Leutasch

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Leutasch (disambiguation) .

Leutasch
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Innsbruck country
License plate :	IL
Surface:	102.87 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 22 '  N , 11 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '0 "  N , 11 ° 9' 0"  E
Height :	1136  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,408 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	23 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6105
Area code :	05214
Community code :	7 03 26
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchplatzl 128a 6105 Leutasch
Website:	www.leutasch.at
politics
Mayor :	Georgios Chrysochoidis
Municipal Council : (2016) (15 members)	5 Joint Leutasch valley citizens list with Mayor Thomas Mößmer - GLBL, 3 Future for Leutasch with VBM Siegfried Klotz - ZL, 7 For Leutasch - FL
Location of Leutasch in the Innsbruck-Land district
Hohe Munde, Gaistal, Leutasch and Wetterstein Mountains, with the Seefeld Plateau in front
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Leutasch valley and eastern flank of the Hohe Munde, right entrance to the Gaistal

Leutasch is a municipality with 2408 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Innsbruck-Land district in Tyrol ( Austria ). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Innsbruck . Today, Leutasch is known as a winter sports resort for its kilometers of cross - country skiing trails.

geography

The place is located in the Leutasch Valley , a high valley that extends over 16 km from the Hohe Munde to the northeast along the Wetterstein Mountains and ends in the Leutasch Gorge, which forms the border with Germany near Mittenwald . The valley is framed by other striking peaks such as the Hochwanner , the Dreitorspitze and the Arnspitze . The valley is a large rock basin formed by ice age glaciers, filled with gravel and lake sediments. The Leutascher Ache flows through it. The Gaistal leads between Wetterstein and Mieming Mountains to the west to the Ehrwalder Alm.

Leutasch is protected from the warm foehn to the south and from the cold to the north by the Wetterstein . From the west, snow clouds have easy access through the Gaistal. As a result, the Leutasch is very snow reliable, with a mild summer climate at the same time.

The settlement extends along the road in numerous hamlets. Leutasch was much more influenced by agriculture than the neighboring region around Seefeld and was therefore able to save a cultural landscape of meadows and pastures with wetlands to the present day.

Community structure

The municipality of Leutasch consists of the only village of the same name with 24 villages , Rotten , hamlets and scattered houses . In general, the community is divided into three parts:

• Oberleutasch , with Ahrn , Aue , Emmat , Gasse , Kirchplatzl , Klamm , Kreith , Lehner , Moos , Obern , Ostbach , Plaik , Platzl , Seewald , Weidach (with Unter-, Oberweidach ), Föhrenwald.
• Unterleutasch , with moat , Lochlehn , Puitbach , Reindlau , Schanz , Unterkirchen
• Neuleutasch , and there remote Lehenwald and Boden-Niederlög , already near Scharnitz

The community does not have an explicit main town , the seat of the community is in Kirchplatzl , which is also equated with 'Leutasch' or 'Oberleutasch' (or, conversely, the place name 'Leutasch' with the entire district of Oberleutasch ). The parish church of Oberleutasch can also be found at Kirchplatzl , the second parish and parish church of the community, Unterleutasch , is located in Unterkirchen . The district of Weidach is the tourist center.

Neighboring communities

Garmisch-Partenkirchen ( district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen , BY , DE )		Mittenwald ( district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen , BY , DE )
Wildermieming		Scharnitz
Telfs	Seefeld in Tyrol

history

There is no evidence of human settlement in the Leutasch municipality before the middle of the 12th century. The area on the Leutasch river is mentioned for the first time in writing as ( "aqua que dicitur Livtaske" ) in 1177 in connection with a donation from the Bavarian noble free Bernhard von Hausen to the Upper Bavarian Augustinian Canons' Monastery of Polling near Weilheim. At around the same time, Wilten Abbey also acquired possessions and rights in this area, the valleys of which are probably still completely forested at this time. Soon the first farmsteads and farms were built on cleared land.

In 1294, Count Berchtold III, who had remained childless, sold. von Eschenlohe passed his counties Mittenwald and Partenkirchen together with the Wetterstein to the Bishop of Freising , whose diocese rose to become a bishopric. The Hochstift Freising combined the newly acquired counties with the predium Garmisch acquired in 1249 to form the county of Werdenfels. A first boundary description from 1305 shows that part of the Leutasch Valley belonged to the Werdenfels county.

In 1312, Duke Heinrich of Carinthia and Count of Tyrol acquired properties in Leutasch. In 1338 he had a castle built at the beginning of the valley above the Leutasch Gorge, 300 m east of the later Leutascher Schanze , with a front and main castle and a surrounding moat in a square layout. Under their protection, Tyrol appropriated further property before the Leutasch valley went entirely to Tyrol in 1500.

The further settlement of the Leutasch valley took place slowly but steadily, so that in 1775 around 800 people lived in the valley and the number of inhabitants in Leutasch is given as 945 in an official census in 1826. The circle of landlords has also expanded over time to include the Tyrolean sovereign and the Stams monastery . As in all of Austria, these manors were abolished in the course of the revolution of 1848/49 .

Although the Leutasch Valley is off the main traffic routes, it was repeatedly affected by acts of war:

• During the Thirty Years' War there was major looting in Leutasch and the neighboring municipality of Seefeld, while the rest of Tyrol was almost completely spared.

• During the Bavarian revelry , the military invasion of Bavarian troops in the Tyrol in 1703 during the Spanish War of Succession , dealt Bavarian troops over a mountain climbing on green head - the later so-called Franzosensteig  - the Tyrolean fortifications of the Porta Claudia on scharnitz pass (and the beginning of the Leutasch Leutascher Schanz ), which secure the access from the north via Mittenwald to Tyrol, and thus gained access to Tyrol through Leutasch and Seefeld. In the course of 1703 further fighting broke out in the area of ​​the pass fortifications near Scharnitz and Leutasch.

