Braies

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Braies
(Italian: Braies )
coat of arms
Coat of arms of Braies
 map
Braies in South Tyrol - Positionskarte.svg
State : Italy
Region : Trentino-South Tyrol
Province : Bolzano - South Tyrol
District community : Val Pusteria
Inhabitants :
(VZ 2011 / 31.12.2019) 		672/654
Language groups :
(according to 2011 census ) 		99.23% German
0.61% Italian
0.15% Ladin
Coordinates 46 ° 43 '  N , 12 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '  N , 12 ° 8'  E
Altitude : 1.120– 3146  m slm (center: 1213  m slm )
Surface: 89.26 km²
Permanent settlement area: 6.5 km²
Parliamentary groups : Extra-Prags, Inner-Prags, St. Veit
Neighboring municipalities: Cortina d'Ampezzo , Enneberg , Niederdorf , Olang , Toblach , Monguelfo
Postal code : 39030
Area code : 0474
ISTAT number: 021009
Tax number: 81008120214
Mayor  (2015): Friedrich Mittermair ( SVP )
Forge in Braies, the main town in the municipality

Prags ([ praks ]; Italian Braies ) is an Italian municipality with 654 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in South Tyrol .

geography

The municipality of Braies extends in the Braies Valley and in the surrounding mountains of the Dolomites and Braies Dolomites in the east of South Tyrol. The municipality is largely located in the Fanes-Sennes-Prags Nature Park and has a total area of ​​89.26 km². The Pragser Tal branches off between Monguelfo (municipality Welsberg-Taisten ) and Niederdorf from the Puster Valley to the south and soon after the valley entrance divides into two branches - one south-west and one south.

The southwestern branch is the Pragser Bach flows through, offering the two factions Innerprags with the community center forging (1210 1220  m slm ) and St. Veit place. The municipal boundaries to Olang and Enneberg run in the mountains rising to the west and south-west . At the end of the valley lies the Pragser Wildsee ( 1494  m ), overlooked by the Seekofel ( 2810  m ).

In the branch that is moving to the south is the fraction of Ausserprags with Bad Altprags . It is drained by the Stollabach , the most important tributary of the Pragser Bach, and rises at its end to the Plätzwiese high plateau . The branch is bordered to the east by a mountain ridge, which carries the Dürrenstein ( 2839  m ) and the Helltaler Schlechten ( 2711  m ), and separates Braies from the Höhlenstein valley belonging to Toblach .

The mountain range clasped by the two branches, which in its southern area partially forms the border with Cortina d'Ampezzo in the province of Belluno , finds its highest point in the Hohe Gaisl ( 3146  m ).

traffic

The connection is via the Pustertal . There is a bus connection from the main square in Niederdorf and from the train station in Monguelfo .

education

There is a primary school in Braies , which is part of the German school district of Toblach .

Sports and leisure activities

  • Ski lifts in Bad Altprags.
  • The Pragser Wildsee is the starting point of the Dolomites long-distance hiking trail no.1.

history

The Altprags spa with its sulfur springs is said to have been visited as early as 1490. The main town of Schmieden takes its name from the scythe smiths who used to live there .

The hotel of the same name is located in the village on Lake Braies . On April 30, 1945, prominent concentration camp prisoners - including Martin Niemöller , Léon Blum and Kurt von Schuschnigg, as well as clan prisoners from around July 20, 1944 - were housed there, who according to Adolf Hitler's orders should have been murdered, but shortly beforehand in Niederdorf at the instigation of the Wehrmacht Captain Wichard von Alvensleben had been freed from the custody of the SS (see Liberation of the SS hostages in South Tyrol ). The US Army reached the site on May 4, 1945 and then took the freed prisoners to Capri , where they were checked for their political past.

Worth seeing

Parish Church of St. Veit
  • Lake Braies
  • Plätzwiese with the remains of an Austrian fortress from 1915
  • Parish church in St. Veit from the 14th century with a charming mountain cemetery and the grave of the Dolomite pioneer Viktor Wolf von Glanvell .
  • Church in forging from 1730
  • Chapel in Bad Altprags with vaults with the coats of arms of the Princes Gonzaga and the Counts of Gorizia

schools

  • Elementary school forging

politics

Municipal Council (2015)
12
12 
A total of 12 seats

Mayor since 1952:

  • Josef Trenker: 1952–1964
  • Martin Steiner: 1964–1971
  • Josef Taschler: 1971–1974
  • Andreas Pahl: 1974–1980
  • Johann Kammerer: 1980–1986
  • Josef Taschler: 1986–1990
  • Johann Durnwalder: 1990-2000
  • Alfred Mutschlechner: 2000–2015
  • Friedrich Mittermair: since 2015

Population development

Residents year
689 1971
644 1981
613 1991
633 2001

198 families live in Braies.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Toblach school district. South Tyrolean Citizens' Network , accessed on October 25, 2014 .
  2. ^ Hans Günter Richardi, SS hostages in the Alpine fortress. The deportation of prominent concentration camp prisoners to South Tyrol, Edition Raetia 2006
  3. ↑ Peter Koblank: The Liberation of Special Prisoners and Kinship Prisoners in South Tyrol , online edition Mythos Elser 2006
  4. ↑ 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 .

Web links

Commons : Prags  - collection of images, videos and audio files