Saalbach-Hinterglemm

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Salzburg

Political District :

Zell am See

License plate :

ZE

Main town :

Saalbach

Surface:

125.53 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 23 ' N , 12 ° 38' E Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '0 " N , 12 ° 38' 0" E

Height :

1003 m above sea level A.

Residents :

2,859 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

23 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

5753, 5754

Area code :

06541

Community code :

5 06 18

NUTS region

AT322

Address of the
municipal administration:

Dorfplatz 36
5753 Saalbach-Hinterglemm

Website:

www.saalbach.or.at

politics

Mayor :

Alois Hasenauer ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : (2019)
(19 members)

15th

4th

15th 4th

A total of 19 seats

ÖVP : 15
SPÖ : 4

Location of Saalbach-Hinterglemm in the Zell am See district

Saalbach-Hinterglemm seen from the Pründelkopf

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Saalbach-Hinterglemm is a municipality in the Pinzgau in the state of Salzburg in Austria with 2859 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Saalbach-Hinterglemm is located in the Pinzgau in the valley of the Saalach , the Glemmtal , which runs from west to east . The area belongs to the Kitzbühel Alps . The highest point in the north is the Spielberghorn ( 2044 m ), in the south the Hochkogel ( 2249 m ). The local mountain is the Schattberg ( 2097 m ). The next larger town is Viehhofen, about 10 kilometers away by road .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following two localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Hinterglemm (1056)
Saalbach (1803)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Hinterglemm and Saalbach.

climate

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Saalbach

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	0.8	3.0	7.1	12.2	17.8	20.0	22.4	21.9	17.8	13.3	5.4	0.9	O	11.9
Min. Temperature (° C)	-7.4	-6.9	-3.5	-0.1	4.5	7.7	9.8	9.7	6.4	2.4	-2.7	-6.3	O	1.2
Temperature (° C)	-3.8	-2.7	0.9	5.0	10.3	13.1	15.3	14.8	11.0	6.7	0.6	-3.0	O	5.7

Precipitation ( mm )	88	72	93	75	109	156	182	168	117	81	84	87	Σ	1.312

Humidity ( % )	71.9	64.8	58.3	52.5	51.2	57.2	56.1	57.4	61.9	63.8	72.8	78.2	O	62.2

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0.8

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-6.9

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12.2

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17.8

4.5

20.0

7.7

22.4

9.8

21.9

9.7

17.8

6.4

13.3

2.4

5.4

-2.7

0.9

-6.3

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Source: ZAMG average climate values 1981 - 2010

history

The oldest evidence of a settlement date back to 1222. The name Salpach in a land register of 1350 as the designation of a Meier court mentioned for the first time. The village of Saalbach emerged around this and became the economic center of the municipality.

Even before 1410 there was a church in the village.

In 1489 Archbishop Johannes Beckenschlager granted the town market rights .

Nevertheless, Saalbach remained a largely agricultural and poor community until the 20th century. It was not until after the First World War , but especially after 1945, that tourism , especially in winter, brought about a sustained economic upswing.

In 1987 the name of the municipality was changed from Saalbach to Saalbach-Hinterglemm.

From January 22nd to February 3rd 1991, Saalbach-Hinterglemm hosted the Alpine Ski World Championships. For this purpose, a bypass tunnel was built for Saalbach and Hinterglemm.

Population development

The economic development can also be read from the development of the population. While the population rose only relatively slightly from 935 to 1018 from the census of 1869 to 1900, the next ten years saw an increase of 6.2%, which was followed by a decrease of −6.2% by 1923. Thereafter, the population increased again by 8.7% until 1934, stagnated until 1939 and has grown continuously since then (with increases of more than 25% in the 1950s and 1960s). Also between the penultimate census in 1991 and the last one in 2001 there was another increase of 8.6%. This is due to the positive birth balance (+300), which offset the negative migration balance (−60).

Religions

Saalbach-Hinterglemm is the seat of a Roman Catholic parish . 86.1% of the population belong to the Roman Catholic Church , 5.5% to the Orthodox Church , 2.6% to the Evangelical Church and 1.0% to Islam . Other faith communities each achieve less than 1%. 3.3% have no religious beliefs.

politics

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The community council has a total of 19 members.

With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2004, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2009 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 4 FPÖ, and 3 SPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2014 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 8 FPÖ, and 2 SPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg 2019 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, and 4 SPÖ.

mayor

1987–1989 Helmuth Thomas (ÖVP)
1989–2013 Peter Mitterer (ÖVP)
since 2013 Alois Hasenauer (ÖVP)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality shows “in a red shield two towering diagonally crossed golden skis, accompanied at the top by a silver snow crystal and at the bottom by three (1, 2) silver balls (St. Nicholas) resting on top of each other, the whole shield covered by a silver wave bar, the the Saalach symbolizes. "

Culture and sights

Regular events

Officially, Saalbach-Hinterglemm is limited to simple cultural events with a rustic, touristy character. Some regular events are:

Mountain Attack : An event in which ski mountaineering is practiced as a competition. This has been taking place every year since 1999 in January .
Harley-Davidson meeting
World Games of Mountain Biking: annually in autumn
Rave On Snow: annual rave event

tourism

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Panorama between the Großer Asitz and Wildenkarkogel

The Kohlmais summit lift, one of the Saalbach gondola lifts.

Tourism is the municipality's most important economic pillar. Most of the jobs in Saalbach are directly or indirectly dependent on it. The Glemmtal is one of the most important tourist areas in the state of Salzburg.

In Saalbach-Hinterglemm and the surrounding area there are 15 cable cars, 17 chair lifts and 24 drag lifts. In the municipalities of Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Leogang and Fieberbrunn is the ski resort Saalbach-Hinterglemm / Leogang / Fieberbrunn .

winter

270 km of slopes can be used for skiing and snowboarding , of which 18 km are black ( degree of difficulty ), 112 km are red and 140 km are blue. There is also a floodlit slope. There are 10 km of groomed trails with a high altitude trail on the Reiterkogel, ice rinks and toboggan runs with floodlights and ice stock shooting .

To prepare the slopes, eight reservoirs were created for the snow-making systems and around 700 snow cannons were installed. With the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1991 , Saalbach became an international giant among alpine winter sports resorts .