San Lorenzo di Sebato - San Lorenzo di Sebato

San Lorenzo di Sebato (St. Lorenzen in German, S. Laurenz in Ladin) is a center of Trentino Alto Adige.

To know

Geographical notes

The country draws its importance from the fact that it is located at the intersection of the val Pusteria and the Val Badia, of which it is the first inhabited center. It is 3 km from Brunico, 18 from Campo Tures, 31 from Bressanone, 71 from Bolzano, 76 from Lienz.

Background

With the founding of the city of Brunico towards the middle of the thirteenth century by the bishop of Bressanone, the accounts of Tyrol always politically active in the Pusteria area, they focused on the creation of a competitive village to oppose the episcopal initiative, identifying it in San Lorenzo. Until the Tyrolean power was not able to impose itself also in Brunico, San Lorenzo was greatly sponsored by it. Until 1610, S. Lorenzo was also the reference parish for Brunico. The separation marked the definitive overtaking of Brunico to the disadvantage of S. Lorenzo.

The toponym is attested as Sanctum Laurentium in 1070, as S. Laurenzen in 1320 and as S. Lorenzen in 1419, while Sebato derives from the name of the Roman statio of Sebatum, whose remains are located near the town. From 1923 to 1940 it was called San Lorenzo and then San Lorenzo in Pusteria.

How to orient yourself

Neighborhoods

Its municipal territory also includes the villages of Campomolino / Lothen, Castelbadia / Sonnenburg, Elle / Ellen, Fassine / Fassing, Floronzo / Pflaurenz, Mantana / Montal, Onies / Onach, Palù / Moos, Ronchi / Runggen, San Martino / St. Martin, Santo Stefano / Stefansdorf and Sares / Saalen.

How to get

By plane

• 46.46027811.3263891 Bolzano-Dolomites Airport (IATA: BZO) (6 km from the center of Bolzano), ☎ 39 0471 255 255, fax: 39 0471 255 202. open to the public: 05: 30–23: 00; ticket office opening: 06: 00-19: 00; check-in for flights from Bolzano is only possible from 1 hour to a maximum of 20 minutes before departure. Small regional airport with scheduled flights to and from Lugano is Rome with Etihad Regional (by Darwin Air). At certain times of the year, the Lauda Air company connects the city with Vienna once a week. On the other hand, charter flights are more numerous. 
• 45.39666710.8877782 Verona Airport (Catullus), Boxes of Sommacampagna, ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected]. 
• 45.42555610.3269443 Brescia Airport (D'Annunzio), Via Aeroporto 34, Montichiari (Connections with Brescia airport are guaranteed by public transport via the bus. The stop a Brescia city ​​is located at the bus station (number 23), while that of the airport is at the front of the terminal. There are also connections to the city of Verona via bus / shuttle line 1), ☎ 39 045 8095666, @[email protected]. Charter only 

By bus

• Public bus transport services in South Tyrol are managed by SAD [1]

How to get around

What see

• 46.78555611.8905561 Badia Castle (Sonnenburg). It is a very old building dating back to the 10th century, commissioned by Count Otwin von Lurngau. Under him, around the year 1000, the castle was the seat of the Gau della Val Pusteria and of Lurngau, who administered justice. From here derives its German name Sonnenburg: therefore not from Sonne (ie Sun), but from a term of the old German, Siona, whose meaning is, in a translated sense, judgment.

Volkhold von Lurngau transformed the castle into a monastery in 1020 and donated it to the Benedictine nuns. The construction of a chapel dates back to that period, of which traces are still preserved.

One of the best-known figures linked to the castle is that of Verena von Stuben, abbess of the place in the mid-fifteenth century, who helped by the Tyrolean duke Sigismondo d 'Austria, had to clash hard with the bishop of Bressanone, Nicola Cusano. So hard that, when he deposed her, her sisters, to defend her, hired an army. Harsh clashes followed one another (the bishop even took refuge for a short period in Carnia) from which, however, the small army of nuns was destroyed. The castle was eventually captured and looted and most of the occupants died.

