Schlitters

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

black

License plate :

SZ

Surface:

10.32 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 23 ' N , 11 ° 50' E Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '39 " N , 11 ° 50' 27" E

Height :

548 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,517 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

147 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

6262

Area code :

05288

Community code :

7 09 25

NUTS region

AT335

UN / LOCODE

AT 7ST

Address of the
municipal administration:

Schlitters 52a
6262 Schlitters

Website:

www.schlitters.at

politics

Mayor :

Friedl Abendstein

Municipal Council : (2016)
(13 members)

13 Together for Schlitters with Mayor Friedl Abendstein

Location of Schlitters in the Schwaz district

Schlitters towards the Inn Valley

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Schlitters is a municipality with 1517 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Zillertal and belongs to the Schwaz district in Tyrol ( Austria ). The community is located in the judicial district of Zell am Ziller .

geography

The clustered village Schlitters is located on the Murkegel of the Öxlbach in the lower Zillertal. The municipality also includes the Schlitterberg district, about 400 m above, to be reached from Rotholz in the Inn Valley.

Community structure

structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Schlitters (10.36 km²)	Schlitters (D) Branchwood (ZH) Schlitterberg (ZH) Schlitterer Fügenberg (ZH)
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

Bruck am Ziller , Buch in Tirol , Fügen , Fügenberg , Gallzein , Hart in Zillertal , Strass in Zillertal

history

The place name is traced back to a pre-Roman settlement. Schlitters was first mentioned in records in the archbishopric church of Salzburg as " Slitteres in Cilari valleę " in the year 931. From the 15th to the 17th century, in the heyday of Schwaz mining, miners mined for silver, copper and mineral paints in the Schlitterberg area Malachite and azurite. A fish pond created in the 16th century is now a swimming lake.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1956, shows a stylized silver sleigh in a red field. This is the seal of the Knights von Schlitters, who died out in 1275, which also serves as a talking coat of arms .

Culture and sights

economy

Intensive agriculture is practiced on the flat valley floor, there are also several businesses and a large number of commuters.

In March 2018, a cheese slicer of 10 small dairies is to go into operation.

traffic

Schlitters is connected to public transport via the Zillertalstrasse and the Zillertalbahn with one stop. A cycle path towards Mayrhofen leads past the Schlitterer See .

Personalities

Alfons Huber (1834–1898), historian
Albin Moroder (1922–2007), sculptor
Michael Rieser (1828–1905), painter

Schlitters, looking north towards the Rofan Mountains

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. 106 No. 139 .
^ Eduard Widmoser: Tiroler Wappenfibel . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-7022-1324-4 , p. 77 .
↑ Cheese cutting machine matures orf.at, February 9, 2018, accessed February 9, 2018.

Web links

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

70925 - Schlitters. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Schlitters , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

[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. 106 No. 139 .

[2] Eduard Widmoser: Tiroler Wappenfibel . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-7022-1324-4 , p. 77 .

[3] Cheese cutting machine matures orf.at, February 9, 2018, accessed February 9, 2018.