St. Martin in Passeier

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St. Martin in Passeier
(Italian: San Martino in Passiria )
coat of arms
Coat of arms of St. Martin in Passeier
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St. Martin in Passeier in South Tyrol - Positionskarte.svg
State : Italy
Region : Trentino-South Tyrol
Province : Bolzano - South Tyrol
District community : Burgrave Office
Inhabitants :
(VZ 2011 / 31.12.2019) 		3,091 / 3,244
Language groups :
(according to 2011 census ) 		99.10% German
0.86% Italian
0.03% Ladin
Coordinates 46 ° 47 '  N , 11 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '  N , 11 ° 14'  E
Altitude : 457– 2868  m slm (center: 598  m slm )
Surface: 30.5 km²
Permanent settlement area: 5.6 km²
Parliamentary groups : Christl, Flon, Kalmtal , Matatz, Quellenhof, Ried , Saltaus, St. Martin
Neighboring municipalities: Moos in Passeier , St. Leonhard in Passeier , Riffian
Postal code : 39010
Area code : 0473
ISTAT number: 021083
Tax number: 82003270210
Mayor  (2015): Rosmarie Pamer ( SVP )

St. Martin in Passeier ( Italian: San Martino in Passiria ) is an Italian municipality in Passeier in South Tyrol with 3244 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

geography

General

St. Martin in Passeier

St. Martin is centrally located in the Passeier Valley north of the city of Merano . The community area extends over around 15 km in length almost exclusively on the orographic right , mostly western side of the Passer , corresponding to the course of the valley , in which the border to the neighboring community of St. Leonhard runs. The main town of St. Martin is located at around 600  m above sea level in the valley floor . The only other village settlement in the municipality is Saltaus ( 500  m ) in the south directly on the border with Riffian . The other fractions are hamlets or groups of farmsteads (e.g. Ried ), which are mainly spread over the valley slopes. The Kalmtal , the lower portion of one of St. Martin (on the other hand, the upper part of the municipality of Rifiano) leads from Passeirer main valley in southwestern direction deep into the Oetztal Alps scoring Texelgruppe inside. The municipality finds its highest point at the Kolbenspitze ( 2868  m ), which towers above this side valley to the north and is protected in the Texel Group Nature Park .

Factions

Main town St. Martin

Painter's House St. Martin

The main town of St. Martin was built in the Middle Ages on the western bank of the Passer, all around a parish church that was mentioned in a document in the 12th century (today it has been redesigned in baroque style). The closed town center is characterized by guild houses with partially painted facades, which today contain restaurants and shops.

The seat of the Passeirer Malerschule , an art school for baroque fresco and facade painting (1719 to 1845), was the so-called painter's house with a fresco of the eponymous local saint on the outer wall. The founders of this painting school were father and son Nikolaus Auer , Josef Haller, who worked as fresco painters throughout the Passeier Valley, and father and son Benedikt Auer .

A small local museum documents historical tools in the farm household and in the field.

The Schildhof Steinhaus, designed like a fortress, is located on the slope above the town center. According to stories, there is said to be a secret tunnel from Steinhaus to the Widum below.

Saltaus

Schildhof Saltaus

The village of Saltaus (it. Saltusio ) is the southernmost fraction of the municipality with around 350 inhabitants at an altitude of 500 m about 9 km from Merano; from the main town it is 7 km away. As the valley station of the cable car to the high plateau below the Hirzer (2781 m) on the other side of the valley, it is the starting point for numerous hiking trails on the alpine pastures around the mountain station as well as the ascent of the Hirzerspitze. The name is derived from the Latin saltus (= the gorge), which was possibly already known to the Romans, who had built a connection path to the Jaufenpass.

The Schildhof from the 12th century, now converted into a hotel, was the customs post of the Counts of Tyrol in the Middle Ages . Of the eleven residences of the peasants who were privileged by armed services and raised to the lower nobility in Passeier , this is the oldest.

The tourist infrastructure of Saltaus includes a wide range from camping sites to guest houses, holiday apartments and middle and upper class hotels.

Quellenhof

Passeiertal golf course, hole 2, with a view of St. Leonhard

The Quellenhof (it. Sorgente ) fraction about 2 km up the valley is a holiday complex dominated by two family hotel complexes of the upper class with a 4-hole golf course, riding stables and wellness facilities. A challenging 18-hole golf course with 7 ponds, practice facilities, clubhouse and restaurants extends north of this hotel complex in the valley floor and on the meadow slopes east of the Passer, i.e. no longer in the municipality of St. Martin.

Close to the golf course, the cul-de-sac branches off to the Pfandleralm to the east above the Passeier Valley. This became known because the Tyrolean freedom fighter Andreas Hofer hid in a wooden hut in January 1810 in the last few weeks before his capture; there he was found by a farmer and betrayed. The Alm is accessible by car up to a hotel at an altitude of approx. 1000 m; From there you can walk to the historically significant point at an altitude of 1345 m in about 1 hour. The European long-distance hiking trail E5 runs over the Pfandleralm, coming from the Timmelsjoch, on over the Hirzer and Meran into Italy.

Kalmtal

The Kalmtal (it. Valclava ) fraction is located off the SS 44 through road, seen from Merano 2 km before the main town of St. Martin, accessed by a spur road to the left west of the Passer. The fraction consists of several hamlets (Kalbe, Abl, Tschagg, Schupfe, Unterbach and Oberbach, Steinwandt, Grube) with a total of approx. 50 houses in the lower section of the Kalmtal . The upper section of the valley with the hamlet of Magdfeld is located in the municipality of Riffian .

The number of inhabitants in the Kalmtal has increased steadily over the past ten years. The valley has 314 inhabitants (2001 census).

The valley faces the sun and is covered by meadows and forests. A wide network of hiking trails opens up the alpine pastures and mountain ridges above the valley with the quiet Faglsee on approx. 2100 m altitude.

Fractions in high altitudes

The hamlets and homestead groups of are also located in the municipality

  • Breiteben (it. Pianlargo ),
  • Christl (Italian Cresta ),
  • Flon (it. Vallone ),
  • Matatz (it. Montaccio ) and
  • Ried ( Italian novale )

on the slopes on the west side or, in the case of Breiteben, south side of the Passeiertal. Christl and Matatz are on the Meraner Höhenweg around the Texel Group . These fractions are particularly important as accommodation and intermediate stops for hikers on the over 80 km long long-distance hiking trail.

Specialty

In the valley floor, the Passer largely forms the eastern boundary of the municipality with St. Leonhard (in the Passeier craft zone alone , St. Martin briefly spills over to the other side of the river). The hamlets and farmsteads of Mörre ( 750  m ), Prantach ( 950  m ) and Schweinsteg ( 700  m ) on the orographic left side of the valley belong to the municipality of St. Leonhard, although they are much closer to the village center of St. Martin than that of St. Leonhard are.

Attractions

politics

Mayor since 1954:

  • Johann Ennemoser: 1954–1964
  • Ignaz Auer: 1964–1974
  • Josef Haller: 1974–1980
  • Josef Pichler: 1980–1992
  • Hermann Pirpamer: 1992–2010
  • Rosmarie Pamer: since 2010

Sons and daughters

literature

  • Manfred Schwarz: "People write to us from Passeier: ..." Curios and everyday things from newspapers from the monarchy 1848–1918. Verlag Passeier, St. Martin in Passeier 2018.

Web links

Commons : St. Martin in Passeier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .