Hofmahdjoch

The Hofmahdjoch seen from St. Pancras in Ultimo from the left surmounted by alkalis, the right of the small and the great Kornigl

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The 1781 m high Hofmahdjoch (Italian Passo Castrin ) is a mountain pass in Italy, which connects the South Tyrol Val d'Ultimo with Proveis. The summit, which is located in Trentino area, is accessible by a hiking trail easy for walking. The modern road crosses under the pass in a 1,600 -meter-long tunnel. In the west the Hofmahdjoch is dominated by small Kornigl, in the north- east by alkalis.

History

In 1984, G. Niederwanger made ​​on the wide -soled Almwiesensattel of Hofmahdjoches finds of Mesolithic stone tools markdowns. Later, other also found pottery shards recent.

For the late Middle Ages to 1434 reported that the communities around Proveis about the Hofmahdjoch from Val d'Ultimo from were settled. The Val d'Ultimo himself to have been originally settled by Goths even before the early Middle Ages invaded the Bavarians. Welfare in the Migration Period some Ostrogoths had retreated to the remote Val d'Ultimo and this reclaimed. Numerous place and field names, but also family name is carried back to their settlement, not least, one tries to prove by runic inscriptions discovered.

As long as there was no road over the Hofmahdjoch, Proveis was a moderate traffic South Tyrolean exclave in Trentino, the Proveiser considers an intolerable situation, and they tried to solve for quite some time. From the early 1990s, a road was built with tunnel to the South Tyrolean Proveis also to connect the first time the South Tyrol Val d'Ultimo for car traffic. On 1 December 1998, finally, the tunnel was opened.

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