Arzl in the Pitztal

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

Imst

License plate :

IN THE

Surface:

29.36 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 12 ' N , 10 ° 46' E Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '30 " N , 10 ° 45' 45" E

Height :

880 m above sea level A.

Residents :

3,164 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

6471

Area code :

05412

Community code :

7 02 01

NUTS region

AT334

Address of the
municipal administration:

Arzl 76
6471 Arzl im Pitztal

Website:

www.arzl-pitztal.tirol.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Josef Knabl (list of mayors)

Municipal Council : (2016)
(15 members)

9 Together for our community
3 Focus
3 Livable community Arzl - LGA

Location of Arzl im Pitztal in the Imst district

Arzl in the Pitztal from the north

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Arzl im Pitztal is a municipality in the Imst district ( Imst judicial district ), Tyrol , Austria . It has 3164 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020), is 880 m above sea level. A. and has an area of 29.36 km².

geography

location

Arzl is located at the entrance to the Pitztal between the northern slope of the Venet (2513 m) and the Leiner Kögele (2387 m) on a low mountain range high above the Inn Valley. The municipality is separated by the Pitzbach , which has dug a deep gorge through the limestone.

The area has relatively little rainfall and is sheltered from the wind, so that the same crops can be grown here as in the lower Inn Valley.

Natural municipal boundaries are formed by the Inn in the north, where Arzl borders the municipalities of Imst, Karrösten and Karres, in the west the Venet with the Plattenraing area, the neighbor here is the municipality Imsterberg, in the south it is the valley area with the municipalities of Wenns and in the Sechzeiger area the Jerzens municipality, in the east of the Walderbach opposite the municipality of Roppen.

Thanks to the favorable climatic conditions, all types of grain (barley, wheat, rye and maize), potatoes and many types of fruit (pome and stone fruit) and even wine ripen.

Although there is little precipitation due to the natural protection of the Lechtal Alps, there is enough precipitation in both summer and winter.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the only cadastral municipality Arzl im Pitztal and comprises the following seven localities (residents as of January 1st, 2020):

Arzl im Pitztal (1902)
Blons (54)
Hochasten (68)
Linen (329)
Reed (92)
Timls (128)
Forest (591)

The main locations are the village of the same name, Arzl (on the main road) and the district of Wald im Pitztal on the opposite side of the slope; there are also numerous scattered hamlets . Other fractions are Imst / Pitztal train station and Osterstein .

history

In 1966 archaeologists found remains of settlements from prehistoric times on the Burgstall , which towers around 180 m above Arzl , including the Middle Bronze Age , the late Hallstatt Age and the Roman Age . In Roman times there was probably a watchtower, from which a castle complex is said to have developed in the Middle Ages.

In the Middle Ages there were not only various secular and spiritual court owners but also several free farmers.

The people of Arzler were also involved in the various battles and wars of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries and claimed their victims.

During the First World War , an important road construction from the Inn valley to Arzl was completed. Resistance movements of the Second World War had a base in Arzl.

Due to the favorable location and the good climate, it can be assumed that there was a settlement in the municipality very early.

Place name

The name Arzl could be traced back to the Romanesque name arcella , which can be translated as "small castle".

The name was first mentioned in 1260, when Gebhart von Starkenberg transferred tithes to Wilten Monastery near Arzel and Tumels (Timmls). The Lords of Starkenberg had their ancestral castle near Imst (today the municipality of Tarrenz ) and were later the richest noble family in the area.

As early as 1070, however, two other names of the community, "Walda" (forest) and "Oista" (Hochasten or Karrösten), were mentioned in a deed of donation to the Brixen monastery .

Further documentary mentions:

1283 Hildebrand von Mils ( Mils bei Imst ) donates his farm to Walda to the Stams monastery.
1288 According to the property register or land register of the Count of Tyrol, the sovereign also owns a Maierhof and another farm in Arzelle.
1289 Heinrich von Schwangau donates half a farm to Walda to the Stams monastery .
1290 The Lords of Schwangau (near Füssen ) donate goods to Arzelle, Tumels.
1306 Hohenaeusten (Hochasten) and Stain (Steinhof) the monastery in Stams.
1302 Erhart von Tarrenz sells his farm in Walda to the Stams monastery.
1305 Wilfried von Schrofenstein ( Stanz bei Landeck ) sells the Schweighof zu Walda to the Stams monastery.
1315 A Dingstuhl (court) for Wald and Arzl is built in Wald.
1342 Randolfina, the widow of Heinrich von Schrofenstein, pledged her farms in Wald to Konrad von Schenna near Meran.
1350 The farms of Arzelle, Tumels, Arczlay, Hinderaeusten and Hohenaeusten are listed in the land register of the Stams monastery.

Landowner

The sovereign, the aristocrats and monasteries were the landlords or owners of the estates and gave them to the peasants for inheritance and against annual payment of the basic interest.

