St. Johann in Tirol

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St. Johann in Tirol
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St. Johann in Tirol (Austria)
St. Johann in Tirol
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Tyrol
Political District : Kitzbühel
License plate : KB
Surface: 59.08 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 31 '  N , 12 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '22 "  N , 12 ° 25' 47"  E
Height : 659  m above sea level A.
Residents : 9,547 (Jan 1, 2020)
Postal code : 6380
Area code : 05352
Community code : 7 04 16
NUTS region AT335
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Bahnhofstrasse 5
6380 St. Johann in Tirol
Website: www.st.johann.tirol
politics
Mayor : Hubert Almberger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (Election year: 2016)
(19 members)
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A total of 19 seats

Location of St. Johann in Tirol in the Kitzbühel district
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Main square of the market town of St. Johann in Tirol in the morning
Main square of the market town of St. Johann in Tirol in the morning
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

St. Johann in Tirol , called Sainihåns [zaɪ̯nɪ'ɦåns] in the local dialect , is a market town with 9547 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Austrian state of Tyrol in the Kitzbühel district . The community is located in the judicial district of Kitzbühel . In the regional dialect , the last syllable of the name is accented ([ zaŋkt joˈhan ]).

geography

location

St. Johann in Tirol is located in the Tiroler Unterland in the center of the Leukental . The municipality is located as a regional traffic junction and as the intersection of four valleys in a wide basin . In a north-south direction, the St. Johann basin is cut through by the Leukental, coming from the southeast the valley of the Fieberbrunner-Ache joins , to the west the Loferer Bundesstraße leads into the Sölllandl and to the north the Kössener Straße branches off over the Huber Höhe into the Kohlental from. To the northwest of St. Johann, the mountain range of the Wilder Kaiser forms a natural weather divide between Kufstein and Bavaria; in the south is the Kitzbüheler Horn , which is part of the Kitzbühel Alps . Due to the special basin location , St. Johann in Tirol is largely spared from the foehn storms feared in the Tyrolean Inn Valley , but receives extremely heavy snowfalls in winter due to the location on the south side of the Kaiser Mountains. The Kitzbüheler Ache , the Reither Ache and the Fieberbrunner Ache unite in the St. Johann basin to form the Großache , which flows into the Chiemsee in Bavaria as the Tiroler Achen . The town center lies at an altitude of 660  m above sea level. A. , the highest point is the Maukspitze in the Kaiser Mountains with a height of 2231  m above sea level. A. The municipality covers an area of ​​5915 hectares .

Districts

The place consists of the central main town and the surrounding districts Almdorf, Apfeldorf, Bärnstetten, Berglehen, Fricking, Hinterkaiser, Mitterndorf, Niederhofen, Oberhofen, Reitham, Rettenbach, Scheffau, Sperten, Taxa, Weiberndorf, Weitau, Winkl-Schattseite and Winkl-Sonnseite .

Neighboring communities

Going at the Wilder Kaiser Kirchdorf in Tirol
Neighboring communities St. Ulrich am Pillersee
Oberndorf in Tyrol Kitzbühel Fieberbrunn

history

St. Johann in Tirol around 1750

There are no archaeological finds from prehistoric times in St. Johann, but in the southern part of the Leukental there was evidence of Bronze Age mining as early as the Urnfield Period around 1300 to 1100 BC, and the Celtic tribes of the Ambisonts and alums operated copper mining. As early as the Bronze Age, a mule track led through the basin of St. Johann as a connection from the south over the Felbertauern to the Alpine foothills. From the 2nd century BC the area belonged to the western foothills of the Celtic kingdom of Noricum. The name of the hamlet of Sperten goes back to Celtic language roots .

In 15 BC the Romans conquered the Eastern Alps and the area now belonged to the Roman province of Noricum. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, the region came to the Duchy of Bavaria in the course of the migration and the settling of the Germanic tribe of the Bavarians in the 6th and 7th centuries .

