Fuegen (Zillertal)

4 The future of Fügen,
4 of Fügen's electoral community,
3 We for Fügen,
2 Together for Fügen,
1 For our village,
1 The Fügeners Kapfing + Kleinboden + Gagering SPÖ

Location of Fügen in the Schwaz district

Fügen in the Zillertal

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

With 4200 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020), Fügen is the most populous municipality in the Zillertal and belongs to the Schwaz district in Tyrol ( Austria ). The community is located in the judicial district of Zell am Ziller .

geography

Fügen is considered the capital of the lower Zillertal. The place lies on the wide mudflow cone of the Rischbach . The municipality consists of the cluster village of Fügen with 2435 inhabitants (as of 2011) and the localities of Gagering in the north with 103 inhabitants, Kapfing in the south with 863 inhabitants and the former industrial settlement Kleinboden am Finsingbach in the southwest with 400 inhabitants.

Community structure

Fügen consists of a single cadastral municipality of the same name or four localities (residents as of January 1, 2020):

Joining (2644)
Gager Ring (179)
Kapfing (992)
Kleinboden (385)

structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Fügen (6.64 km²)	Fügen (D) Gagering (R) Kapfing (D) Kleinboden (D)
Legend

Legend for the breakdown table

In the cadastral municipalities column , all cadastral municipalities of a municipality are listed. In the brackets the respective area is given in km².

All settlements recorded by Statistics Austria, which also have their own local area code, are listed in the Localities column . In the hierarchy level of the same column, indented to the right, only settlements that consist of at least several houses are shown.

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = capital of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
Hgr = group of houses
E = single farmstead (only if you have your own local area code)

The complete list of Statistics Austria is in: Topographical settlement identification according to STAT

It should be noted that some places can have different spellings. Thus, cadastral communities can spell themselves differently than localities or communities of the same name.

Source: Statistics Austria -

Neighboring communities

All five neighboring communities of Fügen are in the Schwaz district.

	Schlitters	Bruck am Ziller
Fuegenberg		Hart in the Zillertal
	Uderns

history

Urn graves found in Kapfing in 1982 prove an early settlement during the Bronze Age . Finsing was mentioned in a document as early as 927 as “Funzina” , while Fügen itself was only named “Fugnæ” around 1140/49 . Fügen belonged to the diocese of Brixen ecclesiastically , but under constitutional law to the archbishopric of Salzburg until 1803 . For some time, Fügen was the “thing” of the Salzburg court of Zell.

The great hardship of the Thirty Years' War led to the uprising of the Fügen peasants on May 19, 1645 against their sovereign prince, the Salzburg archbishop, to whom they were liable to pay interest. All the Zillertal farmers who were subordinate to the Archbishop of Salzburg joined this uprising.

In 1678 a separate judge was appointed for the Salzburg court of Fügen, which in 1849 was designated as the district court . In 1923 the judicial district of Fügen was assigned to the Zell am Ziller district court.

Fügen has been important as the industrial center of the valley since the 15th century; cannon balls, armor plates and iron sheets were produced here. In 1697, Count Fieger's Fügen iron company built an ironworks in Kiefersfelden ( Bavaria ). The operations had to be closed at the end of the 19th century due to competition.

Population development

coat of arms

Blazon :

"In the red field a silver hoe with the edge turned to the right above a silver turnip with three leaves."

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1964, commemorates two important noble families who lived in Fügen. The hoe was the talking coat of arms of the Hackl, the white turnip comes from the coat of arms of the Keutschach family.

Culture and sights

Fügen Castle (Bubenburg)

Parish Church of the Assumption

Fügen, behind it the Spieljoch, on the left in the background the Gilfert

Fügen Castle
Exhibits from the history of the place are shown in the local museum .

economy

The economy is shaped by agriculture, trade, commerce, industry and, last but not least, tourism. As a two-season tourist destination, Fügen benefits from the two ski areas of Hochfügen-Hochzillertal and Spieljoch as well as the Zillertal thermal baths . Möbel-Wetscher and Binderholz are companies of supraregional importance.

Binderholz : At the headquarters of the Binder Holz company, approx. 1 million fm annual cutting output and 250,000 m³ of planed goods are produced per year. With around 1,300 employees at nine locations in Austria, Germany and Finland, Binder is one of the largest sawmills in Europe. The solid wood product range extends from dimension wood, planed, single and multi-laminated solid wood panels, laminated wood, MDF and laminated timber to wood briquettes and wood pellets . Up until 2012 , the timber was transported with standard- gauge wagons that are jacked up on narrow-gauge trolleys via the Zillertal Railway. In addition to the sawn timber production, Binder also operates other plants in a. in Jenbach , St. Georgen near Salzburg , Hallein , Unterstberg and in the Bavarian town of Kösching .

traffic

Fügen is located on the Zillertalstrasse , a mountain road leads from the center of the village via the Pankrazberg district of Fügenberg on the Hochfügen-Strasse to the Hochfügen winter sports resort, which is almost 1480 m high . There are also three Zillertalbahn stops in the community , namely Gagering, Fügen-Hart and Kapfing .

Personalities

Hans Binder (* 1948), sawmill operator and racing car driver
Ludwig Dornauer (* 1953), actor and broadcaster
Raimund Margreiter (* 1941), surgeon
Andreas Mauracher (1758–1824), carpenter and organ builder
Ludwig Mayer (1896–1969), Mayor and Member of Parliament (ÖVP)
Franz Serafikus Nißl (1771–1855), sculptor
Franz Xaver Nißl (1731–1804), sculptor
Rudolf Nissl (1870–1955), painter
Anton Nissl (1852–1890), canon lawyer
Armin Pfister (* 1983), luge rider
Daniel Pfister (* 1986), luge rider
Manuel Pfister (* 1988), luge rider
Leonhard Posch (1750–1831), wax boss, medalist and sculptor
Josef Georg Schmalz (1804–1845), playwright, director and charcoal maker
Max Tribus (1900–1983), director and playwright

Web links

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

70909 - joining. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Community website
History-Tyrol: Fügen / Fügenberg

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
^ Municipality of Fügen in the Zillertal: Historical development
↑ The documents can be found in 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 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 103 ff., No. 137 and 372 .
↑ Provincial Law Gazette for Tyrol, No. 52/1964. ( Digitized version )
^ Eduard Widmoser: Tiroler Wappenfibel . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-7022-1324-4 , p. 74 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] Municipality of Fügen in the Zillertal: Historical development

[3] The documents can be found in 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 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 103 ff., No. 137 and 372 .

[4] Provincial Law Gazette for Tyrol, No. 52/1964. ( Digitized version )

[5] Eduard Widmoser: Tiroler Wappenfibel . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-7022-1324-4 , p. 74 .