Prutz

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

Landeck

License plate :

LA

Surface:

9.73 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 5 ' N , 10 ° 40' E Coordinates: 47 ° 4 '35 " N , 10 ° 39' 49" E

Height :

864 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,871 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

6522

Area code :

05472

Community code :

7 06 19

NUTS region

AT334

Address of the
municipal administration:

Obergasse 1
6522 Prutz

Website:

www.prutz.tirol.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Heinz Kofler (Prutzer unit list)

Municipal Council : (2016)
(13 members)

8 Prutz standard list,
4 together for Prutz
1 Prutz worth living in

Location of Prutz in the Landeck district

Prutz to the east with the entrance to the Kaunertal

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Prutz from the Pillerhöhe seen from

Prutz is an Austrian municipality with 1871 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Landeck district in the state of Tyrol .

geography

Prutz is located at the exit of the Kaunertal in the Upper Court , the uppermost part of the Tyrolean Inn Valley . The village center lies on an alluvial cone of the Faggenbach .

Neighboring communities

climate

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Prutz

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	2.4	5.0	10.2	14.4	19.4	22.4	24.7	23.7	19.9	15.2	7.5	2.9	O	14th
Min. Temperature (° C)	-6.3	-5.4	-1.3	2.2	6.4	9.4	11.2	10.9	7.6	3.7	-1.3	-4.9	O	2.7
Temperature (° C)	-2.7	-1.2	3.2	7.2	11.9	14.9	16.8	16.0	12.3	7.9	2.1	-1.7	O	7.3

Precipitation ( mm )	34	31	35	27	56	84	103	108	61	41	39	35	Σ	654

Humidity ( % )	63.2	54.2	45.9	44.2	45.9	46.4	48.0	51.1	51.3	53.3	60.7	67.4	O	52.6

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2.4

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6.4

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24.7

11.2

23.7

10.9

19.9

7.6

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3.7

7.5

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2.9

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Source: ZAMG average climate values 1981 - 2010

history

Prutz, located on the former Via Claudia Augusta , has been a rest stop and later a post office since the Carolingian era . The conditions were favorable for a settlement development. Documented the place was first in the years 1027-1034 as the "locus qui dicitur Bruttes" during a Zehentstreits between the Episcopal Churches of Brixen and Regensburg mentioned.

The late Gothic parish church was redesigned in Baroque style in the 17th century . In 1903, a major fire destroyed most of the village, the typical West Tyrolean settlement pattern with closely spaced rows of houses is still preserved in the center. Prutz was originally part of the Ried judicial district in Tyrol and became part of the Landeck judicial district after the Ried judicial district was dissolved in 1978.

Culture and sights

Parish church of the Assumption of Mary with attached Antonius chapel with cemetery with two chapels and subsequent Widum

Kaltenbrunnerkapelle at the southern exit of the village

Lourdes Chapel and Calvary in Entbruck

Tullenkapelle southwest on the old Inntalstrasse

Former hermitage Wiesele on a wooded mountain slope

Remarkable, in the core late Gothic houses, tower in the field, tower in width

Pontlatzer Bridge as an iron parabolic bridge from 1899

Prutzer Mauer in the center of the village from 1760

Pavilion of the Prutz band

Renovated Winkelstadl in the village center

Economy and Infrastructure

The TIWAG Kaunertal power plant with a nominal output of almost 400 MW, which was built in 1964, is located in Prutz . ( 47 ° 4 '3.6 " N , 10 ° 39' 54.4" O )47.067678 10.665112 870 It receives water from the Gepatschspeicher a 13.2 km long pressure water pipe.

Active associations in village life include the Prutz music band, the Prutz Schützenverein, the Prutz sports club, the Prutz tennis club, the Prutz rabbit breeding club, the schnapps distillers' association, the Prutz beekeeping club, the Prutz singers' group, the automobile club and the Prutz young farmers' association.

In addition to the largest outdoor swimming pool in the district, the Aktiv-Camping Prutz campsite is also owned by the municipality, right next to the Sauerbrunn spring in the Entbruck district.

Due to the convenient location in terms of transport, there are three grocery stores in the village to supply the surrounding area.

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

Personalities

Joseph Schwarzmann (1806–1890), famous ornament painter in Munich , honorary citizen of Speyer
Johann Piger (1848–1932), sculptor in Salzburg

Trivia

The Austrian cabaret group Heilbutt und Rosen dedicated a song to Prutz.

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 1: Up to the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 173-174 No. 200 .

Web links

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

70619 - Prutz. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Official website

[1] Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 1: Up to the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 173-174 No. 200 .