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Deutschnofen

Field	Value
name	Deutschnofen
official_name	Gemeinde Deutschnofen
Comune di Nova Ponente
image_skyline	Deutschnofen - Deutschnofen.jpg
image_caption	View of Deutschnofen
image_shield	Nova Ponente-Stemma.png
coordinates
region	Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
province	South Tyrol (BZ)
frazioni	Petersberg (Monte San Pietro), Sankt Nikolaus/Eggen (San Nicolò d'Ega)
mayor	Bernhard Daum
area_total_km2	112.49
population_total	4011
population_as_of	31 August 2020
population_demonyms	German: Deutschnofner
Italian: di Nova Ponente
elevation_m	1357
postal_code	39050
area_code	0471
website

Comune di Nova Ponente Italian: di Nova Ponente Deutschnofen (; ) is a comune (municipality) in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 30 km 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 15 km from the village. Deutschnofen shares 7 km of the frontier with Trentino. The Brantental valley connects it with Laives.

Coat-of-arms

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.

Linguistic distribution

According to the 2024 census, 95.42% of the population speak German, 4.33% Italian and 0.25% Ladin as first language.

Language	2001	date=June 2012	title=Volkszählung 2011/Censimento della popolazione 2011
German	97.10%	97.42%	95.42%
Italian	2.51%	2.33%	4.33%
Ladin	0.39%	0.25%	0.25%

Location of Deutschnofen within the Province of Bolzano-Bozen

References

"Heraldry of the World: Deutschofen".
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], 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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