Deutschnofen


Deutschnofen is a comune in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about southeast of the city of Bolzano.

Geography

As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 3,898 and an area of.
Deutschnofen borders the following municipalities: Aldein, Bolzano, Bronzolo, Karneid, Laives, Welschnofen, and municipalities of Predazzo, Tesero and Varena in Trentino.
Deutschnofen also holds the villages of Rauth and Obereggen. There is a church and several cafes and hotels.
The A22 motorway is located from the village. Deutschnofen shares 7 km of the frontier with Trentino.

Frazioni

The municipality of Deutschnofen contains the frazioni Petersberg and Sankt Nikolaus/Eggen.

Villages

Obereggen

is a small tourist village belonging to the municipality of Deutschnofen. Located on the foot of the Latemar, Obereggen numbers 900 inhabitants. Another nearby mountain is the Schmieder.
There are at least three hotels in this borough, and a network of mountain bike and footpaths on Latemar side. There also are numerous cable-ways and ski lifts.
Sankt Florian
The very rural hamlet of Sankt Florian is between the hamlet of Zapf and the centre of Obereggen. There are no hotels or shops, but the hamlet does feature guesthouses. There is a chapel, and one paved road, as well as a number of unpaved paths.

History

Coat-of-arms

The coat of arms is party per fess of argent and gules crossed, from edge to edge, from a knotty sable branch. The color argent symbolizes the deposits of dolomite and the gules ones those of porphyry; the branch represents the woodiness of the municipality. The emblem was adopted in 1969.

Society

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2011 census, 97.42% of the population speak German, 2.33% Italian and 0.25% Ladin as first language.
Language20012011
German97.10%97.42%
Italian2.51%2.33%
Ladin0.39%0.25%

Demographic evolution


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