Thal (municipality of Assling)

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Thal ( cadastral community )
village Thal-Aue
Thal (municipality of Assling) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Lienz  (LZ), Tyrol
Judicial district Lienz
Pole. local community Assling
Coordinates 46 ° 46 '59 "  N , 12 ° 39' 46"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 46 '59 "  N , 12 ° 39' 46"  E
Area  d. KG 9.45 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code 16778
Cadastral parish number 85036
Counting district / district Assling valley area (70705 001)
  • Ortsch. Thal-Aue: 298 inhabitants (2015), 122 buildings (2017)
  • Thal-Wilfern and Thal-Römerweg since 2001 independent localities; together 466 inhabitants (2011), 198 buildings (2017)
  • KG  Thal (Thal-Aue and Oberthal ): ~ 380 inhabitants (2015), 153 buildings (2017); some houses in Thal-Aue also KG  Schrottendorf ;
  • ZSp. Assling valley area (Thal-Aue, Wilfern, Römerweg, Oberthal, with Mittewald ): ~ 790 inhabitants (2015), 309 buildings (2017)
    Source: STAT : local directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS ;
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Thal is a location in the Tyrolean Pustertal . It forms a cadastral municipality , its capital Thal-Aue a fraction (locality) of the municipality Assling in the district of Lienz (East Tyrol) .

geography

Thal is located around 9 kilometers west of Lienz , below Assling . It is located in the valley floor of the Puster Valley on the Drau at around 820  m above sea level. A. Höhe, between the eastern Villgraten Mountains and the western Lienz Dolomites .

In a broader sense, the location of the village encompasses the entire valley floor of the municipality, i.e. around 200 buildings with around 500 inhabitants.

The village of Thal-Aue , to the left of the Drau, forms an independent village and has around 120 buildings with around 300 inhabitants. This also includes the Thal train station , which is already partially in the cadastral area of Schrottendorf , and the sawmill area on the other side of the Gamsbach .

At the western end of Thal, the Thaler Bach flows into the Drau. From here, the houses are called well-1½ kilometers into the valley Wilfern . With around 50 addresses, this group also forms its own locality (Thal-Wilfern) and belongs to the Unterassling cadastral community .

Out of the valley, after the train station, is about a kilometer away the Rotte Römerweg , this village Thal-Römerweg with 30 addresses belongs to the Schrottendorfer cadastral area.

On the other hand, the Rotte Oberthal not far up the Thalerbach, with 35 addresses and also an independent village, belongs to the cadastral community of Thal . In addition, some houses from the lower village of Penzendorf belong to the cadastral area.

The three localities of Thal and the main part of Oberthal also form the counting area Assling valley area , which then also includes the parts of Mittewald in the valley behind Wilfern belonging to the municipality . This valley area of ​​the municipality includes a good 300 addresses with around 800 inhabitants, that is almost half of the inhabitants of Assling.

The Thaler cadastral area extends with a total of 944.56  hectares in the north to the confluence of the Romenurbach in the Thalerbach above Oberthal, and on the south side between Gamsbach and Krummem Graben over Schwarzbodeneck  ( 1746  m above sea level ) and Kaserkofel  ( 1906  m above sea level ) . ) to the Eggenkofel  ( 2591  m above sea level ) in the Lienz Dolomites main ridge.

Neighboring towns, villages and cadastral communities:

Oberthal

Penzendorf  (O and KG) ∗∗ Klausen  (O) ∗∗
Neighboring communities
Obertilliach (KG, Gem.) ∗ ∗∗∗ Leisach (KG, Gem.) ∗∗
The south side of the valley (shady side) is uninhabited except for the sawmill.
∗ St. Korbinian still belongs to Wilfern, the place Assling lies above it; KG Unterassling extends to the south-west.
∗∗Klausen belongs to the KG Penzendorf and Schrottendorf, the KG  Dörfl does not border there; the place Schrottendorf itself lies northeast above Römerweg; KG Penzendorf extends to the north-western tip of Thal, KG Schrottendorf to the southeast in the Daberegg area .
∗∗∗On the Eggenkofel also KG and Gem. Untertilliach in one point  .

History and infrastructure

In Roman times there was an important Roman road in the Pustertal, a branch of the Via Julia Augusta (from Aquileia over the Alps), that from Loncium (Irschen) via Aguntum (east of Lienz) and Littamum (Innichen) and then to Veldidena (Wilten near Innsbruck) led. She climbed here to bypass the Lienzer Klause .

Thal is first documented as a location in 1545 with 4 Urhöfe. Today's village takes its name from the Gasthof Aue (address Thal-Aue 1). Today's three Thaler localities Aue, Wilfern and Römerweg were only established in 2001.

The Drautalstraße  (B100) runs through the village . The place has a train station (Thal) of the Pustertalbahn . It is located out of the valley between Aue and Römerweg. It was built in 1871 and is a listed building .

The local chapel is St. Joseph in the floodplain , and is also a listed building . The St. Ulrich branch church is in Oberthal. The pilgrimage church of St. Korbinian is located on the valley terrace below Assling .

Another monument is the small elementary school in Thal , which was built around 1950 and expanded in 2004.

At the sawmill on the other side of the Drau is the ViTHAL leisure center with swimming pool, which was expanded in 2002.

The Theurl sawmill is East Tyrol's largest sawmill. Aue also has a renowned jam factory (Tyrolean fruit kitchen) and a pine oil distillery . A few other larger businesses and the gravel works are located in Wilfern. The sewage treatment plant of the Lower Puster Valley is located in Römerweg. The Assling electrical plant, built in 1927, is located in Oberthal.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ inhabitants by locality. Statistics Austria (Excel file, 766 KB; accessed on July 29, 2015).
  2. ↑ a b Kurt Klein  (edit.): Historical local dictionary . Statistical documentation on population and settlement history. Ed .: Vienna Institute of Demography [VID] d. Austrian Academy of Sciences . Tyrol , Assling: Thal , S. 117 ( online document , explanations . Suppl . ; both PDF - oD [updated]).