Talfer

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Talfer
Talfer near Bozen

Talfer near Bozen

Data
location Sarntal ( South Tyrol )
River system Etsch
Drain over Eisack  → Etsch  → Adriatic Sea
source at the Penser Weißhorn
46 ° 48 ′ 18 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 7 ″  E
Source height 2350  m slm compass hiking map
muzzle in Bozen in the Eisack Coordinates: 46 ° 29 '34 "  N , 11 ° 20' 55"  E 46 ° 29 '34 "  N , 11 ° 20' 55"  E
Mouth height 259  m slm
Height difference 2091 m
Bottom slope 46 ‰
length 45.5 km
Catchment area 429 km²
Big cities Bolzano
Communities Sarntal
Covered bridge over the Talfer in Sarnthein
The old Talfer Bridge, which existed until 1900, with the late medieval Talfer Bridge Gate, which was also demolished, detail of the New Year's excuse card of the city of Bozen from 1922

The Talfer ( Italian Talvera ) is a river in South Tyrol ( Italy ). It crosses the Sarntal and Sarntal Alps from north to south.

The Talfer has its origin on the eastern slope of the Penser Weißhorn . It flows through the northern section of the Sarntal, known as the Penser Tal , takes in the Durnholzer Bach flowing from the side valley of the same name at Astfeld and finally crosses the Sarner Gorge to flow into the Eisack after 45.5 km at an altitude of 259  m in Bozen . With a catchment area of 429 km², the Talfer is one of the largest tributaries of the Eisack. In addition to the Durnholzer Bach , other important tributaries are the Tanzbach and the Öttenbach . On its way the river crosses or touches the municipal areas of Sarntal , Jenesien , Ritten and Bozen.

Even more than the larger rivers Eisack and Etsch , the Talfer is the Bozen river, which is why the city is also known as the “Talferstadt”. The name Talfer , etymologically traced back to the pre-Roman * Talava with the suffix -er (i) na , is one of the oldest names in the Bozen area and should mean something like "rubble, stream bed, sandy terrain". The field name Talfergries in the Bolzano city center is thus tautological, as it were, as Gries can be traced back to "sand, gravel".

In Bolzano there are several street names that refer to the Talfer: Talfergasse , Zum Talfergries , Bozner Wassermauer , Grieser Wassermauer and Quireiner Wassermauer . Until the construction of the two continuous Talfer dams ("water walls") of the Talfer, the Bozner and Grieser were repeatedly hit by floods, even if water protection structures had existed since the late Middle Ages; According to the Bolzano Chronicle , the construction of a water wall at Maretsch Castle began as early as 1340 ( "... that the mawr of Maretz began to paw down for the stat ..." ). In 1357, the Tyrolean Prince Margrave Ludwig von Brandenburg inspected the flood damage caused by the “wazzer der Taluernen” and ordered a separate tax to be levied for the construction of better protective structures. In 1405 there is documentary evidence of the collection of a separate Talfer tax ( “culta seu steura contra aquam Taluerne” ) for the purpose of financing water protection structures. Bozen-Gries owes the oldest surviving view of the city to a major flood in 1541 , made by the then mayor Leonhard Hörtmair (Hiertmair).

In the years 1899–1900, the Bozen city administration under Mayor Julius Perathoner had the Waagner-Biro company build the Talfer Bridge , which still exists today . Since the 1970s, the regulation of the valley bed in the Bolzano urban area has created an extensive recreation zone and green lung, which with its sports facilities, running paths and lawns is now an essential part of the urban leisure offer.

The covered bridge over the Talfer in Sarnthein is worth seeing .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So z. B. with Karl Felix Wolff : Guide through Bozen-Gries: with special consideration of the four new mountain railways and the great Dolomite Road. Bolzano 1909, document p. 60.
  2. ^ Egon Kühebacher : The place names of South Tyrol and their history . 2: The historically grown names of the valleys, rivers, streams and lakes. Publishing house Athesia, Bozen 1995, ISBN 88-7014-827-0 , p. 325-326 .
  3. ^ Walter Schneider: The "Talfergries" and the "Grutzen" near Bozen in the 16th century - the new hospital properties on the "Talfergries" (1551), the medieval course of the Talfer, the princely estates in the "Grutz" Urbar (1582) and the new field names. In: “ Tiroler Heimat ” 66, 2002, pp. 5–20.
  4. ↑ Christoph von Hartungen : The dams of the Talfer and the Eisack: the protection from the floods. Bozen (n.d.), pp. 62–84, here: p. 63.
  5. ^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 335, No. 677 (with ill. 31) .
  6. ^ 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. 43, no.918 .

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