Mühlwald

Mühlwald (Selva dei Molini ) is a comune (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol, a province in northern Italy, located about 60 km northeast of Bolzano, on the border with Austria.

Geography
As of 31 December 2015, it had a population of 1,442 and an area of 104.7 km2.

The municipality contains the frazioni of (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Außermühlwald and Lappach (Lappago).

Mühlwald borders the following municipalities: Sand in Taufers, Kiens, Pfalzen, Finkenberg (Austria), Gais, Terenten, Pfitsch, Ahrntal, and Vintl.

Coat-of-arms
The emblem represents four fir-trees, touching the edge at the top and a water wheel on the bottom, all on a silver background. The trees symbolize the forest and the wheel the mill depicting the name of the place. The emblem was adopted in 1967.

Linguistic distribution
According to the 2001 census, 98.90% of the population speak German, 0.90% Italian and 0.21% Ladin as first language.