The field names Fricking , Schwentling , Obing and Reitham still remember the time of the Bavarian settlement . The Bavarian noble family of Liuching , which goes back to a tribal leader named Liucho and to whom the Leukental owes its name, built up a county in the Leukental in the following centuries. The seat of court for this county was at Leukenstein Castle at the foot of the Niederkaiser . It was probably destroyed by a landslide in the 13th century, which is why its exact location is no longer known today. The farm name Burgwies in the Bärnstetten district still reminds of the former residence.

From 1166 the Counts of Falkenstein appear as owners of the county in the Leukental. However, this powerful noble family died out in 1272. After that, the Leukental is no longer given as a fief by the Bavarian duke and is subsequently administered by his officials. The seat of the court was moved from St. Johann to the city of Kitzbühel in 1297 .

St. Johann Tirol with the Kaiser Mountains around 1800

Already in the 8th century (probably before 738) missionaries built a baptismal church in the area of ​​St. Johann, which was dedicated to John the Baptist and from which the name of the place is derived. The church of St. John was first mentioned in documents in 1150. The first mention of St. Johann as a parish or village community took place in the founding deed of the Chiemsee diocese in 1216, the hamlet of Apfeldorf was already mentioned earlier (around 1102–1104) in a traditional note from the Scheyern monastery as "Affoltrach in montanis videlicet in Liuchental" - that is expressly referred to as the "apple village in the Leukental".

Oldest picture of St. Johann in Tirol from 1870

In the 12th and 13th centuries, another powerful noble family had extensive possessions in the area of ​​St. Johann. The Lords of Velben , who came from Oberpinzgau, owned a castle in the Rettenbach district. The farm names Oberbürg and Stallbürg still remind of this today. From the "Forchtenstein" mentioned stronghold of Velben are preserved still clearly visible terrain tracks on a hill in the district Rettenbach. In the immediate vicinity there was another castle, called Sperten , which was owned by the Count Palatine of Ortenburg and which is still remembered by the court name Unterbürg today .

With the first division of Bavaria , the area came to Upper Bavaria from 1255 to 1340, and due to the marriage of Countess Margarete von Tirol-Görz "Maultasch" with the Bavarian Duke Ludwig the Brandenburger as Margaret's widow estate from 1342 to 1369 to the County of Tyrol . 1392 with the third division of Bavaria to Bavaria-Ingolstadt and from 1447 to Bavaria-Landshut . Finally, in 1505, the rule of Kitzbühel was united with Tyrol under Emperor Maximilian I.

In 1446 the parish of St. Johann was directly subordinated to the Chiemsee bishops . St. Johann was their pastoral or summer residence until 1808.

With the opening of the copper and silver mining in 1540 at Rerobichl near Oberndorf , which at that time belonged to the municipality of St. Johann, the place gained great wealth . In the 17th century, the Heilig-Geist-Schacht was the deepest shaft on earth at over 880 meters. The mining continued until well into the 18th century.

1621 St. Johann in Tirol becomes the seat of the deanery . In the 17th and 18th centuries, baroque cultural monuments were created, to which the place owes the nickname "Barockes St. Johann".

In 1786, through the Josephine parish regulation, the area to the right of the Fieberbrunner Ache (Winkl Sonnsteite, Reitham, Mitterndorf, Oberhofen, Niederhofen, Stopfenau) came from the parish of Kirchdorf to the parish of St. Johann.

During the Napoleonic Wars , the St. Johann riflemen also moved out several times to defend the country under their captains Andreas Augustinus Feller and Josef Hager from 1796 to 1805. Through the Peace of Pressburg , Tyrol came to Bavaria in 1805, and the Tyrolean riflemen began an uprising against Bavarian rule in 1809. In the same year, the Tyrolean freedom fighter Joseph Speckbacher set up his headquarters to defend the Unterland in the Gasthof zum Bären. The St. Johann riflemen fight in the defense of the Strub pass and under Captain Anton Georg Feller near Kufstein. In May 1809, Dean Matthias Wieshofer saved the place from destruction by Bavarian and French troops.

In 1875 St. Johann was connected to the international railway network with the construction of the Giselabahn . An economic boom followed and tourism began.

Towards the end of the 19th century, the name "St. Johann im Leukental" was increasingly forgotten, and today's name "St. Johann in Tirol" became common.

