Tyrolean lowlands

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Tiroler Unterland (Tyrol)
Tyrolean lowlands
Tyrolean lowlands
View from Plessenberg to the lowlands

As the Tiroler Unterland (also North Tyrolean Unterland ) is called the eastern part of the North Tyrol region of the state of Tyrol .

On concept and delimitation

View of the Inn Valley

The Tyrolean Unterland is not to be confused with the Tyrolean Unterinntal , which is located in the same area but only designates the Inn Valley, as well as with the South Tyrolean Unterland .

In addition to the Unterland, there is also the Tyrolean Oberland , which is located west of Innsbruck. Innsbruck itself is included in the Lower Inn Valley, sometimes it is mentioned separately. The area around Innsbruck is sometimes referred to as the middle Inn Valley.

A further distinction can be made according to linguistic criteria: the linguistic coloring with the "sch" sound ("Tirol isch lei oans") is primarily indicative of dialects west of the Zillertal . Based on this, Tyroleans living in the Lower Inn Valley do not necessarily count themselves as part of the Tyrolean Unterland, because they are linguistically different from the Bavarian dialects that are found east of the Zillertal thanks to this southern Bavarian "sch". In the districts of Kufstein and Kitzbühel, a Middle Bavarian rather than a South Bavarian dialect is spoken.

The self-perception of the local population deviates from the term. A Schwazer, for example, near Innsbruck, of course, feels like a “Tyrolean”, more precisely as a “Unterinntaler” - but by no means as an Unterlander . If a Schwazer drives to Kufstein, it is “in the Unterland”, while he feels like he lives somewhere between Innsbruck and the Unterland. Zillertal people don't feel like Unterlanders either.

Cities in the Tyrolean Unterland are Rattenberg , Wörgl , Kufstein and Kitzbühel .

NUTS breakdown: AT335

The very wide Inn valley in the Wörgl area

In the official statistics of the EU led NUTS headings from is Lower Tyrol one of the five groups of districts (level NUTS: AT -2) in Tyrol, carries the code AT335and includes the three political districts :

The Innsbruck-Land district , which is traditionally partially part of the lower or upper region, falls in AT332 Innsbruck .