Kaltenbach (Zillertal)

Kaltenbach

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

black

License plate :

SZ

Surface:

12.1 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 18 ' N , 11 ° 53' E Coordinates: 47 ° 17 '36 " N , 11 ° 52' 31" E

Height :

558 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,317 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

6272

Area code :

05283

Community code :

7 09 18

NUTS region

AT335

Address of the
municipal administration:

Schmiedau 17
6272 Kaltenbach

Website:

www.kaltenbach.at

politics

Mayor :

Klaus Gasteiger ( SPÖ )

Municipal Council : (2017)
(13 members)

7
List of Mayors Klaus Gasteiger, 5 New List Kaltenbach (ÖVP),
1 FPÖ

Location of Kaltenbach in the Schwaz district

Kaltenbach with the valley station of the Hochzillertal mountain railway

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Kaltenbach is a municipality with 1,317 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

Kaltenbach is located in the central Zillertal on the left side of the Ziller , opposite Stumm , on the rubble cone of the Kaltenbach . The community consists of the main town and widely scattered farms on the mountainside.

Community structure

Kaltenbach consists of a single cadastral municipality or town of the same name . The former place name Emberg was deleted at the request of the municipality in February 2017.

Neighboring communities

All four neighboring communities are in the Schwaz district.

	Ried in the Zillertal
Ried in the Zillertal		Mute
	Zellberg	Aschau in the Zillertal

history

Kaltenbach is first mentioned in 1165/69 as "Chaltenbach" in a traditional note from the Herrenchiemsee Monastery . The name refers to the settlement by the Bavarians, which began in the 6th century. The Riedbach, the Angerbach and the Kaltenbach as well as the Ziller threatened this area again and again with mudslides and floods, which for a long time made no development of the place possible through agriculture.

In Kaltenbach, the Zillertal drug trade began in 1685 through "oil carriers", which soon reached as far as Switzerland and Germany. Starting from Kaltenbach, further production facilities for medicinal oils were built.

An economic and tourist revival began with the construction of ski lifts in the 1960s (Emberglift) and at the end of the 1970s ( Bergbahnen Schizentrum Hochzillertal ).

Important branches of the economy are agriculture, tourism (here especially winter tourism with the Hochfügen-Hochzillertal ski area ) and several commercial and industrial companies.

Mention should be made of the internationally active Empl Fahrzeugwerk GmbH with the manufacture of special truck bodies and fire fighting vehicles , the window factory of Rieder GmbH & Co. KG and the food wholesaler Braunegger KG .

Population development

mayor

1885–1893: Johann Standl v. Kalberer, post host
1893–1899: Franz Standl, bridge landlord
1899–1901: Johann Höllwarth, farmer in Oberpöllstein
1901–1919: Johann Pessati, Kumeter farmer
1919–1922: Johann Flörl, Astnerbauer
1922–1925: Andreas Rieder, Labmerbauer Emberg
1925–1928: Heinrich Mauracher, master wagoner
1928–1929: Andreas Rieder, Labmerbauer
1929–1931: Andreas Eberharter, Lienznerbauer
1931–1935: Franz Haas, Kornerbauer
1935–1950: Andreas Eberharter, Lienznerbauer
1950–1968: Johann Wegscheider, Samerbauer
1968–1974: Karl Kammerlander, master butcher
1974–2000: Hans Scheffauer, authorized signatory
since 2000: Klaus Gasteiger

coat of arms

On February 3, 1976, the municipality of Kaltenbach was awarded a municipal coat of arms.

Blazon : "Divided diagonally by silver and blue, at the top half a mill wheel, at the bottom three left-hand wavy bars in confused colors."

The coat of arms reminds of the earlier, numerous mills in the village.

Partner communities

Partner communities are:

Austria Neusiedl an der Zaya (Lower Austria)
Germany Zahna-Elster (Saxony-Anhalt)

Culture and sights

Chapel of the Visitation

building

Lady Chapel
Wöscherkapelle
Hubertus Chapel

economy

Empl vehicle plant

Important branches of the economy are agriculture, tourism (here especially winter tourism with the Hochfügen-Hochzillertal ski area ) and several commercial and industrial companies.

Mention should be made of the internationally active Empl Fahrzeugwerk GmbH with the manufacture of special truck bodies and fire fighting vehicles , the window factory of Rieder GmbH & Co. KG and the food wholesaler Braunegger KG .

traffic

Kaltenbach is connected via the Zillertalstraße B 169 and a train station of the Zillertalbahn . In addition, the northern end point of the apex of the Zillertaler Höhenstraße can be approached from Kaltenbach .