Aldein

Comune in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy

Coat of arms

Location of Aldein

46°22′N 11°21′E / 46.367°N 11.350°E / 46.367; 11.350CountryItalyRegionTrentino-Alto Adige/SüdtirolProvinceSouth Tyrol (BZ)FrazioniRadein (Redagno)Government

• MayorChristoph MatznellerArea

^[1]

• Total63.2 km² (24.4 sq mi)Elevation

1,225 m (4,019 ft)Population

(31 August 2020)^[2]

• Total1,648 • Density26/km² (68/sq mi)DemonymsItalian: di Aldino
German: Aldeiner (Natives: Voldeiner)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

39040

Dialing code0471WebsiteOfficial website

Aldein (German: [alˈdaɪn]; Italian: Aldino [alˈdiːno]) is a comune (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 15 kilometres (9 mi) south of the city of Bolzano.

Aldein borders the following municipalities: Bronzolo, Montan, Deutschnofen, Auer, Truden and Ville di Fiemme. It contains the frazione (subdivision) Radein (Redagno).

History

A settlement called Aldinum is mentioned for the first time in 1177, in 1185 the name appears as Alden.^[3]

Coat-of-arms

The coat of arms is divided party per fess; on the top are two quarter-circle, azure on argent background that represents the Weisshorn. The lower part shows the argent cross of Saint Andrew shortened that represent the four original hamlets on a gules background as the mountain of porphyrite. The arms were adopted in 1969. ^[4]

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2011 census, 98.07% of the population speak German, 1.74% Italian and 0.19% Ladin as first language.^[5]

Language	1991	2001^[6]	2011^[5]
German	98.84%	98.38%	98.07%
Italian	0.97%	1.37%	1.74%
Ladin	0.19%	0.25%	0.19%

References

^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ Egon Kühebacher (1991), Die Ortsnamen Südtirols und ihre Geschichte, Bozen: Athesia, p. 26
^ "Heraldry of the World: Aldein". Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
^ ^a ^b "Volkszählung 2011/Censimento della popolazione 2011". astat info (38). Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol: 6–7. June 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-14.
^ Oscar Benvenuto (ed.): "South Tyrol in Figures 2008", Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol, Bozen/Bolzano 2007, p. 16, table 10