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Saalen is a fraction of St. Lorenzen in South Tyrol in Italy . It has about 50 inhabitants and is very rural. Saalen is at 978 m slm
history
Saalen is first mentioned in a document in 893 together with Onach and Ellen and in 1039 as "Salarapach" (Saalerbach).
Attractions
- The pilgrimage church of Maria Saalen , which lies above the district of Montal and to which the name goes back, was built in 1653. The black Mother of God with the Christ child is particularly worth seeing. The church became the most popular place of pilgrimage in the central Puster Valley . Officially it is called Our Lady of Loreto and was previously a hermitage . On the altar, under the gable, the Annunciation can be seen and below the black Madonna with her child.
- At the Pfaffenberg farm there is a wayside shrine called the " Pfaffenberger Stöckl ".
tourism
- The Gschliererhof forms the geographical end of the municipality of St. Lorenzen as well as the language border between the German and Ladin language area . The Pfaffenberger Bach or Gschlierer Bach is the boundary line. The first courtyards within the Ladin-speaking area are the Palfrader Hof and the Landgasthof Oberpalfrad.
Yards
- Almost all of the residents of Saalen live on or run mountain farms. These are the Saaler Wirt, the Gasteiger, the Krinner, the Winkler, the Obwegiser, the Saalbacher, the Obersteiner, the Unter- and Oberpfaffenberger and the Gschliererhof. The Winkler, the Krinner and the Gschliererhof also offer farm holidays, the Saaler landlord runs an inn.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 174 ff., No. 201b .
Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ' N , 11 ° 52' E