Amras

This article covers the Amras district of Innsbruck. For the story of the same name see Amras (Thomas Bernhard) ; the municipality in East Tyrol is called Anras .

Amras ( district ) locality cadastral municipality Amras
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Innsbruck city  (I), Tyrol
Pole. local community	innsbruck
Coordinates	47 ° 15 '34 "  N , 11 ° 25' 44"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 15 '34 "  N , 11 ° 25' 44"  E
height	576  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	5550 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	4.92 km²
Post Code	6020 Innsbruck
prefix	+ 43/0512 (Innsbruck)
Statistical identification
Locality code	16399
Cadastral parish number	81102
Counting district / district	Amras-South, Amras-West, Amras-North (70101 X [50,51,52])
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS

Amras Statistical District
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Innsbruck city  (I), Tyrol
Pole. local community	Innsbruck   ( KG  Amras)
Locality	Amras
Coordinates	47 ° 15 ′ 34 "  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 44"  E
Residents of the stat. An H.	5098 (2014)
Building status	852 (2014)
surface	3.11 km²
Statistical identification
Statistical district	17 Amras
Counting district / district	Amras-South, Amras-West (70101 X [50.51])
Amras plan
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS ; City of Innsbruck: Statistics - Numbers

Amras (center 576  m above sea level ) is a cadastral municipality , a fraction ( locality ) and a statistical district in the south-east of Innsbruck , which was incorporated in 1938. The districts of Pradl and Reichenau were separated from Amras in 1904 and incorporated into the city of Innsbruck.

Outline and statistical data

The cadastral municipality of Amras lies at the foot of the Paschberg and covers an area of ​​4.9 km². In the west it borders on the cadastral municipality of Pradl , in the north on the cadastral municipalities of Mühlau and Arzl and the municipality of Rum , in the east on the municipality of Ampass and in the south on the municipalities of Aldrans and Lans . The cadastral community and fraction is divided into the statistical districts of Amras and the Roßau industrial area , which are separated by the Inntal motorway and the motorway feeder ( B174 ).

The statistical district of Amras comprises the statistical districts ( census districts ) Amras-Süd (239.2 ha, 924 inhabitants, 427 buildings, as of April 2014), which includes the area south of the motorway and motorway feeder, and Amras-West , the old village center and the areas north and west of it (71.5 ha, 4174 inhabitants, 425 buildings). The district has 5098 inhabitants and a population density of 1641 inhabitants / km². 14.6% of the population are younger than 15 years, 17.6% older than 65. The proportion of foreigners is 13.9% (as of 2013).

history

Ambras village and castle around 1840

Parish church

An urn grave field from the Young Bronze Age discovered in the Ambras Castle Park indicates an early settlement. There is also evidence of a Roman settlement.

The name Omeras (possibly derived from the Latin ad umbras , ' lying in the shade') was first mentioned in 950 in the tradition books of the prince-bishops of Freising . From this, Ombras , Ambras (still preserved in Ambras Castle ) and finally Amras were derived.

Around 1078/98 the Counts of Andechs acquired Amras Castle, but it was destroyed in a feud by Duke Heinrich the Proud in 1133 . The rule of Amras between the Voldertalbach in the east and the Sill remained in the possession of the Andechser family, and in 1288 the castle was rebuilt under Count Meinhard II of Görz-Tirol .

In 1180 Berchtold III. von Andechs from Wilten Abbey created the grounds of today's Innsbruck old town in order to expand the market from the left bank of the Inn (today's Mariahilf-St. Nikolaus ) over the Inn Bridge . In return, he left the monastery a homestead "in vico Omras" ("in the village of Amras").

In 1221, the Bishop of Brixen Bertold von Neifen consecrated the first church that belonged to the Ampass parish and has been cared for by Premonstratensian Canons of Wilten Abbey since 1259. It was consecrated to St. Pankraz and Zeno , later St. Wolfgang added, the patronage of the Assumption has been since 1408 . Today's late Gothic church was consecrated in 1489 and is the only church on the Innsbruck valley floor to have retained its striking Gothic tower with a pointed helmet . The big bell of the chimes was cast in 1491 by the bell founder Peter Löffler in Hötting . In 1677, 1712 and 1756 the interior was redesigned in Baroque style. In 1765 Amras became a curate and in 1891 an independent parish, but remained incorporated into Wilten Abbey .

Around 1600 a healing spring was discovered in Egerdach on the eastern edge of the village and there a bathhouse and in 1656 a little church dedicated to St. Cross erected. Until after the First World War, Egerdach was a much visited spa town.

In 1793 the first school house was built.

