Moss (Sexten)
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Italian name : Moso | |||
Country | Italy | ||
region | Trentino-South Tyrol | ||
province | South Tyrol (BZ) | ||
local community | Sexten | ||
Coordinates | 46 ° 41 ' N , 12 ° 22' E | ||
Demonym | Mooser | ||
Telephone code | 0474 | CAP | 39030 |
Moos ( Italian Moso ) is a fraction of the Italian municipality of Sexten in South Tyrol . Moss lies at the entrance to the Fischleintal . In 1900, moss consisted almost exclusively of farms, which were largely destroyed in the First World War. Nowadays, Moos is a tourist village with numerous hotels. The place name comes from the former swampy terrain.
Infrastructure
In Moos there is a German-speaking kindergarten and the fire brigade .
Worth seeing
- Church of St. Joseph in the village center of Moos
- Valentine's Chapel in Bad Moos built by Valentin Wassermann.
literature
- Rudolf Holzer: Sexten. From a mountain farming village to a tourist community . Tappeiner Verlag. 2000.
- Peter Kübler, Hugo Reider: War for Sexten • The western Carnic Alps and the Kreuzberg area in the First World War 1915-1918 with tour descriptions for today . Sexten 2017. ISBN 978-3-9816744-2-2 (online [1] )