Telfs

market community Telfs
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Innsbruck country
License plate :	IL
Surface:	45.46 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 18 '  N , 11 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '25 "  N , 11 ° 4' 20"  E
Height :	634  m above sea level A.
Residents :	16,046 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	6410, 6100 (Mösern, Wildmoos)
Area code :	05262
Community code :	7 03 57
Address of the municipal administration:	Untermarktstrasse 5 + 7 6410 Telfs
Website:	www.telfs.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Christian Härting (We for Telfs)
Municipal Council : (2016) (21 members)	11 3 2 2 1 1 1 11 3 2 2 1 1 1  A total of 21 seats WFT : 11 ÖVP : 3 GREEN : 2 FPÖ : 2 PZT / SPÖ : 1 BLT : 1 TN : 1
Location of Telfs in the Innsbruck-Land district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

town hall

Obermarkt

Thöni industrial companies

Inntalcenter shopping center

Telfs-Pfaffenhofen train station (on Pfaffenhofer municipality)

Telfs is a market town with 16,046 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Innsbruck-Land district in Tyrol ( Austria ). Telfs is the seat of a district court and the center of the Telfs judicial district .

geography

Telfs is located 27 kilometers west of the provincial capital Innsbruck in a basin-like extension of the Inn Valley at the foot of the 2,662 meter high Hohe Munde .

Telfs has an area of ​​45.5 km² and a population of more than 15,000 inhabitants, making it the third largest town in Tyrol after Innsbruck and Kufstein in terms of population . Telfs is the most populous place in the Tyrolean Oberinntal and the Innsbruck-Land district. Parts of the municipality border directly on the Imst district .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 11 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Bairbach (59)
• Birkenberg (11)
• Fire (12)
• Book (30)
• Hinterberg (27)
• Fiefdom (25)
• Mösern (283)
• Panel (39)
• St. Vitus (23)
• Telfs (15,533)
• Wild Moss (4)

The municipality consists of the cadastral municipality Telfs.

Neighboring communities

• Flaurling
• Leutasch
• Mieming
• Oberhofen
• Pettnau
• Pfaffenhofen
• Reith near Seefeld
• Rietz
• Seefeld
• Wildermieming

History and economic development

In the 19th century and well into the 20th century Telfs was a center of the textile industry , former factory buildings still shape the townscape today. The high proportion of immigrants in the community can be traced back to industry, as many workers were hired from countries such as Turkey and Yugoslavia at that time . They have contributed to the economic and cultural development of the region.

Today the economy is determined by production companies, energy generation (E-Werk - Gemeindewerke Telfs) and services. The church has grown rapidly in recent years. New settlements emerged mainly in former forest areas at the foot of the Hohe Munde.

In 1988 and 2015 the Bilderberg Conference took place at the Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol near Telfs-Buchen .

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Alpine countries working group ( Arge Alp ), the ten-ton peace bell was erected in the Mösern district above , which rings every day at 5 p.m. In Mösern is the Möserer See (owned by the market town of Telfs since February 2008; purchase price two million euros) and, as a special feature, the two lakes Lottensee and Wildmoossee , which appear only every few years.

In 2006 the construction of the first Muslim prayer tower in Tyrol and the second in Austria ( Telfs minaret dispute ) began in Telfs after controversies that had attracted national attention .

The political leadership of Telfs considered for 2008 to elevate the market town to the rank of city . In the public survey carried out by means of a letter vote in 2007, however, this request was rejected with 65.4% no votes.

population

Population development

Others

The population of Telfs is called Telfer, not Telfser . The reason is the Rhaeto-Romanic origin of the place name. This ends with the Latin nominative ending -s, therefore derivatives are formed without -s .

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Telfs

Sacred buildings

• The dean's parish church Telfs as a three-aisled cruciform basilica with two facade towers was built from 1860 to 1863. The consecration of an upper chapel ("superior capella") by Bishop Gebhard von Trient is documented as early as 1113 , which probably means the cemetery chapel for the painful Mother of God in the Telfer cemetery, which was demolished in 1859 in favor of the new parish church.
• The Franciscan monastery Telfs as a monastery and the associated church were built at the beginning of the 18th century.
• The parish church Telfs-St. Georgen was consecrated in 1975 and made a parish church in 1978.
• The parish church Telfs-Schlichtling was consecrated in 2002, planned by the architect Peter Thurner , and furnished with a cycle of pictures about the Holy Spirit by Maurizio Bonato .
• The branch and local church in Mösern is a baroque church from the 17th century.
• The Eyup Sultan Mosque was built in 2007 with a minaret .

Others

• Carnival and local history museum in the Noaflhaus
• The peace bell of the Alpine region in Mösern was erected in 1997.
• In terms of the number of beds, the Interalpen-Hotel Tyrol was the largest hotel in the Alps until the early 2000s .

