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The district community Überetsch-Unterland includes that Überetsch(ItS | Oltradige) and the South Tyrolean lowlands(Italian: Bassa Atesina)that too Bolzano lowlands is called. The area includes the Adige Valley from Bolzano downstream to the Salurner Hermitage. It is internationally known as a wine-growing region; other important branches of business are fruit growing and tourism.
Regions
The Unterland was shaped by the Ice Age glaciers and the streams leading from the Mendel Mountains to the west and the foothills of the Fleimstaler The Alps flowed into the Adige Valley in the east and piled debris cones in the Adige Valley, on which the villages of the lowlands settled. Up until the end of the 19th century, large parts of the lowlands were therefore regularly flooded and at times of the snowmelt. Roads in the valley floor of the Etsch only became possible through the Adige regulation at the time of Empress Maria Theresa. This is an exception Überetsch, which is between the ridge of the Mitterbergs and the Mendel Mountains.
Traditionally, the three South Tyrolean mountain communities on the east side of the Adige Valley are also part of the Unterland, even if they are at the low mountain range on the edge of the Fiemme Valley lie.
places
in the Überetsch lie the communities
To the Bolzano lowlands belong
- 3 Except
- 4 Branzoll
- 5 Kurtatsch
- 6 Curly
- 7 Laives - the biggest place
- 8 Margreid
- 9 Montan
- 10 Neumarkt (South Tyrol) - the capital of the lowlands
- 11 Pfatten
- 12 Salurn
- 13 Tramin
and the mountain communities
not to the Unterland, but to the district community
Other goals
- Bletterbach Gorge at Aldein
- Trudner Horn Nature Park
background
Before the First World War, the Unterland belonged to the Bozen district and thus to Austria. In 1920 South Tyrol was annexed by Italy, the place names were named after Prontuary of Ettore Tolomei Italianized. The Unterland was separated from South Tyrol and the province Trentino slammed. Through the Castelfeder protest rally in 1946 and the autonomy movement of South Tyrol, the lowlands came back to the province of Bolzano in 1948.
To the one founded in 1955 District community Überetsch-Unterland(Oltradige-Bassa Atesina) with administrative headquarters in Neumarkt belong to the municipalities of the lowlands, plus the two municipalities of Überetsch as Andrian and Terlan.
language
In the communities along the Adige there had been a proportion of people with Italian as their mother tongue for centuries. Due to the economic development in the greater Bolzano area in particular, their share has increased significantly in the last few decades, and South Tyrolean German is still the predominant language in rural communities, especially in the mountain regions.
getting there
The Unterland is from the Brenner motorway, the
Brennerstaatsstrasse and the Brennerbahn, the three traffic routes are often only a stone's throw away from each other.
mobility
- The South Tyrolean Wine Route includes the entire district community with the exception of Laives and the three mountain communities
Tourist Attractions
activities
Regular events
- On the Sunday two weeks after Corpus Christi, various figures made of burning candles and mountain fires on individual peaks light up on the mountains. The Heart of Jesus fire comes from the time when the Tyroleans fought for their freedom.
shop
Weekly markets
Monday: Terlan and St. Pauls / Eppan (the latter very small, one stand with sausage / cheese, one with baked goods and 4 stands with clothing).
Tuesday: St. Michael / Eppan and Neumarkt
Wednesday: Kaltern, Auer and Ritten (Klobenstein)
Thursday: Girlan, Leifers, Trient and Bozen
Friday: Merano and Sterzing
Saturday: Bolzano and Naturns
kitchen
The South Tyrolean Unterland is considered to be the region of origin of the Gewürztraminer.
nightlife
security
climate
literature
Web links
- Official website of the holiday region in the south of South Tyrol suedtiroler-unterland.it
- Page of the district community