Welsberg-Taisten
Wels -Tesido (Italian Monguelfo - Tesido ) is a municipality in South Tyrol (Italy ) with 2791 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012).
Geography
The community Wels -Tesido is located in the east of South Tyrol. The municipality covers an area of 46.56 km ² extending running east -west direction Pusteria, at the entrance of the branching here to the northeast Gsieser valley and in the surrounding heights.
The community center, catfish mountain (1070-1130 m asl ), located in the valley of Val Pusteria, at the mouth of Gsieser Bach in the Rienz. The small to Wels -Tesido belonging section of Val Pusteria reached the west direction Olang Olang still a part of the reservoir; in the east it ends near the mouth of the Lago di Bach in the Rienz where the community is adjacent to Prague and Lower Village in Alta Pusteria.
North on Catfish Mountain lies on a sun-exposed terrace above the entrance of the valley Gsieser the second capital of the province, Tesido (1190-1280 m). Behind Taisten the land rises to Rudlhorn at ( 2448 m), which forms the highest portion of Wels -Tesido with some other peaks over 2000 m. Here the crest of the mountains Villgratner finds its southern end, which separates the Gsieser valley in the east and running parallel to the Antholz valley in the west of each other.
Besides catfish mountain and Taisten include three smaller fractions to the community. Located southwest of Wels mountain where the northern slopes of the Dolomites Lago di Pusteria fall into, is the small village of Ried (1140-1150 m). West of Tesido are the hamlets scattered settlements Unterrainstrasse to the municipal border with Anterselva. Close to the border, however, a little east of Gsies Taisten takes meadows (1200-1260 m ), enter the beginning of the valley of the Gsieser valley.
History
1167 Welsperg is first mentioned as a castle. Wood carving was the seat of the Counts bad the same name. In the Romanesque of the 12th century, the main castle, in the expiring Gothic and early Renaissance of the 16th century extensions were added arose. The oldest element of the castle is the unusually tall and slender -looking dungeon. Today the castle is managed by the Board of Trustees Welsperg.
Attractions
- Parish Church of St. Margaret: in beginnings dating back to 1342, rebuilt in 1736, with altar paintings of catfish Berger Paul Troger.
- Bildstöckl: with frescoes by Michael Pacher
- Wood carving (also Welsberg ): from the 12th/13th. Century
- Ruined castle Thurn: (not to be confused with Schloss Thurn (South Tyrol ) )
- Our Lady in the Rain: the church was built in 1337
- Parish Church of Taisten: with paintings by Anton Zeiller and a monstrance from the 12th century
- Erasmus chapel of 1470, in Taisten
- Jacob Chapel with paintings by Simon von Taisten from the 15th/16th. Century, in Taisten
- St George: from the 12th century, with paintings by Simon von Taisten and frescoes
- Tabernakelbildstock: from the 15th century, in the church square
Personalities
Sons and daughters
- Paul Troger ( October 30, 1698 Wels Mountain - September 20, 1762 Vienna), Austrian painter, is considered one of the largest Austrian Baroque painter
- Franz Pahl, former deputy in the South Tyrolean parliament and member of the South Tyrolean People's Party.
Traffic
- Wels -Tesido has a connection to the railway network through the station Wels mountain Gsies the Pusteria web