Our Lady in the Forest

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The parish church of Our Lady in the Forest

The village of Our Lady in the Walde ( Italian Senale ) is a village in South Tyrol and, together with St. Felix, one of the two fractions of the community of Our Lady in the Walde-St. Felix . The districts are Malgasott , Upper and Inner . The pilgrimage site is located in the upper Val di Non south of the Gampenpass at an altitude of 1350 meters and is counted as part of the Deutschnonsberg .

history

Our Lady in the Forest is first mentioned in 1184 as ecclesia sancte Marie de Senali , in 1321 as cascina (Latin for cheese-making ) and in 1496 as to our dear Frawen in the forest on Nons .

Our Lady in the Forest belonged to the County of Tyrol and thus to Austria-Hungary until the end of the First World War . With the Treaty of Saint-Germain in 1920, the village came to Italy together with most of Tyrol south of the main Alpine ridge . When the two provinces of Bolzano and Trento were established in these formerly Austrian areas in 1927, Our Lady in the Forest, as well as the other communities of the Deutschnonsberg, was added to the predominantly Italian-speaking province of Trento. It was not until 1948 that the village was incorporated into the province of Bozen and South Tyrol.

From 1952 to 1974 the community was ruled by Mayor Romedius Weiss. In 1974 the merger with St. Felix to form the parish of Our Lady in Walde-St. Felix.

Attractions

The pilgrimage church in the village is built in the Gothic style in the 15th century and has carved baroque altars and a miraculous image of Mary with the child, exhibited in a glazed rococo shrine on the richly decorated high altar. At the same time there was a medieval hospital here , which can be traced back to the earlier high importance of the traffic connection over the Gampenjoch.

The dinosaur trail - Triassic Parc begins on the outskirts. In 1997, numerous prints of prehistoric reptiles such as rhyncosauroids and thecodonts were found. The finds date from 235 million years ago, when the Alps were a long way from being formed. At that time the landscape of this area consisted of an island and was probably surrounded by lagoons.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Egon Kühebacher : The place names of South Tyrol and their history. Volume 1. Bozen: Athesia 1995, p. 490. ISBN 88-7014-634-0
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ Emanuele Curzel: Madonna di Senale / Our Lady in the Forest. In: Hannes Obermair , Emanuele Curzel, Klaus Brandstätter (eds.): Cathedral and collegiate pens in the region of Tyrol, South Tyrol, Trentino in the Middle Ages and Modern Times / Collegialità ecclesiastica nella regione trentino-tirolese del medioevo all'età moderna (Schlern writings 329 ). Wagner: Innsbruck 2006. ISBN 3-7030-0403-7 , pp. 279-282.
  4. ↑ Triassic Park Dinosaur Trail on sentres.com

Coordinates: 46 ° 31 '  N , 11 ° 7'  E