Kartitsch

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

Lienz

License plate :

LZ

Surface:

58.89 km²

Coordinates :

46 ° 44 ' N , 12 ° 30' E Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '33 " N , 12 ° 29' 57" E

Height :

1353 m above sea level A.

Residents :

775 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

13 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

9941

Area code :

04848

Community code :

7 07 13

NUTS region

AT333

Address of the
municipal administration:

No. 80
9941 Kartitsch

Website:

www.kartitsch.at

politics

Mayor :

Josef Ausserlechner (Tyrolean Farmers Association)

Municipal Council : (2016)
(11 members)

11 Joint list Kartitsch - GLK

Location of Kartitsch in the Lienz district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Kartitsch

Kartitsch is an Austrian municipality in the district of Lienz (East Tyrol) in the state of Tyrol with 775 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community is located in the judicial district of Lienz .

geography

location

Kartitsch is located in the Tyrolean Gailtal , the highest of all East Tyrolean valleys, between the confluence with the Pustertal (over a step) and the 1525 m high Kartitsch saddle . The Lesach Valley connects to the east . The municipality of Kartitsch is framed in the north by the western foothills of the Lienz Dolomites and in the south by the Carnic Alps , on whose mountain ridge the state border with Italy runs. The settlement area extends mainly to terraces on both sides of the Gailbach .

structure

Hollbruck, 1360 m, part of the municipality of Kartitsch, from the north looking towards the Karnischer Kamm

The community consists of the three localities Hollbruck, St. Oswald and Kartitsch.

Other locations are Ausserlerch, Äußerst, Birgl, Verschbaum, Hinteregg, Innerlerch, Kanter, Boden, Neuwinkl, Rauchbach, Schuster, Sulzenbach, Walcher, Wiese and Winkl.

Neighboring communities

Kartitsch borders on the communities Abfaltersbach , Anras , Comelico Superiore ( IT ), Heinfels , Obertilliach , San Nicolò di Comelico (IT), Sexten ( South Tyrol , IT), Sillian and Strassen .

population

Population structure

In 2013, 822 people lived in the municipality of Kartitsch, placing Kartitsch in the lower mid-range of the 33 East Tyrolean municipalities. At the end of 2001, 98.3 percent of the population were Austrian citizens (Tyrol: 90.6 percent); At the beginning of 2013 it was 97.4 percent. The 21 counted foreigners came almost exclusively from the EU countries. In 2001, 98.4 percent of the population professed their Catholic faith (Tyrol: 83.4 percent).

The average age of the community population in 2001 was above the national average. 18.1 percent of the residents of Kartitsch were younger than 15 years (Tyrol: 18.4 percent), 57.2 percent between 15 and 59 years old (Tyrol: 63.0 percent). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 24.7 percent, well above the national average of 18.6 percent. As a result, the average age of the population of Kartitsch continued to rise. The proportion of people under the age of 15 fell to 14.1 percent as of January 1, 2013, while the proportion of people between the ages of 15 and 59 increased to 61.7 percent. By contrast, the proportion of people over the age of 59 fell slightly to 24.2 percent. In 2001, 50.9 percent of the residents of Kartitsch were single, 42.7 percent married, 5.8 percent widowed and 0.6 percent divorced.

Population development

The municipality of Kartitsch recorded average growth between the late 19th century and the middle of the 20th century compared to the Lienz district, although growth was well below the national average. Up until the 1920s, Kartitsch did not record a clear growth trend; rather, population increases and population losses alternated from census to census. From around 1920 to around 1950, the population grew. The 1951 census showed 1,059 inhabitants. The population stagnated in the 1960s and 1970s; a downward trend began in the 1980s. Most recently, the number of inhabitants had again reached the value of the interwar period . Kartitsch has had a very negative migration balance for decades; in the years 1971 to 1981 this population decline was offset by a positive birth balance. After that, the emigration increased; between 1981 and 2001 the population also decreased. Since 2002, the municipality has recorded a negative balance of migration every year, plus an only slightly positive or already partially negative birth balance in these years.

economy

Workplaces and employees

Kartitsch only houses small businesses and in 2001 did not have any workplaces with more than twenty employees. The census of workplaces carried out as part of the census in 2001 revealed 42 workplaces with 110 employees (excluding agriculture) in Kartitsch, 70 percent of which were employed. The most important branch of the economy in 2001 was the hotel and restaurant sector with 20 workplaces and 38 employees (35 percent of the employees in Kartitsch). This was followed by trade with three workplaces and 17 employees, as well as transport with two workplaces with 15 employees and material goods production with three workplaces and 14 employees. 31 percent of the employees in Kartitsch were employees or civil servants, 39 percent blue-collar workers and 26% company owners. In addition to the tourism businesses, there is a sawmill, a grocery store, a bank, bus and taxi companies or hauliers, carpenters and an earth moving company.

