Eppan an der Weinstraße

Appiano at the Wine Road (Italian Appiano sulla Strada del Vino ) is a large municipality with 14,304 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) in South Tyrol (Italy). Appiano is located on the South Tyrolean Wine Road in Oltradige between Bolzano and Kaltern.

Geography

The municipality of Appiano is located in the south of South Tyrol few kilometers southwest of the city of Bolzano. The 59.69 km ² total area comprises the northern half of Überetsch - increased above the valley of the Adige hills, in which the population centers of the community are - as well as a section of the west towering Mendel comb and small parts of the sole of the Adige Valley.

The population of the municipality is spread over several villages that are scattered in the Überetscher landscape. The main town of Appiano is St. Michael (also called self Appiano, 360-470 m asl ), near the border with southern neighbor Überetscher Kaltern. North of St. Michael are St. Pauls ( 380-460 m) and Missian ( 350-400 m). In the northwest of the community are already located significantly higher Predonico ( 750-800 m) and - just before the municipal border with Nals - Gaido ( 810-1000 m). These five villages are dominated in the west dominated by in altitude increasingly steeper slopes of Mendel ridge (part of Nonsberggruppe ), which carries the border with Trentino and the landscape over Appiano with the Gantkofel (1866 m ) and the Penegal (1737 m).

In the east, the municipal boundary oriented Pfatten and Bolzano out mainly at the ridge of the mountain Mitter that separates the Überetsch in north-south direction from the sole of the Adige Valley there. In this area there are Montiggl ( 480-510 m ) with the little ones (514 m) and the Great Lake Montiggl ( 492 m) - still embedded directly into the gentle undulations of the Mitter mountain in the far south-east of the township - and a little further north, where the Mitterberg hardly emerges, Girlan ( 430-450 m). Two of the Eppaner fractions are also at the northern foot of the slope of the Überetsch, already in the valley of the Adige temporarily: Frangart ( 240-300 m) in the immediate vicinity of the city of Bolzano and - near the northern boundary of the municipality to Andrian and Terlan - Under Rain ( 240-250 m ).

History

Finds of stone cist graves with grave goods, numerous hill forts ( for example, in Predonico ) and a spätbronzealterliche settlement ( reference Gamberoni ) point to the early settlement of Appiano. The Via Claudia Augusta presumably led by the current municipal area, even if their course is not precisely known.

Historians believe that the name Appiano by a Roman landowner, Appius derived. 2005 in St Pauls, a fraction of Appiano, found during construction work remains of a Roman villa with mosaics from the 4th century and a thermal facility, of which one suspects that she may have been a sit of Appius. The initial written reference 590 by Paul the Deacon in connection with the advance of the Franks in the south. The area around Appiano belonged to the Lombard Duchy of Trent.

In the High Middle Ages, the counts of Appiano fought with those of Tyrol for control of today's South Tyrol. From the early prosperity of the community reflects the 86 m high Parish Church in St. Paul, called " dome in the country ". It was built from 1460 to 1647. The tower was begun in the Gothic style, but was later placed a Baroque onion dome. St. Paul's was the ancient center of the village with the nearby castle of Altenburg, which served as the seat of the court.

Attractions

The Überetsch is Europe the most castles area. In the region around Appiano, there are over 200 art historical buildings such as castles, manor houses, churches and chapels. Of these, about 20 castles and palaces.

• Sigmundskron Castle (part of the Municipality of Bolzano )
• Parish church in St. Paul (also called " dome in the country " called )
• Great and Little Lake Montiggl
• The Spring Valley at Montiggl
• The ice holes of Appiano
• Castel d'Appiano with the castle chapel Hocheppan
• The parish church Predonico
• The Sanctuary in Gaido
• Gleif church
• Boymont Castle (ruins )
• Schloss Englar
• Freudenstein Castle
• Schloss Korb
• Stand hunting Moss Schulthaus ( a museum of medieval home decor )
• Castle Warth
• And many other castles and palaces

Economy

Tourism

Appiano has about 90 hotel and restaurant establishments and 180 private room provider with approximately 4,000 beds (about 470,000 overnight stays in 2006). The area offers many hiking trails ( 3,166 ha of forest ) in the high altitude of about 265-1866 meters.

Viniculture

Appiano is the center of the largest wine-growing region of South Tyrol and a rich fruit country. More than 100,000 hectoliters of wine on around 1,050 hectares of land each year produces. About a dozen of varieties is one of the top wines of South Tyrol. Appiano is also one of the main places in the new South Tyrolean wine road leading achieved by Sigmundskron Bolzano Girlan St. Michele / Appiano and Caldaro, Tramin, Kurtatsch, Kurtinig Magrè to Salurn.

Sports

Among the most important Eppaner sports clubs include the AFC Appiano ( football), the HC Appiano Pirates, who plays in the Italian Serie A2 ice hockey, and the SSV Appiano ( handball and skiing ). There are also numerous other sports associations of the individual fractions. There are also several football fields. One of them, in the Rungg, the German national football team has used before the 1990 World Cup and 2010 World Cup as a training camp.

Sons and daughters

• Egno of Appiano († 1273), Prince-Bishop of Brixen and Trent
• Christoph Fuchs von Fuchsberg (1482-1542), Austrian military, imperial councilor and bishop of Brixen.
• Johann Georg Plazer (1704-1761), Rococo painter
• Leonhard von Call (1767-1815), composer
• Sepp Kerschbaumer (1913-1964), South Tyrol activist
• Max Sparer (1886-1968), artist
• Franz Koessler (* 1952), journalist
• George McAnthony (1966-2011), country musician
• Eva Lechner ( born 1985 ), cyclist

Photo Gallery

Seen Missian and the Adige Valley, Castle basket of

Girlan, in the background Bolzano