Sinich

Sinich
Italian name : Sinigo
Sinich is roughly in the middle of the picture to the left of the Adige.
Country	Italy
region	Trentino-South Tyrol
province	South Tyrol  (BZ)
local community	Meran
Coordinates	46 ° 39 '  N , 11 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 38 '40 "  N , 11 ° 10' 47"  E
Residents	2,792 (2010)
Demonym	Sinicher
patron	Justus
Telephone code	0473	CAP	39012/39010

Sinich ( Italian Sinigo ) is a district of the municipality of Merano and is located about 4 km south of the city center.

location

Sinich is located in the Adige Valley in the south of the Merano valley basin and thus in the south of the Merano city area. The district was created near the mouth of the Sinichbach in a former swamp area on the orographic left , eastern side of the Adige . Sinich is limited to the east by the Tschögglberg . In the south the district borders on the municipality of Burgstall .

history

Sinich is mentioned in a document as "ze Ursinie" in the late 13th century and in 1350 as "von der Sini" . The linguist Egon Kühebacher traces the name back to the diminution of the Latin personal name * Ursus to * Ursinus, which became * Ursinie to * Sinig in German pronunciation from the 14th century onwards. Sinich church originally belonged to the parish of Mais , as a Merano notarial record from 1407 ( "in plebe Mais auf dem Sinigen" ) attests.

In the course of the Italian settlement policy at the time of fascism in the 1920s, the location grew to its present size. The partly swampy areas not far from Merano were drained by the " Opera Nazionale Combattenti ", which was founded during the First World War . In the following, the Montecatini company built housing estates for the working-class families from the rest of Italy. In the course of this settlement, in addition to apartments, kindergartens, schools and a church, the same company also built a fertilizer factory in which the Italian workers worked. Initially, the newly created village was still called Borgo Vittoria. Only later was the original name Sinich used again. The Church of St. Justus was built in 1928. After the population had grown significantly in the 1990s due to the construction of numerous new apartment buildings in the south of the historical center of Sinich, the old church no longer met the requirements. Therefore, the new parish church was built next to the old church in the 2000s.

Industry

There is a MEMC factory in Sinich, which belongs to the American corporation SunEdison . This produced there for decades so-called silicon - wafer . In addition, for many years MEMC also manufactured a preliminary product for wafers: polycrystalline silicon. For this work step, trichlorosilane had to be brought to Merano in elaborately secured dangerous goods transports. In 2010/2011, after signing a long-term supply contract , the most important supplier Evonik set up a trichlorosilane production facility next to the MEMC site in Sinich for around 200 million euros in order to reduce the expensive transport route to a minimum. However, since the global solar module market collapsed in these years, MEMC made the decision to give up the production of polycrystalline silicon, which now made the trichlorosilane plant that had just been built superfluous. In order to be able to withdraw from the long-term supply contract, MEMC bought the trichlorosilane production facility from Evonik for around 70 million euros. As a result, the production of trichlorosilane and polycrystalline silicon was discontinued. In 2014, MEMC sold its business for the production of trichlorosilane and polycrystalline silicon to Solland Silicon . While MEMC / SunEdison continues the production of silicon wafers (the required preliminary products are no longer manufactured in-house for cost reasons, but delivered), the branch taken over from Solland Silicon never resumed production. In 2016, Solland Silicon was declared bankrupt. In 2019, after seven auctions had previously been empty, their production facility was sold to local entrepreneurs for 1.75 million euros, which they would like to use for other purposes after a bonus has been completed.

literature

• Andrea Rossi: Borgo Vittoria: the emergence of an Italian village near Merano . Drava, Klagenfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-85435-745-2 .
• Paolo Valente : Sinigo: con i piedi nell'acqua. Storia di un insediamento italiano nell'Alto Adige degli anni Venti . Alpha Beta, Meran 2010, ISBN 978-88-722-3133-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Egon Kühebacher : The place names of South Tyrol in their historical development . Volume 1. Bozen: Athesia 1991. ISBN 88-7014-634-0 , p. 117.
2. ↑ Kühebacher, Sinich
3. ↑ Daniela Mantoan: Il registro di imbreviature del notaio Meranese Christanus q. Ulrici n. De Eppiano (1406-07). Tesi di Laurea, University of Trento, Trient 2000, p. 175.
4. ↑ http://www.suedtirolerland.it/de/suedtirol/meran- Umgebung/meran/sinich /
5. ↑ http://www.burggrafenamt.com/de/land- Menschen/meraner-land/meran/ sinich.html
6. ↑ http://www.stadtpfarre-meran.it/kirchen-von-meran
7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ http://www.provinz.bz.it/news/de/news.asp?news_action=4&news_article_id=477914
9. ↑ Norbert Dall'Ò: From the Memc to the Solland . In: ff - Südtiroler Wochenmagazin , 43/2019, pp. 32–33.