During the First World War, St. Johann was spared any acts of war, but there were 138 casualties. In their honor, the war memorial was erected on the main square in 1923.

In 1927 the hamlet of Oberndorf was separated from St. Johann and became a separate community .

In St. Johann in Tirol, too, the Nazi tyranny and the Second World War claimed human lives, including 233 soldiers who died on the fronts and two victims of euthanasia. From August 1940 to June 1941 there was a branch of the Dachau concentration camp in St. Johann in Tirol. 20 political prisoners were assigned to convert a mountain farm into an SS rest home. During the Second World War, the site was spared acts of war, but the St. Johann in Tirol train station was bombed in December 1944. But the bombs missed their target and landed in a nearby field. In May 1945, several valuable works of art from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Breughel, Dürer, Tizian, Velasquez, Rubens, Rembrandt) were stored in a cellar in St. Johann.

In 1954 St. Johann in Tirol received a municipal coat of arms. The green-red split shield shows the colors of the old court of the county in Leukental. The ibex horn is reminiscent of the coat of arms of the Lords of Velben, the crosier of the bishops of Chiemsee.

In 1956 St. Johann in Tirol was elevated to a market town .

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St. Johann seen from Reitham, on the right in the background the Kaiser Mountains. ( Winter [4.2 MB] / Spring [3.3 MB])

Population development

The population of St. Johann is steadily increasing; in 2004 the growth rate was 1.8%. The growth is based on both a positive birth balance and a positive migration balance . Since autumn 2007 St. Johann in Tirol has been the most populous municipality in the Kitzbühel district .

St. Johann is the ninth largest municipality in the state of Tyrol .

Culture and sights

Museums

  • Museum St. Johann in Tirol with a permanent exhibition on regional history, the main exhibition Felsenreich - Myth and Adventure Kaisergebirge and a gallery with temporary exhibitions of contemporary art
  • Alpine Museum of the Heeresversorgungsanstalt about the development of military alpine equipment

Buildings

Deanery parish church Maria Himmelfahrt
  • Deanery parish church Maria Himmelfahrt
  • Antonius Chapel with an important dome fresco by Josef Schöpf
  • St. Nikolaus in the Weitau with the oldest bells in Tyrol and the only completely preserved window in Tyrol with Gothic stained glass
  • Hermitage that has been inhabited for over 300 years
  • Gmailkapelle - Rococo building in a rock cave on the Niederkaiser
  • Fixlerkapelle - Baroque plague chapel from the 17th century
  • Mitterndorfer Chapel - baroque chapel
  • Dekantspfarrhof - former summer residence of the bishops of Chiemsee
  • Nepomuk statue - baroque sandstone figure of St. Johannes Nepomuk from 1718 on the bridge over the Fieberbrunner Ache
  • Landhaus Schwarzinger - stately courtyard with air paintings from the Rococo
  • Kaisersaal - cultural and event center for concerts, theater, cinema, lectures, readings, workshops, etc.
  • Alte Gerberei - cultural and event center for concerts, cinema, children's culture, lectures, readings, workshops, theater, etc.

  • Anthony's Chapel

  • Museum St. Johann in Tirol

  • Wide window

  • hermitage

  • Gmail Chapel

  • Nepomuk statue

dialect

The Sainihånserische belongs, like the dialects of the Tyrolean Unterland and also of the Pinzgaues, to a transition area between the southwest Central Bavarian and the South Bavarian , whereby it must be clearly assigned to the Central Bavarian. To the ears of non-residents, the Sainihånserisch sounds like a harder variant of the dialects in Upper Bavaria , with which it otherwise largely corresponds. The infinitives end after n-, ng- and m- on -a, examples: singa, kéma (sing, come). Otherwise they end in -n, examples: kaffn, schlôffn (buy, sleep).

A typical feature of Sainihånserischen is the syllable "ui" - example: vui z'vui Gfuih (way too much feeling), while in most neighboring areas a "ü" is spoken.

