Ugovizza
Ugovizza ( German : Uggowitz , Slovenian : Ukve ) is a village in the Channel Valley , 9 km west of Tarvisio . It is located at 775 m above sea level.
location
Ugovizza is a district of the municipality of Malborghetto Valbruna . This old settlement is located almost in the middle of the Channel Valley , where the Fella River takes the waters of the Uggowitz Graben.
Naming
The place has its name from the Uqvebach , which with its tributaries Filza and Rauna forms the spacious, meadow-rich basin of the Uggowitzer Alm.
Economy
In the far north, on the border with the Gailtal, is the Starhand, the Oisternig and the Achomitzer Berg . The sunny, grassy slopes of the alpine pastures begin below, and between 1000 and 1500 m above sea level, a dense forest is repeatedly interrupted by lush meadows. There the Uggowitzer raise cattle and sheep and harvest the pastures. Intensive agriculture is still practiced today; Cheese and Scotch are sold in a local latteria .
In summer the Uggowitzer Alm was busy. Almost the entire population moved to the high valley to make hay. In the earlier centuries the population found a sideline as lumberjacks, charcoal burners and miners. Iron ore was mined and smelted at the Kukberg.
population
Up until the option in 1939, almost 600 people lived in this once independent community. In 1995 the place had about 400 inhabitants.
language
Most of the population spoke Slovene. German was also understood. Today, Italian is the predominant language, although in the workshops and small businesses along Strada Statale 13, Slovene and German are still used as colloquial languages. In Ugovizza there is the Slovenian cultural association Planika and Ugovizza has its own women's costume. The command language of the Ugovizza volunteer fire brigade is German.
Church and landmarks
The church is consecrated to Saints Philip and Jacob and was founded in 1280 by the Bishop of Leiningen. It was the mother church for Leopold Churches and Pontafel until the year of the Suppression of Aquileia. The parishes came to the Diocese of Gurk in 1781 and to Udine in 1933.
The Ugowitzers had some difficulties with their priests during the Reformation. They insisted on their legal right (Juspatronat) for the election of their clergy. In 1594 they did not get their desired pastor, so they drove the clergyman appointed for them out of the church by force.
At the beginning of Ugovizza, coming from Tarvis, on the right side of the road of SS 13, there is a monument to Emperor Karl I, which was renovated in 2012 by the Kanaltaler Kulturverein, stands very close to the street Channel valley has been. The first visit as Archduke Karl took place on June 22, 1915 for a front view and inspection of the 10th Army, which was also the reason for the erection of the monument at the foot of Mount Obuas. The Archduke witnessed a violent artillery attack by the Italians on the site of today's monument, whereby it is assumed that his visit was known to the Italians and that the attack was aimed at him. On June 4 and November 8, 1917, he visited the Canal Valley as emperor.
Disasters
Ugovizza was struck by two catastrophes within a hundred years: On September 13, 1903 and August 29, 2003, enormous amounts of water mixed with stone, mud and debris fell through the narrow gorge of the Uqua torrent and devastated the place. In 2003, the mudslide was so severe that the tower of the parish church was torn away and washed into the fella . The houses on the torrent were so badly affected by the mudslides and flooding that they were initially uninhabitable. Fire departments from Bamberg (Germany) and Villach (Austria) were in action. The church with tower was rebuilt by 2007.
References and literature
- Construction boards in front of the parish church with detailed project data.
- The Canal Valley and its history, publisher Kanaltaler Kulturverein, Klagenfurt 1995, ISBN 3-901088-04-0
- The last valleys. Hiking and stopping off in Friuli. G. Pilgram, W. Berger, W. Koroschitz, A. Pilgram-Ribitsch, Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt / Celovec 2008, ISBN 978-3-85435-532-8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ on this in detail Hans Messner, Das Kanaltal (2015), p. 125
Coordinates: 46 ° 31 ' N , 13 ° 28' E