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Aldein

Municipality in South Tyrol, Italy

Field	Value
name	Aldein
official_name	Gemeinde Aldein
Comune di Aldino
image_skyline	Aldein_04.jpg
image_caption	View of Aldein
image_shield	ITA Aldein COA.svg
coordinates
region	Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
province	South Tyrol (BZ)
frazioni	Radein (Redagno)
mayor	Charlotte Oberberger Pichler
elevation_m	1225
area_total_km2	63.2
population_as_of	31 August 2020
population_total	1648
population_demonyms	Italian: di Aldino
German: Aldeiner (Natives: Voldeiner)
website
postal_code	39040
area_code	0471

Comune di Aldino German: Aldeiner (Natives: Voldeiner)

Aldein (; ) is a comune (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 15 km 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.

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 represent 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	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160614231554/http://www.provinz.bz.it/Astat/downloads/Siz_2008-eng.pdf	date=2016-06-14 }}, Bozen/Bolzano 2007, p. 16, table 10	date=June 2012
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

Egon Kühebacher (1991), ''Die Ortsnamen Südtirols und ihre Geschichte'', Bozen: Athesia, p. 26
"Heraldry of the World: Aldein".
Oscar Benvenuto (ed.): [http://www.provinz.bz.it/Astat/downloads/Siz_2008-eng.pdf "South Tyrol in Figures 2008", Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-06-14 , Bozen/Bolzano 2007, p. 16, table 10)
(June 2012). "Volkszählung 2011/Censimento della popolazione 2011". Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol.
(December 2024). "Ergebnisse Sprachgruppenzählung 2024/Risultati Censimento linguistico 2024". Provincial Statistics Institute of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol.

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