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32-405: The name Podbrdo is a fused prepositional phrase that has lost its case inflection, from pod 'under' + brdo 'hill', thus referring to the local geography. The settlement was founded in the 16th century by German-speaking settlers from Tyrol , but the area was settled earlier. The most important building in the village is the parish church ; it is dedicated to Saint Nicholas and belongs to

64-593: A diocesan synod in Brixen on 23–26 September 1603. Bishop Kaspar Ignaz von Künigl zu Ehrenburg (1703–1747) held a diocesan synod in 1710. Bishop Simon Aichner (1884–1904) held a diocesan synod on 27–31 August 1900. The Council of Trent , in its 23rd session in 1562, decreed that each diocese, to the extent that it was feasible, should have a diocesan seminary for the training of priests. As early as 1567, Archduke Ferdinand II and Cardinal Madruzzo began to draw up plans, but financial difficulties as well as problems with

96-538: A site for the institution impeded progress. The Salzburg provincial synod of 1569 was encouraging, and again in 1576, but not with financial aid. Madruzzo's coadjutor and successor, Prince-Bishop Johann Thomas von Spaur (1578–1591), kept the plan alive, with the support of the Jesuit Peter Canisius , but still the problem was financial, even with a proposed tax on the Canons. The diocesan seminary of Brixen

128-528: A synod held in Rome in February 1081. A diocesan synod was an irregularly held, but important, meeting of the bishop of a diocese and his clergy. Its purpose was (1) to proclaim generally the various decrees already issued by the bishop; (2) to discuss and ratify measures on which the bishop chose to consult with his clergy; (3) to publish statutes and decrees of the diocesan synod, of the provincial synod, and of

160-522: Is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in northern Italy , with its seat in the city of Bolzano . Its territory corresponds with that of the province of South Tyrol with its predominantly German-speaking population. It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Trento . The current configuration of the diocese was created by Pope Paul VI , in a papal bull of 6 August 1964, when

192-727: The Diocese of Koper . It dates from the Baroque period. Podbrdo railway station , on the Bohinj Railway , was a border crossing point between the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia between World War I and World War II . There are also many 19th-century houses, a monument to the workers that died during construction of the railway tunnel , and memorials to the uprising against fascism (between World War I and World War II, when Podbrdo, then named Piedicolle,

224-569: The Diocese of Belluno . At the same time the episcopal see was moved from Brixen to Bolzano, where the Assumption of Mary parish church was elevated to a co-cathedral , while the chapter remained in Brixen . The diocesan ordinary (bishop) is Ivo Muser , appointed on 27 July 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI . The history of the diocese begins when the diocese was established in Säben (Sabiona) in

256-702: The Duchy of Carinthia with the Carniolan march in 1286. In 1307 Meinhard's son Henry was elected King of Bohemia , After his death, he had one surviving daughter, Margaret Maultasch , who could gain the rule only over Tyrol. In 1342 she married Louis V of Wittelsbach , then Margrave of Brandenburg . The red eagle in Tyrol's coat of arms may derive from the Brandenburg eagle at the time when she and her husband ruled Tyrol and Brandenburg in personal union , though

288-647: The Eastern Alps had become an important transit area. The German monarchs regularly traveled across the Brenner or Reschen Pass on their Italian expeditions aiming at papal coronation or the consolidation of Imperial rule. In 1004 King Henry II of Germany separated the estates of Trent from the North Italian March of Verona and vested the bishops of Trent with comital rights. In 1027 Henry's Salian successor, Emperor Conrad II , granted

320-1370: The First Austrian Republic today forms the Austrian State of Tyrol with its East Tyrol exclave. In 1945 following World War II , Austrian attempts and South Tyrolean petitions to reunite South Tyrol with Austria were not successful. Italy kept control. From 1972 onwards, the Italian Republic has granted further autonomy to the Trentino - Alto Adige/Südtirol province. Male line extinct. County bequeathed to Albert's son-in-law: Male line extinct, Countess Margaret , daughter of Henry II, married to: divorced, secondly to: Line extinct. County bequeathed to Line extinct, Habsburg lands re-unified under Habsburg regents of Tyrol and Further Austria: Line extinct, Habsburg lands re-unified under [REDACTED] Media related to County of Tyrol at Wikimedia Commons 46°54′58″N 11°12′22″E  /  46.91611°N 11.20611°E  / 46.91611; 11.20611 Bishop of Brixen The Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen ( German : Diözese Bozen-Brixen , Italian : Diocesi di Bolzano-Bressanone , Latin : Dioecesis Bauzanensis-Brixinensis )

