Vahrn


Vahrn is a comune in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about northeast of the city of Bolzano.

Geography

Vahrn borders the following municipalities: Brixen, Klausen, Franzensfeste, Natz-Schabs, Sarntal and Feldthurns.

Frazioni

The municipality of Vahrn contains the frazione Neustift and the valley of Schalders.

History

Coat-of-arms

The emblem is quartering: the first and the fourth of argent three fess nebuly azure; the second and the third of gules. It’s the arms of the Knights of Voitsberg which changed the name in Von Vahrn when they acquired the local castle, then destroyed in 1277. The emblem was granted in 1969.

Society

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2011 census, 87.80% of the population speak German, 11.18% Italian and 1.02% Ladin as first language.

Demographic evolution


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