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This article explains the municipality of Tyrol, the village of Bramberg am Wildkogel , Land Salzburg, see Wenns (municipality of Bramberg) .

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coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Imst
License plate :	IN THE
Surface:	29.63 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 10 '  N , 10 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 10 '10 "  N , 10 ° 43' 51"  E
Height :	962  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,039 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	6473
Area code :	05414
Community code :	7 02 24
Address of the municipal administration:	Unterdorf 9 6473 Wenns
Website:	www.wenns.tirol.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Walter Schöpf (Wenns habitat)
Municipal Council : (2016) (13 members)	10 Habitat Wenns 3 Equal rights for everyone
Location of Wenns in the Imst district
Center of Wenns seen from the north
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Wenns is a municipality in the Imst district (Imst judicial district ) in Tyrol in Austria with 2039 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Wenns is located on the western slope of the Pitztal at the junction to the Pillertal , which provides a connection to the municipality of Fließ in the Upper Court via the Pillerhöhe . The municipality of Wenns is the second largest municipality in the Pitztal in terms of area and population and is located in a sunny basin at the junction to the Pillersattel, which connects to the Kaunertal and the Upper Court. Due to its central location, Wenns has developed into the capital of the valley in terms of its settlement and infrastructure. In addition to the main town, a large number of hamlets on the south-eastern slope of the Venet and Pillersattel also belong to the municipality.

Community structure

Wenns consists of a single village or cadastral community. In addition to the main town on the road, there are also numerous hamlets and farms in the municipality :

• Amis pile
• Anger
• Auders
• Audershof
• Baustadl
• Bergle
• Bichl
• Beer field
• Brennwald
• Eggmahd
• Farmie
• Flicker hole
• Georg-Matthäus-Vischer-Platz
• Greith
• Landmark
• Hairlach
• Klofles
• Long whip
• Langenau
• Larchach
• Matzlewald
• Minköfle
• Mill hopping
• Mühlbach
• Moosanger
• Oberdorf
• Obermühlbach
• oven
• Pirchach
• Pitzenhöfe
• saw
• Saint Margarethen
• Schweizerhof
• settlement
• Potion
• Unterdorf
• Wiesle
• Angle

Neighboring communities

• Arzl in the Pitztal
• Flow
• Imsterberg
• Jerzens
• Schönwies
• Zams

Due to its central location, the place has developed into the capital of the valley.

history

In the years 1163–1170 the name Wenns ("Wennes") is mentioned for the first time in a traditional note from Schäftlarn Abbey . The Marienberg monastery in Vinschgau also received taxes from goods in Wenns at that time, as evidenced by documents from 1164, 1178, 1181, 1219 and 1220. Some of these documents were even issued by popes, such as the one from 1178 with which Pope Alexander III. the Marienberg monastery in Wenns (also written here as “Wennes”). In addition to the spelling “Wennes”, we find “Bennes” during this period, as in a document from 1164.

The hamlet of Brennwald is mentioned for the first time in 1275 in a document as "Primwalden". In 1289 the consecration of the church and the Johannes altar in "Wense" is attested. The village of Piller, which belonged to the municipality of Wenns from 1938 to 1955, was first mentioned around 1300 as "Pilaer".

Around 1300 and 1331 there is already talk of a village master or "village governor" in the documents. Wenns has certainly had its own thing chair since that time , where the peasant population gathered in the open air on the days of judgment. According to a wisdom recorded at that time, in the 14th and 15th centuries the village bailiffs of Wenns had to administer the lower jurisdiction in the area of ​​their community under the supervision of the judge of Imst, they are therefore also referred to in various written records as "judges of Wenns". By a sovereign ordinance of 1560, however, this power of the village bailiff of Wenns is largely restricted or revoked and this has been made directly subordinate to the Imst court. The so-called “Platzerhaus” or judge's house is a witness of this past. In the middle of the 16th century, the village bailiff Cristof Genewein had the house painted. The images, the largest monumental painting of this kind in Tyrol, contain religious themes and 54 coats of arms of countries, rulers, princes, cities and guilds. The house suffered great damage in the major fire in 1917, but the paintwork was completely restored.

The Tyrolean sovereigns previously assigned the office of caretaker and judge from Imst to service rights, to lien since 1500, for example to the Lords von Tänzl and von Schurf, and in 1682 to the Counts of Ferrari to feudal rights. Wenns was always included in these awards from the lordship and the Imst court.

In Wenns, perhaps some of you can still remember the so-called “tower” that collapsed in 1921. This belonged to the Lords of Hirschberg, who as knightly officials of the Count of Tyrol can be found in the Upper Inn Valley since 1250. This dynasty died out around 1400, and from 1472 the tower and the associated goods came to the lords as a princely fief, and later to the Counts of Flieger who also owned the Kroneburg. This tower included the lordship over some estates in Wenns and the surrounding area, as well as the right to appoint the village governor of Wenns. A separate jurisdiction was not connected with it. With the Counts of Hirschberg, who ruled the Lower Inn Valley near Innsbruck from 1254 to 1280, those lords of Hirschberg zu Wenns have no connection other than the fact that their names are identical. The tower collapsed in 1921, just days after the three farming families who lived in it abandoned it.