The syllables "ab, an" become "u". I can becomes i kù, i have done it is called: i hù 's tù. A particularly typical feature is that "r" before "t, d" and "z" is consonantically resolved and converted to "sch". Black turns to black, first there is too much, thirst to shower, landlord to Wiascht, card to Kåscht, ready to féschtig ...

The "l" is usually converted into a vowel. Examples: money becomes göid, full becomes voi, milk becomes muich, forest becomes wôid.

As a diminutive form, the “ei” is typical for the Leukental, as in Dianei, Maisei (girl, mouse), but it also often appears as “oa”. Hot becomes too hoass, travel becomes Roas.

The “a” is often darkened to an “å”, but not in the diminutive (hand becomes Hånd but little hand becomes Hantei).

The "ö" is pronounced as "e", that is, bad becomes bees, and the "ü" becomes either "u" (press - press) or "i" (bowl - Schissl) or also "ia" ( have to - miss).

Another typical feature of Sainihånserischen is that “és” is used for “you” and “énk” for “you” (és sôits énk dés merkn - you should remember that).

Where does the name “Sainihåns” come from? In medieval documents, the place name of St. Johann in Tirol is spelled “Sand Johans”. Several variations have appeared in the writing over the centuries. After all, until the 19th century, most of the time people wrote the way they talked. So the spelling changed from "Sand Johans" to "Sanjohans". The “j” became an “i”, and so the name “Sainihåns”, which is still used today, emerged from “Saniohans”.

The St. Johann in Tirol Museum and Culture Association has been researching the local dialect for over 20 years and has published a website with over 5,500 words, sayings and idioms.

Sports

Panorama bathing world
Trabrennbahn Oberhofen

There are numerous facilities available to residents and guests for sports:

  • Panorama bathing world, an indoor and outdoor pool complex with sauna, steam bath, 50 m outdoor track suitable for competitions (eight runways, water depth 2.00–2.20 m), sports pool in the indoor pool and beach volleyball court and, in winter, an ice rink
  • Tennis courts, indoor tennis center
  • Mountain bike routes
  • Biking and hiking trails
  • Archery range, small bore shooting range, pistol shooting range, air rifle range
  • Fitness course
  • Football Stadium (Koasastadion)
  • Riding arena, riding course, trotting track
  • Kayak and rafting
  • 60 km of ski slopes, 48 ​​km of which have artificial snow, monocable gondolas, chairlifts, drag lifts and baby lifts
  • Cross-country trails
  • Ski jumping facility
  • High rope climbing garden
  • climbing hall
  • Mountain cart route
  • Skill Park (mountain bike technique training course)
  • Single trail (mountain bike downhill section)

Regular events

Dumpling festival program 2015
  • Kaisersaal: St. Johann in Tirol has had a modern event hall since 2004. The name is derived from the mountain range of the Wilder Kaiser. This hall is regularly used for events: from specialist lectures, seminars and conferences to theater and dance performances to concerts of a wide variety of music genres.
  • Koasalauf - one of the largest cross- country runs in Europe - in February
  • Sainihanser carnival fun on the main square - on Mardi Gras
  • Fastmarkt - traditional market in the town center - on the first Saturday in Lent
  • "Artacts" International festival for jazz and improvised music in the old tannery - in March
  • St. Johann weekly market - every Friday on the main square - from mid-March to the end of November
  • Spring concert by the St. Johann in Tirol music band on three dates - towards the end of March
  • "St. Johanner Autofrühling “, big car show in the town center - end of April
  • May festival on the main square - on May 1st
  • Volunteer Fire Brigade Flea Market - early May
  • Cordial Cup for young football teams - at Whitsun
  • Dirndl and Lederhosen Festival on the main square - in June
  • Summer night festival “Jaggasn” - in July
  • “Lang und Klang” with live music, night shopping and a children's play street - every Wednesday from mid-June to the end of August
  • Summer concerts by the band with various guest stars - every Friday from July to September
  • “Kino Lunaplexx”, film festival - beginning of August
  • “Dance Alps Festival” - dance festival in August
  • “UCI Cycling World Cup” for cyclists of all ages and the “Masters Cycling Classic” - in August
  • “ABV Pro-Tour Beach Cup”, beach volleyball tournament in early September
  • International swimmers autumn meeting in the Panorama bathing world - mid-September
  • St. Johann dumpling festival with the longest dumpling table in the world - in September. The festival has been celebrated since 1981. Several landlords serve 25,000 different types of dumplings in Speckbacherstraße. In addition to the well-known classics such as bacon dumplings or bread dumplings, own creations such as B. St. Johanner dumplings , Andreas Hofer dumplings or Almer dumplings are offered.
  • Large farmers' market in the town center - on the last Saturday in September
  • Music film festival “Sound and Vision” in October
  • Nikolauseinzug and Krampuslauf - on December 5th
  • International trotting on snow, the “Stefani horse race” - on December 26th
  • New Year's Eve warm-up party on the main square - on December 29th
  • New Year's Eve concert of the Jeunesse musicale in the Kaisersaal - on December 30th
  • Big New Year's Eve fireworks - on December 31st

