Deutschnofen
Template:Infobox Italian comune Deutschnofen ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Template:Langx {{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a comune (municipality) in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about Template:Convert southeast of the city of Bolzano.
Deutschnofen borders the following municipalities: Aldein, Bolzano, Bronzolo, Karneid, Laives, Welschnofen, and municipalities of Predazzo, Tesero and Varena in Trentino.
The municipality of Deutschnofen contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Petersberg (Italian: Monte San Pietro), Eggen (Italian: San Nicolò d'Ega), Rauth (Novale) and Obereggen, a small tourist village located on the foot of the Latemar, with some 900 inhabitants.
The A22 motorway is located Template:Convert from the village. Deutschnofen shares 7 km of the frontier with Trentino. The Brantental valley connects it with Laives.
Coat-of-armsEdit
The coat of arms is party per fess of argent and gules crossed, from edge to edge, from a knotty sable branch. The color argent symbolizes the deposits of dolomite and the gules ones those of porphyry; the branch represents the woodiness of the municipality. The emblem was adopted in 1969.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Linguistic distributionEdit
According to the 2024 census, 95.42% of the population speak German, 4.33% Italian and 0.25% Ladin as first language.
| Language | 2001<ref name="Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol">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</ref> | 2011<ref name="Volkszählung 2011/Censimento della popolazione 2011">Template:Cite journal</ref> | 2024<ref name="Volkszählung 2024/Censimento della popolazione 2024">Template:Cite journal</ref> |
|---|---|---|---|
| German | 97.10% | 97.42% | 95.42% |
| Italian | 2.51% | 2.33% | 4.33% |
| Ladin | 0.39% | 0.25% | 0.25% |
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