Feldthurns

Feldthurns (Italian: Velturno) is a comune (municipality) in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 25 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of the city of Bolzano.

Geography

As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 2,740 and an area of 24.8 square kilometres (9.6 sq mi).

Feldthurns borders the following municipalities: Brixen, Klausen, Villnöß and Vahrn.

Frazioni

The municipality of Feldthurns contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Garn (Caerne), Schnauders (Snodres), Schrambach (San Pietro Mezzomonte), Tschiffnon (Giovimano).

History

Coat-of-arms

The emblem is party per fess: in the first part it’s represented two embattled towers of gules, the second is checky of gules. It’s the canting arms used in 1607 in the castle by the Bishops of Brixen and symbolize the German name of the municipality: towers (Thurn) over the fields (Feld). The emblem was granted in 1966.

Ötzi the Iceman is attested to have spent his childhood here, some 5,300 years ago.

Society

Linguistic distribution