Of the 383 economically active persons living in Kartitsch in 2010, 9.2% were unemployed. Of the 357 employed, 79 were employed in manufacturing (22 percent), 50 in agriculture and forestry (14 percent) in construction (15 percent) and 45 in public administration (13 percent). Other important sectors were trade with 41 employees (12 percent) and construction with 29 employees (8 percent). Of the 350 employed people from Kartitsch (excluding residents temporarily absent from work), 126 worked in Kartitsch in 2010. 224 commuted to work. Of the out-commuters, 71 percent had their place of work in the Lienz district, the most important commuting communities were Heinfels , the district capital Lienz and Sillian, where a total of 49% of the out-commuters worked. Another 19 percent commuted to North Tyrol, 6 percent to another federal state. In return, only 28 commuters worked in Kartitsch in 2010, most of whom came from the district.

Agriculture and Forestry

The statistics showed 118 agricultural and forestry businesses for the municipality of Kartitsch in 2010: 23 full-time businesses, 75 part-time businesses and ten businesses each belonging to associations or legal entities. In 1999 there were 129 companies. In 2010 the farms cultivated a total of 5,595 hectares, with 20 percent of the area being farmed by full-time farmers, 34 percent by part-time farmers and 44 percent by businesses with legal entities.

tourism

Tourism in Kartitsch is important for the community; over 50% of jobs depend on him. Measured against the district average, the tourism intensity (overnight stays per inhabitant) is well above the average in East Tyrol, with tourism intensity being twice as high in winter and around 2.5 times as high as the district average in summer. In the 2011/12 tourist year, the municipality counted around 69,000 overnight stays. Kartitsch recorded 41,812 overnight stays in the summer half of 2012 and 26,853 overnight stays in the winter half of 2012/13. Of the overnight stays in summer 2012, 35% were Germans, 30% Italians, 27% Austrians and 2% each to Dutch and Belgians. In the winter of 2011, 800 guest beds were designated for Kartitsch.

Today the community, like all other East Tyrolean communities, belongs to the Osttirol Tourist Association, with Kartitsch being organized in the "Hochpustertal Holiday Region". In the community there are four three-star hotels, another hotel, as well as various guesthouses, private landlords and holiday apartments providers. Winter sports enthusiasts have a ski area with two ski lifts, a curling rink and an ice rink, a cross-country ski run and two toboggan runs in the community. In the summer season, athletes can use a mini golf course, two mountain bike trails, a tennis court and the hiking trails on the Carnic High Trail with the Obstansersee Hut and the Filmoor Standschützen Hut .

Kartitsch has been part of the Bergsteigerdörfer Initiative of the PES since 2008 . The mountaineering village has meanwhile been extended to the Tyrolean Gailtal region with the main town of Obertilliach .

Transport and infrastructure

Kartitsch is accessible from the Gailtalstraße (B 111), which leads from Sillian in the Pustertal to the Lower Carinthian Gailtal. Most of the settlements in the community are located on or near Gailtalstrasse. Hollbrucker Straße (L 328), which branches off from Gailtalstraße from the Aigen district and leads via the Schuster and Faschinghöfe districts to the Hollbruck branch church, serves to develop the somewhat remote Hollbruck district . Kartitsch is connected to the public transport network by bus from ÖBB-Postbus GmbH (Postbus) , whose line 4416 connects Kartitsch via Panzendorf and Tassenbach with Sillian up to eight times a working day in around 13 minutes. The line runs via Untertilliach and Maria Luggau to St. Lorenzen im Lesachtal and has eight stops in the municipality of Kartitsch. The next rail connection is in Tassenbach ( Drautalbahn ).

Obertilliach is one of only three municipalities in the Lienz district that had not merged with other municipalities to form a wastewater association up to the turn of the millennium. In addition, at that time there was only one mechanical sewage treatment plant (Emscherbrunnen) that was put into operation in 1974 in the meadows south of the outskirts of Obertilliach-Dorf. Only 69% of the 254 wastewater-producing objects that existed at the time were connected to the sewer network. The waste that arises in the community is disposed of by the Waste Management Association of East Tyrol (AWVO).