For the first time in 1809 - i.e. at the time of Bavaria's rule over Tyrol - and finally in 1826, the state replaced the Imst regional court from the Counts of Ferrari and took it over into its own administration. It has been called the District Court since 1849, Imst District Court since 1938, and District Court again since 1945.

Since 1754 Wenns was subordinate to the Oberinntal district office, which had its seat in Imst, with regard to political administration. In 1811 Imst became a political municipality. Since 1868 it was part of the Imst district administration, and from 1938 to 1945 it was again part of the Imst district administration.

With regard to diocesan membership, Wenns has also undergone a change since the First World War. Until 1918 Wenns belonged to the diocese of Brixen . Due to the war events and the separation of South Tyrol, a branch of the prince-bishop's ordinariate was established in Innsbruck in 1918. On April 9, 1921, the Innsbruck Apostolic Administration was created. The establishment of a diocese Innsbruck-Feldkirch was already decided in the Concordat of 1933, but it was no longer established due to the annexation to Germany in 1938.

Only after the Second World War did the question of having its own diocese arise again. On September 24, 1964, the previous Apostolic Administrator was finally appointed the first diocesan bishop of Innsbruck. The Imst deanery, to which the Wenns parish belongs, has seen this eventful history and is now part of the Innsbruck diocese .

Population development

Culture and sights

Square house

See also:  List of listed objects in Wenns

• Parish church hl. John the Evangelist in a surrounding cemetery
• Platzhaus : The 'Platzhaus' on the small village square near the main street is worth seeing. The former house of the village bailiff and Pitztal judge was completelypaintedbetween 1576 and 1608.

• Stamserhaus: The Stamserhaus, the oldest farmhouse in all of Tyrol. It was calculated to be almost exactly 700 years. The building is located in the center of the village, at Georg Matthaus Vischer Platz, where the world's oldest nativity scene is still located today, where it presents its nativity scenes.

• MPreis branch : The local branch of the MPreis supermarket chain by architects Rainer Köberl and Astrid Tschapeller has been awarded several architecture prizes and nominations ( new building in the Alps , competition for the Mies van der Rohe prize, among others).

Regular events

• Wenner Fasnacht: This custom goes back to the 19th century and has been cultivated again since 1993.
• Polar Bear Festival: Open-air event in January, took place 17 times up to 2016.
• Pitztal adventure market
• Wenner summer night festival, since 2017

economy

The economy is determined by two-season tourism , with Wenns having a share in the winter tourism (ski areas) of the Pitztal, but without being able to have a ski area within the municipality itself. To strengthen the economy, an association called "I Love Wenns", currently consisting of 21 companies, was founded. The aim of this association is to bring the importance of the Wenner economy in the Tyrolean Oberland closer to both the locals and the holiday guests.

politics

mayor

• until 2010 Markus Helbock (ÖVP)
• since 2010 Walter Schöpf (living space Wenns)

coat of arms

Awarded: December 3, 1974 Description: In blue, a golden arm turned to the right with a judge's staff. Color of the municipality flag: yellow-blue

Reason: Wenns was the only place in North Tyrol where a village bailiff with a judicial character was able to develop and maintain itself during the Middle Ages.

The lower jurisdiction in Wenns was not due to the judge from Imst, but to the village governor or judge from Wenns. The coat of arms reminds of this independent judicial district, which was not removed until 1560.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Georg Matthäus Vischer (1628–1696), topographer and clergyman
• Philipp Sattler (1695–1738), sculptor in Olomouc
• Jakob Christoph Schletterer (1699–1774), sculptor
• Christian Josef Tschuggmall (1785–1845), mechanic, inventor and showman
• Alois Gabl (1845–1893), painter and draftsman
• Alois Plattner (1875–1954), pastor and local history researcher
• Franz Regensburger (1922–2001), politician (ÖVP) and teacher
• Eduard Rieger (1946–2018), politician (FPÖ) and innkeeper

literature

• Oswald Trapp ; Magdalena Hörmann-Weingartner (employee): Tiroler Burgenbuch. VII. Volume - Upper Inn Valley and Ausserfern . Athesia publishing house, Bozen 1986, ISBN 88-7014-391-0 .

Web links

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

• 70224 - ifs. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.wenns.tirol.gv.at/system/web/ffekten.aspx?detailonr=219200687
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. 157, No. 582 .
3. ^ Heinz Moser: Chronicle of Wenns . Ed .: Tiroler Landesarchiv .
4. ↑ MPREIS: Awards
5. ↑ International architecture awards for MPREIS-Markt Wenns. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: mpreis.at. MPreis , archived from the original on September 13, 2016 ; accessed on September 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ History of the Wenner Fasnacht. Retrieved April 6, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Wenner Midsummer Night Festival. Retrieved July 19, 2018 . 
8. ↑ welcome to the i love Wenns website! Retrieved on July 19, 2018 (German). 
9. ↑ Death picture of Alois Plattner sterbebilder.schwemberger.at