Axams

Axams
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Innsbruck country
License plate :	IL
Surface:	22.16 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 14 '  N , 11 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '49 "  N , 11 ° 16' 45"  E
Height :	874  m above sea level A.
Residents :	6,048 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	273 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6094
Area code :	05234
Community code :	7 03 04
Address of the municipal administration:	Sylvester-Jordan-Strasse 12 6094 Axams
Website:	www.axams.tirol.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Christian Abenthung (Together for Axams)
Municipal Council : (2016) (17 members)	6th 4th 3 2 2 6th 4th 3 2 2  A total of 17 seats Together for Axams : 6 GREEN : 4 PROAX : 3 SPÖ : 2 FPÖ : 2
Location of Axams in the Innsbruck-Land district
Axams seen from the northeast ( Vordere Brandjochspitze )
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Axams is a municipality in the Innsbruck-Land district in Tyrol ( Austria ) with 6048 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Innsbruck .

geography

The community is located in the western low mountain range approx. 10 km southwest of Innsbruck. Immediate neighboring communities of Axams are Oberperfuss , Grinzens , Götzens , Kematen in Tirol , Unterperfuss and Birgitz . To the south of the main town are the Axamer Lizum and the Kalkkögel , which still belong to the municipality. The Zirler Berg lies further north . In the west the Sendersbach and in the east the Ruifachbach flow past Axams.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following four localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Axamer Lizum (17)
• Axams (5158)
• Bachl (332)
• Kristen (541)

The municipality consists of the cadastral municipality of Axams.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document as early as the middle of the 10th century. The Michaelskapelle and the (today's) Widumskapelle are built around 1330. From 1359 to 1803, the Axam parish was subordinate to the Brixen Cathedral Provost. In 1462 the Frauenchiemsee Monastery issued new village regulations . The parish church of Axams was built between 1491 and 1498. Florian Waldauf receives the landlord's right to Axams in 1497. In the years to come, Maximilian I visited the village frequently to hunt in the area. The existence of a school is mentioned for the first time in 1527. In 1574 the Axamer Lizum came to the Reichenauer Hof.

Baptism books have been used in the parish since 1603 . 1626–1633 the parish church and Michael’s chapel are renovated, and soon afterwards, in 1635, the linden chapel is built. In 1672 the Axamer Lizum fell to the Counts of Spaur. From 1732–1734 the parish church is rebuilt by the pastor Anton Burglechner . A school house is built around 1785. In 1806 the Axams court was dissolved and assigned to the Innsbruck regional court. The parish church received new church bells in 1844; It was renovated again in 1871–1879. Around 1872 a school building and an old people's home are built. The Axams Voluntary Fire Brigade was founded in 1888 .

The electrification of Axam begins in 1904/1905. In the course of the First World War , the church bells had to be handed over in 1917 for the extraction of war metal. There has been a regular bus service since 1926, and the state children's home opens one year later. The parish church got a new bell in 1948 and was restored again between 1956 and 1958. The Lizum is connected to Axams by the construction of a road in 1962–1963. In 1964 almost all alpine disciplines of the Winter Olympics take place there, including the 1976 Winter Games . In 1965 a secondary school was built, followed by a new elementary school. In 1980, Axams became the seat of the deanery of the same name . In 1983 a devastating debris flow occurred here . In 1998 the Lizum got a snowmaking system . In 2007 the secondary school was renovated and expanded. In the years 2009–2015, a merger between Axamer Lizum and Schlick 2000 was heatedly and controversially discussed, until the Tyrolean state government announced that the project could not be legally implemented. In February 2016, plans for a run-of-river power plant on the southern outskirts and at the end of the Axamer Valley became known.

Place name

Axams was first mentioned in documents around 935–955 as Ouxumenes in the tradition book of the Brixen monastery . From there on, the place name went through some changes: Around 1200 there is a [Herbrandus de] Auxun , between 1200 and 1218 [Berhtoldi plebani de] Oscumnes , around 1228 then Auxumes and 1232 Oxuemes . The current name soon emerged: Already in 1288 one reads Ouxams , 1331 Auxums , 1390 Auxams , 1421 again Auxums , and 1500 the variants Äxäms, Axam, Aexams are available .

The village name Axams is of Celtic origin * Uksisama > Ux [i] sama and means something like "very high place" or rather "at the highest (deity)". From uks "hoch" and - (i) sama , superlative ending . The same origin for several place names in Western Europe such as Exmes, Huismes, Humes, Oisème and Huines in France, Osma in Spain, Osimo and Issime in Italy.

Axams has seen a rapid population increase over the past few decades. The short commute times (20 minutes) to Innsbruck make Axams very attractive as a rural residential community. The community of Axams is regarded by experts as a model community for integration. The Elisabethinum Axams is western Austria's largest support center for children with physical and multiple disabilities.

Population development

politics

Axams municipal office

Mayor and City Council

In March 2016 Christian Abenthung from the list “Together for Axams” was elected mayor. In a runoff election against Gabriele Kapferer-Pittracher (Greens), he received 60.5% of the vote. The mayor Rudolf Nagl , who has been in office since 1998 , no longer ran.

The municipal council consists of 17 members and has been made up of mandates from the following parties since the municipal council election in March 2016:

Political party	percent	be right	Seats on the local council
Together for Axams	34.59%	1128	6th
Future of Axams - The Greens	23.64%	771	4th
PRO Axams - The Independent List	16.22%	529	3
SPÖ - Axams and independents	15.06%	491	2
FPÖ Axams	10.49%	342	2

Town twinning

Axams has had a community partnership with Rohrbach in Rhineland-Palatinate since 1978 . In addition, a friendship with the South Tyrolean community of Naturno has existed since 1984 .

