North Tyrol

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North Tyrol (Tyrol)
North Tyrol
North Tyrol

North Tyrol is the northern part of the Tyrol region and the larger part of today's Austrian state of Tyrol .

history

The historical region of Tyrol, which today's European Region Tyrol-Alto Adige represents

Today's Tyrol region, formerly a county in the Habsburg Empire , was divided between German Austria and Italy at the end of the First World War after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is divided into four parts:

  • North Tyrol and East Tyrol (the district of Lienz ) in the Republic of Austria together form the state of Tyrol with its capital Innsbruck .
  • South Tyrol (the Autonomous Province of Bozen / Alto Adige ) with the capital Bozen and the Trentino (Welschtirol, Autonomous Province of Trento / Trento) with the capital Trento together form the region of Trentino-Alto Adige in Italy.

Today these four parts of the country establish the cross-border European region Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino .

See also the sections History of Tyrol until 1918 and 1918 until today

geography

North Tyrol encompasses the entire area of ​​historic Tyrol north of the main Alpine ridge , mainly the Inn valley and its secondary valleys, as well as the upper Lech valley as well as the Leukental and the Pillerseetal .
The part of the country is divided into the regions (North Tyrolean) Unterland east of Innsbruck, (North Tyrolean) Oberland west of Innsbruck and the Ausserfern , whereby in recent years the central area as Innsbruck and the surrounding area has become increasingly independent.

North Tyrol has an area of ​​1,062,783.53 hectares (about 10,627 km²), that is about 84% or 56 of the area of ​​the federal state, and 40% of the area of ​​the European region (of historic Tyrol). North Tyrol has about 625,000 inhabitants (2001: 623,100), that is 92.5% of the inhabitants of Tyrol, i.e. over 910 , and 36% ( 13 ) of the 1.25 million Tyroleans and Trientines (2001) on both sides of the state border .

Neighboring regions

Allgäu Upper Bavaria
Vorarlberg Neighboring communities Pinzgau
Engadine South-Tirol East Tyrol
The second part of the state of Tyrol, East Tyrol, does not border on North Tyrol, because the uppermost South Tyrolean Ahrntal is in between and borders on the state of Salzburg .

Political and administrative structure

Politically, the part of the country is divided into the following political districts (from east to west, with judicial districts ):

According to the major regions also the statistical breakdown NUTS: AT with AT331 Ausserfern , AT332 Innsbruck , AT334 Tiroler Oberland and AT335 Tiroler Unterland .

Of the 279 Tyrolean municipalities , 243, or 88%, are in North Tyrol.

traffic

Streets

The traffic situation in North Tyrol is characterized by several important transit routes:

Are of lesser importance, primarily for tourism, in regional and small border traffic

Railways

Corresponding to the road routes run parallel:

Airport

The only significant airport is Innsbruck-Kranebitten Airport , which is only sufficient for city ​​flights due to its inner-Alpine location , but currently offers scheduled services to Vienna as well as destinations such as London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Moscow and St. Petersburg .

Web links

Wikivoyage: North Tyrol  - Travel Guide

Individual evidence