Ahrntal

Ahrntal (German pronunciation: [ˈaˑrntaˑl]; Italian: Valle Aurina [ˈvalle auˈriːna]) is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) northeast of the city of Bolzano (Bozen), on the border with Austria.

Ahrntal
Comune
Gemeinde Ahrntal
Comune Valle Aurina
Mining museum
Coat of arms
Location of Ahrntal
Ahrntal
Location of Ahrntal in Italy
Ahrntal
Ahrntal (Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol)
Coordinates: 47°0′N 11°59′E
CountryItaly
RegionTrentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
ProvinceSouth Tyrol (BZ)
FrazioniLuttach (Lutago), Steinhaus (Cadipietra), St. Jakob (San Giacomo), St. Johann (San Giovanni), St. Peter (San Pietro) and Weißenbach (Riobianco)
Government
 • MayorHelmut Gebhard Klammer (SVP)
Area
 • Total187.0 km2 (72.2 sq mi)
Elevation
1,054 m (3,458 ft)
Population
 (2015)[2]
 • Total5,968
 • Density32/km2 (83/sq mi)
DemonymsGerman: Ahrntaler or Töldra
Italian: della Valle Aurina
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
39030
Dialing code0474
Websitewww.gemeinde-ahrntal.net

Geography

Ahrntal borders the following municipalities: Mühlwald, Prettau, Sand in Taufers, Brandberg (Austria), Finkenberg (Austria), and Mayrhofen (Austria).

Frazioni

The municipality of Ahrntal contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Luttach (Lutago), Steinhaus (Cadipietra), St. Jakob (San Giacomo), St. Johann (San Giovanni), St. Peter (San Pietro) and Weißenbach (Riobianco).

Weißenbach is composed of picturesque alpine farmhouses, grouped around the foaming white glacial stream from which its name is derived. With a population of around 550, it sits at an elevation of 1,350 metres (4,430 ft) above sea level.

Topography

To the north, west and southwest the municipality is surrounded by the Zillertal Alps. The main chain of these Alps at the head of the valley also forms the border with Austria. Amongst the most important mountains in the municipality are the Turnerkamp (3,418 m), the Hornspitzen, the Schwarzenstein (3,369 m), the Großer Löffler (3,379 m), the Wollbachspitze (3,210 m) and the Napfspitze (3,144 m). The ranges to the west and southwest, including the Speikboden massiv, separate the village of Ahrntal from Mühlwald in the Mühlwalder Tal. To the southeast are the Durreck Group, a subrange of the Venediger Group with the Durreck (3,135 m) and the Hirbernock (3,010 m) which form the boundary of the municipality of Reintal and its village of Rein in Taufers. Large parts of the Durreck Group are protected as part of the Rieserferner-Ahrn Nature Park.

History

The pride of the village is the Church of St. Jacob, dating from the 16th century. The church houses a valuable winged altar from 1516, which was restored in 1884. Also of note are both the modern extension to the church building and the newly arranged adjoining cemetery.

Place name

A name for the valley was first recorded in written sources in the 11th century. An Aurina vallis is mentioned in 1048, between 1070 and 1080 Ourin or Ouren appear in documents.[3]

Coat-of-arms

The emblem is tierced of paly: in the first and third are four and half points of argent on azure, in the second a vert pale with a wavy line of argent. The emblem show the position of the municipality along the green valley with the river Ahr and the mountains all around. The emblem was granted in 1969.[4]

Notable people

Society
Church of Sankt Martin in Ahrntal Valley

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2011 census, 98.76% of the population speak German, 0.93% Italian and 0.31% Ladin as first language.[5]

Language 2001[6] 2011[5]
German 98.79% 98.76%
Italian 1.07% 0.93%
Ladin 0.13% 0.31%

Demographic evolution
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See also

Further reading
  • Das Ahrntal: heimatkundliche Beiträge. Der Schlern 52/1978, H. 7/8.
  • Ahrntal: ein Gemeindebuch. Gemeinde Ahrntal, Steinhaus 1999 (with contributions by Christoph von Hartungen, Ernst Hofer, Reimo Lunz, Lydia Reichegger, Walburg Tanzer, Hannes Obermair, Gertrud Egger, Brigitte Niederkofler, Mathias Schmelzer, Sieglinde Hofer, Margareth Kamelger, and Martha Verdorfer).
  • Rudolf Tasser, Das Obermair Medizinbuch aus St. Jakob im Ahrntal. In Wolfgang Ingenhaeff (ed.), Bergvolk und Medizin. Berenkamp, Innsbruck 2005, ISBN 3-85093-202-8, pp. 321–370.
  • Tauferer Ahrntal. Geschichte und Zukunft. Tappeiner, Lana 2007, ISBN 978-88-7073-420-1.
  • Paul Gruber, Franz Josef Künig (eds), Peter Wasserer 1822 bis 1845, Provinz Verlag, Brixen 2010

References
  1. "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. Egon Kühebacher (1991), Die Ortsnamen Südtirols und ihre Geschichte, Bozen: Athesia, p. 24
  4. "Heraldry of the World: Ahrntal". Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
  5. "Volkszählung 2011/Censimento della popolazione 2011". astat info. Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol (38): 6–7. June 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-14.
  6. Oscar Benvenuto (ed.): "South Tyrol in Figures 2008", Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol, Bozen/Bolzano 2007, p. 16, table 10

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