Koltern. Not Kaltern.
// yeah, we've been through this. it's Koltern. with an o. always was.
So. Koltern. South Tyrol, vineyards, a lake that's way warmer than it has any right to be. Makes some of the best red wine you've never heard of, plus — unofficially — some of the worst drink in the region. Both have their place.
The maps say Kaltern. They've been wrong for 300 years and they're not fixing it. We've accepted this.
Early 1700s. Some clerk's sitting there with a candle and way too much spoiled Leps in him, writes Kaltern instead of Koltern. One vowel. The Habsburgs stamped it, the Italians kept it, and here we are.
The o was always there. This site uses it.
We call ourselves Herrgottskinder. God's children. It's not a South Tyrol thing — it's a Koltern thing, don't go using it elsewhere. Used with complete seriousness and you don't need to agree for it to apply.
Three hundred years of the wrong name on every map. That qualifies.