In 1598 the abbey was partially destroyed by a fire, after which it was profoundly transformed. The currently visible form dates back to that time.

In 1785 the monastery was suppressed, and the castle slowly fell into disrepair. Only some parts of the building, the convent church and the walls were saved.

What it lasted was used over the years for various uses, until - in 1974 - it was restored to become a hotel.

Since 2011, a road tunnel has passed under the Amtmann hill (Amtmannbühel) where the castle rests. This tunnel avoids a dangerous bend in the old highway and improves access to the Val Badia, but its construction (especially the inevitable explosions) has endangered some frescoes of the ancient crypt. 

• 46.77118111.8915722 Castle of San Michele (Michelsburg). It is also known as the "Castle of Prince Bishop Andrew". The Italian name San Michele was created only in the course of Italianization by fascism, and is an invention since the original name, Michelsburg, refers not to the proper name "Michele", but to the Middle High German adjective "michel "which means" great, majestic "(the" great castle ")

It is located on a hill at 956 m a.s.l., near the town of San Martino in the municipal area of ​​San Lorenzo di Sebato; it was built around the year 1165 in Romanesque style, and today only a few ruins remain in good condition, but it cannot be visited anyway.

Throughout history the castle was a fiefdom of the princes bishops of Bressanone. Later it passed to the Counts of Andechs, to the Accounts of Gorizia, to the Accounts of Tyrol in 1500 and later in 1678 to the Künigl.

During its life, the fortress underwent some changes in the structure, for example a second tower was built, and in the 16th century a complete restoration was carried out.

Currently the castle has walls that surround the building around a central courtyard, characterized by two close towers. A helicopter landing pad was also recently built.

In 1538 two Anabaptist Hutterites, Martin da Villgraten and Kaspar Schuster, guilty of professing a different faith, were imprisoned there for a long time and were eventually killed with a sword stroke.

The castle is often mentioned as a place of detention: in fact since the mid-fourteenth century its administration had been entrusted by the Counts of Gorizia to rural judges, whose court was based in the castle. It is estimated that at least 24 people were executed because they did not want to abjure, including the well-known Jakob Hutter, and Jörg Wenger who was instead captured in 1590 in val Pusteria and imprisoned in San Lorenzo di Sebato; he was tortured in the castle and died in 1591 in Bressanone.

Near the castle there is the small church of Santa Maria di Sares (Maria Saalen), where the Black Madonna.

The road that from San Lorenzo di Sebato passes through the castle, and then Sares, up to Pederoa, is the oldest road in the Val Badia, which was replaced by the new road in 1892. 

• Mansio Sebatum Museum. Inaugurated in 2011, the museum was created to pass on the memory of the population of the Sevati, the Norico and the mansio Roman. 
• Chapel of San Giacomo (in Onies). In the hamlet of Onies there is a small statue depicting the apostle St. James, now housed in a small chapel built in 1844 by the farmer Josef Elzenbaumer, where previously there was a large "devotional" fir. Next to the temple there is a large stone that would show the imprints of the saint's head and hands, according to one of the sagas of theSouth Tyrol. 

Events and parties

What to do

Shopping

How to have fun

Where to eat

Where stay

Safety

Pharmacy

• Saint Lawrence, Via J. Renzler, 46, ☎ 39 0474 476068, fax: 39 0474 476675. 

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Around

• Brunico - Main center of the Val Pusteria, preserves two castles as well as historic districts of good interest. It is a city of tourism at the convergence of the tributary valleys of the Val Pusteria, all characterized by an environment of particular beauty.
• Campo Tures - A well-known summer and winter tourism center, it boasts the Tures Castle, one of the most interesting medieval castles in theSouth Tyrol.

Itineraries

• Castles of South Tyrol - A journey to discover the South Tyrolean manors which, born for military purposes, later became largely refined stately homes, centers of culture, examples of fine architecture, testimony to the greatness of the families who built them.

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