Amlach

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Amlach
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Lienz
License plate :	LZ
Surface:	22.46 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 49 '  N , 12 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 48 '48 "  N , 12 ° 45' 40"  E
Height :	689  m above sea level A.
Residents :	491 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	9908
Area code :	04852
Community code :	7 07 03
Address of the municipal administration:	Lindenstrasse 4 9908 Amlach
Website:	www.amlach.net
politics
Mayor :	Franz Idl (together for Amlach)
Municipal Council : (2016) (11 members)	7 Together for Amlach, 4 list amlach
Location of Amlach in the Lienz district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Amlach is a municipality with 491 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the district of Lienz , Tyrol ( Austria ). The community is located in the judicial district of Lienz .

geography

Amlach lies in the Lienz valley floor. It lies at an altitude of 687 m on the right bank of the Drau and extends over an area of ​​22.5 km². Neighboring communities are Leisach in the west, Lienz in the north, Tristach in the east and Lesachtal ( Carinthia ) in the south.

Community structure

The municipality of Amlach is congruent with the cadastral municipality of Amlach. The community is located on the right bank of the Drava and extends over an area of ​​22.5 km². There are two villages in the municipality, the village of Amlach, which is closer to the Drau, at 689 meters above sea level, and the village of Ulrichsbichl, just a few hundred meters further to the east, at 699 meters above sea level.

mountains

Parts of the Lienz Dolomites belong to Amlach , with the Kreidenfeuers (1,615 m) and Rauchkofel (1,910 m) mountain range closest to the village of Amlach and in front of the much higher main peaks of the Lienz Dolomites. Further south, the municipality of Amlach extends from west to east as far as the Oberwalderturm (2,612 m), the Spitzkofel (2,717 m), the Kühbodenspitze (2,704 m), the Kreuzkofel (2,694 m), the Eisenschuss (2,615 m) and the Weittalspitze (2,539 m), the Simonskopf (2,687 m), the Teplitz peak (2,613 m), the Gamswiesenspitze (2,486 m), the Bloßkofel (2,400 m) and the Rauchbichl (2,180 m). At 2,717 meters, the Spitzkofel is the highest point in the municipality of Amlach.

Waters

Despite its location on the banks of the Drau, Amlach only covers a small area of ​​the main river in East Tyrol. In addition, there are two brooks in the municipality that arise in the Lienz Dolomites. These are the Spatenbach and the Galitzenbach , which itself absorbs the Hallebach, the Kerschbaumertalbach, the Laserzbach and the Blasbründl before it flows into the Drau. The Wierbach, on the other hand, was derived from the Drau and led back into the Drau via Tristach.

climate

Climate diagram of the neighboring district capital Lienz

Since there is no measuring station in Amlach, exact records of the community's climate are missing. However, due to the proximity of the settlements to the weather station in the district capital Lienz, it is comparable with the climatic data measured there. The coldest month of the year in the Lienz basin is January, the highest temperatures are measured in the summer months of July and August. The highest rainfall also falls in the summer months, with the month of October being almost as rainy. Fog rarely occurs in the Lienz Basin, but in winter, due to inversion weather conditions, mighty cold-air lakes form .

history

Amlach was first mentioned in a document as "Amblach" in 1169. Since the 13th century, Amlach has been the place of court for the surrounding communities. The local church of St. Ottilie was built in 1382. After Austria was annexed to the "Third Reich", the municipality was merged with Tristach in 1939 . In 1955 Amlach became independent again.

Since September 1, 2012, Amlach has street names and its own postcode.

population

Population structure

In 2012 there were 378 people in the Amlach community. According to the 2001 census, 98.5% of the population were Austrian citizens (Tyrol: 90.6%); by the beginning of 2012, the value had only dropped insignificantly to 96.3%. In 2001, 96.0% of the population (Tyrol: 83.4%) professed to be part of the Roman Catholic Church , while 2.5% had no religious beliefs.

The average age of the community population in 2001 was well below the national average. 22.5% of the inhabitants of Amlach were younger than 15 years (Tyrol: 18.4%), 58.0% between 15 and 59 years old (Tyrol: 63.0%). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 19.4%, above the national average. As a result, the average age of the population of Amlach rose significantly. The proportion of people under the age of 15 fell to 17.5% as of January 1, 2012, while the proportion of people between the ages of 15 and 59 rose to 66.9%. By contrast, the proportion of people over 59 years of age fell to 15.6%. According to marital status, in 2001 49.1% of the residents of Amlach were single, 42.3% married, 5.2% widowed and 3.2% divorced.

