Niederdorf, South Tyrol

Niederdorf
Niederdorf
	Comune
	Gemeinde Niederdorf; Comune di Villabassa
	Coat of arms
	Location of Niederdorf
	Niederdorf Location of Niederdorf in Italy Niederdorf Niederdorf (Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol)
	Coordinates: 46°44′N 12°11′E
Country	Italy
Region	Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Province	South Tyrol (BZ)
Government
• Mayor	Herbert Fauster
Area [1]
• Total	17.8 km2 (6.9 sq mi)
Elevation	1,154 m (3,786 ft)
Population (Nov.2010[2])[3]
• Total	1,469
• Density	83/km2 (210/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	German: Niederdorfer; Italian: di Villabassa
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	39039
Dialing code	0474
Website	Official website

Niederdorf (German pronunciation: [ˈniˑdɐdɔrf]; Italian: Villabassa [villaˈbassa]) is a municipality in South Tyrol in northern Italy, about 70 kilometres (43 mi) northeast of Bolzano.

Geography

Niederdorf borders the following municipalities: Prags, Toblach, Welsberg-Taisten, and Gsies.

History

Coat-of-arms

The emblem is per fess and the base per pale. The first show a sable eagle double-headed on or; in the second and third a half steinbock to face each other of or and sable. It’s the insignia of the Lords of Kurz von Thurn who ruled the village from 13th to 18th century. The emblem was granted in 1966.[4]

Society

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2011 census, 92.09% of the population speak German, 7.76% Italian and 0.15% Ladin as first language.[5]

gollark: Nihilism would be "nothing matters" or something.

gollark: We *will* destroy all plants.

gollark: Orbital nature lasers are already warming up.

gollark: And this seems too vaguely defined to be useful if you can just handwave any issue which does not in fact run on something like "balance" as being caused by some other imbalance.

gollark: Actually, no, they're partly just background radiation. Nobody is particularly responsible for this, on the majority of Earth.

References

"Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
Demographics after 1921 and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.
"Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
Heraldry of the World: Niederdorf
"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.

External links

Homepage of the municipality (in German and Italian)

Media related to Niederdorf at Wikimedia Commons

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[wikidata-16139ca327c50d72c40d8c5fd3abe706b989650e-v3-1] "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.

[istat-2] Demographics after 1921 and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.

[wikidata-6c4193b2686f905553042f4ae1ae4934aea078c8-v3-3] "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Istat. Retrieved 16 March 2019.

[4] Heraldry of the World: Niederdorf

[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.