Hippach

Hippach
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	black
License plate :	SZ
Main town :	Hippach-Schwendberg
Surface:	39.36 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 12 '  N , 11 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '0 "  N , 11 ° 52' 0"  E
Height :	608  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,444 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	6283
Area code :	05282
Community code :	7 09 16
Address of the municipal administration:	Johann-Sponring-Strasse 80 6283 Hippach
Website:	https://www.hippach-schwendau.at/hippach/
politics
Mayor :	Gerhard Hundsbichler ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (Election year: 2016) (13 members)	9 Together for Hippach, 4 Together for Hippach
Location of Hippach in the Schwaz district
Hippach village from the north, behind it the community of Schwendau
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hippach is a municipality with 1444 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) 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

Hippach is located in the rear Zillertal, west of the Ziller . The community consists of the street village on an alluvial cone and many hamlets and individual farms on the steep slope of the densely populated Schwendberg and the Laimacherberg and Gugglberg mountains to the north.

Today, Hippach is the cultural and sporting center of the communities Hippach, Ramsau and Schwendau.

Hippach shares many facilities with the neighboring community of Schwendau, so the two municipal offices are housed in the same building in Schwendau (only 30 m from the shared municipality border). The amalgamation of the communities Hippach and Schwendau into one community has been a much discussed topic for several years.

Neighboring communities

Fügenberg , Ramsau im Zillertal , Schwendau , Tux , Weerberg , Zell am Ziller , Zellberg

Community structure

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

• Hippach-Schwendberg (679)
• Laimach (765)

history

The place name Hippach, called Huetbach, Hüttbach, Hipach in the course of history , is of German origin and was first mentioned in a document in 1299. The name Schwendberg appears for the first time in 1318. Laimach was first mentioned in a document in 1350. Gugglberg already appears in 1161/73 Traditionsbuch of monastery Beyharting as Gvkunberch .

Hippach became a well-known tourist destination in the Zillertal relatively early on, and the former bath contributed to this. From Hippach, the Christmas carol " Silent Night, Holy Night " began its triumphal march all over the world.

economy

Hippach is an important tourist destination, there are also a few smaller businesses and a large number of commuters.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Hippach

• Talbach waterfall in Laimach on the border with Zell am Ziller
• Laimacher waterfall in Laimach above the village meadow
• Ziller promenade along the entire village on the border with Ramsau
• Zillertaler Höhenstraße along the Schwendberg at an altitude of over 2000 meters
• Silent Night Museum near the village meadow in Laimach

traffic

The community is connected to traffic via the Zillertalstrasse and the Zillertalbahn with the Ramsau-Hippach train station . One of several access roads to the Zillertaler Höhenstraße, an excursion road that runs along the western slope of the Zillertal valley, begins in Schwendberg.

Personalities

• Franz Egger (1836–1918), Prince-Bishop of Brixen
• Johannes Baptist Katschthaler (1832–1914), Archbishop of Salzburg
• Ferdinand Kogler (1872–1944), legal historian
• Georg Maikl (1872–1951), lyric tenor
• Matthäus Schiestl the Elder (1834–1915), sculptor
• Rosina Schneeberger (* 1994), ski racer
• Siblings Strasser , singing group
• Bonaventura Stürzer (1848–1930), General Procurator of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance

Web links

Commons : Hippach  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Side of the community
• History-Tyrol: Hippach
• 70916 - Hippach. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ 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. 142-143, No. 563 .