Alpbach

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

Alpbach
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Kufstein
License plate :	KU
Surface:	58.35 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 24 '  N , 11 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '55 "  N , 11 ° 56' 38"  E
Height :	975  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,533 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	6236
Area code :	05336
Community code :	7 05 01
Address of the municipal administration:	Alpbach 168 6236 Alpbach
Website:	www.alpbach.tirol.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Markus Bischofer (OLA)
Municipal Council : (2016) (15 members)	6 Alpbach Open List - OLA, 3 Alpbach List - Employees, Farmers and Economy, 5 Shaping the Future of Alpbach - ZAM, 1 Alpbach is important! - WiA!
Location of Alpbach in the Kufstein district
Alpbach
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Alpbach ( dialect Aibach ) is a municipality in the district of Kufstein in Tyrol in Austria with 2533 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2020) and is located at the end of the Alpbach Valley . The community is part of the judicial district of Rattenberg .

geography

Gratlspitze from the south with the municipality of Alpbach in the foreground

Alpbach is located in the Kitzbühel Alps in the inner Alpbachtal at the foot of the 1898 meter high Gratlspitz . The district Inneralpbach ( dialect Innătåi ) forms the valley head.

The Great Galtenberg with its 2424  m above sea level. A. is located at the southern end of the Alpbach valley and can be reached from the Inneralpbach district . Between Alpbach and Reith im Alpbachtal lies the Wiedersberger Horn in the southwest with an altitude of 2127  m above sea level. A. , which is used for tourism both in winter as a ski area and in summer. The Schatzberg in the east separates with its 1898  m above sea level. A. Alpbach from Wildschönau .

Parish Church Alpbach

Community structure

Neighboring communities

Brixlegg
Reith im Alpbachtal		Wildschönau
Hart in the Zillertal	Mute	Hopfgarten in Brixental

history

First mentioned in a document in 1240, the village had no road connection to the Inn Valley until the 1920s and thus retained long traditions and customs. However, the discovery of a bronze ax, which was dated to the Middle Bronze Age (1600–1250 BC), testifies to an earlier stay of people in Alpbach. Names of localities such as Greit and Mareit also suggest settlement in the first centuries after the birth of Christ, as finds in the neighboring village of Reith im Alpbachtal also indicate Roman settlement. Alpine farming and mining, which reached its peak in the 15th century, played a role. Copper in particular, but also silver, were mainly mined in tunnels around the Gratlspitze , with the oldest surviving information about mining in Alpbach being contained in the Salbuch from 1416.

The Fugger trading family from Augsburg took over mining in Kitzbühel and Schwaz as well as mining in Alpbach. The seat of the mountain court and the Fugger administration was the Böglerhof. However, towards the end of the 19th century, mining was stopped again due to low yields.

In the 1930s, the place was discovered by tourism. A building code passed in 1953 stipulated traditional building in wood style, which prevented the creation of large hotel buildings that would change the appearance of the town, as can be found elsewhere in tourist regions. The community received the awards "Most beautiful village in Austria" and "Most beautiful flower village in Europe" for their efforts.
In Alpbach around 22 farms are run as hereditary farms, which means that each of these farms has been owned by the same family for at least 200 years. Mainly only heredities in the male line were considered, with a state law of 1957, however, female inheritance was also tacitly recognized.

Name and etymology

Alpbach [ Alpax ] is the dialect as Aibach ( Bairische letters ) [ ɔɪ̯b̥ɔx ] and its inhabitants as Åibékchărinnă [ ɔɪ̯b̥ɪkxɐrɪnɐ ] and Åibékchă [ ɔɪ̯b̥ɪkxɐ designated].

The name Alpbach is derived from the Alp , but not from Bach . Rather, -ach is a collective suffix here , so that Alpbach can be understood as a “collection of alpine pastures”. The place was first mentioned around 1150 (questionable) and 1231-1234, where it was also written Alpach . However, the word "Bach" was crossed in the High Middle Ages (first in 1300 as Alppach , later also Altpach ). Today the brook is also represented in the municipal coat of arms. It is held in silver to symbolize the former mining in the region, while the green represents the fertile alpine pastures.

mayor

• until 1902 Johann Larch
• 1902–1908 Johann Moser
• 1908–1914 Simon Kostenzer
• 1914–1919 Ignaz Moser
• 1919–1925 Peter Moser
• 1925–1938 Simon Kostenzer
• 1938-1945 Alois Haaser
• 1945–1979 Alfons Moser (1901–1979)
• 1979–1992 Oswald Moser
• 1992-2004 Aegidius Bletzacher
• since 2004 Markus Bischofer (Open List Alpbach)

