!!!Brixen, Stadt Brixen (Bressanone, South Tyrol, Italy), town, alt. 559 m, pop. 16,272 of which 11,663 are German speaking, 4,399 Italian speaking, 210 Ladin speaking. In 1910 Brixen was capital of an Austrian district and had a population of 6,551 (including the garrison), was a Catholic diocese and deanery, had a theological school, the Vincentinum seminary, an Imperial Augustinian Obergymnasium (residential secondary school). Establishments of the "English Ladies", of the order of St. Clare and of the tertiary order of the Sisters of the Holy Cross. \\ Bronze Age settlement on the Plabacher Buehel hill; first documented mention in 827 under the name of "Pressena", spiritual principality since the Middle Ages, in 1803 secularised and annexed to the Tyrol. Baroque cathedral (1745-1755) with Romanesque parts and a ceiling fresco by P. Troger, Romanesque cloister (around 1200) with Gothic murals; parish church with "white tower" (around 1459); Franciscan monastery (present buildings from around 1683) with murals by painters of the Brixen School; the episcopal castle (since around 1265 episcopal residence), altered around 1600 (Renaissance style), houses the diocesan museum; Sonnentor gate; Saebenertor gate. !Literature A. Sparber, Die Bischofstadt Brixen in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung, %%sup 3/%1979. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Brixen,_Stadt|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]