There used to be several lakes on the valley floor that were owned by the rulers and used as fishing waters. They were fed by the Aldranser Bach and a canal branching off from the Sill. The largest of these was Lake Amraser See , which in 1772 still had an area of ​​17 hectares, but was increasingly silting up . It existed until the beginning of the 20th century, then the severely shrunk lake was finally filled in to create meadows and fields.

In 1904 the Pradl fraction was separated from Amras and merged with Innsbruck. In the course of the formation of large communities under the Nazi regime, Amras was also incorporated into Innsbruck in 1938. From 1941 to 1945, the Reichenau camp was located in Roßau , a work education camp originally planned by the Gestapo as a reception camp .

After the Second World War, the place experienced major settlement expansions through residential areas in the west and north and through industrial areas in the east. The oldest shopping center in the greater Innsbruck area (DEZ) has been located in the area of ​​the former Amraser See since the 1970s. From 1965 to 1968 the Inntal Autobahn was built, which cut off part of the village from the village center.

coat of arms

Unlike Wilten , Hötting or Mühlau , Amras did not have a coat of arms when it was incorporated. Therefore, in 1989, Amras was the first district to receive a newly created district coat of arms. It shows in a split shield on the right in blue a half crowned golden eagle, on the left in silver a representation of the miraculous image of Amras. The eagle is taken from the coat of arms of the Counts of Andechs and, together with the miraculous image, recalls the secular and ecclesiastical history of Amras.

Communal partnership

• Andechs , Germany , since 2000
• Feldthurns , South Tyrol , since?

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Tram line 3 at the new Amras terminus

Amras is located at the Innsbruck-Ost junction of the Inntal motorway. The district is served by the bus lines C, R and T of the Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe (IVB). The tram line 3, their final stop earlier in the Eastern Cemetery was on the border between Pradl and Amras, was extended town center towards the Amraser 2012th The area on the Paschberg (Ambras Castle, Tummelplatz) is accessed by the Innsbruck low mountain range railway. The bus stop "Schloss Ambras", located elevated on the Paschberg below Tummelplatz, is served by the Postbus line 4134 to the eastern low mountain range as well as by the sightseeing bus line of Innsbruck Tourismus TS (The Sightseer), but is not connected to the local public transport network of the IVB by any bus line tied up.

economy

The DEZ, the oldest and largest shopping center in the Innsbruck area, is located between the old town center and the motorway slip road, and further retail outlets have settled in the vicinity. Roßau , which belongs to the Amras cadastral community, is a large industrial area in which, in addition to traditional industrial and commercial enterprises, numerous commercial and service companies have now settled.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in the cadastral community of Amras

• Amras Catholic Parish Church of the Assumption

Amras as a literary place

A story by Thomas Bernhard is named after Amras, is dealt there and in Innsbruck and is entitled Amras . The text was written as Bernhard's second major work in 1964 and is still published today by Suhrkamp Verlag . The story was the author's personal favorite work.

Web links

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

• Further information on Amras at amras.at
• Amras , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City of Innsbruck: cadastral communities of Innsbruck (PDF; 1.3 MB).
2. ↑ City of Innsbruck: area, inhabitants and number of buildings of the individual census districts and statistical districts of the city of Innsbruck (as of April 2014) (PDF; 143 kB).
3. ↑ City of Innsbruck: District mirror 2014 (PDF; 410 kB).
4. ↑ Anton Höck: In Roman times in Amras. In: Scientific yearbook of the Tyrolean state museums. 4, 2011, pp. 23-57 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
5. ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch , II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 2: 1140-1200 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7030-0485-8 , p. 284 No. 758 .
6. ↑ Günter Krewedl: The vegetation of Naßstandorten in the Inn valley between Telfs and gondola. Basics for the protection of threatened habitats. Reports of the Natural Science and Medical Association in Innsbruck, Supplementum 9, Innsbruck 1992 ( PDF (26.4 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
7. ↑ Otto Stolz : History of the waters of Tyrol. Schlern-Schriften, Volume 32, Innsbruck 1932, pp. 208-210 ( digitized version ).
8. ↑ For the 500th anniversary of the church: A district coat of arms for Amras. In: Innsbrucker Stadtnachrichten, No. 4/1989, p. 2 ( digitized version ).
9. ↑ Thomas Bernhard: Amras. In: Ders .: Works in 22 volumes. Edited by Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler , Martin Huber . Volume 11: Stories 1. In the height . Amras. The Italian . The cultist . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2004, pp. 109–179.
10. ^ Thomas Bernhard - An encounter. Conversations with Krista Fleischmann. Edition S (Österreichische Staatsdruckerei), Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7046-0184-5 .