Waidbruck

Ponte Gardena (Italian Ponte Gardena Ladin Pruca ) is a located in the lower Eisacktal municipality in South Tyrol (Italy ) with 201 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2012).

Geography

The municipality of Ponte Gardena is limited to 2.33 km ² at the entrance of Val Gardena. Within the municipality there are no hamlets and fractions, so the entire population lives in the capital. With an area of 2.33 km ² Ponte Gardena is the third smallest municipality in South Tyrol by Caines and Cortina. After Waidbruck population is the smallest municipality in South Tyrol.

History

The story of Waidbruck starts in the 1st century, as a bridge to the Roman settlement Sublavio grew. This settlement was not only a transportation hub, but also marked the border between Italy and Noricum. After the 5th century, this settlement is not mentioned, but there are signs that they continued to exist also in the early Middle Ages.

1173 the Trostburg is built on the mountain comfort at Ponte Gardena. You probably used to hedge the bridgehead. Even then Waidbruck was a stopping-off and resting place for travelers and pilgrims. Today's church was originally a Malgrei the market town of Castelrotto, and the consolation was a seat of a branch of the lords of Villandro.

In the later Middle Ages was replaced by the expansion of the Eisack ravine passable -making Kuntnerwegs Waidbruck economically Kollmann, since the way to Ponte Gardena led around.

On November 4, 1809 battle between Tyrolean freedom fighters and French soldiers took place in the environment of Starzer bridge in Ponte Gardena under the leadership of Napoleon's Generals Peyri. The French lost about 400 men, and the bridge was then set and destroyed by the Tyrolese on fire. This battle is in a painting by the Viennese painter Balthasar Wiegand shown very dramatically ( in the armory of the Tyrolean Regional Ethnography Museum ).

Only in the 19th century it gained through the construction of a railroad and the Val Gardena street in importance. The Waidbruck station became the most important trade hub in the lower Eisacktal.

1938 established the fascist Italian government before the Montecatini power plant a larger than life equestrian statue with the facial features of Mussolini and the inscription Al Genio del Fascismo ( The genius of fascism ), which was amended in 1945 in Al Genio del lavoro italiano ( The genius of the Italian labor ). In the night of 30 January 31, 1961 activists of the Liberation Committee Alto blew this known as aluminum Duce in South Tyrol Monument in an attack.

Attractions

Gallery

Former railway crossing

Oswald von Wolkenstein Square

Empty base of the equestrian statue of Mussolini

Horses head of the equestrian statue in the museum Tirol Panorama in Innsbruck