Culinary specialties

St. Johanner sausages

The St. Johanner Würstl, also known as "Sainihånser Wischtl" or simply "Sainihånser", are smoked pork sausages that are slightly longer and thinner than conventional Frankfurt sausages . They were invented in the 1920s by Josef Seibl, the host of the Gasthaus zum Seisl on St. Johanner's main square. They should infuse in hot water, but they can also be fried. They are served with horseradish mustard, freshly torn horseradish and a bread roll or slice of black bread. In the local tradition, the "Tyrolean Krensenf" produced in St. Johann was previously used.

Tyrolean Krensenf

The 1st Tyrolean Mustard Manufactory founded by Johann Karl produced Tyrolean Krensenf according to a secret recipe in St. Johann in Tyrol from the 1920s . After the mustard factory closed in 2000, the recipe was adopted by the Mauthner-Markhof company. Since then there has been Tyrolean mustard .

Huber Brewery

The first brewery in St. Johann in Tirol is mentioned in 1551. A new building was built in 1727, and the Huber family has managed the brewery since 1883. Several beer specialties are produced, which have received numerous awards, as well as lemonades. A landmark of the place is the so-called beer tower with the Bräustüberl on the top floor. There you can taste the various beer specialties with a wonderful view over St. Johann in Tirol.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

St. Johann in Tirol is at the intersection of four valleys (Leukental, Pillerseetal, Sölllandl and Kohlental) a regional traffic junction of Loferer Straße B 178, Hochkönig Straße B 164, Kössener Straße B 176 and Pass Thurn Straße B 161.

The community has an express train station on the Giselabahn (Salzburg - Wörgl), also called Salzburg-Tiroler-Bahn , and thus a connection to the international railway network. The St. Johann train station is also used by the residents of the neighboring communities of Oberndorf, Kirchdorf, Waidring, Schwendt, Kössen, Going and Ellmau.

With the St. Johann sports airfield, the place has the second largest airfield in Tyrol ( ICAO code LOIJ). The St. Johann Aviation Club is located there with its own flight school as well as opportunities for glider and model flying , ballooning and parachuting.

From Christmas to Easter there is a free ski bus offer. A collective call taxi system enables residents with main residence to take cheap taxi rides within the local area using vouchers supported by the municipality. Two electric cars have been available via the Jo-e car sharing system since 2018 .

Established businesses

The headquarters of Fritz Egger GmbH & Co , a global corporation that is one of the leading manufacturers of wood-based materials and chipboard, is located in St. Johann .

Services , trade and commerce have experienced a strong upswing in the last few decades. Today, St. Johann is the shopping center for the Kitzbühel district (January 1, 2013: 861 businesses). Many new businesses settled in particular along Loferer Straße B 178. In addition, since the introduction of the pedestrian zone in the 1990s , the inner town has seen an increase in the economic offer for the average of 20,000 people who, according to statistics, use the infrastructural offer of St. Johann in Tirol every day.

The Ortsmarketing GmbH has made a special contribution to the revitalization of the town center, including the introduction of a weekly market that is held every Friday on the main square from mid-March to the end of November.

