Brixlegg
market community Brixlegg
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Basic data | ||
Country: | Austria | |
State : | Tyrol | |
Political District : | Kufstein | |
License plate : | KU | |
Surface: | 9.12 km² | |
Coordinates : | 47 ° 26 ' N , 11 ° 53' E | |
Height : | 534 m above sea level A. | |
Residents : | 3,012 (January 1, 2020) | |
Postal code : | 6230 | |
Area code : | 05337 | |
Community code : | 7 05 06 | |
NUTS region | AT335 | |
UN / LOCODE | AT BXG | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Römerstrasse 1 6230 Brixlegg |
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politics | ||
Mayor : | Rudolf Puecher ( ÖVP ) | |
Municipal Council : (2016) (15 members) |
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Location of Brixlegg in the Kufstein district | ||
Brixlegg from above |
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria |
Brixlegg is a market town (since 1927) with 3012 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Kufstein district of the state of Tyrol , Austria . The community is located in the judicial district of Rattenberg .
geography
Brixlegg is located in the Tyrolean Lower Inn Valley at the entrance to the Alpbach Valley . The site is one of the oldest settlement areas of the Unterinntal represents. Brixlegg is about Inntalautobahn A 12 and the Unterinntalbahn with train port accessible (see Brixlegg station ). The district of Zimmermoos is scattered on the slope with a few farms.
Community structure
The municipality includes the following three localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Brixlegg (1950)
- More (792)
- Zimmermoos (270)
The community consists of the cadastral communities Brixlegg and Zimmermoos.
Neighboring communities
Radfeld ∗ | ||
Reith im Alpbachtal | Alpbach |
- ∗ Radfeld is located in the Inn valley behind Rattenberg, bordering in the mountainous region east of Rattenberg
history
The first documentary mention as Prisslech comes from the Notitia Arnonis from 788 - 790 , an inventory of the Salzburg Archbishop Arn . A copy of this from the second half of the 12th century has survived, the original has been lost. The relevant passage reads:
In pago qui dicitur Inter Valles: ad Ratfeld ecclesia cum territorio, ad Prisslech similiter ('In the Gau, which is called “Between the Valleys”: in Radfeld a church with land, in Brixlegg as well'). The 'Zwischenentalgau' roughly corresponds to today's Lower Inn Valley .
During the heyday of copper ore mining, the largest smelting works in Tyrol stood here (sovereign smelting works, today mining works ).
During the Second World War, the site was largely destroyed by bombing. The approximately 150 m long railway bridge was also the target of several bombs and was ultimately blown up. It was rebuilt in 1948. The Grasegg and Lanegg residences and the coppersmith's house from the 17th century have been preserved.
politics
The municipal council has 15 seats:
- 9 Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) - List of the Mayor
- 2 Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) and non-party members
- 4 Brixlegg Freedom and Party-Free List
- mayor
- since 1988 Rudolf Puecher (ÖVP)
Town twinning
Brixlegg maintains a partnership with Aichach in Swabia , the birthplace of Ludwig Steub, and since 1982 with Matzen-Raggendorf in Lower Austria .
Economy and Infrastructure
Companies
The Montanwerke Brixlegg , which emerged from the smelting works, are today the only copper works in Austria and an important employer in the region. Through various measures, emissions from the plant could be reduced considerably at the end of the 20th century. today, copper is no longer mined here, but old copper is processed.
In the 1980s, Montanwerke Brixlegg had a negative impact due to the greatly increased PCDD loads in the vicinity of the company and in the bodies of some residents. In some cases, air concentrations of 2.56 picograms per cubic meter of breathing air were measured near the company premises. The contamination of the area was directly linked to the Brixlegg coal and steel works.
Other employers are the textile industry (Giesswein), bottling of natural mineral water and the production of non-alcoholic beverages (Silberquelle) and tourism (focus in winter) in the catchment area of the Kramsach and Alpbach ski areas . The medicinal sulfur spring Bad Mehrn is used for therapeutic purposes.
Sports
Brixlegg is internationally known, especially in the skateboard scene, as there is a cradle skate park in Brixlegg , the construction of which is unique in Europe. The most outstanding feature of the park is the eponymous cradle (a kind of half ball made of concrete in which skateboarders can ride almost upside down due to centrifugal force).
Culture and sights
- Parish Church of Our Lady with the cemetery chapel and the cemetery arcades in the village
- Filial church of St. Bartholomew with the Mehrner healing spring below in Bad Mehrn
- Chapel Mariahilf , also Maria im Grünwald , east on a hill
- Chapel on the Mühlbichl
- Schwarzenberg Chapel in Zimmermoos
- Wolfenkapelle
- Lanegg Castle
- Storage box on the banks of the Inn
- Former plague cemetery
- Tyrolean mining and steelworks museum - is dedicated to the historical mining tradition
societies
- The sport shooters, with their own facility in Mehrn
- Brixlegg rifle company
- SPG Brixlegg / Rattenberg / Reith, SPG Brixlegg / Rattenberg / Reith football club
- Rural Youth Young Farmers Brixlegg
- Offroadclub, Club 4x4-Tirol - Offroad Association
- Skate Association, Skate & Board Club 31
- Brixlegg tennis club
- Tyrolean mining and steelworks museum Brixlegg
- SV Brixlegg (branch clubs e.g. ice stock sport, athletics)
- Market music band Brixlegg
- Brixlegg ski club
- Tyrolean water sports club Brixlegg
Sons and daughters of the place
- Anton Geppert (1829–1890), architect
- Franz Josef Messner (1896–1945), resistance fighter against National Socialism and general director of Semperit AG
- Hias Rebitsch (1911–1990), alpinist
- Karl Ganzer (1920–1988), composer of the Kufstein song
- Werner Lindinger (1944–2001), physicist
- Karlheinz Töchterle (* 1949), politician, former Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research
- Ursula Schattner-Rieser (* 1966), Austro-French ancient orientalist and Judaist
- Robert Rebitsch (* 1968), historian
- Stephan Eberharter (* 1969), ski racer and Olympic champion
Personalities who worked on site or who lived here
- Leo Slezak (born August 18, 1873 in Mährisch-Schönberg, Austria-Hungary, † June 1, 1946 in Rottach-Egern, American zone of occupation), an important tenor and actor, helped with a benefit concert for the flood victims in 1908, and the community also thanked them the honorary citizenship
- Gottlieb von Zötl (1800–1852), forester from 1831 to 1837
Web links
- Community website
- Entry on Brixlegg in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- 70506 - Brixlegg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- Brixlegg , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ Fritz Lošek : Notitia Arnonis and Breves Notitiae . In: Herwig Wolfram (Ed.): Sources on Salzburg's early history. Vienna 2006, pp. 9–178.
- ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 1: Up to the year 1140 . Ed .: Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsgesellschaft mb H. Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 39-40 No. 59 .
- ↑ Herwig Wolfram: Salzburg, Bavaria, Austria: the Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum and the sources of their time . Ed .: Institute for Austrian Historical Research Vienna. tape 31 of communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research , supplementary volume. Oldenbourg Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3-7029-0404-3 , III. Political order and institutions. Section Gau and "Gaugenossen" , p. 160 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ 5 photos on the destruction in 1945 , brixlegg.tirol.gv.at
- ↑ Spiegel: Every Feuerle accessed on August 4, 2019
- ↑ dip21.bundestag.de: Answer of the federal government to the big question of the MP Dr. Klaus-Dieter Feige (1994) accessed on August 4, 2019
- ^ Dehio Tirol 1980
- ↑ Tyrolean Mining and Hut Museum. In: tiroler-bergbau.at. Retrieved May 24, 2017 .