• During Napoléon's campaign against Austria in 1805 ( 3rd coalition war ), the French troops, coming from the north, besieged the Scharnitz and Leutasch passes. Following the example of the Bavarian troops a hundred years earlier, led by local Mittenwalders, they reached Leutasch via the Franzosensteig and were able to conquer the Scharnitz Pass via Seefeld.

Population development

Historical views

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  View of the church (before 1977)

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  Haymaking (before 1977)

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  View of the Arnspitze (before 1977)

politics

The municipal council has a total of 15 members. The number of members was increased from 13 to 15 in 2016 due to population growth.

With the municipal council and mayor elections in Tyrol in 2016 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 5 joint Leutasch Valley citizens list with Mayor Thomas Mößmer - GLBL, 3 future for Leutasch with VBM Siegfried Klotz - ZL, 7 for Leutasch - FL.

mayor

• ? - 2017: Thomas Mößmer (GLBL)
• since 2018: Georgios Chrysochoidis (list "For Leutasch")

Political party	percent	be right	Seats on the local council	Coupling
Joint Leutaschtaler citizen list with Mayor Thomas Mößmer	34.14%	424	5
Future for Leutasch - with VBM Siegfried Klotz	23.59%	293	3
FOR LEUTASCH	42.27%	525	7th

coat of arms

Description of coat of arms :

In green a golden half stag .

The colors of the municipality flag are yellow-green .

The coat of arms was awarded on November 25th, 1981. It “reminds of the historical abundance of wild animals and forests in the community and of the Bavarian Polling Monastery , which has been an important one for centuries since the donation of the noble free Bernhard von Husen in 1178 [recte: 1177] The Leutasch rulership was. "

Town twinning

• Kahl am Main ( Germany )

economy

The district of Weidach forms the tourist center, with the road to Seefeld , there is also a road connection to Telfs in the Inn Valley and another to Mittenwald . The community belongs to the Olympiaregion Seefeld tourism region .

Since the 1960s, Leutasch has developed into a quiet holiday region which, with its village-like character, is primarily aimed at families with children and senior citizens. Extensive cross-country trails are laid out in winter. A total of 279 km of trails in the Olympiaregion Seefeld are available for cross-country skiing . Alpine skiing is possible at the Katzenkopf (1,360 meters high), where a 3-seater chair lift and 2 drag lifts are available. Today Leutasch has 10 hotels and numerous guest houses, holiday flats and apartment houses as well as several restaurants and pubs.

Culture and sights

Church in Oberleutasch

Church in Unterleutasch

Ganghofer Museum

See also:  List of listed objects in Leutasch

• Ganghofer Museum
• Catholic Church “St. Magdalena "in Oberleutasch, a building from the years 1820/21 (previous buildings go back to the year 1190)
• Catholic Church “St. John the Baptist ”from the years 1828/29 in Unterleutasch.
• There are also twenty chapels.
• The Way of St. James leads through the Leutasch Valley.
• Houses decorated with baroque Lüftlmalerei are worth seeing .

• The Leutasch Gorge has been made accessible with a secured footpath since August 2005.

Personalities

• Ludwig Ganghofer (1855–1920), writer
• Ernst Otto Fischer (1918–2007), chemist and Nobel Prize winner, he had a house in Leutasch
• Hans Neuner , cook

literature

• Reinhard Olt : Leutasch in Tirol - a local chronicle. After preparatory work by Ludwig Lotter and notes by Josef Franckenstein, Alfons Heis, Matthias Reindl and Josef Ringler on behalf of the Leutasch community on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the consecration of the St. Magdalena Church. Self-published d. Municipality, Leutasch 1990 ( web link, leutasch.at ).
• Carl Baur: The war in Tyrol during the campaign of 1809, with special reference to the Corps of the Supreme Count of Arco . With notes on the nature of the war in this mountainous country, along with a map of the theater of war. Munich 1812 ( Weblink, books.google.de ).

Web links

Commons : Leutasch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Leutasch  - travel guide

• Community website
• 70326 - Leutasch. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Leutasch , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria (Ed.): Ortverzeichnis Tirol 2001. Wien 2005. ( PDF; 3.2 MB )
2. ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 2: 1140-1200 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7030-0485-8 , p. 267, no.737 .
3. ↑ Cf. Geography of the County of Werdenfels
4. ↑ Christian Scheffler: Timeline of history in Werdenfelser Land and general events, 739–1945 ( web link ( memento of January 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); PDF; 215 kB).
5. ^ Christian Scheffler: Castles and jumps in the Werdenfelser Land and in the vicinity. ( Memento of August 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 77 kB).
6. ↑ History: A little insight into the history of our valley , leutasch.at
7. ↑ See History of Tyrol in Modern Times
8. ^ The Boarian Rummel from 1703. ( Memento from January 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: andreas-hofer-bund.de
9. ↑ See Siege of the Porta Claudia 1805
10. ^ Municipal council and mayoral elections in Tyrol 2016 in Leutasch
11. ↑ Numbers and facts: Community coat of arms In: leutasch.at
12. ↑ Stefan Herbke: Seefeld: The vast loop. In: Spiegel Online . February 7, 2007, accessed January 19, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Ski area Kreithlift Leutasch near Seefeld in Tirol> Ski area info> Overview: skiing and slopes ( Memento from February 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: skigebiet-kreithlift-leutasch.com