Anras

This article explains the municipality in East Tyrol, the Innsbruck district in North Tyrol is called Amras .

Anras
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Lienz
License plate :	LZ
Surface:	62.05 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 46 '  N , 12 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 46 '23 "  N , 12 ° 33' 24"  E
Height :	1261  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,232 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	9912
Area code :	04846
Community code :	7 07 04
Address of the municipal administration:	Village 33 9912 Anras
Website:	www.anras.at
politics
Mayor :	Johann Waldauf (Anraser home list)
Municipal Council : (2016) (13 members)	2 2 6th 3 2 2 6th 3  A total of 13 seats Speeding home list: 2 Farmer List - New Future Anras: 2 Team Josef Kollreider, We for Anras: 6 Anras active: 3
Location of Anras in the Lienz district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Anras is a municipality with 1232 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the judicial district and district of Lienz in Tyrol ( Austria ).

geography

location

The municipality of Anras is located in the East Tyrolean part of the Puster Valley , through which the Drau flows. It is located a good 15 kilometers west of Lienz .

The municipal area extends over both sides of the valley, but the settlement mainly extends north of the Drava. The main town with a few hamlets is located on the Pustertaler Höhenstraße , there are also settlements on the valley floor.

The municipality of Anras, located in the central Puster Valley, extends from the mountains of the Defereggen Mountains (Villgraten Mountains) to the foothills of the Lienzer Dolomites and from Erlbach (border against Abfaltersbach ) to Kristeinbach (border against Assling ).

Waters

Erlbach , Margarethenbach and Kristeinbach drain the sunny side with their side arms, while the Badbach , Jochbach and Griesbach from the southern mountains lead to the Drau. The Ascher See , the Anraser See and the Sichelsee are still located in the northern alpine area .

mountains

From the mountains in the north, called Villgratner Berge or Defreggengebirge, the Gumriaul  ( 2918  m above sea level ) can be seen from Anras, the slightly higher Gölbner  ( 2943  m above sea level ) and the Arnhörner are also known. Local mountains, however, are probably the Spitzenstein  ( 2265  m above sea level ), the Breitenstein  ( 2304  m above sea level ), the Golzentipp  ( 2317  m above sea level ) in between and the Dorfberg  ( 2115  m above sea level ) in the Western group of the Lienz Dolomites in the south.

climate

Anras has a sunny low mountain range , the local climate is rather low in precipitation.

Community structure

The municipality of Anras comprises 20 localities (residents as of January 1, 2020):

• Anras (345)
• Ash (147)
• Erl Bridge (56)
• Width (25)
• Goll (47)
• Mittewald (158)
• Winkl (40)
• Kobreil (7)
• Köden (10)
• Kollreid (2)
• Kolls (16)
• Fiefdom (2)
• Mairwiesen (15)
• Margaret Bridge (40)
• Oberried (90)
• Planitzen (9)
• Rain (51)
• Diamond (23)
• Unterried (121)
• Meadows (28)

The municipal area consists of three cadastral communities (area: as of December 31, 2017):

• Anras (1,488.45 ha)
• Asch mit Winkl (2,069.74 ha)
• Ried (2,648.35 ha)

The two counting districts are the Anras terrace settlements and the Anras valley area . The settlements are mainly on the sunny high terrace and in the valley floor (zi Lande) , only one farm (Lechen) is on the shady side above the Drau. The settlements are widely scattered:

• in the valley Erlbrücke , Köden , Fontnell , Margarethenbrücke , Mittenwald (parts also in Assling )
• Halfway up: Gebreite , Rain , Planitzen
• the glacial terraces: Winkl , Asch , Goll with Zare and Kollreid , Anras with Koll , Mairwiesen , meadows , upper - and lower Ried

The heaped villages of Asch and Anras originally had a Romanesque character, the village of Asch was almost entirely rebuilt after the major fire in 1894. In terms of courtyard forms there is the Paarhof , but also the Einhof , where the fire house and farm building are under one roof. Farms in extreme locations are in Kobreil (1510 m) and Raut.

Since the Second World War, there has also been a lot of construction activity in Anras. Some grain boxes are reminiscent of the time when Anras was still the granary of the Puster Valley, the grain harps have already completely disappeared, the brook mills have been dismantled, and there are hardly any more pits.