352-667: The Puster Valley from the hands of Emperor Henry IV . Documented from about 1140 onwards, the comital dynasty residing in Tyrol Castle near Meran held the office of Vogts (bailiffs) in the Trent diocese. They extended their territory over much of the region and came to surpass the power of the bishops, who were nominally their feudal lords. After the deposition of the Welf Duke Henry X of Bavaria in 1138,

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384-707: The Treaty of Schönbrunn in 1809. Glorified as Tyrol's national hero, Andreas Hofer , the leader of the uprising, was executed in 1810 in Mantua . His forces had lost a fourth and final battle against the French and Bavarian forces. Tyrol remained under Bavaria and the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy for another four years. In 1814, by decisions of the Congress of Vienna , Tyrol was reunified and returned to Austria. It

416-460: The 6th century, and it was subject to the patriarchate of Aquileia . On 20 April 798, on orders of Charlemagne, Pope Leo III established the new archdiocese of Salzburg , and assigned it as suffragans the dioceses of Passau , Ratisbon , Freising , Säben, and Neuburg . It was under Bishop Albuinus (c. 974–1006), probably in 993, that the residence of the bishop and his episcopal seat were transferred from Säben to Brixen, some twelve miles to

448-656: The Bishopric of Brixen, prevailing against the rivalling counts of Andechs . In 1253 Count Meinhard of Gorizia (Görz) inherited the Tyrolean lands by his marriage to Adelheid, daughter of the last Count Albert IV of Tyrol. When their sons divided their estate in 1271, the elder Meinhard II took Tyrol, for which he was recognized as an immediate lordship. He supported the German king Rudolph of Habsburg against his rival King Ottokar II of Bohemia . In reward, he received

480-468: The Holy See. Bishop Bruno von Bullenstetten und Kirchberg (1250–1288) presided over a diocesan synod in Brixen in 1287 or 1288. Bishop Landulfus held a diocesan synod c. 1296. Bishop Johannes Wulfing von Güttingen (1306–1322) held a synod in 1318. A diocesan synod was held in Brixen by Bishop Christoph von Schrofenstein (1509–1521) in 1511. Bishop Christoph Andreas von Spaur (1601–1613) presided over

512-700: The South Tyrolean parts of the archdiocese of Trento around Bolzano and Merano were merged into the Diocese of Brixen . In turn, the Austrian parts of the Brixen diocese around Feldkirch, Vorarlberg were at first allocated to the Apostolic Administration of Innsbruck-Felkirch , that only in 1964 was promoted as a Diocese and separated in two in 1968. The Ladin districts of Fodom ( Livinallongo del Col di Lana and Colle Santa Lucia ) and Anpez ( Cortina d’Ampezzo ) passed from Brixen to

544-648: The Trent bishops further estates around Bozen and in the Vinschgau region; at the same time, he vested the bishop of Brixen with the suzerainty in the Etschtal and Inntal , part of the German stem duchy of Bavaria under the rule of Conrad's son Henry III . Especially the Brixen bishops remained loyal supporters of the Salian rulers in the Investiture Controversy and in 1091 also received

576-538: The Tyrolean eagle had already appeared in the 13th century. Louis V died in 1361, followed by Margaret's son Meinhard III two years later. Lacking any descendants to succeed her, she bequeathed the county to Rudolph IV of Habsburg , Duke of Austria in 1363. He was recognized by the House of Wittelsbach in 1369. From that time onward, Tyrol was ruled by various lines of the Austrian House of Habsburg , who held

608-521: The bull "Quae Nos Gravissimi", on a petition presented by Count Antal Apponyi , ambassador of the Emperor Francis I to the Holy See, Pope Pius VII granted the emperor the privilege of nominating the bishops of Trent and Brixen. The bull states that this was done with the consent of the Chapters of the two cathedrals (who thereby lost their right to free election of their bishop), as well as of

640-619: The counts of Tyrol strengthened their independence. When Henry the Lion was again enfeoffed with the Bavarian duchy by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa at the 1154 Imperial Diet in Goslar , his possessions no longer comprised the Tyrolean lands. The counts maintained that independence under the rising Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty . In 1210, Count Albert IV of Tyrol also took over the Vogt office in

672-657: The historic crown land is divided between the Italian autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and the Austrian state of Tyrol . The two parts are today associated again in the Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino Euroregion . At least since King Otto I of Germany had conquered the former Lombard Kingdom of Italy in 961 and had himself crowned Holy Roman emperor in Rome , the principal passes of

