Gantschach (municipality of Schlaiten)

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Gantschach ( village )
Gantschach (municipality of Schlaiten) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Lienz  (LZ), Tyrol
Pole. local community Schlaiten   ( KG  Schlaiten)
Locality Schlaiten
Coordinates 46 ° 52 '48 "  N , 12 ° 38' 51"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '48 "  N , 12 ° 38' 51"  Ef1
height 930  m above sea level A.
Residents of the stat. An H. 60 (1981)
Post Code 9951f1
Statistical identification
Counting district / district Schlaiten (70727 000)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS
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Gantschach is a village in the municipality of Schlaiten . The village is located high above the Iseltal west of the community center in the district of Lienz in Tyrol , Austria .

geography

Gantschach is located around 500 meters northwest of the center of Schlaiten. It extends along Schlaitener Straße (L289). The farms Albiner, Anderler and Falkner belong to the place. To the southeast of Gantschach lies the Bacherdorf district of Schlaiten , from which Gantschach is essentially separated by a left tributary of the Schlaitenbach . In the north, the Göriach stream separates Gantschach from the Rotte Göriach .

history

Gantschach is first mentioned in a document in 1385 in the design register in connection with an Ulrich ze Ganczschach . Other spellings were among others Kantsach , Chontschach or Canndtschach . The name had previously also been used for a corridor or a farm and was derived for the first time from Slavic in 1889. The name should mean the outside of a thing , end , point (Slovenian konec ). Other name researchers, however, derive the place name from a resident's name ( kotjane ) formed using the Slavic word for angle (Slovene kot ) .

In 1981 Gantschach consisted of 11 buildings with 11 households. The population was 60 people.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubert Bergmann: Slavic in the name of the East Tyrolean communities Ainet and Schlaiten. Verlag Edition Praesens, Vienna 2005, p. 123 f. (Supplement to Austrian Name Research; Volume 5)
  2. ^ Austrian Central Statistical Office (Hrsg.): Ortsverzeichnis 1981. Tirol. Vienna 1984, p. 122