Neighboring communities

Ausservillgraten	Hopfgarten in Defereggen *
Abfaltersbach		Assling
Kartitsch		Obertilliach

^∗A little bit at the summit at Beim Kreuz  ( 2783  m above sea level )

Capital of the municipality

Anras ( village ) locality
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Lienz  (LZ), Tyrol
Judicial district	Lienz
Pole. local community	Anras
Coordinates	46 ° 46 ′ 20 ″  N , 12 ° 33 ′ 22 ″  E
height	1262  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	345 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	86 (2001 )
Statistical identification
Locality code	16767
Counting district / district	Anras valley area (70704 001)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS

The main town of the municipality is the village of Anras . It is located in the middle of the municipality on the northern valley terrace at the foot of the Finsterkofel  ( 2642  m above sea level ), an eastern foothill of the Gölbner, at around 1260  m above sea level. A. Height. To the west below is the Margarethenbach moat .

St. Stephen

The place is divided into the districts of Dorf on the Pustertaler Höhenstraße below the parish church and around the old nursing court , the Titschsiedlung above, and the Sonnenboden settlement below. It forms a village of the community and total includes nearly 90 buildings with about 330 inhabitants.

The cadastral community of Anras stretches with 1,488.45  hectares in a narrow strip across the valley from Gumriaul  ( 2918  m above sea level ), a southern pre-summit of Gölbner, to the Spitzenstein  ( 2265  m above sea level ) of the Lienz Dolomites . The western border is formed by Margarethenbach and Jochbach , the eastern border is roughly the ditch at Mairwiesen and that of the Griesbach . The cadastral area also includes the hamlets Mairwiesen (Marwiesen) to the east, Kolls (with Vidraul ) and Kobreil above, Rain and Planitzen below, and half of Margarethenbrücke (the other part belongs to KG  Asch with Winkl ).

Neighboring towns, villages and cadastral communities:

Kolls  (O)	Vidraul	Kobreil  (O)
Tsars Goll  (O) Asch with Winkl  (KG)		Mairwiesen  (O) Ried  (KG) Planitzen  (O)
	Rain  (O)

Economy and Infrastructure

The district of Mittewald an der Drau has a stop for the Drautalbahn .

The village of Anras and Mairwiesen are located on the Pustertaler Höhenstraße ( L 324 ), which runs parallel to the main road, the Drautalstraße B 100, a few hundred meters above the valley from Leisach to Abfaltersbach .

Culture and sights

Interior of St. Stephen's Church with frescoes by Martin Knoller (1754)

See also:  List of listed objects in Anras

The Nursing Court House at Schloss Anras is located in the center of the village . Next to Anras Castle is the parish church of St. Stephanus .

politics

Community representation

Distribution of seats since the 2016 municipal council election:

• 2 Mandates Citizen List Anraser Home List
• 2 Mandates Citizen List Farmers List - New Future Anras
• 6 Mandates Citizen List Team Josef Kollreider, Wir für Anras
• 3 Mandates Citizen List Anras Aktiv

The established parties are not explicitly represented here.

Johann Waldauf has been mayor since 2016 (Anraser home list).

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows :

"On top of gold a green mountain , in front of it a white lamb ."

The coat of arms was awarded to the municipality in 1972. The representation corresponds to the seal of the Brixen court of Anras, which existed from 1300 to 1803 .

Personalities

• Toni Kollreider (1904–1980) from Asch attended the arts and crafts school in Innsbruck and spent an extremely modest artist's life as a wood sculptor in Anras. His slightly abstract nativity scenes in particular are widespread.
• Franz Kollreider (brother of Toni Kollreider) was custodian of Schloss Bruck in Lienz for decades .
• Fr Franz Seraph Hattler (1829–1907), Jesuit, was very active in spreading the devotion to the Sacred Heart and wrote relevant writings.
• Florian Waldauf (Baldauf), Knight of Waldenstein , born on the Balferhof in Asch

Web links

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

• 70705 - request. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.anras.at Website of the municipality
• Anras , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Statistics Austria: Population on 1.1.2020 by locality (area status 1.1.2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Regionalinformation.zip (Excel file, 1,210 kB); accessed on January 4, 2018
3. ^ Eduard Widmoser: Tiroler Wappenfibel . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-7022-1324-4 , p. 54 .