Agriculture

The St. Johann in Tirol area has always been considered one of the agricultural centers of Tyrol - despite the harsh, precipitation-rich climate. The agriculture has the broad basin of the St. Johann basin with large flat surfaces a special tradition as a former breadbasket of Tyrol.

In the wide, flat valley basin and on its, with a few exceptions, not extremely steep slopes, there are relatively large numbers of medium-sized and large farms for Tyrolean standards that predominantly operate dairy farming. According to Statistics Austria , around a third of the farms are farmed as their main occupation. These use a little more than half of the community area.

tourism

The St. Johanner Schiberg, the Kitzbüheler Horn

Tourism and gastronomy are among the most important economic sectors in the place. St. Johann in Tirol, with around 420,000 overnight stays per year, relatively evenly distributed between summer and winter, is one of the major tourist destinations in Tirol . The tourist infrastructure offers a wide range of sports facilities in winter and summer, from hotels, pensions and apartments to camping sites as well as bars, bistros, restaurants and cafes. The tourism association "Ferienregion Kitzbüheler Alpen - St. Johann in Tirol - Oberndorf - Kirchdorf - Erpfendorf" organizes numerous events for locals and guests.

The SkiStar St. Johann in Tirol ski area is located on the snow-sure side of the Kitzbüheler Horn in St. Johann and Oberndorf. 17 ski lifts and 60 kilometers of slopes of all levels of difficulty are available for skiing and snowboarding. The slopes can be fully automatically snowed if required

Supply and disposal

District heating pipes as a plastic jacket composite pipe from Logstor

The market community has a water supply (water hardness 9.5 ° dH), sewage disposal and waste disposal which is organized by the local administration. In addition to electrical energy and natural gas, there has also been an environmentally friendly district heating network since the end of 2008, from which numerous public buildings in the town and countless private households are supplied.

The Ortswärme St. Johann in Tirol GmbH supplies households, businesses and public institutions in St. Johann in Tirol with district heating . The company is owned by the municipality of St. Johann (69%), the municipality of Oberndorf (5%) and Fritz Egger GmbH (26%). With the exception of a failure and peak load boiler in the center of the village, Ortswärme St. Johann does not have its own energy generation. The energy is generated by the Egger plant from waste heat and biomass in conjunction with an absorption heat pump and transferred to the local heating network at the plant boundary. As of the end of 2012, around 640 buildings and 1,400 households in St. Johann and Oberndorf were heated with district heating. These include the St. Johann in Tirol district hospital , the barracks , schools , businesses, and single and multi-family houses . A total of around 42 km of pipeline route, that is 84 km of pipeline , were laid. In 2009, 29 GWh of district heating was sold, which would correspond to an oil consumption of approx. 3.4 million liters per year. In the medium term, using district heating in the center of St. Johann will save around 12,000 tons of CO 2 per year . To read out the meter readings and to visualize the individual house systems, a fiber optic cable was laid in the course of setting up the district heating network .

Communication and telecommunications

Glass fiber empty piping in blow-in technology

The telecommunications networks of Telekom Austria and a cable TV operator are available. In addition, in the course of setting up the district heating network, a fiber optic cable (fiber optic cable) was integrated into every building supplied. The place thus also has a high-speed data network.

In buildings with a district heating connection for local heating, the fiber optic cable is available for the use of services in accordance with the Telecommunications Act . The local heat is thus also an internet and line provider.

Under the name St. Johann ONline , customers can use services such as the Internet , branch connections (leased lines) , telephony and the like. Due to the fiber optic cable, high bandwidths (speeds) can be obtained in St. Johann at economically interesting conditions.

Public facilities

District Hospital

In St. Johann there is a district hospital , the Winterstellerkaserne , the Heeresversorgungsanstalt - logistics center west of the Austrian Armed Forces .

Regionally important institutions: District forest inspection, district office of the State Chamber of Agriculture, road maintenance department, nursing home St. Johann in Tirol and the surrounding area, health and social district, police inspection St. Johann in Tirol.

education

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council (local parliament) consists of 19 members, with the mayor presiding.

The municipal council is composed as follows (2016):

Parish council

The St. Johann parish council consists of seven members. The mayor, who is directly elected by the St. Johann population, chairs the meeting. The two vice mayors are elected by the local council.

