Renon (municipality)

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(Italian: Renon )
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State :	Italy
Region :	Trentino-South Tyrol
Province :	Bolzano - South Tyrol
District community :	Salten-Schlern
Inhabitants : (VZ 2011 / 31.12.2019)	7,643 / 7,966
Language groups : (according to 2011 census )	95.20% German 4.55% Italian 0.25% Ladin
Coordinates	46 ° 32 '  N , 11 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '  N , 11 ° 28'  E
Altitude :	296– 2170  m slm (center: 1154  m slm )
Surface:	111 km²
Permanent settlement area:	km²
Parliamentary groups :	Klobenstein , Unterinn , Oberbozen , Oberinn , Mittelberg , Wangen , Lengstein , Lengmoos , Signat , Atzwang , Sill , Gissmann
Neighboring municipalities:	Barbian , Bozen , Kastelruth , Karneid , Fiè allo Sciliar , Jenesien , Sarntal , Villanders
Partnership with :	Kirchheimbolanden ( Rhineland-Palatinate )
Postal code :	39054
Area code :	0471
ISTAT number:	021072
Tax number:	80008790216
Mayor  (2015):	Paul Lintner ( SVP )

Ritten ( Italian Renon ) is an Italian municipality with 7966 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in South Tyrol . It stretches over 111 km² and is mostly located on the Renon , an extensive ridge in the southeast of the Sarntal Alps . The community includes numerous localities, the main town is Klobenstein .

geography

View of the small village of Mittelberg

View over the Wolfsgrubner See

The Renon takes up most of the same ridge rides in the southeast of the Sarntal Alps one. In the west, the municipality extends in the lower area of ​​the Sarntal , the Sarner Gorge, down to the Talfer , in the east in the lower Eisack valley , which is also shaped like a gorge, to the Eisack . In the south, the border with the South Tyrolean capital Bozen runs across the slopes facing the Bozen valley basin. In the north, Renon ends in the area around the Renon Horn , which itself, however, belongs to Barbian .

The largest settlements in the municipality, several hamlets and numerous farmsteads are scattered across the Rittner low mountain range . The most important localities are oriented eastwards towards the Eisack Valley Unterinn ( 900  m ), the main town Klobenstein ( 1150  m ) and Lengstein ( 970  m ), in the southwest high above the Bolzano basin Oberbozen ( 1220  m ) and in the northwest towards the Sarntal Oberinn ( 1300  m ) and Wangen ( 1060  m ). The lowest-lying fractions are Atzwang ( 370  m ) in the Eisack Valley and the Sill ( 350  m ) in the Sarntal, the highest-lying settlement is Gissmann ( 1570  m ) near the Rittner Horn.

history

The Ritten is first mentioned in a document from 871–875 as Mons Ritanus and appears in 1027 as an exhibition site Mons Rittena of an imperial decree of Salier Konrad II. As early as 1200 - thanks to its location on the old Kaiserweg - a hospice was founded in the village of Lengmoos and the Handed over the German order . In a Bolzano arbitration award of 1434, the Rittner rural community ( "lewtte vnd gemainschaft ab dem Ritten" ) appears as a legally competent and independently acting community. For a long time, Stein am Ritten Castle was the seat of the court .

In the 17th century, the Ritten was discovered by wealthy Bolzano citizens for the summer resort , as it is much cooler on the plateau there than in the capital, which is particularly hot in summer. Numerous patrician houses were built, especially in Maria Himmelfahrt, the southwestern foothills of Oberbozen .

In 1907 the Renon was opened up by the Renon Railway from Bolzano . In the 1960s, the economic upswing set in motion considerable construction activity, and a network of roads connected all the localities of the Ritten community with each other and with Bolzano. As a successor to the former Renon cable car , a new cable car has been connecting Bolzano with Soprabolzano since 2009.

Culture and sights

See also : List of architectural monuments in Renon  and List of natural monuments in Renon

There is also the family house on the Renon . The remains of Josef Mayr-Nusser were buried in the associated church in Lichtenstern until his beatification in 2017 . The church was therefore rebuilt in 2013-2017.

The Runkelstein Castle is located in the Renon area, at the foot of the Renon and the exit of the Sarntal . The Ritten Summer Games and various concerts and exhibitions take place in the Kommende Lengmoos every year .

Lengmoos on the Renon

politics

Municipal Council (2015)

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A total of 18 seats

• Citizen List The Earth Pyramids : 1
• South Tyrolean People's Party : 16
• Verdi Green Vërc : 1

Mayor since 1952:

• Anton Plattner: 1952–1960
• Johann Pichler: 1960–1974
• Bruno Hosp : 1974–1984
• Ferdinand Rottensteiner: 1984-2010
• Paul Lintner: since 2010

Hofer-Hof in Mittelberg

economy

The Renon is dominated by agriculture. Agriculture, tourism and handicrafts are the main sources of income for the municipality. Part of the population commutes to work in nearby Bolzano.

The largest companies on the Renon are Loacker and Finstral .

education

The middle school in the main town of Klobenstein in Renon is named after Hans von Hoffensthal . The closest secondary schools are in Bolzano.

Personalities

• Peter Mayr (1767–1810), Tyrolean freedom fighter
• Hans von Hoffensthal (1877–1914), doctor and writer from Bolzano
• Otto Flake (1880–1963), German writer who lived on Renon in the period after the First World War
• Bronisław Malinowski (1884–1942), British-Polish anthropologist who spent several summers with his family in Soprabolzano in the 1920s (see plaque on the Malinowski house there)
• Robert Scheuch (1896–1974), Austrian politician
• Bruno Platter (* 1944), 65th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
• Robert Peroni (* 1944), extreme athlete, mountaineer and author

literature

• Ferdinand Rottensteiner: The court to stone on the Renon in the Middle Ages , Innsbruck 1969.
• Beatrix Unterhofer: Hans von Hoffensthal - a life in the summer. Raetia, Bozen 1996, ISBN 88-7283-087-7 .
• Sabine Waibl: Bolzano villas and Rittner country houses between historicism and modernity. Thesis. University of Innsbruck 1997.
• Inga Hosp : Ritten. Country and people on the mountain. Tappeiner, Bozen 2005, ISBN 978-88-7073-362-4 .
• The Ritten and its course. Athesia, Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-88-6011-079-4 .
• Leo Andergassen : Churches on the Renon. An art guide. Tappeiner, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-7073-460-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theodor Bitterauf : The traditions of the Hochstift Freising. Munich 1905/09, No. 912; Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tyrolean document book . Dept. II, Volume 1. Innsbruck: Wagner 2009. ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 . P. 170, No. 198.
2. ^ 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. 76-77, no. 989 .
3. ↑ https://www.messnerarchitects.com/de/projects.html?pID=44
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 : Ritten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local government
• Renon Citizens Network
• Landscape plan of the municipality of Renon . Office for Landscape Ecology, Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol (PDF file)
• Entry in the Tirol Atlas of the Institute for Geography at the University of Innsbruck
• s' Rittner Bötl - the monthly magazine on the Ritten