Gsies


Gsies is a valley and comune in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about northeast of Bolzano, on the border with Austria.
Gsies held the FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 1994.

Geography

As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 2,256 and an area of.
Gsies borders the following municipalities: Toblach, Innervillgraten, Welsberg-Taisten, Rasen-Antholz, Sankt Jakob in Defereggen, and Niederdorf.

Frazioni

The municipality of Gsies contains the frazioni Außerpichl, Innerpichl, St. Magdalena-Niedertal, St. Magdalena-Obertal, St. Martin-Niedertal, St. Martin-Obertal, Oberplanken and Unterplanken.

History

Coat-of-arms

The emblem represents two sable scrapers placed per fess on or. It is the arms of the Knights of Gsies known from 13th century and extinct in 1429. The emblem was granted in 1968.

Society

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2011 census, 98.29% of the population speak German, 1.62% Italian and 0.09% Ladin as first language.

Demographic evolution


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