Mud (Mals)
Matsch ( Italian Mazia ) is a fraction of the municipality of Mals im Vinschgau in South Tyrol ( Italy ). The village has 451 inhabitants (as of January 2020) and is located at an altitude of 1584 m in the Matscher valley . The parish church (around 1500, tower and baptismal font in Romanesque style ) is dedicated to St. Florinus . According to legend, this saint came from Mud. A chapel is also dedicated to this saint at the end of the village, near the farm where he is said to have been born.
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 479 |
| 2006 | 477 |
| 2007 | 480 |
| 2008 | 478 |
| 2009 | 474 |
| 2010 | 476 |
| 2011 | 478 |
| 2012 | 473 |
| 2013 | 467 |
| 2014 | 465 |
| 2015 | 458 |
| 2016 | 446 |
| 2017 | 451 |
The ruins of the castles Ober- and Untermatsch lie on an elongated ridge ; Until the extinction in 1504, the governors of Matsch were one of the most powerful noble families in the Vinschgau Valley and beyond. In the 14th century they moved to the nearby Churburg near Schluderns, the family castles were left to decay.
The castle chapel of St. Martin can be found near Obermatsch, originally built in the 12th century; it received its present form around 1650.
Mud also includes numerous farms and hamlets such as Run, Kurtatsch, Glieshöfe, Thanei etc.
Since 2017, Matsch has been the first South Tyrolean mountaineering village .
Web links
- Mud on the website of the Municipality times
- Mountaineering village mud
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mals municipality: mud . In: Times . ( comune.malles.bz.it [accessed August 14, 2017]).
- ^ Oswald Trapp : Tiroler Burgenbuch. Volume I: Vinschgau . Verlagsanstalt Athesia, Bozen 1972, pp. 75-82.
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: The alternative draft . Article dated August 9, 2017, accessed August 11, 2017.
Coordinates: 46 ° 42 ' N , 10 ° 37' E