Culture and sights

Buildings

See also:  List of listed objects in Alpbach

• Parish church Alpbach : Catholic parish church in honor of St. Oswald with surrounding local cemetery. The uniform appearance of the tombs is characteristic of the local cemetery, with wrought iron crucifixes being or being erected over the graves.
• Solid wood houses: The solid wood houses, which are abundantly decorated with flowers in summer, and the farms on the slopes are worth seeing
• Vorderunterberg farm: set up as a mountain farming museum
• Congress Centrum Alpbach: The Congress Centrum Alpbach was opened in 1999, which blends harmoniously into the landscape. Much of the building was embedded in the slope

European Forum Alpbach

Congress Center Alpbach

The European Forum was founded in August 1945 by Otto Molden and Simon Moser under the name Internationale Hochschulwochen . A little later, in 1949, the name was changed to European Forum Alpbach . The event brings together international personalities from science, business, culture and politics, including several Nobel Prize winners , every year in late summer in the Congress Centrum Alpbach .

Tourism and sport

Meetings and congresses take place in the Congress Center all year round .

The place offers various sports facilities:

• In summer: hiking, Nordic walking, inline skating, mountain biking, trekking, rafting, fishing, canyoning, horse riding, tennis, (asphalt) stick shooting, archery, fitness training, paragliding, hunting, climbing.
• In winter: skiing in the ski area on the Wiedersberger Horn , cross-country skiing, ice stock sport, tobogganing, ski touring.
• In winter: connection with the cable car to the Schatzberg and on to Auffach in the Wildschönau (common area: Skijuwel ).

music

The Bundesmusikkapelle Alpbach was founded in 1823 with around 25 musicians. In 2018 the association had 74 members. The Alpbach band is on average every third day during the summer months. In the summer there are weekly concerts. Other tasks are the musical accompaniment of funerals, church festivals and processions, as well as participation in national receptions.

Alpbach is also known for its folk musicians. Particularly noteworthy here is Peter Moser , who worked hard to preserve countless songs and sages in the Alpine region. Alpbach and the Alpbachtal became more famous as the location of the television series Wildbach .

Economy and Infrastructure

Tourism occupies a special position in Alpbach. In addition to congress and summer tourism, winter tourism with the skiing area on the Wiedersberger Horn as well as cross-country skiing trails and a toboggan run play an important role. Apart from tourism, small businesses such as carpenters, carpenters and blacksmiths are also important local employers.

Erwin Schrödinger's grave

Personalities

• Alfons Moser, Mayor of the Alpbach community, honorary citizen of the Alpbach community

People related to the community

• Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961), physicist and scientific theorist, Nobel laureate in physics in 1933. Erwin Schrödinger spent the last part of his life in Alpbach and is buried at the village cemetery at his own request.
• Werner Scholz (1898–1982), German-Austrian painter, lived in Alpach since 1939
• Karl Julius Joest (1898–1975), German painter from Düsseldorf , lived in Alpach between 1940 and 1943
• Eduard Wallnöfer , former governor of Tyrol. Honorary citizen of the community since 1974.
• Wendelin Weingartner , former governor of Tyrol. Honorary citizen of the community since 1999.
• Erhard Busek , Honorary President of the European Forum Alpbach. Honorary citizen of the community since 2012.

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  Alpbach and Gratlspitz in winter

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  Alpbach and Gratlspitz in summer from the Wiedersberger Horn

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  Municipal Office

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  View towards the Inn Valley with the Reither Kogel in the background

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  Crossroads on the way to the Hösljoch

Web links

Commons : Alpbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Wolfgang Pfaundler, Johann Zellner: Alpbach - the most beautiful village in Austria - culture and history of a Tyrolean mountain community . 1st edition. Alpbach municipality, Alpbach 1994.
2. ↑ The history of Alpbach. Retrieved April 28, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Hereditary farms 1932–2011 . In: Land Tirol . ( tirol.gv.at [PDF; accessed on April 28, 2014]). Hereditary farms 1932–2011 ( Memento from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Peter Anreiter, Christian Chapman, Gerhard Rampl: The community names of Tyrol . Origin and meaning. Universitätsverlag Wagner, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0449-0 , p. 275-277 .
5. ^ Alpbach: Politics - Mayor Chronicle ( Memento from August 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved August 2, 2018.
6. ↑ Our story. Retrieved November 17, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Club life | Bundesmusikkapelle Alpbach . Retrieved August 2, 2018.
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Honorary Bearers. Retrieved May 30, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Part on Alfons Moser (1901–1979) sterbebilder.schwemberger.at