Kurtinig an der Weinstraße
Kurtinig on the Wine Route (Italian Cortina sulla strada del vino ) is a municipality with 646 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2012) in South Tyrol (Italy). Cortina is one of the countries along the South Tyrolean Wine Road villages in the lowlands.
Geography
Cortina is a municipality in the lowlands, a section of the Adige Valley in South Tyrol, and is located approximately in the middle between Bolzano and Trento, just north of Salurn. Among the South Tyrolean communities, it has several features. For South Tyrol is unusual that the church Kurtinig consists only of a single settlement and with a total area of 1.99 km ², has a relatively small geographical size ( only Caines is even smaller ). For South Tyrol is unique in that the municipality is limited to the intensively farmed valley floor, making the difference in height between the highest and the lowest point Kurtinigs is only 4 m and the church hath no part nor on rocky wooded terrain.
The center is located at an altitude of 212 m slm and is located on the orographic right (west ) side of the Adige somewhat offset from Laag. The municipality, which overlaps in small part on the left bank of the Adige, is surrounded by the municipalities of Neumarkt, Magrè and Salurn.
History
Kurtinig 1276 as Cortinegum (from Latin: curtis = homestead ) mentioned, twenty years later its membership is attested to court Salurn. The area was already in the Stone Age and Roman a profitable hunting and fishing area. With the neighboring Salurn Cortina is located on the German - Italian language border and therefore directly at the interface of two European cultural areas.
Kurtinig belonged until 1913 to the judicial district of Appiano and slammed the judicial district of Neumarkt in Tirol January 1, 1914. This the church belonged to the end of the First World War to as part of the district of Bolzano. Only since 1952 Kurtinig is again an independent municipality, after it has been incorporated under Fascism to Magrè.