MARTHA villages
Coordinates: 47 ° 17 ′ 22 ″ N , 11 ° 27 ′ 19 ″ E
The MARTHA villages are a number of villages on the old country road from Innsbruck to Hall in Tirol in the northern Tyrolean low mountain range .
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The name is composed of the initials of the villages M ühlau , A RZL , R to , Th aur , and A bsam together. Another interpretation leads the H on the Haller district H -piece cross back which is between Thaur and Absam. Together, the five villages have 37,301 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).
Mühlau and Arzl are now incorporated into Innsbruck, Rum, Thaur and Absam are independent communities.
economy
The Dörferstraße (L 8) begins at the Mühlauer Bridge in Innsbruck and ends at the Lower Town Square in Hall. It is called Anton-Rauch-Straße , Arzler Straße , Rumer Straße and Dörferstraße . With the construction of the new country road through the Haller Au im Talboden in 1585–1589 (today Tiroler Straße , here Haller Straße or Bundesstraße and Innsbrucker Straße ), this road lost its importance.
At the beginning of the 20th century there were plans to connect the villages to Innsbruck with an overland tram . This “Dörferbahn” was never realized, especially because of the feared competition with the local railway Innsbruck – Hall in Tyrol .
Agriculture (especially vegetable growing) on the slopes along the Dörferstrasse plays a major role, there are industrial and commercial areas mainly along the main road on the valley floor.
Culture
The MARTHA villages are considered to be the origin of the Mullerlauf Carnival custom , the most important of which take place in Absam and the neighboring town of Mils (called Matschgerer), Rum and Thaur (called Muller). For some years now, the Mullerlauf has been taking place alternately in Rum, Thaur, Absam and Mils. The respective village organizes the run, the other villages take part. In 2011 the custom was added to the list of intangible cultural heritage in Austria as "Mullen and Matschgern in the MARTHA villages" . Another custom that is maintained is the production and display of Christmas cribs during the Christmas season.
Located in the expanding agglomeration of Innsbruck, the communities have partly lost their village character and have become typical suburbs.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ↑ The village railway question. In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 171/1908, July 28, 1908, p. 7, bottom center (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Mullen and Matschgern in the MARTHA villages ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2014 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. , Austrian Commission for UNESCO
