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An der Etsch

Field	Value
native_name	Deutschordensballei An der Etsch und im Gebirge
conventional_long_name	Teutonic Bailiwick on the Adige and in the mountains
common_name	An der Etsch
era	Middle Ages
status	Vassal
empire	Holy Roman Empire
status_text	State of the Holy Roman Empire
government_type	Theocracy
year_start	1260
year_end	1805
coordinates
event1	Joined Austrian Circle
date_event1	1512
event_end	Ceded to Kingdom of Bavaria
s1	County of Tyrol
image_s1	[[File:Arms of the County of Tyrol.svg	18px	County of Tyrol]]
image_coat	Insignia Germany Order Teutonic.svg
symbol	Teutonic Knights
symbol_type	Coat of arms of
the Teutonic Order
image_map	DO-Ballei Bozen.png
image_map_caption	Commandries in 1788
capital	Bolzano
common_languages	Southern Bavarian

the Teutonic Order

An der Etsch und im Gebirge (German for 'On the Etsch and in the Mountains') was a bailiwick (Ballei) of the Teutonic Order, created about 1260 and headquartered in Bolzano (Bozen), now in the Italian province of South Tyrol, comprising several commandries in the former County of Tyrol and the adjacent Bishopric of Trent.

One of the Teutonic provinces within the Holy Roman Empire, An der Etsch held the feudal status of Imperial immediacy as a registered Imperial State. Its commandries were subordinate to a Landkomtur (commendator provincialis), who himself was answerable to the Deutschmeister commander of all bailiwicks in Germany and Italy, at times directly to the Grand Master.

History

The Teutonic Knights had erected a first hospital at the confluence of Etsch and Eisack near Bozen in 1202, followed by several hostels along the mountain road up to the Brenner Pass, vital for the Holy Roman Emperors heading for Italy or on crusades to the Holy Land.

The bailiwick lost its autonomy during the Napoleonic Wars upon the 1805 Peace of Pressburg, when Tyrol was ceded to the newly established Kingdom of Bavaria and finally incorporated into the Austrian Empire in 1814. From the view of the Teutonic Order, the province was never disestablished and up to today An der Etsch denotes the lay brothers' organisation in South Tyrol.

Commandries around 1400

Bolzano
Lana
Lengmoos
Schlanders
Sterzing
St. Leonhard
Trento

References

Franz-Heinz von Hye: ''Die Ballei an der Etsch und die Landkommende Bozen'', in: ''Der Deutsche Orden in Tirol'', Bozen 1991, S. 329–330.

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