum. Innsbruck: Universitätsverlag Wagner 1939, No. 398.
  2. ^ Egon Kühebacher : The place names of South Tyrol and their history. Volume 1. Bozen: Athesia 1991. ISBN 88-7014-634-0 , p. 237.
  3. ^ 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. 44-45, No. 922 .
  4. ↑ Neumarkt primary school district. South Tyrolean Citizens' Network , accessed on October 25, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Margreid-St. Gertraud ( Memento of the original dated November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / member.schule.at
  6. ↑ The mayors of the South Tyrolean municipalities since 1952. (PDF; 15 MB) In: Festschrift 50 Years of the South Tyrolean Association of Municipalities 1954–2004. Association of South Tyrolean municipalities, pp. 139–159 , accessed on November 16, 2015 .