Oberbozen

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Oberbozen ( Italian Soprabolzano ) is a fraction of the municipality of Ritten in South Tyrol ( Italy ). It is located on the high plateau of Ritten in 1220  m height. Because of the height difference to the provincial capital Bolzano the two places with are Rittner cable car connected which passenger transport on the former gear portion of Rittnerbahn took over.

history

The place name, which refers to the immediate altitude above Bolzano, is first documented in the notary books of Jakob Haas from 1237 and 1242 as "Oberpoazen" ; as early as 1302 the more modern variant "Oberbotzen" appeared . In 1408 a Lüdwicus de Oberpoczen acts as magistrate on Renon . The Italian form of the name is a literal translation of a more recent date introduced by the fascist administration in 1923.

Worth seeing

The Renon Railway between Oberbozen and Maria Himmelfahrt
Gloriette in the Assumption of Mary
Reception building of the Renon Railway in Soprabolzano
  • The Oberbozen earth pyramids in the Katzenbachtal below Oberbozen ( Piramidi di roccia del Renon ).
  • The St. George and Jacob's Church dates from the late 13th century and displays inside medieval frescoes .
  • The Maria Schnee chapel in the center of the village, originally a private room for the families of Zeno and Menz from the early 18th century.
  • In the district of Maria Himmelfahrt, Bolzano patricians and aristocrats built summer cottages , a shooting range and a gloriette in the 17th century .
  • The parish church of Oberbozen (built from 1989 to 1991) is consecrated to Father Rupert Mayer (1876–1945), who was beatified .
  • The so-called " Renon Railway " connects Oberbozen with Klobenstein and Maria Himmelfahrt on the other side. During the journey you have panoramic views of the Schlern , the Rosengarten and other mountains of the South Tyrolean Dolomites .
  • Kirchtag -Move on 15 August ( Assumption ): usually at 14:00 parade with many folklore groups, bands and performers of traditional occupations and customs. Then one of the most beautiful church festivals in South Tyrol.
  • The bee museum in the Plattnerhof in the immediate vicinity of Soprabolzano offers an overview of beekeeping in South Tyrol.
  • The Wolfsgrubner See is also located near Oberbozen.

economy

Agriculture, tourism, but also handicrafts are the main sources of income for the Oberbozen fraction.

Larger tourism companies are the Parkhotel Holzner (formerly Hotel Oberbozen) and the Hotel Post-Victoria. The largest craft business is Elektro Rottensteiner.

The Renon cable car

Tourism was also the trigger for the construction of the Renon cable car. On August 13, 1907, Oberbozen was opened up for the first time by local public transport, namely by a narrow-gauge railway with a cogwheel locomotive to cope with the incline (see Demar 2016). Up until that point there was only one cart path. From the starting point, the Bolzano Waltherplatz, the train traveled via Maria Himmelfahrt to Oberbozen and finally to the final stop in Klobenstein. The main reason for setting up such a means of transport was tourism on the Renon. After the Second World War, and thus several decades after the construction of the railway, the first technical defects began to appear. In 1969, a new road was also to be opened on the Renon, which is why repairing the old rack railway would not have been profitable. It was considered to build a cable car. On December 3, 1964, there was a serious accident in which a train going downhill derailed, killing four people and leaving several seriously injured. This accident accelerated the construction of the cable car, and it went into operation on July 16, 1966 (see Demar 2016). The railway line from Maria Himmelfahrt to Klobenstein was supposed to be closed, but could still be preserved. Today it is one of the most important tourist attractions on Renon. On May 23, 2009, the aerial tramway was replaced by the new orbit.

Village design

The village center is a few hundred meters further on opposite the mountain station of the cable car. There are several shops on the north side of the main street. The residential buildings extend above all slightly elevated in the north of the main street. The 'Hofer Lun', an unobstructed grass meadow in the center of the village, minimizes the density of the village. It is opposite the exit of the cable car mountain station. On the edge of the village there is the fire station , the swimming pool and the ice rink , which in summer becomes a soccer field. The village is on an incline. If you are heading north from the main road, there is an incline to be mastered.

people

In addition to the "gentlemen" (the owners of the summer cottages), some of whom are also prominent outside of South Tyrol, and their guests have stayed in Soprabolzano:

  • Bronisław Malinowski , a British-Polish anthropologist who spent several summers with his family in Soprabolzano in the 1920s. A plaque commemorates him on the Malinowski house.
  • The theologian Eberhard Arnold stayed with his family from April 1913 until the outbreak of war in 1914 in the Pichler-Hof and was thus close to the home of the Tyrolean Anabaptists .
  • In September 1930 Lion Feuchtwanger (with his wife Marta ) wanted to stop at the writer Eva Boy , who was staying in the "Villa Reissig".

Hans von Hoffensthal was born in Oberbozen in 1877 and the Austrian politician Robert Scheuch in 1896 .

Web links

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

literature

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  1. ^ Egon Kühebacher : The place names of South Tyrol and their history . Volume 1, Bozen: Athesia 1995. ISBN 88-7014-634-0 , p. 281.
  2. ^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 147, no.169 .
  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, no.920 .
  4. ^ Josef Weingartner : The art monuments of South Tyrol. Volume 3. T. 1: Ritten, Sarntal, Tschöggelberg. Hözel: Wien-Augsburg 1929, pp. 38–39 and 44–45.
  5. ↑ http://www.rittnerbahn.suedtirol-reisen.com/
  6. ↑ http://www.ritten.org/sehenswert/bienenmuseum.htm
  7. ↑ a b Klaus Demar: Rittner Bahn: The railway on the mountain. Retrieved April 12, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Christine Wanker, Alexander Dusleag: Cultural landscape change in South Tyrol since 1950. Retrieved on April 12, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Zenleser, Lorenz: The suburban village. Soprabolzano in transition . Bachelor thesis, University of Innsbruck 2017.

Coordinates: 46 ° 31 ′ 40 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 20 ″  E