Jerzens

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

Imst

License plate :

IN THE

Surface:

30.39 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 9 ' N , 10 ° 45' E Coordinates: 47 ° 8 '59 " N , 10 ° 44' 48" E

Height :

1107 m above sea level A.

Residents :

947 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

6474

Area code :

05414

Community code :

7 02 05

NUTS region

AT334

Address of the
municipal administration:

Jerzens 220
6474 Jerzens

Website:

www.jerzens.tirol.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Karl Raich ( together for Jerzens )

Municipal Council : (2016)
(11 members)

11 Together - for one another

Location of Jerzens in the Imst district

Jerzens, seen from Wenns

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Jerzens is a municipality with 947 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Imst district ( Imst judicial district ), Tyrol ( Austria ).

Geographical location

Jerzens is located in the front Pitztal on the east side on a south-west slope. Below the clustered village of Jerzens, the highest corn-growing area in North Tyrol extends in a sunny and sheltered location.

structure

Jerzens consists of a single village or cadastral municipality. Hamlets on both sides of the Pitze in the valley, such as Ritzenried and Wiesle, also belong to the community .

Neighboring communities

from Jerzens are:

history

The favorable conditions for agriculture and animal husbandry probably led to early settlement. To the pre-Roman Rhaetian population from about 600 came from the north advancing Bavarian immigrants. The then influential lords of Starkenberg and Stams Abbey founded several scattered Schwaighöfe , from which today's hamlets developed through division over the centuries.

The Walsers who immigrated from the Swiss Valais and who advanced over the Piller to Jerzens in the 13th and 14th centuries are also accepted as settlers .

The Jerzner cutlery were very famous.

In a register from 1313, Irtzens and Ritzenried are named as local tax groups of the court (= administrative area) Imst . Around 1650 Jerzens was an independent tax municipality, from which the political municipality emerged in 1811 during the Bavarian rule.

In 1923 a municipal power station was built above the mill. Jerzens has been getting electricity from TIWAG since 1955. In 1954 the aqueduct was built. In 1951 an avalanche of dust on the alpine pastures and meadows carried away 30 pills. 1966 devastated a Mure the districts Mühlloch and Niederhofstraße.

Since 1986 the classrooms have been housed in the parish hall. In 1995 the old schoolhouse was demolished and the second part of the parish hall was built in its place.

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish church hl. Gotthard

economy

Until the middle of the 20th century, agriculture and handicrafts were the main source of income for the residents, with many residents being forced to emigrate or to hire out seasonal workers abroad. This changed with the onset of tourism, when a ski lift went into operation at the Hochzeigerhaus in 1964 .

Today the Hochzeiger ski area has an 8-seater gondola lift, two 6-seater chairlifts, a quadruple chairlift and five other lifts with a total of 52 kilometers of slopes. Jerzens has about 2000 guest beds, sometimes in holiday apartments, guest houses and inns and also some top wellness hotels. The hamlet of Liß / Kaitanger is particularly dominated by tourism.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Hermann Raich SVD (1934–2009), bishop emeritus of the Wabag diocese in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
Gernot Reinstadler (1970–1991), ski racer
Helmut Wechselberger (* 1953), racing cyclist
Lambert Grutsch (1914–1995), Righteous Among the Nations

Personalities associated with the community

Traudl Eder (* 1941), ski racer

Web links

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

70205 - Jerzens. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Site of the Jerzens community
Jerzens , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

Individual evidence

↑ RiS-municipal

[1] RiS-municipal