This legal relationship remained here as everywhere until the general basic discharge, which took place in all of Austria in 1849. In addition to this lordly dependency, all peasants were subjects of the Tyrolean sovereigns and had to pay the provincial taxes and, in the event of enemy attacks, serve in the Landwehr.

Once the whole Pitztal, and indeed the whole Imst court, was a single mark cooperative or original community, because this is the only way to explain that the Arzl-Wald community has owned alpine pastures in the rear of the Pitztal and that this whole area is ecclesiastically the original parish of Imst belonged to.

Within this large area, the individual main settlements such as Wenns and Arzl have long since formed their own communities. The parchment documents, mostly from the 16th century, are in the archives of the community (kept in the state archives), which provide information about these conditions, especially judgments of the judge von Imst in disputes between the neighborhoods of Arzl, Wald, Leins, Ried, Timmels, Plaus (Blons) and Esten (Hochasten) on the one hand and the neighborhood of the Pitztal on the other hand, because of the grazing rights on the pastures Taschach, Nesselberg and Schwarzenberg from the years 1470, 1530, 1539, 1553 and 1665. Neighborhoods were then called the smaller rural communities, which just represented a local settlement unit.

In 1561 the “neighborhood or community of the lower church chair of Arzl, Wald, Leins, Tummels, Hohenasten and Pitzental” and “the whole parish mening of the upper church chair at Wenns, Greut, Larchach, Langenau, Brennwald and Jerzens, on the other hand, “made a comparison because of the payment of land tax and aid money. From this it can be seen that the formation of the congregations was similar to that of today.

The tax registers of 1629 and 1775 show the same structure. Then the parish of Arzl split into the sub-communities of Wald, Leins, Ried, Hohenasten and Timmels. Arzl and Wald together, like Wenns, formed a thing chair at which the judge of Imst was supposed to hold the Elichtaiding, a general day of judgment, twice a year in the open air, according to old custom.

When the local political communities were formed in 1811, Arzl and its sub-communities or neighborhoods were taken as a single community, and the same applies to the creation of the cadastral map from 1856, and it has remained so to this day.

Population development

Culture and sights

Buildings

Pitztal Bridge

Benni Raich Bridge

Imst-Pitztal station building

The parish church of Arzl in Pitztal to St. Ingenuin and St. Albuin stands on the western edge of the village, elevated on a slope. The originally late Gothic church was enlarged and made Baroque around the middle of the 18th century, and in 1875, in addition to the removal of some late Baroque works of art, the church was redesigned in the neo-Romanesque style.
The branch church of Wald was built in the neo-Gothic style after several fires in 1911/12.
In addition to the church in Leins, there are several smaller chapels spread across the municipality.

The traffic conditions from the Inn to the Pitztal improved considerably with the Pitztal Bridge , opened in 1983 , which crosses the narrow Inn Valley at this point west of the Imst-Pitztal train station at a height of around 50 m and a length of 221 m.

One of the sights is the Benni Raich Bridge between Arzl and Wald, the highest pedestrian suspension bridge in Europe. It spans the Arzler Pitzeklamm at a height of 94 meters with a span of 138 meters. It was built to dispose of sewage in the eastern parts of the town. Bungee jumping from this bridge is very popular.

The highest overhead line pylon in Austria is located south of Arzl ( ⊙ ). It is 107 meters high and was built in 1976. 47.157169928333 10.732306838056

freetime and sports

In Arzl there is a sports and leisure park, activities of the tourist association, events of the clubs, for example regular concerts at the pavilion of the Arzl band, tent festivals, carnival parades and much more. The jump on the bungee rope from Europe's highest pedestrian bridge - 94 m high over the " Luis Trenker- Steig" in the Pitzenklamm is possible. The entry point for rafting on the Inn is also very close to Arzl. The "Steinwand- Klettersteig " has existed since 2008 . This via ferrata, easily accessible from the town center, has a "family route" and a demanding route, both of which end at the "eagle's nest". There you have an excellent view over the Imst valley basin as far as the Gurgltal , the Tschirgant (2,370 m) and the Lechtal Alps . For winter sports enthusiasts the ski area "Hochzeiger-Jerzens", the glacier ski area "Pitztaler Gletscher", the ski area "Riffelsee" and many other Tyrolean ski and winter sports regions are very easy to reach. Arzl also offers a natural toboggan run, a cross-country ski run and ice skating , Ice stock sport and much more.

tourism

The beginnings of tourism in Arzl go hand in hand with developments in Tyrol in general. If "summer visitors" came to the country from the cities at the beginning, tourism slowly developed as an independent branch of the economy into year-round tourism after the Second World War. The ratio of winter to summer nights is 55:45.

In the center of Arzler there is, in addition to some hotels and guest houses, also the Selber Haus , an Alpine Club hut belonging to the DAV Selb section .

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : "A silver tinned rafter in blue with black filling."

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1973, symbolizes the place name, which means "small castle", as a talking coat of arms , and at the same time refers to the former castle complex on the castle stables, which dates back to early history.