Olympic Village (Innsbruck)

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Basic data
Pole. District , state Innsbruck  (I), Tyrol
Pole. local community Innsbruck   ( KG  Mühlau , Arzl )
Locality Mühlau , Arzl
Coordinates 47 ° 16 '20 "  N , 11 ° 26' 34"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '20 "  N , 11 ° 26' 34"  Ef1
height 567  m above sea level A.
Residents of the stat. An H. 6859 (2014)
Building status 176 (2014)
surface 53.1 ha
Post Code 6020 Innsbruck
prefix + 43/0512 (Innsbruck)
Statistical identification
Statistical district 16 Olympic Village
Counting district / district Mühlau shooting range, Arzl-Olympisches Dorf (70101 X [43/63])
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The Olympic Village as seen from the Hungerburg .
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS ; City of Innsbruck: Statistics - Numbers
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The Olympic Village is a district of the Tyrolean capital Innsbruck in Austria . The large housing estate with around 7,000 inhabitants is located on the eastern edge of the city on the left bank of the Inn , in the cadastral communities of Arzl and Mühlau . The Olympic villages for the 1964 Winter Olympics and the 1976 Winter Olympics were built right next to each other and are no longer differentiated today. The district is mainly characterized by many high-rise residential buildings.

Location and statistical data

The Olympic Village is one of the 20 statistical districts of the city of Innsbruck. In the south, the Inn separates it from the Roßau industrial area , in the north the street Haller Straße - Spingeser Straße - Schützenstraße from the industrial area Mühlau / Arzl and in the east the Kugelfangweg from the Neu-Rum district of the Rum municipality . The district consists of the two statistical districts ( counting districts ) Mühlau-Schießstand (22.3 ha, 2126 inhabitants, 84 buildings) and Arzl-Olympisches Dorf (30.8 ha, 4733 inhabitants, 92 buildings; as of April 2014), which by a line in the extension of Spingeser Straße to the south will be separated. The district has 6859 inhabitants and a population density of 12,917 inhabitants / km². 13.0% of the population are younger than 15 years, 27.8% older than 65 (the highest proportion of all Innsbruck districts). The proportion of foreigners is 15.8%.

Neu-Arzl belongs to the statistical district of the industrial area Mühlau / Arzl, but it is closely linked to the Olympic Village and in many respects is viewed as a district together with the Olympic Village.

history

The village of Arzl, an independent municipality until 1940, is located on the slopes of the Nordkette ; the valley floor used to be an unpopulated wetland , the Haller Au . In 1893 the state main shooting range was relocated from Mariahilf to the Arzler Au. The shooting range settlement , later called Neu-Arzl , developed around it from 1920 . From 1932 to 1934 the emergency church for the Divine Child was built on Pontlatzer Strasse, and in 1934 the Neuarzl volunteer fire brigade was founded. In 1940 the settlement, which at that time had around 740 inhabitants, came to Innsbruck together with Arzl. The Pius Church was built from 1959 to 1960 . St. Pius became a parish vicariate in 1961 and an independent parish in 1975.

On July 1, 1961, the construction of the first Olympic village began. The shooting range had to give way and was rebuilt above Arzl. Eight ten-story apartment blocks with a total of 689 apartments were built for the 1964 Games. The settlement was opened on January 15, 1964 and then inhabited by the athletes. The first tenants moved in in June.

On February 4, 1973, Innsbruck was also awarded the contract for the 1976 Winter Games and on May 3, the foundation stone for Olympic Village II with 642 apartments between An-der-Lan-Straße and Inn was laid. As part of social housing, other similar houses were built later.

Only a monument with the Olympic rings in the district commemorates the Olympic Games .

  • State main shooting range (before 1959)

  • The Olympic Village under construction (1963)

coat of arms

The district coat of arms of Neu-Arzl / Olympic Village shows a red and white divided shield above a white target, underlaid by two crossed flags in the colors black-yellow and white-green, and below a representation of that monument with the five uniformly gold-colored Olympic ones Wrestling, which shortly after the IX. 1964 Winter Olympics has been built in the Olympic Village.

With these elements this district coat of arms reminds of the two decisive impulses for the development of this district. On the one hand, this was the construction of the former state main shooting range in the Arzler Au (1893), in the northern neighborhood of which the so-called shooting range developed, especially after 1918, and on the other hand, the Olympic Winter Games, which were held twice in Innsbruck, formed the occasion for the construction of the Olympic Village.

Infrastructure and traffic

Tram at the terminus of line 2
Elementary school Neu-Arzl

The so-called "O-town" is about the Hallerstraße ( B171 ) to the city center and the Grenoble bridge with the Reichenau connected. The New Orleans Bridge, which is only open to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport, connects the Olympic Village at the level of the Baggersee with the Roßau . The district was originally developed by the bus line O of the Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe , which was operated as a trolleybus from 1988 to 2007 . For this purpose, the first bus lane in Innsbruck was set up in 1988 on Schützenstrasse . In 2019 the Olympic Village was connected to the tram network, line O was replaced by tram lines 2 and 5. In addition, bus lines T and 504 touch the district.

The Olympic Village has an elementary school, a new middle school and a municipal indoor swimming pool. Despite the young age, the district has a diverse and independent club life. The sports club Olympisches Dorf / Neu Arzl , founded in 1975, is one of the largest popular sports clubs in the city and, with its handball section, is the most successful women's handball club in Tyrol.

literature

  • Association Neuarzl Olympic Village (Ed.): 50 years of the Olympic Village. Anniversary brochure 1964–2014. Innsbruck 2014 ( PDF; 4.6 MB )

Web links

Commons : Olympic Village  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Innsbruck: Statistical classification of the districts of Innsbruck (PDF; 1.2 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: Statistical Districts of Innsbruck (PDF; 1.3 MB)
  4. ↑ City of Innsbruck: District mirror 2014 (PDF; 410 kB)
  5. ↑ a b He went bankrupt there in 1885. Innsbrucker Hauptschützengesellschaft: Chronicle . ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) ihg-innsbruck.at, accessed March 23, 2015;
    see also Austrian special map , data status 1925/1934, scale 1: 75,000; Area map of Innsbruck , 1931/35, scale 1: 25,000 (each layer online at TIRIS: Historische Kartenwerke Tirol ).
  6. ↑ With its own bus lane, priority for public transport. In: Innsbrucker Stadtnachrichten, No. 1/1989, p. 3 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ With the tram from O-Dorf to the technology. In: tirol.ORF.at. January 25, 2019, accessed January 25, 2019 .