Trafoi
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| Country | Italy | ||
| region | Trentino-South Tyrol | ||
| province | South Tyrol (BZ) | ||
| local community | Stilfs | ||
| Coordinates | 46 ° 33 ' N , 10 ° 31' E | ||
| height | 1570 m slm | ||
| Residents | 80 (31.12.2015 see gemeinde.stilfs.bz.it ) | ||
| Telephone code | 0473 | CAP | 39029 |
Trafoi is a village with about 80 residents at 1450- 1600 m altitude at the foot of Mount Ortler in the Trafoi Valley , a tributary of the Suldentals , and belongs to the municipality of Stilfs ( South Tyrol , Italy ).
The name comes from the Rhaeto-Romanic expression Tra Ful and means "three sources". These three springs were built over with the chapel of the three holy wells and are a Christian place of pilgrimage . The place is named after the nearby and easily recognizable Trafoier Eiswand .
The road leads through the village to the famous 2757 m high alpine pass Stilfser Joch . From there the Trafoier Bach flows through the village and later into the Suldenbach . There is a campsite on the southern edge of Trafois .
Sights and hiking destinations
- Naturatrafoi National Park House , a museum with changing exhibitions and an adjoining community hall
- Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Trafoi) , a church and cemetery built in 1903 in Trafoi
- Our Lady of the Three Wells , a pilgrimage church built in 1701/02 with a well chapel
- Berglhütte , one on 2188 m slm preferred refuge
- Furkelhütte , a refuge and mountain station located at 2153 m slm in the ski area
- Payerhütte , a refuge on the Tabaretta ridge at an altitude of 3029 m slm
- Obere Stilfser Alm , a managed alpine pasture at 2077 m slm
- Obere Tartscher Alm , a managed alpine pasture at 2000 m slm
- Weisser Knott , an excursion restaurant on Stifserjochstrasse (turn 33) with an obelisk in memory of the first ascent of the Ortler on September 27, 1804
Hiking and skiing area
The Trafoi ski area is a member of the Ortler Skiarena and the Zwei Länder Skiarena . It lies between 1570 and 2400 m altitude and is operated by Trafoi GmbH / Srl. It comprises ten kilometers of slopes and four lifts:
- Chair lift over the Kleinboden to the Furkelhütte at 2153 m
- Schönblick chairlift at 2400 m
- Schölmental pommel lift at 2305 m
- People mover on the practice slope near the church
The first ski lift in South Tyrol was also built in Trafoi and the first ski school opened in 1936.
Personalities
Well-known sons of the place are
- Gustav Thöni (* 1951), four-time world cup winner, world champion and Olympic champion
- Roland Thöni (* 1951), World Cup winner and second in the Olympics
photos
Georg Macco, Trafoi am Ortler, 1896
naturatrafoi
Our Lady of the Three Fountains (built 1701/1702)
water falls
See also
literature
- A night on the Ortler peak . In: The Gazebo . Issue 43, 1866, pp. 677-678 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Theodor Christomannos : Sulden-Trafoi: descriptions from the Ortler area . With illustrations based on originals by Edward Theodore Compton , Tony Grubhofer , Wilhelm Humer, Carl Jordan, F. Rabending and A. v. Schrötter. Verlag A. Edlinger, 1895, 175 pages
- Stefan Schwienbacher: Theodor Christomannos - the Alpenhotels Sulden, Trafoi and Karersee . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 1997, OBV .
- Andrea Kuntner (Hrsg.): The mountain guides of Sulden and Trafoi - legend and history . Kuntner, Schlanders 2004
- Christian Röck: The flag of Trafoi . Koehler & Amelang, 1937.
- Gerhard Sehmisch: The development of tourism in the Sulden, Trafoi and Martell valleys . Wagner in Komm., 1975.
- Wolfgang Jochberger, South Tyrolean Cultural Institute (ed.): Ortler. The highest peak in the whole of Tyrol . Athesia, Bozen 2004, ISBN 88-8266-230-6 .
- Briesen von: A piece of justice from the land of Gemütlichkeit or investigative cause of the investigation of the mysterious moon (death blow) resp. Suicide of the English woman not far from Trafoi in Tyrol . L. Finsterlin, Munich 1876, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11332506-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ vinschgerwind.it
- ↑ trafoi.com (PDF)
- ↑ Mountain experience . In: issuu AVS magazine . February 2014 ( issuu.com [accessed March 21, 2017]).