Klausen, South Tyrol

Klausen (Italian: Chiusa ) is a city and municipality with 5171 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the middle Eisacktal in South Tyrol (Italy).

Geography

Klausen is located about ten kilometers south of Brixen. The municipal area includes not only the city itself, the western side of the valley with the villages Verdings and Latzfons, as well as on the eastern side of the front of the Villnösstales the village Gufidaun.

History

The Klausen superior Säbener mountain was an important settlement site already in pre-Christian times. Here you can find graves of both Rhaetian, as well as Germanic times. Between 800 and about 1000 Saeben was an important bishopric before it was moved to Brixen. Numerous archaeological finds confirm das.

Documented Klausen is first mentioned in 1027 as " chiusa sub Sabione sita ". In deed, it is the gift of the Inn Valley and the Eisacktal by Konrad II to the Bishops of Brixen Hartwig.

The site was promoted by Bishop Konrad von Rodank. This was around 1205 above the place where the present church of St. Sebastian, to create the Hospital and incorporated his parish Klausen. In the 13th century Klausen was granted market rights and in 1308 the market for the city was charged. The hospital was laid in the 1460s in the city. Here the Apostle Church was built as a new hospital church. Since the Hospital Church could no longer fulfill the duties of the parish church was probably built in 1494 consecrated the church of St. Andrew in the course of the relocation of the hospital.

From the 15th century was the seat of a mountain Klausen court because Villanders ore was mined. In 1699, the Spanish Queen Maria Anna donated in Chiusa the Capuchin monastery. Main reason for this decision was her confessor, a native of Klausen Capuchin priest, Gabriel Ponti Feser.

By 1960, Klausen was the starting point for the Val Gardena railway. Today the station premises abandoned sweeping viaduct is still to be seen. Klausen is considered " Törggelehauptstadt ".

Attractions

  • Säben: one of the oldest shrines in the former location of the oldest bishopric of Tyrol.
  • Parish church with paintings by Josef scoop and burial carved in wood by Hans Reichle.

Personalities

People with relationship to the city:

  • Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was with his trip to Italy in 1494 Klausen and sketched the place. This sketch he worked later in his engraving "Nemesis". According to recent research Dürer traveled to Italy until 1496 ( Dürer research in the Germanic National Museum ).
  • Jörg Blaurock (1492-1529), leading figure of the early Anabaptism, burned as a heretic in Klausen on September 6, 1529 because of his beliefs alive
  • Josef Sullmann (1922-2012), physician and benefactor, 1965-1992 local doctor Klausen

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Peter Walpot ( 1518 [ or 1521 ] -1578 ), an eminent community leaders of the Hutterian Brethren
  • Gabriel Feser Ponti (1653-1706), confessor to the Spanish Queen Maria Anna of the Palatinate ( 1667-1740 ). At the site of his birthplace, a Loreto chapel was built 1703-1704.
  • Francis Young (1882-1934), writer
  • Sepp Messner Windschnur (* 1946), dialect musician

Gallery

Klausen 1900

Klausen 2007

Eisack, Klausen parish church and castle Branzoll

Upper Town in Chiusa

Fortification on Eisack

Säben at night

Säben

Side altar in the parish church, painting by Josef scoop

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