  • Mayor: Hubert Almberger, (ÖVP)

coat of arms

On May 13, 1954, the Tyrolean provincial government awarded the municipality of St. Johann in Tirol the following coat of arms :

coat of arms

Blazon : "In a shield split in green and red , there is a silver, fallen ibex horn on the right and a golden bishop's staff on the left ."

The shield bears the colors of the old flag of the court in Leukental, whose seat was in St. Johann until 1297. The ibex horn is a reminder of the important family of the Lords of Velben , who lived in the 13th and 14th centuries. Century owned a castle and lands near St. Johann. The crosier was adopted from the coat of arms of the Chiemsee diocese and marks the place as the former summer residence of the Chiemsee bishops.

Municipal memberships

Town twinning

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Persons related to St. Johann in Tirol

Others

The residents of the surrounding villages used to refer to the St. Johanner as "Krenbeidl" (horseradish bags). This nickname was derived from the St. Johanner Krensenf. With "Krenbeidl" it was meant that the St. Johanner, with excessive self-confidence, should have revealed a certain cocky manner towards the residents of the neighboring communities. The St. Johanners themselves see the character trait they call "Sainihånser Kren" as an expression of their sharp and dry humor, which is said to be a typical characteristic of the St. Johann mentality. In this context it should also be mentioned that in the 1950s and from 1992 to 2011 a carnival newspaper was published under the name "Sainihanser Krenwuschz", which commented on life in St. Johann and the "neighboring suburbs" with a pointed pen.

St. Johann in Tirol has been a market town since 1956 and has recently received increasing urban structures, but the town center is still referred to as a "village" by the residents. They say: "I'm going to the village" when you go to the center. The most central area (main square, innermost Kaiserstraße, Poststraße and lowest Speckbacherstraße) is referred to as the "small village", the area in the. "Obere Dorf" is the area from the upper Speckbacherstraße over the railroad crossing to the south Wieshoferstraße marked from the Neubauweg to the northeast. "Hütteldorf" is what the St. Johanner call the row house settlement on Prantlstrasse.

St. Johann as the location

The film “Das teilte Herz” ( The Divided Heart ) was shot in St. Johann in Tirol in 1954 - the film is about the fate of a refugee child. A large part of the film Da laughs Tirol was shot in 1967 - the mountain film comedy also has documentary features. In 2003, the crime thriller Tatort: ​​The Guardian of the Source was filmed in St. Johann in Tirol. Felix Mitterer wrote the script . In addition, scenes for the TV series Bergdoktor and Soko Kitzbühel are repeatedly filmed in St. Johann.

literature

  • Ingrid Tschugg: Everyday life and reconstruction. St. Johann in Tirol after 1945 . Studienverlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2005, ISBN 3-7065-1707-8
  • Franz-Heinz Hye (Red.): The market town of St. Johann in Tirol, the parish book. Volumes I and II: Nature and man in the past and present . Hutterdruck St. Johann, St. Johann 1990
  • Hannes Hofinger : Market town of St. Johann in Tirol . St. Johann in Tirol 2007, ISBN 978-3-900072-05-6
  • Josef Wörgötter: Summer Free - Memoirs of Josef Wörgötter . Hutterdruck, St. Johann in Tirol 2010
  • Between Kaiser, Kalkstein and Horn , contributions to local history by the St. Johann in Tirol Museum and Culture Association

Web links

Commons : St. Johann in Tirol  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: St. Johann in Tirol  - travel guide

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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. ↑ Duden pronunciation dictionary . 6th edition. Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus AG, Mannheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-411-04066-7 .
  3. ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 246-247, no. 280 .
  4. ↑ A look at the church . Statistics Austria
  5. ^ Museum St. Johann in Tirol ( Memento from June 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ St. Johann dialect collection
  7. ↑ Old tannery
  8. ↑ masterswm.org
  9. ↑ undertake: We heat you up! - Company - Ortswärme St. Johann in Tirol GmbH - St. Johann in Tirol. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .
  10. ↑ ortswaerme.info
  11. ↑ St. Johann ONline