Old town (municipalities Mühlbachl, Pfons)

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Old town ( hamlet )
locality
Altstadt (municipalities Mühlbachl, Pfons) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Innsbruck-Land  (IL), Tyrol
Pole. local community Mühlbachl
Coordinates 47 ° 8 '12 "  N , 11 ° 27' 13"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 8 '12 "  N , 11 ° 27' 13"  Ef1
height 980  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 28 (January 1, 2020)
Post Code 6143 Mühlbachl
Statistical identification
Locality code 16511
Counting district / district Mühlbachl-Dorf (70 330 000)
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View of the old town
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS
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Old Town ( Rotte )
Basic data
Pole. District , state Innsbruck-Land  (IL), Tyrol
Pole. local community Pfons
Locality Schöfens
Coordinates 47 ° 8 ′ 12 ″  N , 11 ° 27 ′ 13 ″  Ef1
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Post Code 6143 Pfons
Statistical identification
Counting district / district Pfons (70341 000)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS
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The old town is a place near Matrei am Brenner in the North Tyrolean Wipptal , which belongs to the communities Mühlbachl and Pfons .

geography

The place is north of Matrei then at 980  m above sea level. A. on the right bank of the Sill on a narrow strip between the river and the Brennerbahn or the slope behind it. As a hamlet, the old town forms a fraction ( locality ) of the municipality of Mühlbachl with 28 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) and is a group in the municipality of Pfons (fraction of Schöfens). The houses directly on the Sill belong to Mühlbachl, the buildings to the east (church, cemetery, Widum, elementary school) belong to Pfons. The Sillbrücke connects the old town with the rest of the municipal area of ​​Mühlbachl and with Matrei.

history

The old town is part of the oldest settlement in the Wipptal, which dates back to pre-Roman times and was called Matreium by the Romans . The settlement consists of two parts, the so-called “market” with a double row of houses on Brennerstrasse (today's Matrei), a single row of houses on Ellbögener Strasse in today's Mühlbachl on the left bank of the Sill and the so-called “old town” on the right bank. While the market had belonged to the bishops of Brixen as Hofmark since 1239 , the old town belonged to the truce of Castle Matrei . The old town is probably the older settlement. Your name has nothing to do with "city", but was originally Altenstatt ("old home"). The parish church of the Assumption of Mary located here, first mentioned in 1311, was the seat of the original parish of Matrei.

Infrastructure

The place has a central function for the three communities Matrei, Mühlbachl and Pfons. The elementary school Matrei and the surrounding area is located here. The parish church with the cemetery built into the slope, the late Gothic St. John's Chapel and the Gothic Widum represents a closed artistic and urban ensemble.

Web links

Commons : Old Town  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. a b Architectural firm Dipl.-Ing. E. Stummvoll, Innsbruck: Local spatial planning concept 2014 - Pfons municipality. Basic determination, inventory, inventory analysis. Innsbruck 2013 ( PDF; 1.5 MB )
  3. ^ Heinrich Hammer : The art of the Wipptal. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum 18 (1938), pp. 1–41 ( PDF; 7.6 MB )
  4. Alois Egger: The courtyards of the Wipptal from Schönberg to the Brixner Klause. Volume I: The courtyards of the Matrei-Steinach Regional Court including Hintertux and Ellbögen. In: Publications of the Museum Ferdinandeum 14 (1934), pp. 1–202 ( PDF; 13.5 MB )