Strass in the Zillertal

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

black

License plate :

SZ

Surface:

5.95 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 24 ' N , 11 ° 49' E Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '46 " N , 11 ° 49' 16" E

Height :

523 m above sea level A.

Residents :

848 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

143 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

6261

Area code :

05244

Community code :

7 09 30

NUTS region

AT335

Address of the
municipal administration:

Oberdorf 68
6261 Strass in the Zillertal

Website:

www.strass.tirol.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Karl Eberharter (CITIZEN LIST)

Municipal Council : (2016)
(11 members)

6 List of citizens with candidate for mayor Karl Eberharter, 5 WE FOR STRASS

Location of Strass in the Zillertal in the Schwaz district

Center seen from Martia Brettfall

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Strass im Zillertal is a municipality with 848 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 Schwaz .

geography

location

Strass lies at the foot of the almost vertically sloping cliff face of the 628 m high Brettfall, the northern pillar of the Larchkopf (1367 m), at the entrance to the Zillertal. The village was built on the Inn and Ziller embankments . The majority of the community area, including the district of Rotholz , is in the Inn Valley , the rest belongs to the Zillertal.

Community structure

The community is divided into the districts of Dorf, Oberdorf, Unterdorf, Rotholz, Astholz, Brettfall, Hof and Raffl.

Neighboring communities

Bruck am Ziller , Buch in Tirol , Münster , Reith im Alpbachtal , Schlitters , Wiesing

history

Remains of a fortified, prehistoric settlement were found on the Brettfallschrofen. It is believed that the area around Strass was populated as early as Roman times. "Straze" is mentioned for the first time in the years 1125–1136 in a traditional note from the prince provost of Berchtesgaden . In 1427 it appears as the local parish of the Rottenburg court.

Strass gained importance as a border town and customs station to the then Salzburg Zillertal and until 1504 to the Bavarian Lower Inn Valley. From the 15th to the 17th century, silver and copper were mined at the Weißen Schrofen . In 1809, Strass was the scene of heavy fighting during the War of Liberation against the Bavarian occupiers.

Redwood

Rotholz Castle

In 1580, the Tyrolean Prince Archduke Ferdinand II had the Thurneck hunting lodge built for himself and his wife Philippine Welser in the Rotholz district . In 1704 the Counts von Tannenberg , who came from Schwaz , moved the court seat to Turneck and had it rebuilt in the high baroque style from 1704 to 1706. In 1809 it was completely looted.

After various uses, the Rotholz Agricultural School was established in the castle in 1870 , and it still exists today. In addition to several types of schools, there are also various research and experimental institutes for the agricultural sector.

The village of Rotholz is divided between the communities of Strass in Zillertal and Buch in Tyrol. The part to the east of the Rotholzer Bach belongs to the municipality of Strass. The numerous schools as well as the research and testing institutes are also located in this part.

The Rotholz company fire department is the fire department for schools and other institutions. It is made up of members of the school as well as volunteers from outside the company based in Rotholz. It celebrated its centenary in 2005. In addition to her task of special fire protection for schools, she is also responsible for local protection for the part of Rotholz belonging to the municipality of Strass.

Culture and sights

Maria Brettfall

The former Maria Brettfall hermitage on the Brettfallfelsen

Economy and Infrastructure

Recently, several companies were established in Strass.

The wastewater treatment plant disposes of all wastewater from 31 communities in the Zillertal, Achental and central Lower Inn Valley regions.

Strass has a connection to the Inntal motorway and via the Zillertal Railway with two stops (Strass and Rotholz) to the long-distance rail traffic in Jenbach .

The Brettfall Tunnel , opened in 1995, freed the town of Strass from through traffic on the B169 Zillertalstraße .

Parish partnership

The community of Strass has maintained a community partnership with the small German town of Ebern in the Lower Franconian Haßberge Nature Park since 1980 . The connection originally goes back to the contacts between the boys' band Ebern and the federal music band Strass, which had existed since 1967. The partnership is maintained mainly through private and official visits and return visits.

Personalities

Alois Leitner (1924–2018), politician, councilor in Strass im Zillertal

literature

Max Perger, Wolfgang Ingenhaeff: Strass in the Zillertal . Schwaz 1995. ISBN 3-85093-051-3

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. 276 No. 318 .

Web links

Commons : Strass im Zillertal - Collection of images, videos and audio files

History-Tyrol: Strass in the Zillertal

70930 - Strass in the Zillertal. Community data, Statistics Austria .

[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. 276 No. 318 .