Kurtatsch an der Weinstraße (Austrian German: [kʊrˈtatʃ an deːɐ̯ ˈvaɪnˌʃtraːsɛ]; Italian: Cortaccia sulla Strada del Vino [korˈtattʃa sulla ˈstraːda del ˈviːno]), often abbreviated to Kurtatsch or Cortaccia, is a comune (municipality) and a village in South Tyrol in northern Italy, located about 25 kilometres (16 mi) southwest of the city of Bolzano.

The section of the valley floor below, which belongs to the municipality and borders Tramin to the north, Neumarkt to the east and Margreid to the south, reaches as far as the Adige.

Higher up and scattered across the low mountain slopes of the Mendel ridge are several farmsteads, hamlets and village settlements, which belong to another four groups.

Graun (790-840 m) is located on a high plateau in the north of the 30.19 km² municipal area; to the west above the main town and Entiklar are Hofstatt, a scattered settlement without a real village center, and Penon (580-620 m), which is spread over hillside terraces; finally, in the south of the municipal area rises the Fennberg, on the northern half of whose plateau the Oberfennberg fraction (1160-1170 m) is located.

The heights of the Mendel ridge, which is part of the Nonsberg group, rise to the west above the Kurtatsch settlement areas and form the border with Trentino.

A Bronze Age menhir dating back to the 3rd millennium BC was found in the village of Rungg, which at times belonged to Kurtatsch and is now in the Tyrolean State Museum in Innsbruck.

[5] A menhir blank was found in front of the nursing home in Kurtatsch, and several bowl stones in Graun also point to the Bronze Age.

In 1328, the Vigilius Chapel is attested as part of the parish of Kaltern (ecclesia et capela sancti Vigillii de Cortaz plebis Caldari).

Strehlburg Castle was first mentioned in 1492 and is known for its cycle of Old Testament frescoes from the 16th century (creation of Eve, fall of man, judgement of Solomon, the three young men in the fiery furnace).

With the fall of Benito Mussolini and the German occupation of northern Italy in 1943, South Tyrol - and thus also Kurtatsch - came directly under National Socialist rule as the "Operational Zone of the Alpine Foothills".

Ecclesiastical affiliation also changed over the course of the 20th century: the parish of Kurtatsch, which had always belonged to the Archdiocese of Trento, became part of the newly formed diocese of Bozen/Bolzano-Brixen/Bressanone on August 6, 1964 through the papal bull Quo aptius together with the South Tyrolean Unterland.