Population development

The population of Amlach fluctuated strongly in the second half of the 19th century, but fell by around 15% by the turn of the century. From the low point in 1910, however, Amlach was able to increase its population almost gradually, which more than doubled the population between 1923 and 2012. Amlach recorded the highest population growth in the 1930s and 1970s and since the 1990s. With the 2001 census, the municipality exceeded the 300-inhabitant mark for the first time and the population continued to rise sharply afterwards. The 400 inhabitant mark was reached in 2014. While the birth balance was only slightly positive over the last few decades, Amlach benefited from a strongly positive migration balance .

economy

Workplaces and employees

The workplace census carried out in 2001 in Amlach showed 15 workplaces with 85 employees (excluding agriculture), 76% of which were employed. The number of workplaces had increased by three companies (+ 20%) compared to 1991, the number of employees even increased by 34 people (+ 40%). The most important branch of the economy in 2001 was the hotel and restaurant sector with ten companies and 62% of the employees in the municipality, followed by energy and water supply (28% of the employees). The size of the business in trade and commerce in the municipality of Amlach was also very small. In 2001 there were only two companies with 20 or more employees. Of the 135 employed residents of Amlach, only 20 people were employed in Amlach in 2001. 115 had to commute to work. Of the out-commuters, 75% had their place of work in the neighboring district capital of Lienz. Another 16% had found a job in the rest of the district, another 4% commuted to North Tyrol or another federal state.

tourism

Tourism is an important source of income for the municipality of Amlach, with around 48,000 overnight stays in the 2011/12 tourist year. Amlach recorded 38,743 overnight stays in the summer of 2012 and 9,589 overnight stays in the winter of 2011/12. Despite the small size of Amlach, this meant the tenth largest number of overnight stays in the district in summer, and in winter Amlach only achieved 17th place for overnight stays in the Lienz district. While the number of overnight stays in winter has decreased by around 6% since the turn of the millennium, the number of overnight stays in summer has increased by around 43%. Of the 38,743 overnight stays in summer 2012, only 26% were Austrian, 40% German, 16% Dutch and 7% Italian.

Today, like all other East Tyrolean municipalities, the municipality belongs to the East Tyrol Tourist Association, with Amlach being part of the "Lienz Dolomites Holiday Region". In addition to a four-star and a three-star hotel, there are a number of private room rental companies, inns, holiday apartments and guest houses in the community.

Transport and infrastructure

Amlach is crossed by the Tristacher-See-Straße (L 319), which begins in Lienz at the Drautal Straße B 100 and leads via Amlach and Ulrichsbichl to the Tristacher See.

Amlach has joined forces with the neighboring communities of the Lienz basin to form the “Lienzer Talboden waste water association”. The municipal wastewater is treated in the Dölsach sewage treatment plant , with the Drau serving as a receiving water . By the beginning of the 21st century, the sewer construction work was completely completed and a connection rate of 100% to the sewage treatment plant had been achieved. The waste that arises in the community is disposed of by the Waste Management Association of East Tyrol (AWVO).

In 1988 Tiroler Wasserkraft AG built the Amlach power station in the Amlach municipality . With the help of a pressure tunnel, this uses the natural gradient of the Drava at this point. Water, which flows through a drop distance of 370 m, drives two from each of a Francis turbine and an associated generator existing machine units to which a combined output of 60  MW provide a control and annual production of 219 GWh.

Security and Healthcare

With regard to health care, Amlach is organized in the social district of Lienz Land together with the communities of Ainet , Leisach , Tristach , Oberlienz , Gaimberg , Schlaiten and St. Johann im Walde . In the health district, for example, health services such as elderly and care assistance, home and household help and meals on wheels are organized.

Web links

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

• History of Tyrol: Amlach

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1979: Franz Idl (1909–1995), Mayor of Amlach 1955–1974
• 1989: Matthias Defregger (1915–1995), auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
• 1989: Josef Goller (1919–2010), Mayor of Amlach 1974–1989

Sons and daughters of the church

• Joseph Rheden (1873–1946), astronomer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Regional studies East Tyrol p. 108
2. ↑ http://www.amlach.net/
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Statistics Austria municipality data from Amlach
4. ↑ State Statistics Tyrol (VZ 2001) (PDF; 4.1 MB)
5. ^ Office of the Tyrolean provincial government, Tyrolean provincial statistics
6. ↑ State of Tyrol, wastewater disposal in the Lienz district ( Memento from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 7.2 MB)
7. ↑ Tiroler Wasserkraft AG: The power plants of Tiroler Wasserkraft (brochure)
8. ^ Social district Lienz-Land