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704-484: The modern-day Trentino , as well as the south of the medieval Tyrol county, the present-day province of South Tyrol . Italy thus took control of the strategically important Alpine water divide at the Brenner Pass and over the south of Tyrol proper with its large German-speaking majority. Since 1949 both parts form the autonomous Italian Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region. The northern part of Tyrol retained by

736-532: The northeast, in the same valley. The episcopal treasury, however, remained in Säben, and the church of the Holy Cross at the monastery of Säben continued to function as a cathedral of the diocese. A new cathedral was established in the church of Ss. Cassius and Ingenuinus in the monastery of the same title in Brixen. Albuin's predecessor, Richbert(us), had also lived at Brixen from time to time, but when he died he

768-546: The remaining Gorizia ( Görz ) territories around Lienz and the Puster Valley . When Emperor Ferdinand I died in 1564, he bequeathed the rule over Tyrol and Further Austria to his second son Archduke Ferdinand II . Both territories thereafter fell to the younger sons of the Habsburg Emperors: Archduke Matthias in 1608 and Maximilian III in 1612. After the death of Archduke Sigismund Francis in 1665, all Habsburg lands were again under

800-834: The title of count . After the Habsburg hereditary lands had been divided by the 1379 Treaty of Neuberg , Tyrol was ruled by the descendants of Duke Leopold III of Austria . After a second division within the Leopoldinian line in 1406, Duke Frederick IV of the Empty Pockets ruled them. In 1420 he made Innsbruck the Tyrolean capital. In 1490 his son and heir Sigismund renounced Tyrol and Further Austria in favour of his cousin German King Maximilian I of Habsburg . By then Maximilian I had re-united all Habsburg lands under his rule. In 1500 he also acquired

832-539: The united rule of the Emperor Leopold I . From the time of Maria Theresa (1740−1780) onward, Tyrol was governed by the central government of the Habsburg monarchy at Vienna in all matters of major importance. In 1803 the lands of the Bishoprics of Trent and Brixen were secularised and incorporated into the county. Following defeat by Napoleon in 1805, Austria was forced to cede Tyrol, which

864-640: Was an estate of the Holy Roman Empire established about 1140. After 1253, it was ruled by the House of Gorizia and from 1363 by the House of Habsburg . In 1804, the County of Tyrol, unified with the secularised prince-bishoprics of Trent and Brixen , became a crown land of the Austrian Empire . From 1867, it was a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary . Today the territory of

896-463: Was buried with his predecessors in the cathedral of the Holy Cross in Säben. The Emperor Henry IV held a synod at Brixen, on 25 June 1080, attended by thirty bishops, including Bishop Altwin of Brixen. The synod accused Pope Gregory VII of sacrilege, perjury, homicide, and other crimes, and deposed him from his papal office. Pope Gregory replied by excommunicating the emperor and all of his supporters, including presumably Bishop Altwin of Brixen, at

928-596: Was finally founded by Bishop Johann Thomas Spaur in 1607, in the Kirchmayr house in the Runggad. It was not until 1764–1767 that the seminary acquired its own building. In 1779, the cathedral church, dedicated to the taking up (Assumption) of the body of the Virgin Mary into heaven, and to Ss. Cassianus, Ingenuinus, and Albuinus, had a Chapter composed of two dignities and nineteen Canons. On 29 September 1822, in

960-499: Was integrated into the Austrian Empire. From 1867 onwards, it was a Kronland (Crown Land) of Cisleithania . After World War I , the victors settled border changes. The Treaty of Saint-Germain of 1919 ruled according to the 1915 London Pact , that the southern part of the Austrian crown land of Tyrol had to be ceded to the Kingdom of Italy , including the territory of the former Trent bishopric, roughly corresponding to

992-445: Was part of Italy). Podbrdo is surrounded by many attractive mountains such as Slatnik (1589 m), Lajnar (1549 m), Bača Peak ( Vrh Bače , 1281 m), Črna Prst (1844 m), Kobla (1498 m), and Porezen (1622 m). The sunny side of Črna Prst has attracted botanists for more than 200 years. In the mountain meadows it is possible to find a number of rare species: County of Tyrol Timeline The ( Princely ) County of Tyrol

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1024-704: Was split between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Italy in the Peace of Pressburg . Tyrol as a part of Bavaria became a member of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806. The Tyroleans rose up against the Bavarian authority and succeeded three times in defeating Bavarian and French troops trying to retake the country. Austria lost the War of the Fifth Coalition against France , and got harsh terms in

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