Municipal coat of arms

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1974, reads: “In blue, a golden tip with a blue flax blossom.” The flax blossom indicates that flax was grown in Axams early on and that this was the most important branch of the economy. The place name can be found in the top of the coat of arms.

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church of Axams

See also:  List of listed objects in Axams

• Catholic parish church of Axams , connected to the north by the chapel of St. Michael, in the cemetery that surrounds the parish church, chapel of the dead and cross stations on the cemetery wall
• Baderbühel Chapel
• Lindenkapelle, also cemetery chapel St. Called Sebastian, and consecrated in 1637
• Chapel of St. John the Baptist in the Lizum
• Chapel in the hamlet of Omes
• Chapel in Wollbell

Association

Over 60 clubs are registered in Axams. Great importance is attached to associations in the village. The founding of some clubs goes back to the 19th century (music band before 1810, fire department 1888, Kameradschaftsbund 1897); many followed at the beginning of the 20th century (cribs association 1911, fruit and horticulture association 1911).

Popular theater

Theatrical performances in Axams go back to the 16th century. The existence of a "game tennis" in 1613 is known. The "Game of the twelve sons of Jacob the Patriarch" ("Josefnspiel") was written in Axams in 1677/1678. This piece has been performed every ten years since 1683 out of gratitude that Vienna survived the Turkish siege . The last performance took place in 2013. In 1925, the Volkstheater Axams association was founded and the construction of the theater, which still exists today, was opened in 1928.

Economy and Infrastructure

The 81 farms cultivate the 332 hectare area mainly as permanent grassland (approx. 70%), but also as arable land (approx. 30%) (figures from 2000).

Axams is relatively close to the Inntal highway (A12) and is used by the country roads traversed L12 and L394. There are the bus routes Grinzens – Axams – Götzens – Innsbruck (4162), Zirl – Kematen – Axams (4168), a nightliner Innsbruck – Natters – Mutters – Götzens – Axams – Grinzens (NL11), as well as two ski bus routes to the Axamer Lizum (L1 via Völs, Kematen and L2 via Götzens). Axams itself does not have a train station; the closest train station is in Kematen , where there is a connection to the S-Bahn Tirol . There is an almost direct flight connection through Innsbruck Airport .

Sports

View of the Axamer Lizum

The Axamer Lizum , which can be reached via an approx. 8 km long road, was the venue for alpine competitions on the occasion of the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck. The road to Axamer Lizum was built on the occasion of the first Olympic Winter Games in 1962/63, until then there was also a ski jumping hill in Axams which, however, was closed.

Personalities

• Anton Kirchebner (1702–1779), painter
• Georg Bucher (1774–1837), captain and major rifle under Andreas Hofer
• Sylvester Jordan (1792–1861), lawyer and politician
• Peter Paul Kirchebner (1812–1846), painter
• Karl Schönherr (1867–1943), author
• Franz Zingerle (1908–1988), skier and world champion in downhill skiing from 1935 in Mürren
• Hugo Nindl (* 1942), professional world champion in 1974 in America
• Adele Sansone (* 1953), author and illustrator for children and young people; has lived in Axams since 1987

literature

• Andrea Grötschnig: Axams. Names and settlement history . Vienna, Praesens 2008 (= Innsbruck Contributions to Onomastics, 5), ISBN 978-3-7069-0327-1
• Klemens Betz, Heinz Moser, Anton Zimmermann (eds.): Axams . Axams parish, 2005
• Annemarie Schweighofer, Axamer Dorfleut ': Gender - Generations - Strata: A Regional Social History in the 20th Century , StudienVerlag Ges.mbH, ISBN 3-7065-1203-3
• Hans Leitner: home book of the community Axams . Axams parish, 1984

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Axams  - travel guide

• Detailed chronicle of Axam on the website of the community
• Axams , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ NMS Axams: Renovation of the Axams secondary school - Part 1. In: www.hs-axams.tsn.at. Retrieved March 15, 2016 . 
3. ^ NMS Axams: Renovation of the Axams secondary school - Part 2. In: www.hs-axams.tsn.at. Retrieved March 15, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung Online: The course has been set for Axamer Kraftwerk. In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online. February 16, 2016, accessed March 16, 2016 . 
5. ^ Oswald Redlich : The traditional books of the Brixen monastery from the tenth to the fourteenth century (Acta Tirolensia 1). Wagner: Innsbruck 1886, No. 2 f.
6. ↑ Andrea Gruber: Settlement history of Axams in the light of onenology. In: Österreichische Namenforschung 28 (2000), Heft 1, pp. 17–37, reference p. 24.
7. ↑ Shortlist of mayor 2016 | Axams parish. In: Wahlen.tirol.gv.at. State of Tyrol, accessed on March 15, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Local council and mayoral elections 2016 | Axams parish. In: Wahlen.tirol.gv.at. State of Tyrol, accessed on March 15, 2016 . 
9. ^ Eduard Widmoser: Tiroler Wappenfibel . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-7022-1324-4 , p. 17 .
10. ↑ Dehio Tirol 1980 , pages 181-185
11. ↑ Village life / associations. In: axams.gv.at. Archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; accessed on March 16, 2016 . 
12. ^ History of the Volkstheater Axams. In: www.volkstheater-axams.at. Volkstheater Axams, accessed on March 16, 2016 . 
13. ↑ History Josef game. Volkstheater Axams, accessed on March 16, 2016 . 
14. ↑ List of lines. Verkehrsverbund Tirol, archived from the original on March 22, 2016 ; accessed on March 16, 2016 (section “Central Uplands”).