The Church of the Holy Spirit is at the bottom of the valley in the municipality of Predoi Ahrntal.
The Church of the Holy Spirit is at the bottom of the valley in the municipality of Predoi Ahrntal and is the oldest of the whole valley. It was probably built in 800. Ahrntal (Italian: Valle Aurina) is a Gemeinde (municipality) and valley in South Tyrol in the northern Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The municipality lies about 120 km northeast of the city of Trento and about 70 km northeast of the city of Bolzano, on the border with Austria. As of 1 January 2007, it had a population of 5,881 and an area of km².[1] FrazioniThe municipality of Ahrntal contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Luttach (Lutago), Steinhaus (Cadipietra), St. Jakob (San Giacomo), St. Johann (San Giovanni), St. Peter (San Pietro) and Weißenbach (Riobianco). Weißenbach is composed of picturesque alpine farmhouses, grouped around the foaming white glacial stream from which its name is derived. With a population of around 550, it sits at an altitude of 1350 metres above sea level. The pride of the village is the Church of St. Jacob, dating from the 16th century. The church houses a valuable winged altar from 1516, which was restored in 1884. Also of note are both the modern extension to the church building and the newly-arranged adjoining cemetery. Place nameA name for the valley was first recorded in written sources in the 11th century. An Aurina vallis is mentioned in 1048, between 1070 and 1080 Ourin or Ouren appear in documents.[2] Coat-of-armsThe emblem is tierced of paly: in the first and third are four and half points of argent on azure, in the second a vert pale with a wavy line of argent. The emblem show the position of the municipality along the green valley with the river Ahr and the mountains all around. The emblem was granted in 1969.[3] SocietyLinguistic distributionAccording to the 2001 census, of the population speak German, Italian and Ladin as first language
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