Schmirntal
| Schmirntal | ||
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 View of the outer Schmirntal |
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| location | Tyrol , Austria | |
| Waters | Schmirnbach | |
| Mountains | Tux Alps , Zillertal Alps | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 5 ' N , 11 ° 34' E | |
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| Type | Kerbtal (outer section), Trogtal (inner section) | |
| rock | slate | |
| height | 1100 to 1600 m above sea level A. | |
| length | 12 km | |
The Schmirntal is a side valley of the North Tyrolean Wipptal , which extends from St. Jodok am Brenner in an easterly to a north-easterly direction. It separates the Tux Alps in the north from the Zillertal Alps in the south and is traversed by the Schmirnbach , which joins the Valser Bach in St. Jodok, which flows into the Sill at Stafflach shortly afterwards . Together with St. Jodok and the Valser Tal , the Schmirntal has been a mountaineering village since 2012 .
geography
At St. Jodok ( 1129 m above sea level ) the Schmirntal and the Valser Tal, which leads to the southeast, unite and flow together into the Wipptal. The Schmirntal leads gradually upwards, first in a north-easterly, then in an easterly direction. At Toldern the Wildlahnertal branches off to the southeast. At Obern ( 1610 m above sea level ) the valley reaches the Tux main ridge and forks into the Kluppental to the north and the Kaserer Winkl to the southeast. From there there is a connection to the Tuxertal and thus to the Zillertal via the Tuxer Joch ( 2338 m above sea level ), which used to be widely used .
The valley is populated with numerous scattered rotten , hamlets and individual farms , which together form the villages of Aussermirn and Innerschmirn of the municipality of Schmirn and are accessed by a state road, the 12.4 km long Schmirntalstraße (L 229).
geology
The Schmirntal lies mainly in the soft slate shell of the Tauern window . It can be roughly divided into two parts. The upper section to Rohrach is a wide, post-glacial trough valley . On the slopes there are lateral moraines , which are covered with numerous postglacial alluvial fans and debris cones . The valley section below Rohrach is narrow and deep, it was probably deepened by the meltwater from the ice age glaciers of the Gschnitz stage . A lateral moraine can only be found here on the northern slope when it joins the Vals Valley. The remains of historical landslides can be found in several places throughout the valley .
history
The path through the Schmirntal and over the Tuxer Joch was already used in prehistoric times, as archaeological finds suggest. In 1249 the valley was first mentioned in a document as "vallis smurne". In 1811 the political community Schmirn was formed, to which Hintertux belonged until 1926 . Since Hintertux also belonged to the Wipptal ecclesiastical area, the deceased had to be taken over the Tuxer Joch and through the Schmirntal to the cemetery in Mauern near Steinach . A death chamber was built near Obern, where the dead could be kept in bad weather.
literature
- Oesterreichischer Alpenverein (Ed.): St. Jodok, Schmirn and Valsertal. Proud mountains - gentle valleys. Innsbruck 2012 ( PDF; 1.4 MB )
- Janusz Magiera: Report 1997 on geological surveys in the Quaternary on sheet 148 Brenner . In: Yearbook of the Federal Geological Institute, Volume 141 (1998), p. 294 ( PDF; 209 kB )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ New mountaineering village near the Brenner. ORF , October 25, 2012, accessed on November 8, 2018 .