Mühlau (Innsbruck)

Mühlau ( district ) locality cadastral community Mühlau
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Innsbruck city  (I), Tyrol
Pole. local community	innsbruck
Coordinates	47 ° 17 '3 "  N , 11 ° 24' 47"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 17 '3 "  N , 11 ° 24' 47"  E
height	619  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	5435 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	11.48 km²
Post Code	6020 Innsbruck
prefix	+ 43/0512 (Innsbruck)
Statistical identification
Locality code	16404
Cadastral parish number	81121
Counting district / district	Mühlau-Dorf, Hungerburg-Mühlau, Mühlau-Ost, Mühlau shooting range (70101 X [40,41,42,43])
View of Mühlau from the north
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS

Mühlau Statistical district
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Innsbruck city  (I), Tyrol
Pole. local community	Innsbruck   ( KG  Mühlau)
Locality	Mühlau
Coordinates	47 ° 17 ′ 3 "  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 47"  E
Residents of the stat. An H.	2392 (2014)
Building status	384 (2014)
surface	1.49 km²
Statistical identification
Statistical district	13 Mühlau
Counting district / district	Mühlau-Dorf (70101 40)
Plan of Mühlau
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS ; City of Innsbruck: Statistics - Numbers

Mühlau is a cadastral municipality , a fraction ( locality ) and a statistical district in the north of Innsbruck .

geography

The district is located on the slope of the Nordkette  north of the Inn , as the first of the MARTHA villages on the old village road from Innsbruck to Hall . The town center (church) is 619  m above sea level. A. The Mühlauer Bach flows through the village and flows south of it into the Inn.

Outline and statistical data

The area of ​​the cadastral municipality and locality corresponds to the municipality of Mühlau, which was independent until 1938. In addition to the village of Mühlau, these include parts of what is now the Hungerburg , Olympic Village and Mühlau / Arzl industrial area . The cadastral community borders in the west on the cadastral community Hötting , in the north and east on the cadastral community Arzl and in the south (separated by the Inn) on the cadastral communities Innsbruck , Pradl and Amras .

The statistical district Mühlau is congruent with the statistical district ( census district ) Mühlau-Dorf and has an area of ​​149.4 ha, 2392 inhabitants and 384 buildings (as of April 2014). 13.1% of the population are younger than 15 years, 17.1% older than 65. The proportion of foreigners is 23.7% (as of 2013).

history

Spinning mill of Franz Baur's sons in Mühlau (before 1900)

Graves from the urn field culture of the Late Bronze Age found in Mühlau prove that the area was settled early. First mentioned in 1288 it became the princely Urbar Count Meinhard II. As "Muelaenne" , part of the Office Thaur . Wilten Abbey was also an important landowner in the Middle Ages and early modern times . The name is derived from the mills that have operated on the Mühlauer Bach for centuries. However, the name Mühlau did not establish itself in official documents until the 19th century; before that, Mühlen was in use (the district is not located in an wetland area).

The district has a long industrial tradition, among other things, armor and 17 of the 28 bronze statues of the Innsbruck court church were made in the workshops . In the 18th century, the metalworking industry was partly replaced by grain and sawmills. Since the end of the 19th and middle of the 20th century, the water of the Mühlauer Bach and the Nordkette has been used by various drinking water and electricity companies. One of the important Tyrolean companies in Mühlau was Franz Baur's sons .

As early as 1581, under Archduke Ferdinand II , the first Mühlauer Innbrücke was built, which should enable a better connection between Innsbruck (especially the Hofburg ) and Hall. The original wooden bridge was replaced by a chain bridge in 1838–1843 and by today's reinforced concrete construction in 1937–1939.

In 1900 the first electric railway in Tyrol - a 1 km long narrow-gauge railway (track width 760 mm) - ran from the old smoke mill to the reloading point of the federal railway. It was closed again in 1919 because the smoke mill was relocated to a location with direct access to the federal railway. Today Mühlau no longer has a train station. The next train stations are Innsbruck main station and Rum stop .

