Laives

Leifers (Italian Laives ) is a town with 17,290 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) in the south of South Tyrol in Italy.

Laives is the youngest of the eight cities in South Tyrol (since 1985) and - Bolzano - those with the highest percentage of inhabitants with Italian mother tongue.

Geography

The 24.25 km ² city municipality of Laives extends in the immediate vicinity of the city of Bolzano in the lowlands, a section of the Adige Valley in the south of South Tyrol. The grown on the alluvial fan of the Brant Bach's city center Laives ( 230-290 m asl ), that arose in the 20th century residential development Steinmann forest ( 230-310 m) and the location right on the outskirts of Bolzano in northern St. Jakob (240 m ) form a settlement chain on the orographic left (east ) side of the valley. In the West, where the municipal area in places reached the Adige and the mouth region of the Eisack Laives borders Pfatten, to the south Branzoll. In the east, which rises to the Val di Fiemme Alps counted Regglberger plateau, which carries the municipal border with German oven and is divided Laives by the deeply cut Brantental. On Regglberger Terrassenverebnungen high above St. Jakob find the scattered farms of the Group Since (620-1090 m) space.

History

First mentioned was the place Laives in 1237 ( Leiuers ). As a separate parish Laives was not until 1819 due to the proximity to the city of Bolzano and the cheaper residential services in Laives attracted in recent decades, thousands of inhabitants here. ; rapid population growth led in 1985 to collect Laives the youngest town in South Tyrol. The rapid development of the agrarian village to a satellite city made ​​significant investment in the infrastructure needed.

Leifers was tied to 1948 by the tram to the city of Bolzano.

Population

The current inhabitants of the city are divided according to the language and origin mainly in five groups:

• The traditional German speaking group
• The traditional Italian-speaking group ( historical Italian-speaking minority in the south of South Tyrol )
• The immigrant in recent decades German speaking group (especially from the rest of South Tyrol)
• Numerically the most important group of also in recent decades immigrant ( Bolzano ) Italian-speaking population
• Migrants / inside or new citizens / internally from European and non-European countries

According to the 2011 census, 71.50 % of the inhabitants are the Italian language group, 27.99% for German and 0.51 % for Ladin.

Attractions

• New parish Laives: a special landmark of the city Laives is the built in 2004, new building of the old church. The old church was not demolished, but open on the north wall in three places ( where there used to be two confessionals and the side entrance were located). The new nave was built in the 90 - degree angle. The church tower dates from the year 1250, the church is mentioned in writing in 1386 for the first time in a document. Since 1787 and is in the parish church Leifers the Weißensteiner picture of grace, a 16 cm high Pietà alabaster.
• Chapel Peterköfele: The High Middle Ages in its origins chapel high above Laives was once part of the largely dialed Liechtenstein Castle. Castle and chapel were on the old ways of connecting to the east upstream ridge of Regglbergs (former German court oven ).

Gallery

The Brant Bach

Landmark Laives, the Peterköfele

The Untersteiner farm in Since