Right on the Achensee

Right on the Achensee
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	black
License plate :	SZ
Main town :	Maurach
Surface:	196.4 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 25 '  N , 11 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '22 "  N , 11 ° 45' 7"  E
Height :	970  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,280 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	17 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	6212 (Maurach) 6213 (Pertisau) 6215 (Hinterriß, Bächental)
Area code :	05243 or 05245 for rear crack
Community code :	7 09 07
Address of the municipal administration:	Dorfstrasse 28 6212 Maurach
Website:	www.eben.tirol.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Hausberger (impartial list of names)
Municipal Council : (2016) (15 members)	10 impartial list of names - mayor Josef Hausberger - u.nl 2 Tyrolean People's Party Eben am Achensee - ÖVP 3 Independent citizen list Eben - UBE
Location of Eben am Achensee in the Schwaz district
The main town of Maurach on the south bank of the Achensee
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Achenseebahn in Maurach

Eben am Achensee is a municipality with 3280 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Schwaz district in Tyrol ( Austria ). The community is located in the judicial district of Schwaz .

geography

Eben is located in the Achental , on the banks of the Achensee (above the Lower Inn Valley ) and is the largest municipality in the Schwaz district in terms of area. The community consists of the main town of Maurach and the villages of Bächental , Hinterriß and Pertisau .

Community structure

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

• Bächental (0)
• Rear crack (5)
• Maurach (2536)
• Pertisau (739)

history

The first documented mention of about 1140 concerns an alleged donation of the area around the Achensee - lacus et locus, qui Emmaus appellatur ("Lake and area that is called Emmaus") - by the Lords of Schlitters to the St. Georgenberg Abbey. Fears . Later feudal lords were the lords of Rottenburg and the Frauenchiemsee monastery . In 1313 Maurach and Eben appear in the Rottenburg tax lists as separate local communities. From these, Maurach-Eben developed as an administrative unit.

Under the regent Sigmund von Tirol , Achensee became part of the Habsburgs in the 15th century (until 1918).

In terms of church history, Eben belonged to the parish of Münster . The grave of the popular saint Notburga von Rattenberg has been in Eben since 1313 . The local church, 1474 chaplain , 1516 curate and since 1891 its own parish, is dedicated to St. Notburga , and since 2004 there is a Notburga museum .

Tourism started in the middle of the 19th century. The area became known through the literary works of Adolf Pichler and Hermann von Gilm zu Rosenegg .

coat of arms

Blazon : in a black, upright lace accompanied by blue fields , a silver Notburga candelabra.

Reason: The Notburga-Kandele is reminiscent of St. Notburga , which is venerated in the pilgrimage church in Eben. The black tip and the blue fields indicate the mountain framing of this municipality and the Achensee.

The municipal coat of arms was awarded by the Tyrolean provincial government on July 6, 1972.

economy

Today, Eben is strongly influenced by tourism and in 2003 had around 900,000 overnight stays, spread over the summer and winter seasons.

In addition to the Achensee area in summer, the Rofan and Zwölferkopf ski areas play a particularly important role.

Since summer 2018 there has been a leisure center called "Atoll Achensee" in Eben am Achensee directly on the lake and the Achensee federal road . In addition to a tourist information office, this includes an indoor swimming pool , a sauna , a fitness studio as well as a restaurant and a lawn with access to Lake Achensee .

Infrastructure and traffic

Eben am Achensee has been accessible via the Inn Valley since the Middle Ages. In the 12th century, a mule track led from Bavaria in the north from the Achenpass through the Achental to Maurach-Eben. The lake was navigated with rafts that were pulled by horses from the lake shore.

The first steamer St. Joseph crossed the lake in 1887. The tourist summer shipping traffic on the Achensee has been steadily expanded since then between Pertisau, the Gaisalm, the Achenseebad and Achenkirch at the north end as well as the Haus Seespitz (former inn), Buchau and Maurach at the south end.

In 1889 the Achenseebahn was opened between Jenbach and the Seespitz house , which originally also served commercial purposes; Today the train with steam locomotives only runs in the summer months as a tourist train with the stops Burgeck, Eben, Maurach and Seespitz.

Eben am Achensee can be reached today via the Achenseestraße (B181) from Wiesing in the Inn Valley. In Wiesing there is a junction to the Inntal Autobahn (A12) towards Kufstein and Innsbruck, to the Tiroler Straße (B171) also towards Innsbruck and Kufstein and to the Zillertalstraße (B169) towards Mayrhofen im Zillertal.

On the route of the old mule track there has been an asphalt road from Jenbach since 1955 (Jenbacher Straße L7).

The Achensee is easily accessible by public transport: during the day, every hour from Jenbach train station , the Zillertalbahn buses run to Maurach and on to Pertisau , Achenkirch and Tegernsee .

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Eben am Achensee

• Pilgrimage church to Saint Notburga

The church with a late Gothic choir and north tower (16th century) stands on the foundation walls of a Romanesque forerunner a little outside the center of the village. From 1736 to 1738 the Schwaz architect Jakob Singer added a baroque nave. The interior is also baroque. The ceiling frescoes by Christoph Anton Mayr (restored in 1899), surrounded by stucco , show scenes from the life of the local saints, a.o. a. the characteristic sickle wonder. The bones of Saint Notburga are kept in a glass shrine on the high altar.

• Notburga Museum in the former Widum

Personalities

• Notburga von Rattenberg (around 1265–1313), saint
• Ricarda Haaser (* 1993), ski racer
• Harold Reitterer (1902–1987), painter

literature

• Knaur's cultural guide Austria. License edition Munich-Zurich 1977, p. 61 f.
• Baedeker Austria. 11th edition. 2005, p. 165 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Detailed information on the falsification of the 14th century (so-called "Schlitter donation") including edition: Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Section: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 2: 1140-1200 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7030-0485-8 , p. 8–13, no. 390, especially section a .

Web links

Commons : Eben am Achensee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community website
• At the Achensee at geschichte-tirol.com
• 70907 - Eben am Achensee. Community data, Statistics Austria .