Fritzens

Fritzens
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Innsbruck country
License plate :	IL
Surface:	6.12 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 18 '  N , 11 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '19 "  N , 11 ° 35' 25"  E
Height :	591  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,175 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	355 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6122
Area code :	05224
Community code :	7 03 09
Address of the municipal administration:	Bergstrasse 2 6122 Fritzens
Website:	www.fritzens.tirol.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Gahr (Fritzner community list)
Municipal Council : (2016) (15 members)	8th 3 2 2 8th 3 2 2  A total of 15 seats FG : 8 FAUA : 3 SPÖ : 2 FF : 2
Location of Fritzens in the Innsbruck-Land district
View of Fritzens
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Fritzens at the foot of the Nordkette

Fritzens is a municipality with 2175 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Innsbruck-Land district , Tyrol ( Austria ). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Hall in Tirol .

geography

Fritzens is located in the Lower Inn Valley on a terrace roof, about 16 kilometers east of Innsbruck on the left side of the Inn .

Fritzens has strong ties to the neighboring municipality of Wattens and its largest employer, Swarovski . Most of the residents commute to their workplaces.

In terms of traffic, Fritzens can be reached via the Inntal motorway with the Wattens exit and via the Westbahn with the Fritzens-Wattens train station.

Neighboring communities

• Absam ,
• Baumkirchen ,
• Gnadenwald ,
• Kolsass ,
• Terfens ,
• Volders ,
• Wattens

history

Fritzens lies at the foot of the Gnadenwald plateau on the gravel banks of the late Ice Age reservoir on the sunny slope. The history of the place goes back to the Bronze Age. Corresponding finds were found on the slope of the Bärenbach near the Köll house. The early Hallstatt period (approx. 8th / 7th century BC) is in the hillside settlement on the “Katzeler”, a moraine knoll at the confluence of the Bear and Griesbach. A little later, in the 7th / 6th Century BC BC, the oldest traces date from the Pirchboden. The Pirchboden is a partially fortified Hallstatt-Latène-period hilltop settlement on a foothill of the Gnadenwald high above Fritzens, which was built in the 5th century BC. Was remodeled by the bearers of the Fritzens-Sanzeno culture . In the last decades of the last century, students from the University of Innsbruck under the direction of Gerhard Tomedi carried out excavations above the village on the Pirchboden. Several very large Rhaetian houses, the cistern and the access road were examined. In the 5th century BC The valley settlement that extended in the area of ​​the Höhenstrasse was also rebuilt. The technical term "Fritzens-Sanzeno-Kultur" results from the collections of the Wattner district doctor Karl Stainer and finds of the same age from Sanzeno in Nonsberg. Both settlements went down towards the end of the 2nd century BC. In a fire disaster and were not rebuilt. In the absence of findings and findings, the situation in the Roman Empire is unclear. Only a coin find and a fibula from the 4th century guarantee the presence of people. Fritzens will have been continuously settled otherwise the Celtic place name frucines would not have been preserved. Again only in the years 1163/70 a Engilbertus " de Frucines documented with his son in" Traditionsbuch of Monastery Wessobrunn repeatedly called as a witness. In 1248, Count Albert von Tirol raised tithes in " Frucens " and in 1288 the Meierhof gave the sovereign land interest. The later village developed from the Meierhof.

At the end of the 19th century, with the construction of the railway , the settlement of the D. Swarovski company and the modernization of the paper mill in Wattens as well as the establishment of the clay works in 1899 through the influx of workers, a decisive change in the village occurred. After the Second World War, D. Swarovski acquired large pieces of land on which single-family houses were built for the servants.

Population development

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Fritzens

politics

The last mayoral elections took place at the same time as the municipal council elections on February 28, 2016.

Josef Gahr was re-elected mayor.

Political party	percent	be right	Seats on the local council
Fritzner community list	51.10%	650	8th
Fritzner workers and employees list	21.62%	249	3
"For Fritzens" Ernst Zalesky and his team	18.07%	219	2
SPÖ & party free	13.60%	173	2

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms, which was awarded in 1970, refers to the important ceramic finds that gave the Fritzens-Sanzeno culture its name. The bear stands for the bear stream, which flows through the place and gave it its name, is of Celtic origin and means "torrent".

Web links

Commons : Fritzens  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Tyrol Atlas
• Fritzens , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

• 70309 - Fritzens. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: 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. 159 ff., No. 585 a. 643 .
2. ^ Fritzens parish . Wahlen.tirol.gv.at. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
3. ^ Eduard Widmoser: Tiroler Wappenfibel . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-7022-1324-4 , p. 18 .