Aldein (; ) is a comune (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 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.Egon Kühebacher (1991), Die Ortsnamen Südtirols und ihre Geschichte, Bozen: Athesia, p. 26
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 represents the four original hamlets on a gules background as the mountain of porphyrite. The arms were adopted in 1969.
Linguistic distribution According to the 2024 census, 97.89% of the population speak German, 1.85% Italian and 0.26% Ladin as first language.
Language 1991 2001Oscar Benvenuto (ed.): "South Tyrol in Figures 2008", Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol , Bozen/Bolzano 2007, p. 16, table 10 2011 2024 German 98.84% 98.38% 98.07% 97.89% Italian 0.97% 1.37% 1.74% 1.85% Ladin 0.19% 0.25% 0.19% 0.26%
References
External links
Official website