Niederdorf, South Tyrol

Low- village (Italian Villa Bassa) is a municipality with 1500 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) in South Tyrol (Italy). The place is located in the Val Pusteria in the Rienz.

Geography

The municipality Lower Village is located in Alta Pusteria in South Tyrol East. The village center (1130-1170 m asl ) is located in the valley on both sides of Rienz. Westwards Rienz down following marks the confluence of the coming of the south valley and Lago di Lago di Bach's border with the municipality of Prague and catfish -Tesido; Towards the east of Rienz upwards following the municipal boundary to Toblach runs along the edge of the widening of the field of Dobbiaco. On the sunny slopes on the northern side of the Val Pusteria, where a wooded ridge low- village separates the entrance area of ​​the Gsieser valley, lies the scattered settlement Egger mountain. Towards the south, the total 17.85 km ² large municipality will advance in the mountainous regions of the Lago di Dolomites, where the Sarlkofel ( 2378 m ) is the highest Niederdorfer summit.

Traffic

Low- village has a railway station of the Pusteria line, the state road (SS 49) bypasses low- village in the south. West of Lower village begins the road to Prague. The Rienzradweg, continuation of the Drau cycle path on the west, through low- village where the hiking and biking trail to Lake Braies branches.

Sports and leisure activities

• The town is the starting point of the Dolomites High Route 3

History

Low- village was already 994 mentioned as Nidrindorf, as a parish for the first time 1225th Among the Counts of Gorizia and Tyrol was here a place of judgment. From the mid- 19th century, especially after the opening of the railway in 1871 Pusteria, the importance of tourism grew, especially because of the nearby attractions Braies, Prato Piazza and bathroom Altprags. From low- village and Mrs Emma, an important personality of the Tyrolean tourism originates.

In the last days of the war the Second World War, in late April 1945, freed the Wehrmacht officer Wichard von Alvensleben in low- village transport of 139 prominent special prisoners from twelve different nations, their SS guards had orders not to let these prisoners fall alive into enemy hands. These prisoners included inter alia the former Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, the multiple French Prime Minister Léon Blum, Martin Niemöller, one of the leading men of the professing Church in the Third Reich and later church president in Hesse, who later became Auxiliary Bishop John Neuhäusler, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Alexander von Falkenhausen Isa growing, said British intelligence agent Sigismund Payne Best and clan prisoners of 20 July 1944, among others from the family Stauffenberg and Goerdeler.

Attractions

• The late Baroque parish church ( built 1792-96 ), with frescoes by Franz Altmutter, sculptures by Franz Xaver Nißl and altarpiece by Martin Knoller, crypt chapel at the cemetery
• Gothic St. Anne's Church
• The Tourist Museum Alta Pusteria documents the history of tourism in the construction of the railway to the early Alpinism
• Anna and mortuary chapel: The lower part of the Gothic double chapel from the 15th century is one of the oldest buildings in Val Pusteria and serves as a mortuary chapel, in the upper part there is the Anna Chapel
• The Hospital Church of the Holy Trinity with the sculpture " The Painful Mother of God" from the 17th century, baroque Stations of the Cross N. Pedevilla and a sechsregistrigen organ of U. Fuetsch (1899 )
• The Church of St. Magdalena in moss was first mentioned in the 13th century, it has a Franz -Köck organ. The choir fresco comes from Simon von Taisten.
• The jewel of the Church of the Holy Nepomuk in Bad Maistatt is a zweisäuliger high altar made ​​of two different types of marble. The altarpiece is by JGD Grassmair ( 1735).