Safety and health

Since the closure of the Obertilliach police station, the municipality of Kartitsch has been looked after by the Sillian police station. With regard to health care, Kartitsch is organized in the social district of East Tyrolean Oberland together with the communities of Auservillgraten , Innervillgraten , Sillian , Strassen , Heinfels , Obertilliach and Untertilliach . In the health district, for example, health services such as elderly and care help, home and household help, palliative care and family help are organized. The residents have to go to Sillian to see a doctor; the nearest hospital is the Lienz district hospital .

The Kartitsch fire brigade already existed in July 1897 as a fire station with "extinguishing regulations" and numbered 44 men. The actual establishment of the voluntary fire brigade (FF) Kartitsch took place on November 19, 1899; she was the 24th fire brigade of the Lienz district association. In 1909 the FF Kartitsch founded its own fire fighting train in the St. Oswald district. In 1928 the first motorized sprayer was bought, in 1930 a hose tower was built at the entrance to Kartitsch, in 1936 a fire water storage tank and a small fire station were built in St. Oswald. In 1946, the FF Kartitsch bought a vehicle for the first time, in 1949 they founded the independent fire fighting group Rauchbach and in 1955 a second independent fire fighting group in Hollbruck. 1958 began the mechanization and modernization of the fire brigade. In 1976 an extinguishing water tank was built in Hollbruck and in 1968 a tanker was bought for the first time. The fire brigade itself moved from the school building to the parish hall in 1967; In 1977 the premises were expanded in 1977. Today's fire station was inaugurated in 1989 together with a new small fire engine. The independent Hollbruck fire fighting group also received a new fire station in 1994, and in 1998 the fire station was inaugurated in Rauchbach.

Culture and sights

In Kartitsch there are 15 listed , immovable objects, most of them are sacred buildings. The parish church of St. Leonhard is a Gothic church completed in 1479 with a mighty high altar from the years 1761–1763. It was redesigned in a late classicist style in 1830. The church of 'Our Lady' in Hollbruck is a parish and pilgrimage church built between 1680 and 1685. It is one of the most uniform works in the area from the end of the early baroque. The stucco frames from the workshop of Gallus Apeller in Innsbruck, made by Georg Holzmeister, deserve special mention . The Gothic branch church St. Oswald, also a large church, has a polygonal choir and an attached tower with a high pointed spire. Inside, the single-nave nave has Secco paintings from the 17th century, star vaults and a high-quality, baroque interior. Other listed objects are the parish yards in Kartitsch and Hollbruck, some chapels, the Way of the Cross in Hollbruck and three war cemeteries for those who died in the First World War.

coat of arms

Blazon : A rising golden crescent moon in blue. Reason: The coat of arms reminds of the oldest seal and coat of arms bearing sex of the community, the Wiser von Kartitsch. 1465 awarded Emperor Friedrich III. Hans and Jakob Wiser the coat of arms with the crescent moon.

Personalities

Gereon Ausserlechner (1904–1944), Premonstratensian , resistance fighter and Nazi victim
Oswald Kollreider (1922–2017), painter
Franz Wunderbaldinger (* 1927), ambassador
Tanja Schneider (* 1974), ski racer, started for the ski club TSU Kartitsch
Martin Huber (* 1992), biathlete

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Statistics Austria municipality data from Kartitsch

↑ Landesstatistik Tirol (VZ 2001) ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 4 MB) @1@ 2

^ Anton Goller; Anton Kofler: Kartitsch. In: Katholischer Tiroler Lehrerverein (Hrsg.): Bezirkskunde Osttirol. Pp. 243-248

^ Office of the Tyrolean provincial government, Tyrolean provincial statistics

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↑ Ideas - Deeds - Facts, No. 1: Start conference mountaineering villages in the mountaineering village of Ginzling, from 10-11. July 2008 , Austrian Alpine Association as part of the project “Specific Alpine Convention: Via Alpina and Mountaineering Villages”, Spatial Planning-Nature Conservation Department, Innsbruck 2008, p. 4. PDF download ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: Der Archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 7, 2018. @1@ 2

↑ Idyll at the foot of the Carnic Ridge. Mountaineering Villages , accessed November 8, 2018 .

↑ State of Tyrol, wastewater disposal in the Lienz district ( memento of the original from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.2 MB) @1@ 2