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  Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul

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  Interior of the parish church

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  The minaret of the Eyup Sultan Mosque

Regular events

• Tyrolean folk plays : Telfs is the venue for the Tyrolean folk plays that have been held annually since 1981. So far u. a. Pieces by Felix Mitterer premiered.
• The Telfer Schleicherlauf is a traditional carnival custom that takes place every five years , in which several hundred masked people - only men - take part (most recently in 2020). The first evidence of a mask hustle and bustle in Telfs comes from the year 1571. Since the second half of the 19th century, the drama has had the appearance in which it is still essentially performed today.

Infrastructure

education

schools

• 2 elementary schools
• 2 new middle schools
• Polytechnic school
• Walter Thaler School: Special Education Center
• Business school and business academy eco telfs
• Bundesrealgymnasium
• Technical high school (BORG)
• SCHULGARTEN - Active Montessori School Telfs

Other educational institutions

• State Music School Telfs
• Telfs adult education center
• Noaflhaus cultural center: Telfer parish museum
• Mundium educational institution
• mundemed: lectures on health
• State fire brigade school

Sports

Sports facilities: Swimming pool, Telfs sports center (with climbing wall, etc.), Emat sports field, Birkenberg tennis facility, Wildmoos golf course, cycling and hiking trails

In mid-November 2013 the idea of ​​building a climbing hall with bouldering as a focus was launched by the market town, state, tourism association and alpine club. The opening took place in July 2016.

In 2011 Wolfgang Mader set an endurance altitude record on his bike on the Sagl – Mösern road.

traffic

• Road: Telfs is at a crossroads of important traffic routes: namely through the Inntal (B171 Tiroler Straße ), towards Mieminger Plateau and on to the Fernpass (B189 Mieminger Straße ) and the connection to Seefeld in Tirol (L36 Möserer Straße). The place is connected to the Inntal Autobahn via the Telfs Ost and Telfs West junctions .
• Train: Telfs-Pfaffenhofen station is located south of the Inn in the Pfaffenhofen municipality. It is served by the lines and the S-Bahn Tirol and by REX trains. There is also an Intercity pair on the Innsbruck – Bregenz connection every day .

politics

The last mayoral elections took place at the same time as the municipal council elections on February 28, 2016.

Christian Härting was elected mayor in the first ballot. The list We for Telfs achieved an absolute majority with 11 mandates. The ÖVP achieved 3 mandates. The Telfer Greens and the FPÖ each had 2. PZT / SPÖ, Telfs Neu and Bürgerliste each accounted for one. The local council elected Cornelia Hagele (WFT) as 1st Vice Mayor and Christoph Walch (Die Telfer Grünen) as 2nd Vice Mayor.

Partnerships

• Elzach , Germany
• Lana , South Tyrol , Italy

coat of arms

Eschenloh coat of arms

Coat of arms of Garmisch-Partenkirchen

The municipal coat of arms , which was awarded by Emperor Franz Joseph I with the market survey in 1908 , comes from the Counts of Eschenlohe and is almost identical to the coats of arms of Eschenlohe and Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

Personalities

• Anton Zoller (1695–1768), painter
• Josef Anton Puellacher (1737–1799), painter
• Urban Klieber (1741–1803), sculptor
• Josef Degenhart (1745–1801), painter
• Joseph Schöpf (1745–1822), painter
• Aloys Weißenbach (1766–1821), physician, playwright and writer
• Leopold Puellacher (1776–1842), classicist painter
• Father Vinzenz Maria Gredler (1823–1912), natural scientist and high school director in Bolzano
• Andreas Einberger (1878–1952), painter and sculptor
• Adolf Platzgummer (1893–1951), politician (ÖVP), President of the Landtag in Tyrol
• Josef Schwarz (1917–2013), painter and graphic artist
• Walter Pichler (1936–2012), object artist, draftsman, architect
• Franz Kranebitter (* 1927), politician, regional councilor in Tyrol
• Heinrich Tilly (* 1931), sculptor and painter
• Cornelia Hagele (* 1975), politician, deputy mayor and member of the Tyrolean state parliament
• Andreas Angerer (* 1990), politician, member of the Tyrolean state parliament

literature

• Stefan Dietrich: The market town of Telfs. A pictorial chronicle 1900–1950. Sutton 2007, ISBN 978-3-86680-162-2 .
• Stefan Dietrich: Telfs 1918–1946. Studienverlag 2004, ISBN 3-7065-1892-9 .
• Walter Thaler, Wolfgang Pfaundler, Herlinde Menardi: Telfs. Portrait of a Tyrolean market town in texts and pictures. 2 volumes, market town Telfs 1988.

Web links

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

• Market town of Telfs
• 3D panorama pictures from Telfs
• Telfs tourist region
• Telfs , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Municipal and mayoral elections 2016 | Telfs municipality. In: Land Tirol . Retrieved April 26, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ 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. 259–260 No. 297 (with explanations).
4. ↑ Georg Larcher: The new bouldering and climbing center in Telfs was officially opened. In: mein district.at . July 11, 2016, accessed April 26, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Halle - Telfs bouldering & climbing center - mountain station. Mountain station - facts. In: bergstation.tirol. Retrieved April 26, 2020 . 
6. ↑ World record brought in 5,500 euros. In: sportjahr.at. September 9, 2011, accessed April 26, 2020 .