Pfaffenhofen (Tyrol)

Pfaffenhofen

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

Innsbruck country

License plate :

IL

Surface:

7 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 18 ' N , 11 ° 5' E Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '0 " N , 11 ° 5' 0" E

Height :

642 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,143 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

6405

Area code :

05262

Community code :

7 03 40

NUTS region

AT332

Address of the
municipal administration:

Lehngasse 1
6405 Pfaffenhofen

Website:

www.pfaffenhofen.tirol.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Andreas Schmid (Open Village List)

Municipal Council : (2016)
(13 members)

7 OPEN VILLAGE LIST - Mayor Andreas Schmid,
2 Independent List Pfaffenhofen - ULP,
4 LISTE 4 YOU - L4Y

Location of Pfaffenhofen in the Innsbruck-Land district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Telfs-Pfaffenhofen station

Pfaffenhofen is a municipality with 1143 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Innsbruck-Land district in Tyrol ( Austria ). The community is located in the judicial district of Telfs .

geography

Pfaffenhofen is located in the Upper Inn Valley near Telfs, south of the Inn . The highest point in the community is the 2796 m high Hocheder . In terms of settlement, the place is connected to Telfs and Oberhofen. To the west, the Imst district adjoins the municipality of Rietz .

Community structure

Pfaffenhofen consists of a single cadastral community of the same name .

structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Pfaffenhofen (7.00 km²)	Pfaffenhofen (D)
Legend

Legend for the breakdown table

In the cadastral municipalities column , all cadastral municipalities of a municipality are listed. In the brackets the respective area is given in km².

All settlements recorded by Statistics Austria, which also have their own local area code, are listed in the Localities column . In the hierarchy level of the same column, indented to the right, only settlements that consist of at least several houses are shown.

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = capital of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
Hgr = group of houses
E = single farmstead (only if you have your own local area code)

The complete list of Statistics Austria is in: Topographical settlement identification according to STAT

It should be noted that some places can have different spellings. Thus, cadastral communities can spell themselves differently than localities or communities of the same name.

Source: Statistics Austria -

Neighboring communities

Two of the three neighboring communities are in the Innsbruck-Land district, one in the Imst district .

	Telfs
Rietz (Imst district)		Oberhofen in the Inn Valley
	Oberhofen in the Inn Valley

history

Long before the name “Pfaffenhofen” existed, people lived on this soil. The settlement of the valley basin goes back to the Urnfield culture .

Archaeological finds on the Ematbödele in Telfs and on the “Trappeleacker” in Pfaffenhofen, among other places, show that the area has been inhabited for the past 3000 years.

Christians settled in the church early on. In the 5th century, a traveling bishop even settled in Pfaffenhofen for some time. The bishopric from this period can still be admired today under the presbytery of the parish church of the Assumption.

The first documentary mention of Pfaffenhofen comes from the year 1197. In a document, Bishop Eberhard von Brixen ended the dispute over an estate in “Phafenhofen” between the St. Ulrich Abbey in Augsburg and Brixen canons. However, recent research assumes that the place is actually Pfaffenhofen an der Glonn , where the St. Ulrich Abbey - in contrast to Pfaffenhofen in Tyrol - had extensive possessions since the 12th century.

In 1239 Hörtenberg Castle was first mentioned in a document. Around 1300, today's Hörtenberg ruin was the place of jurisdiction for a larger district. Hörtenberg was bought by Count Meinrad II. Of Tyrol from the earlier teachings of the Counts of Eschenlohe and thus finally went to Tyrol as an incorporation.

On August 5, 1706, a striking lightning bolt ignited the powder supply of around 1,500 hundredweight stored there, and the lock blew up. All that was left was the still existing castle keep, which today has a roof to protect it from further deterioration. The community acquired the castle ruins and their facilities and has since invested in the infrastructure and maintenance so that the castle ruins are available as a destination and event location over the summer months.

coat of arms

On October 28, 1955, Pfaffenhofen was awarded a municipal coat of arms by the Tyrolean state government.
Blazon :

“A shield of silver and red divided with battlements. At the top a black trident upright, the middle raised trident tip ending as an arrow, with an arrowhead as a stem. "

The red battlements symbolize Hörtenberg Castle and the trident symbolizes the jurisdiction originally located there. The colors of the municipal flag are: white-red.

Population development

politics

The last mayoral elections took place at the same time as the municipal council elections on February 28, 2016. Andreas Schmid was elected mayor with 404 votes / 70.51%.

Political party	percent	be right	Seats on the local council
OPEN VILLAGE LIST - Mayor Andreas Schmid	54.25%	351	7th
Independent list Pfaffenhofen - ULP	18.24%	118	2
List 4 you	27.51%	178	4th

Culture and sights

Hörtenberg castle ruins

Pfaffenhofen parish church

Hörtenberg castle ruins
Catholic parish church Pfaffenhofen Assumption of Mary

traffic

Road: Pfaffenhofen is via the Inntal Autobahn A 12 with the Telfs-West exit (exit 105).
Train: The Arlbergbahn with the Telfs-Pfaffenhofen train station which is located in Pfaffenhof's municipality. There, rapid transit trains of the S-Bahn Tirol on lines S1 and S2 run alternating every 30 minutes.

Web links

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

70340 - Pfaffenhofen. Community data, Statistics Austria .
www.pfaffenhofen.tirol.gv.at - homepage of the municipality

Individual evidence

↑ The interpretation of the Tyrolean Pfaffenhofen goes back to Monumenta Boica . Volume 22, p. 198, no. 14. This assignment was followed by Julia Hörmann: On the question of the high medieval rulership in the upper Inn Valley , in: Rainer Loose (Ed.): From the Via Claudia Augusta to the Upper Way. Life on the Etsch and Inn. West Tyrol and neighboring areas from prehistoric times to the present day (Schlern-Schriften 334). Innsbruck 2006, pp. 105–129, here: p. 120.
↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 2: 1140-1200 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7030-0485-8 , p. 405-406, No. 915 .
↑ Local council and mayoral elections 2016 - Pfaffenhofen municipality , accessed on May 4, 2016

[1] The interpretation of the Tyrolean Pfaffenhofen goes back to Monumenta Boica . Volume 22, p. 198, no. 14. This assignment was followed by Julia Hörmann: On the question of the high medieval rulership in the upper Inn Valley , in: Rainer Loose (Ed.): From the Via Claudia Augusta to the Upper Way. Life on the Etsch and Inn. West Tyrol and neighboring areas from prehistoric times to the present day (Schlern-Schriften 334). Innsbruck 2006, pp. 105–129, here: p. 120.

[2] Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 2: 1140-1200 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7030-0485-8 , p. 405-406, No. 915 .

[3] Local council and mayoral elections 2016 - Pfaffenhofen municipality , accessed on May 4, 2016