Brenner, South Tyrol Valentine" church, the "Post Hotel" and few other houses on the south side, the "Kerschbaumer Hotel", "Griesberg" and "Venn" on the north, nowadays in Austria. The old carriage was enlarged and the tracing modified in 1740 in order to have a comfortable road; Goethe, on 8 September 1786, on his journey to Italy stopped in Brenner at "Post Hotel". The construction of the Brenner railway, between Innsbruck and Bolzano through the Brenner Pass, began on 23 February 1864 at Bergisel (Innsbruck) and the building involved the village with hundreds of workers who lived there for three years. The railway transformed
Wendy Brenner Wendy Brenner Wendy Brenner is an American author and professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Brenner is the author of two books, the first of which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in such magazines as "Allure", "Seventeen", "Travel & Leisure", "The Oxford American", "The Sun (magazine)", "Ploughshares", and "Mississippi Review", and have been anthologized in "The Best American Essays", "Best American Magazine Writing", and "New Stories From the South", as well as other anthologies. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts