Mathon (municipality of Ischgl)

Mathon ( village ) locality
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Landeck  (LA), Tyrol
Judicial district	Landeck
Pole. local community	Ischgl
Coordinates	46 ° 59 '20 "  N , 10 ° 14' 43"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 59 '20 "  N , 10 ° 14' 43"  E
height	1454  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	375 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	113 (2001)
Post Code	6562 Ischgl
Statistical identification
Locality code	16733
Counting district / district	Ischgl (70608 000)
View from Rauhen Kopf to Mathon
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS

Mathon is a village in Paznaun in Tyrol and a fraction ( locality ) of the municipality of Ischgl in the Landeck district .

Like Ischgl, Mathon is heavily influenced by tourism. Due to its size, Mathon is mentioned separately in many areas, although it is not an independent community.

geography

The village of Mathon is just under 30 kilometers southwest of Landeck , around 4 km into the valley from Ischgl , around halfway to Galtür on the left of the Trisanna  at an altitude of around 1450  m above sea level. A.

The Mathon fraction also includes the Einzelhof and the Nederle area directly above, the Rotte Valzur and the hamlet of Piel into the valley, as well as the Friedrichshafener Hütte and the Ausserbergli and Innerbergli Alps . This village comprises 110 buildings with 375 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020), the majority in the village itself.

Between Valzur and Mathon, the Larain valley flows into the Paznaun valley from the south.

Neighboring towns and cities:

	St. Anton am Arlberg ∗  (O)	Ischgl  (O) ∗∗
Valzur Galtür (O and Gem.)		Paznaun Pasnach
	Ramosch ∗∗  (OT,  Gem.Valsot , Kr.Ramosch , GR , CH )

^∗The largely uninhabited Verwall

^∗∗The Fimbatal east belongs to Ischgl and Ramosch GR (around the Heidelberger Hütte ), but in between the mountain area of Sent GR

history

Hamlet Valzur , in the valley from the northeast, behind (via Galtür ) Gorfenspitze and Hochnörderer , Vallüla (on the Bielerhöhe ) and Ballunspitze

The village was settled by the Walsers in the 13th century . In the Urbar of the Lords of Rottenburg is around 1360 Muntane mentioned. Muntan means 'alpine region' in Romanic . A permanent settlement developed from the original alp in the 13th or 14th century. Initially only the shady side (Nederseite) was settled, only later the forest on the sunny side was cleared to gain pastureland and fields.

In legal terms, Mathon originally belonged to Nauders and the Lower Engadine (until 1652) and thus ecclesiastically to Sins , Diocese of Chur (1807). Until the 15th century, the dead had to be taken to the local St. Peters Church for burial.

In the 18th century, gold was dug above Mathon and a mine was built, of which a 20 m long tunnel is still preserved today. Around 1820 the town had 132 inhabitants, the whole town 220. In the 19th century there was economic hardship, trade no longer played a role in Paznaun and agriculture was insufficient to feed the population during the little “Ice Age” . Many residents emigrated as shepherds, day laborers or craftsmen, the population stagnated (1826: 221 inhabitants, 1887: 220 inhabitants).

Tourism began at the end of the 19th century (1861: first ascent of the Fluchthorn , 1908 construction of the Kathreinhütte, today Friedrichshafner Hütte , on the Muttenalpe), which became the most important source of income with the construction of the first cable car in Ischgl in 1963.

Due to its location, Mathon was repeatedly hit by natural disasters. In the summer of 1896, a mudslide threatened Valzur. Since it caused only minor damage, the residents built the Lourdes Chapel as a fulfillment of a promise. One day after the great avalanche disaster in Galtür , another avalanche buried half of the hamlet of Untervalzur on February 24, 1999 . Seven people were killed. During the floods in August 2005 , the entire valley floor near Mathon was devastated, with the Trisanna digging a completely new river bed.

Culture and sights

Mathon branch church

Mathon Chapel

• Catholic Expositur Church Mathon hl. Sebastian
• Widum Mathon
• Sebastian Fountain Mathon
• Dreikönigskapelle Mathon

Web links

Commons : Mathon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the place (www.mathon.at)

Individual evidence

• 70608 - Ischgl. Community data, Statistics Austria .

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ischgl municipality: Districts : Mathon, ischgl.tirol.gv.at
3. ^ Community Ischgl: Churches : On the parish history of Ischgl , ischgl.tirol.gv.at
4. ↑ ^{a b} Kurt Klein  (edit.): Historical local dictionary . Statistical documentation on population and settlement history. Ed .: Vienna Institute of Demography [VID] d. Austrian Academy of Sciences . Tyrol , Ischgl , S. 102 ( online document , explanations . Suppl . ; both PDF - oD [updated]).
5. ^ Ministry of Life: Avalanche winter 1999 and the Galtür disaster , naturgefahren.at
6. ↑ Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (Ed.): Flood 2005 - Event documentation of the Federal Water Management Administration, the Forestry Service for Torrent and Avalanche Control and the Hydrographic Service. Vienna 2006 ( PDF; 5.2 MB  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )