Karneid
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Karneid is a comune
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the province of South Tyrol
South Tyrol
South Tyrol , also known by its Italian name Alto Adige, is an autonomous province in northern Italy. It is one of the two autonomous provinces that make up the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The province has an area of and a total population of more than 500,000 inhabitants...

 in the Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 50 km northeast of the city of Trento
Trento
Trento is an Italian city located in the Adige River valley in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. It is the capital of Trentino...

 and about 4 km east of the city of Bolzano (Bozen).

Geography

As of 30 November 2010, it had a population of 3,311 and an area of 40.4 km².

The municipality of Karneid (Cornedo) contains the frazioni
Frazione
A frazione , in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere...

(subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Blumau (Prato all'Isarco), Breien (Briè), Kardaun (Cardano), Steinegg (Collepietra), and Gummer (San Valentino in Campo).

Karneid borders the following municipalities: Bolzano, Völs am Schlern, Welschnofen, Deutschnofen
Deutschnofen
Deutschnofen is a comune in the province of South Tyrol in the Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 70 km northeast of the city of Trento and about 30 km southeast of the city of Bolzano, on the border with Austria.-Geography:As of 30 November 2010, it had a...

, Ritten
Ritten
Ritten is a comune in South Tyrol in the Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.-Territory:The 111 km² community is named after the high plateau , the Ritten or the Renon, on which most of the villages are located...

, and Tiers.

Coat-of-arms

The emblem is an argent
Argent
In heraldry, argent is the tincture of silver, and belongs to the class of light tinctures, called "metals". It is very frequently depicted as white and usually considered interchangeable with it...

 curved pile
Pile (heraldry)
In heraldry, a pile is a charge usually counted as one of the ordinaries ....

 on azure
Azure
In heraldry, azure is the tincture with the colour blue, and belongs to the class of tinctures called "colours". In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of horizontal lines or else marked with either az. or b. as an abbreviation....

. It is part of the insignia of the Counts of Liechtenstein, owners of the castle, which ruled the village from 1385 to 1595. The arms was adopted in 1968.

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2001 census, 87.27% of the population speak German, 12.38% Italian and 0.34% Ladin
Ladin
Ladin is a language consisting of a group of dialects spoken in the Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy in the border regions of the provinces Trentino, South Tyrol and Belluno...

 as first language.

Notable people associated with Karneid

  • The Italian ski mountaineer Hansjörg Lunger
    Hansjörg Lunger
    Hansjörg Lunger is an Italian ski mountaineer.Lunger was born in Karneid. He started ski mountaineering in 1985, competed first in 2003 and was member of the national team after 2006. Lunger is dairyman of the Schutzhaus Latzfonser Kreuz, a mountain hut in the Sarntal Alps...

    was born in Karneid.

External links

Homepage of the municipality
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