Pfunds

Pfunds
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Landeck
License plate :	LA
Surface:	140.36 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 58 '  N , 10 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 58 '4 "  N , 10 ° 32' 29"  E
Height :	970  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,592 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	18 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6542
Area code :	05474
Community code :	7 06 17
Address of the municipal administration:	Stuben 45 6542 Pfunds
Website:	www.pfunds.tirol.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Rupert Schuchter
Municipal Council : (2016) (15 members)	8 (Together for Pfunds) , 6 ( Livable Pfunds ) , 1 (Young Pfunds)
Location of Pfunds in the Landeck district
View from the west of Pfunds, in the foreground Stuben
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Pfunds ( Rhaeto-Romanic Fuond ^{? / I} meaning bottom or valley bottom ) is a municipality with 2592 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the district of Landeck in the state of Tyrol ( Austria ). The municipality is part of the Landeck judicial district .

geography

Pfunds is located in the Upper Court , the uppermost section of the Tyrolean Inn Valley , in the triangle of three countries near the borders with Switzerland and Italy . At the Kajetansbrücke the roads branch off to Spiss and on to Samnaun as well as to Nauders and the Reschenpass .

The community consists of the districts of Stuben on the left bank of the Inn on the alluvial cone of the Stubnerbach, Pfunds-Dorf on the right bank of the Inn on the alluvial cone of the Radurschlbach and the hamlets of Wand , Vorder- and Hinterkobel , Birkach , Lafairs , Stein and Greit . The connection between the districts is a wooden bridge built in 1950 in the style of the 19th century. The alluvial cones of the streams lead the Inn through two distinctive loops.

Neighboring communities

lake	Serfaus Tösens
Spit		Kaunertal
in Graubünden (Switzerland) : Valsot	Nauders in South Tyrol (Italy) : Graun in Vinschgau

history

Pfunds with the Piz Mundin , around 1900

Pfunds was first mentioned in a document in 1282. In the center of both districts there are stately middle-corridor houses with protruding gable roofs, open staircases and facade paintings in the Engadine style. A representative example is the former court house in Stuben. The houses are evidence of the prosperity of the place from the time when trade between Augsburg and Venice still ran over the Oberer Weg, the Reschenpass and the Fernpass . The Liebfrauenkirche in Stuben was built around 1470 in the late Gothic style and received a baroque altar in 1680.

Pfunds is still on the long-distance cycle path today , which runs as the Via Claudia Augusta along an ancient Roman road of the same name .

Pfunds was part of the judicial district of Nauders until the end of 1920 , which however was dissolved as a result of the First World War and added to the judicial district of Ried in Tyrol . Since 1978 the municipality has been part of the Landeck judicial district.

A band has existed in Pfunds since the middle of the 19th century. A certain existence in 1854 can be proven. At the beginning of the 20th century there were two music bands in the village - the districts 'Dorf' and 'Stuben' each had their own band.

During the flood event in 2005 , the Stubnerbach overflowed its banks and covered part of the village with rubble.

In 2015, Pfunds provided a 110-year-old, 28 m high spruce as a Christmas tree for Vienna's Rathausplatz .

Culture and sights

See the list of listed objects in Pfunds

economy

In the 1980s , Pfunds positioned itself as an “ecological community”. There were plans to divert the Inn from the Swiss border in a power plant canal to Prutz. This motivated the residents to put life in the village under the motto “sustainable and ecologically compatible”. One relied on the construction of solar systems, heat utilization in winter gardens and a pollution-free central heating system with biomass and wood waste.

Today, Pfunds is a two-season tourist municipality that benefits from the nearby ski areas in Samnaun and Nauders . A hiking trail leads from Pfunds to the Hohenzollernhaus Alpine Club Hut .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Philipp Jakob Greil (1729–1787), baroque painter
• Johann Chrysostomus Senn (1795–1857), poet - "The red Tyrolean eagle"
• Anna Maria Achenrainer (1909–1972), writer

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  The Inn Bridge and the Tower House.

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  The parish church of Saints Peter and Paul.

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  Pfunds-Stuben

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  Pfunds stone

Web links

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

• History-Tyrol: Pfunds
• 70617 - Pfunds. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moriggl Alois : 'From the life of a veteran captain.' In: Supplement to the Volks- und Schützen-Zeitung. No. 6. Tyrol and Vorarlberg: 1855
2. ↑ Pfunds music band. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 17, 2016 ; Retrieved April 17, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Wrong branches beautify the town hall Christmas tree , orf.at, November 5, 2015, accessed November 5, 2015.