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BOLZANO. Twenty years of total abandonment, but now it will come back to life. No real estate speculation, no profit motive, no use for business purposes. It will be restored as it was for centuries, a Weinhof, and will become the family farm, calmly, without haste, because the process of restoring vineyards is extremely complex. We are talking about one of the oldest farms in Alto Adige, the Peterploner, for decades a much-loved Buschenschank frequented by the people of Bolzano on trips from the Sant’Osvaldo walks to Santa Maddalena or to Soprabolzano on the Renon. Today it is owned by Christoph KasslatterCEO of the Bolzano-based company Markas, one of the international giants of services with its 12 thousand employees, and his wife Evelyn Kirchmaier, general manager of Markas Italia. Purchased in 2021, it has now received approval from the municipal council, which after the appropriate in-depth technical checks has given the green light to the necessary urban planning changes. But this is only the beginning.
As I clarifye Evelyn Kirchmaiernow the sewerage system will have to be designed and built and the historic closed farm – already mentioned in the 13th century but probably much older, given the Rhaeto-Roman name deriving from petra plana, the flat rock next to which it stands – will have to be connected to the Seab water network, because there is plenty of water up there but it is not drinkable. And then the overhead power lines will be eliminated, to improve the landscape. “Our aim – he says – in the meantime is to recover the vineyards, which have not been managed or cultivated for twenty years. We are in no hurry, we do not intend to go and live there any time soon. The process will be very long”. As the Municipality clarifies in the resolution, the closed farm Peterploner with its 2.5 hectares of agricultural land is located in the San Pietro area, on the middle southern slope of Monte Tondo, at an altitude of between 500 and 600 metres, in a relatively flat position above a rock face, clearly visible from the city. Next to the viticulture, the farm, reachable on foot via the continuation of the
the Sant’Osvaldo promenade, has been a tavern for decades, serving as a popular destination for the people of Bolzano. For over 20 years the farm’s crops have been abandoned, the tavern has been closed and the farm buildings are in a state of decay.
In 2022, an order was issued to uproot the vines to stem the spread of a vine disease. The new owner intends to recover the vineyard areas, while it is not pre-
given the reactivation of the tavern. Beyond the necessary changes to transform it from agricultural greenery to woodland and vice versa to rationalize the estate – now approved by the Municipality with the prescription of numerous environmental compensation measures such as the planting of historic tree species and the restoration of historic dry stone walls – an agreement was reached, which in fact formalizes an already existing situation. The farm is in fact located on a historical-cultural route that leads to Santa Maddalena and Renon. The historical itinerary passed right by the farm, but is now submerged by vegetation and has long been no longer practicable. The farm di-
It will become completely private, without any right of way, but, thanks to a diversion on an existing Avs path, it can be bypassed and will allow hikers to follow the route, which is of great environmental, landscape and historical-cultural value.
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