St. Jacob in house

St. Jacob in house
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Kitzbühel
License plate :	KB
Surface:	9.6 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 30 '  N , 12 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '3 "  N , 12 ° 33' 35"  E
Height :	855  m above sea level A.
Residents :	795 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	83 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6392
Area code :	05354
Community code :	7 04 15
Address of the municipal administration:	Dorf 2 6392 St. Jakob in Haus
Website:	www.st-jakob-haus.tirol.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Leonhard Niedermoser (For St. Jakob)
Municipal Council : (2016) (11 members)	11 For St. Jakob - List of mayors Leo Niedermoser
Location of St. Jakob in Haus in the Kitzbühel district
St. Jakob in Haus in summer
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

St. Jakob in Haus is a municipality with 795 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Kitzbühel district in Tyrol ( Austria ). The community is located in the judicial district of Kitzbühel .

geography

Kitzbüheler Horn

St. Jakob in Haus in winter

St. Jakob in Haus is the smallest municipality in the Kitzbühel district and is located in the Pillerseetal , which branches off from Fieberbrunn . The almost 10 km² large community includes, in addition to the small clustered village with the village church, several hamlets, of which Moosbach and Mühlau have grown into larger settlements. There are also numerous individual farms in scattered locations.

history

St. Jakob in Haus was first mentioned in a document in 1308 with the name "zue sant Jacob hintz Haus", but the area was already settled in the 10th century . The community belonged in part to the Hofmark Pillersee and was one of the properties of the Benedictine monastery Rott, which is north of Rosenheim . The Hofmark "Billersee" was in a confirmation document from Pope Eugene III. named in 1151. This Hofmark was a closed area that included today's Pillerseegemeinden (except Waidring ).

Population development

The strong population growth of St. Jakob is based on both a positive birth balance and a positive migration balance .

politics

The municipal council has a total of 11 members.

• With the municipal council and mayor elections in Tyrol in 2016 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 For St. Jakob - Leo Niedermoser mayor list.

mayor

• Leonhard Niedermoser (For St. Jakob)

tourism

• Summer: hiking
• Winter: Pillersee and Buchensteinwand ski areas (accessible by lifts from St. Jakob and Hochfilzen )

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in St. Jakob in Haus

• Parish church St. Jakob in Haus: The parish church hl. James the Elder was probably built in 1273 and first mentioned in a document in 1308. When an avalanche destroyed the church to the ground in 1689, it was rebuilt in the same place. The figures from the period of construction are by Georg Faistenberger, the altarpiece Resurrection of Jesus Christ by Ignaz Faistenberger and the ceiling painting by Johann Endfelder .
• The house in which the watchmaker and inventor Christian Reithmann was born in the Moosbach district
• Jakobskreuz : An almost 30 m high accessible summit cross on the Buchensteinwand

Sons and daughters of the church

• Christian Reithmann (1818–1909), watchmaker, inventor of the four-stroke engine
• Berthold Niedermoser (1910–1996), Cistercian and Abbot of Schlierbach

Web links

Commons : St. Jakob in Haus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community website
• St. Jakob in Haus Tirolatlas

• 70415 - St. Jakob in house. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The official spelling is specified or shown in the list of Tyrolean municipalities in the appendix to the Tyrolean municipal code 2001; accessed on April 11, 2012 and on Statistics Austria: A look at the community
2. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of St. Jakob, population development. Retrieved February 22, 2019 . 
3. ^ History of St. Jacob. Retrieved February 28, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Bergbahn Pillersee website ( memento of the original from March 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.