Mühlau was part of Arzl until 1746 and was incorporated into Innsbruck in 1938 as part of the formation of large communities under the Nazi regime. Ecclesiastically, Mühlau originally belonged to the mother parish of Thaur , received its own locality in 1786 and was elevated to an independent parish in 1891.

In 1877 a stone meteorite was found , which is now in the Natural History Museum Vienna .

coat of arms

Village fountain with the mill wheel

Mühlau had a coat of arms until it was incorporated, which is used again today as the district coat of arms. It shows a silver mill wheel as a talking coat of arms in red . Nothing is known of an official award, the coat of arms first appeared in 1856, at that time a light-colored mill wheel on a blue background. An oil painting from 1900 (formerly on the high altar of the Mühlauer parish church) shows the mill wheel on a red background for the first time, but not floating freely as it is today, but driven by water. The best known representation is the mill wheel on the village fountain built in 1929. The Mühlau coat of arms can also be found in the district coat of arms of the Hungerburg.

Attractions

Torrent control on the Mühlauer Bach

See also: List of listed objects in Innsbruck-Mühlau

• Parish church hl. Leonhard : built in Gothic style in 1432, replaced by a new baroque building from 1748–1750, the shape of which was changed in the 19th century
• One of the oldest buildings in Mühlaus is the Sternbach mansion belonging to the von Sternbach family, who came from Bruneck in the Puster Valley . Sternbachplatz is named after the family .
• Karmel St. Josef and St. Teresa : TheCarmelite convent, foundedin Wilten in1846, moved in 2004 into anew building above Mühlau designedby Margarethe Heubacher-Sentobe .

Personalities

Persons with a relationship with Mühlau

• Thomas Riss (1871–1959), painter, lived in Mühlau from 1926 to 1959
• Ludwig von Ficker (1880–1967), writer and publisher; Patrons of Trakl, buried in the Mühlauer Friedhof
• Georg Trakl (1887-1914), Austrian poet of Expressionism , on the Mühlauer cemetery buried

Sons and daughters

• Marx Treitzsaurwein (around 1450–1527), private secretary of Emperor Maximilian I.
• Leonhard Lang (1843–1928), paper merchant and patron
• Alfons Schnegg (1895–1932), painter
• Walter Dejaco (1909–1978), architect, site manager in Auschwitz concentration camp
• Charlotte Pfeiler (* 1923), architect

Web links

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

• Mühlau , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"
• Mühlau  in the literary land map Tyrol / South Tyrol

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City of Innsbruck: cadastral communities of Innsbruck (PDF; 1.3 MB)
2. ↑ City of Innsbruck: area, inhabitants and number of buildings of the individual census districts and statistical districts of the city of Innsbruck (as of April 2014) (PDF; 143 kB)
3. ↑ City of Innsbruck: District mirror 2014 (PDF; 410 kB)
4. ^ Oswald von Zingerle : Meinhards II. Urbare der Grafschaft Tirol (Fontes rerum Austriacarum / Österreichische Geschichtsquellen II.15.2). Vienna 1890, p. 49.
5. ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. XXXVIII (Ark LVI) .
6. ^ Franz-Heinz Hye : Mühlauer Brücke 1581–1981. In: Innsbrucker Stadtnachrichten No. 7/1981, p. 16 ( digitized version )
7. ↑ Andreas Rauch: The Mühlau coat of arms and the village fountain. In: Innsbruck informs, July 2001, p. 22 ( digitized version )
8. ↑ Josef Bertsch: Three red-covered towers on three green hills ... - Facts and assumptions about the Thaurer municipal coat of arms . In: the Schlossbichler , Thaur community newspaper, No. 32/8. Volume, April 2012, p. 3 ff ( pdf , thaur.tirol.gv.at)