Rodeneck (; ) is a comune (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy.
Geography
Rodeneck borders the following municipalities:
Kiens, Lüsen, Mühlbach,
Natz-Schabs, St. Lorenzen and
Vintl. In Rodeneck there are 7 municipal fractions: Vill, the largest and most populous fraction of the municipality, Nauders, Gifen, St. Pauls, Spisses, Ahnerberg and Fröllerberg, the municipal fraction with the fewest inhabitants
History
Origin
The presence of non-local
flint and
quartz fragments suggests that the area was inhabited by hunters during the middle
Stone Age (5000 BC). The discovery of middle
Bronze Age forts dates permanent settlement to at least 1500 BC.
The community was mentioned by name for the first time in the Actum Rotungun of 1050–1065 AD as a place that has made donations to the bishop.[Oswald Redlich (1886). Die Traditionsbücher des Hochstiftes Brixen vom zehnten bis in das vierzehnte Jahrhundert (Acta Tirolensia 1). Wagner: Innsbruck, p. 36, no. 88.] In the following centuries, the name has appeared in a variety of forms. Between 1140 and 1147, Bishop Hartmann of Brixen made the town an alod and bestowed it upon his ministerialis Frederick II and his wife Gerbirg, who built a castle there.[Freed, pp. 239-241]
At the start of the 19th century, Rodeneck became a municipality, administered by a mayor since 1822. In 1926, the municipality lost its autonomy and became part of the municipality of Mühlbach, and then winning back its independence in 1955 after a long struggle.
Coat-of-arms
The emblem is azure a chevron
argent. It is the insignia of the Lords of
Rodank who built the
Rodenegg Castle in 1140. The coat of arms was granted in 1969.
[ Heraldry of the World: Rodeneck]
Society
Linguistic distribution
According to the 2024 census, 98.86% of the population speak German, 0.98% Italian and 0.16%
Ladin language as first language.
Bibliography
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Freed, John B. (1995). Noble Bondsmen: Ministerial Marriages in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, 1100–1343. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).
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