Milland (Brixen)

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Milland
Italian name : Millan
Country Italy
region Trentino-South Tyrol
province South Tyrol  (BZ)
local community Brixen
Coordinates 46 ° 42 '  N , 11 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 42 '23 "  N , 11 ° 39' 42"  E
height 663  m slm
Residents 5,500 ()
Demonym Millander
patron St. Joseph Freinademetz
Church day January 29th
Telephone code 0472 CAP 39042

Milland ( Italian Millan ) is a district of Brixen with approx. 4,500 inhabitants in South Tyrol ( Italy ).

geography

Milland is located on the road to St. Andrä in the southeast of the city center of Bressanone and is separated from it by the Eisack river . In the north, the border between Milland and Brixen is not clearly recognizable (it is near the “Brixner Hof” inn). St. Andrä lies on a high plateau above Milland. Sarns joins in the south. Milland is located on the Trametschbach and Eisack.

history

Above Milland, halfway up from St. Andrä, there are bowl stones that date from pre-Christian times. There are no earlier finds because the Brixen basin was a swampy meadow. Milland was mentioned for the first time eight years before Brixen was first mentioned (901) - in 893 King Arnulf of Carinthia restituted the hunting and forestry rights to the Bishop's Church of Säben-Brixen under Bishop Zacharias in an area that also included the "vicus Millana" (Village) settlement Milland. At that time the place was looked after by the parish of St. Andrä. In 1788 Milland became an independent pastoral care station, and in 1891 the place was elevated to a parish on the basis of a state decree . After the Second World War , the place began to grow together with Brixen. The municipality of Milland / Sarns has belonged to Brixen since August 28, 1928.

Population development

Around 1800 Milland had around 200, around 1900 around 500 and before the outbreak of the Second World War 800 inhabitants. After 1945 the population rose to around 4,500 within two decades as a result of the lively construction activity.

Culture and sights

Karl promenade

The Karl promenade on the eastern side of the valley leads from Brixen to Milland. It is named after Emperor Karl I , who as Archduke often stayed in Otto von Guggenberg's private clinic and used the forest path. The promenade fell into disrepair with the construction of the power plant. Only recently has the municipal administration restored part of the path.

Karlsburg

Karlsburg

The former Meierhof Karlsburg was the only building that was not destroyed by the French during the coalition wars in 1810.

Pilgrimage church Maria am Sand

Maria on the sand

The first church in Milland was built around 1300. Albert von Platsch founded a daily mass in 1341. In the 15th century, the church was greatly modified and expanded with a vault of the nave, a tower and a pointed arch portal (until 1464). Around 1640, at the time of the plague in the Brixen area, it became increasingly popular as a pilgrimage church , and the saying arose: "Maria am Sand is the strongest in the whole country". In the 18th century the Gothic church was redesigned in Baroque style.

Josef Freinademetz Church

Josef Freinademetz Church

The parish church is dedicated to the China missionary Father Josef Freinademetz . The modern building in the form of a tent roof, planned by the architect Othmar Hit from Bruneck , was erected from 1984 to 1985 and consecrated on October 19, 1985 by Diocesan Bishop Joseph Gargitter .

Public facilities

Village square

Educational institutions

In Milland there is a primary school (Luise Waldner primary school) and two kindergartens.

sports clubs

In 1995, the amateur football club SV Milland emerged into today's professional club and most successful South Tyrolean football club, FC Südtirol . There are also the following sections: paragliding, table tennis and sport fishing. The largest section, however, is football. Every two years, U-10 mini world championships and European championships are held to which teams from the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Italy and Slovenia travel.

Disasters

Milland was repeatedly hit by floods from the Trametschbach. Only with the construction of the torrent in 1950/59 did the problem get under control.

Personalities

literature

  • Hans Grießmair (Ed.): Milland. Contributions to nature and history. Milland 1993.

Web links

Commons : Milland  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 1: Up to the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 81–83, No. 112 .
  2. District community Eisacktal, accessed on September 7, 2016