Pinzgau-Pongau

Pinzgau – Pongau is the name of an Austrian administrative unit and describes the NUTS region AT322 , which includes the two political districts of Sankt Johann (Pongau) and Zell am See (Pinzgau) .

To the subject

The region was created for the common EU statistics  (NUTS) for the attention of Eurostat in order to meet the requirements regarding the size of a NUTS 3 region. The term is rather uncommon in Austrian and Salzburg geography. The two districts, together with the Lungau (Tamsweg district, AT321), are referred to as Innergebirg , a historical region of the Prince Archbishopric of Salzburg , which once also included areas of the Kitzbühel district and the Zillertal , which is now part of Tyrol , and which is still used as a term for the mountains of Salzburg is common today.

Pinzgau – Pongau corresponds to the landscape of the (inner-alpine) Salzach Valley with the upper Saalach area ( Saalachpinzgau ) and the Salzburg part of the Ennstal ( Ennspongau ), i.e. geographically the - in north-south direction - the middle zone of Salzburg between the Kalkalpen main ridge (without Lammertal ) and the Central Alps - Main ridge.

Key data

Key data of the room are:

• Main town: Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer (744 m)
• Parishes : 53
• Population : 164,196
• Area : 4,396 km²
• Population density : 37 inhabitants / km²
• Population per km² of permanent settlement area : 289
• Population development 1995-2005: + 4.5%
• GDP / capita: € 24,157
• GDP in purchasing power parities per capita (absolute): 22,874
• Unemployment rate : 3.7%

Economic sectors (employed):

• Agriculture and forestry (primary sector): 6% (very high)
• Secondary sector : 27% (construction, manufacture of furniture, jewelry, musical instruments and recycling, food, luxury food and beverage production, processing and processing of wood, metal production and processing and manufacture of metal products)
• Service industry : 68% (accommodation and catering, trade and repair, transport and communication, health and social services, education and instruction)

The region is particularly important in terms of energy supply , with numerous reservoirs, especially the Kaprun power plant , but also a number of run-of- river power plants on the Salzach and Saalach. The main economic area, however, is tourism , especially in the winter season ( Ski amadé with Styria, Saalbach-Hinterglemm-Leogang , Zell am See - Kaprun , Gerlos- Zillertal Arena with Tyrol).

Web links

• NUTS-3 Region Pinzgau-Pongau , Tyrol Atlas, Alpine Space (University of Innsbruck)
• Regional GDP and main aggregates according to economic sectors and 35 NUTS 3 regions , Statistics Austria - various statistical publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data sheet NUTS-3 regions: Pinzgau-Pongau , Tirol Atlas, data mostly 2005, accessed June 6, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b} as of 2002