Villandro

Villandro, known in German as Villanders, stands on a slope above the Eisack valley. Recorded as Filandres in 1070, it gave its name to a family of lords whose influence spread through medieval Tyrol. They served the bishops of Brixen and Trent and held judicial and administrative offices under the counts of Tyrol. Their possessions reached from Sterzing to Bolzano and into neighbouring valleys. One branch received Trostburg Castle and became the ancestors of the Wolkenstein family.