Kaunertal (municipality)

Kaunertal
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Landeck
License plate :	LA
Main town :	Feichten
Surface:	193.38 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 2 '  N , 10 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 2 '0 "  N , 10 ° 45' 0"  E
Height :	1287  m above sea level A.
Residents :	599 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	6524
Area code :	05475
Community code :	7 06 11
Address of the municipal administration:	Feichten im Kaunertal 141 6524 Kaunertal
Website:	www.kaunertal.eu
politics
Mayor :	Josef Raich (home list)
Municipal Council : (2016) (11 members)	7 Home Kaunertal - Mayor Josef Raich, 4 Tourism and Economy for Kaunertal - TWK
Location of Kaunertal in the Landeck district
Kaunertal in winter
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Kaunertal is a municipality with 599 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the valley of the same name in the Landeck district in the state of Tyrol ( Austria ). The municipality is part of the Landeck judicial district .

geography

The municipality of Kaunertal occupies the entire area of ​​the narrow and barren rear valley of the same name and extends into several hamlets and farms along the road through the valley. The main town is Feichten at 1287  m .

Community structure

The municipality consists of a single cadastral municipality or town of the same name . Districts are:

ground Bödele Feichten Grasse Kaltenbrunn

hole Mühlbach Nufels Ögg space

Lower houses Idolize Wolf sweep

Neighboring communities

Six of the nine neighboring communities are in the Landeck district, two in the Imst district and one in South Tyrol .

Kauns Fendels	Kaunerberg
Ried in the Upper Inn Valley Tösens Pfunds		St. Leonhard im Pitztal (IM) Sölden (IM)
	Graun im Vinschgau (South Tyrol)

Population development

Culture and sights

Catholic parish and pilgrimage church of the Assumption in Kaltenbrunn

See also:  List of listed objects in Kaunertal

• Parish Church Feichten Holy Trinity
• Kaltenbrunn Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of Mary: The church is located in the front part of the valley at an altitude of 1260 m. In 1272 the knight Erbo Schenkenberg from Völs am Schlern is said to have built a chapel as a penance for a murder. A miraculous image from the 14th century made it a place of pilgrimage for the mercenaries. It houses altar figures from around 1720 and a crucifix from 1697.
• As a local museum, the valley museum in the Platz area shows objects from the old ways of life and economy, a mineral collection, exhibits on mining and alpinism and the transportable workshop of a hiking shoemaker.

Economy and Infrastructure

The community did not experience a gradual economic upturn until the late 1950s. In the rearmost Kaunertal is the six-kilometer-long Gepatsch reservoir , which was laid out between 1961 and 1964 and which also receives water from the Taschachbach in the rear Pitztal and whose water is led to the power house via a 13.2 km long pressurized water pipe to Prutz in the Inn Valley .

The Kaunertal Gletscher glacier ski area (Kaunertaler Gletscherbahn) in the rear of the Kaunertal with the development of the Weißseeferner , which has been accessible via the toll road Kaunertal Glacier Road since 1982 , brought further economic impetus to the community. Today the ski area is organized together with the Fendels ski area . Another network is the Imst – Pitztal – Kaunertal Glacier Park (with the Imst – Gurgltal region ) around the Kaunergrat Nature Park .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Eugen Larcher (* 1938), former mayor of Kaunertal
• 2018: Alexander Van der Bellen (* 1944), Federal President of the Republic of Austria

Sons and daughters of the church

• Melchior Hefele (1716–1794), architect, born in Kaltenbrunn

Web links

Commons : Kaunertal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community website

• 70611 - Kaunertal. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• History-Tyrol: Kaunertal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/landeck/c-politik/kaunertal-er-ist-einer-von-uns_a2868194 , accessed on June 7, 2019.
2. ↑ https://www.tt.com/politik/landespolitik/15691076/kaunertal-feiert-ehrenbuerger-van-der-bellen , accessed on June 1, 2019.