Tristach

Tristach
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Lienz
License plate :	LZ
Surface:	18.79 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 49 '  N , 12 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 49 '2 "  N , 12 ° 47' 15"  E
Height :	672  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,442 (Jan 1, 2020)
Population density :	77 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	9907
Area code :	04852
Community code :	7 07 32
Address of the municipal administration:	Dorfstrasse 37 9907 Tristach
Website:	www.tristach.at
politics
Mayor :	Markus Einhauer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2010) (13 members)	8 ÖVP , 1 Tristach village list, 1 SPÖ , 1 independent list, 2 top team
Location of Tristach in the Lienz district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Tristach from the west

Tristach is a municipality with 1442 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Lienz district in Tyrol , Austria .

geography

Tristach is located in the south (shady side) of the Lienz valley floor south of the district capital Lienz at 672  m above sea level. A. The municipality extends south of the Drava . A new settlement area has grown together with Lienz. The municipality extends over the northern slope of the Laserz group, a mountain range of the Lienz Dolomites . The highest peak of this mountain group, the Große Sandspitze 2770  m, is located in the Tristach municipality. The municipality covers 18.78 km² and is congruent with the cadastral municipality of the same name , with Tristach being the eighth smallest municipality in the district. Tristach borders in the north on Lienz , Nußdorf-Debant and Dölsach , in the east on Lavant , in the south on Lesachtal (Carinthia) and in the west on Amlach .

The Tristacher See is the only swimming lake in East Tyrol.

Community structure

The municipality of Tristach consists of the districts of Oberdorf, Neudorf, Egarte and Enderdorf, which line up from west to east along Lavanter Straße. While the districts of Oberdorf, Egarte and Enderdorf were able to maintain their village character, apart from a few new buildings, the district of Neudorf consists of numerous new buildings. Neudorf is the most populous district and has already grown together with Lienz. Other districts of Tristach are Bad Jungbrunn with four buildings, the Kreithof at 1,047 meters above sea level and the Seewiese inn with a campsite on Lake Tristach.

Population structure

In 2012, 1,410 people lived in the Tristach community. According to the 2001 census at the end of 99.2% of the population were Austrian citizens (Tyrol: 90.6%), by the beginning of 2012 the value had only fallen slightly to 97.4%. In 2001, 96.5% of the population (Tyrol: 83.4%) professed to be part of the Roman Catholic Church , while 1.0% each had no religious denomination or were Protestant .

The average age of the community population in 2001 was above the national average. 16.2% of the residents of Tristach were younger than 15 years (Tyrol: 18.4%), 63.8% between 15 and 59 years old (Tyrol: 63.0%). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 20.0%, above the national average of 18.6%. As a result, the average age of the population of Tristach fell significantly. The proportion of people under the age of 15 rose to 19.1% on January 1, 2012, while the proportion of people between the ages of 15 and 59 remained almost constant at 63.0%. In contrast, the proportion of people over 59 years of age fell to 17.9%. According to their marital status, in 2001 47.1% of the residents of Tristach were single, 46.5% married, 4.7% widowed and 1.8% divorced.

Population development

The population of Tristach initially developed similarly to the population growth of Tyrol and the Lienz district. The number of inhabitants rose slightly in the late 19th century and then stagnated until the end of the First World War. It was not until the 1920s that the population of Tristach began to increase significantly again. After the Second World War, the municipality of Tristach finally decoupled from the average population growth in Tyrol or the district and recorded above-average population increases. In the 1960s and 1970s in particular, and since the beginning of the 21st century, there were massive population gains, so that the population more than quadrupled between 1969 and 2012. Tristach has benefited from a strongly positive birth and mostly positive migration balance since the beginning of the 21st century .

politics

Municipal office in Tristach

The municipal council has a total of 13 members.

• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Tyrol in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 1 Tristach village list, 1 SPÖ, 1 independent list, and 2 top teams.
• With the municipal council and mayor elections in Tyrol 2016 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 9 Together for Tristach with Mayor Markus Einhauer - VP, and 4 Top Team Tristach - TTT.

mayor

• until 2009 Alois Walder (ÖVP)
• since 2009 Markus Einhauer (ÖVP)

economy

The census of workplaces carried out as part of the census in 2001 in Tristach showed 37 workplaces with 132 employees (excluding agriculture), 77% of which were employed. The number of workplaces fell by one company compared to 1991 (minus 3%), but the number of employees rose by 49 people (59%). The most important economic sector in 2001 was the health, veterinary and social services with three companies and 29 employees (22% of employees in Tristach), with the social district Lienz / Land having its headquarters in Tristach. On the other hand, the largest number of establishments was found in the hotel and restaurant sector with ten establishments, where 27 people (20%) were employed, and trade with 21 employees (16%) also played a role. Of the 623 employed residents of Tristach in 2001, only 92 people were employed in Tristach. 531 had to commute to work. Of the out-commuters, 61% had their place of work in the neighboring urban center of Lienz. Another 16% had found a job in the rest of the district, another 14 or 9% commuted to North Tyrol or another federal state, two of the residents had to commute abroad.

Tourism in Tristach is of great economic importance for the municipality, although many East Tyrolean municipalities have significantly higher numbers of overnight stays. Tristach could count around 35,000 overnight stays in the tourism year 2011/12. Tristach recorded 27,402 overnight stays in the summer of 2012 and 8,076 overnight stays in the 2011/12 winter. Since the turn of the millennium, the number of overnight stays has doubled in winter and remained almost unchanged in summer. Of the 27,402 overnight stays in summer 2012, only 35% were Austrian, 41% German and 14% Dutch.

Today, like all other East Tyrolean municipalities, the municipality belongs to the East Tyrol Tourist Association, with Tristach being part of the "Lienz Dolomites Holiday Region". With the Parkhotel Tristacher See, there is a four-star hotel in the community, plus another hotel, two inns, a guest house and various private room renters. There is also a campsite at Tristacher See, East Tyrol's only swimming lake, and in the Lienz Dolomites, Tristach has three mountain huts: the Karlsbader Hütte , the Dolomitenhütte and the Kerschbaumer Alm .

Tristach has merged with the neighboring municipalities of the Lienz basin to form the “Lienzer Talboden waste water association”, whereby the municipal sewerage system already comprised 96% of the objects producing waste water in 2002 and was completed with the exception of a few individual objects. The waste that arises in the municipality is disposed of by the Waste Management Association of East Tyrol (AWVO), with a landfill in the neighboring municipality of Lavant.

traffic

• Road: Tristach is accessible from the Lavanter Straße (L 318), which leads from Lienz via Tristach to Lavant and Dölsach. It also offers the community of Tristach in Lienz the fastest access to the higher-ranking road network with the connection to Drautalstraße (B 100).
• Bus: Tristach is connected to the public transport network by means of Bundschuh buses, whose line 1 connects Tristach via Amlach with Lienz train station up to five times per working day (significantly less often during holiday periods). The travel time between the final stop Tristach Polösling and the Lienz train station is 13 minutes. In total, the line has four stops in Tristach.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Tristach

Personalities

• Anton Mutschlechner , built the building of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum from 1842 to 1845 , as well as the arcade hall of the main cemetery in Mannheim in 1841/42
• Franz Mitterhofer , farmer and mountaineer, first climber of the Großer Sandspitze (1886) and the Großer Keilspitze (also 1886).
• Anton Ortner (1914–2001), long-time pastor and honorary citizen of Tristach
• Jos Pirkner (* 1927), academic sculptor and painter, honorary ring holder and honorary citizen of Tristach
• Peter Webhofer (1932–2016), Domkapellmeister in the Cathedral of St. Jakob in Innsbruck (1964–1972), diocesan judge, honorary ring holder of Tristach
• Franz Ortner (* 1943), church historian
• Leonard Lorenz (* 1948), academic sculptor and painter
• Andy Holzer (* 1966), mountaineer, extreme sportsman and speaker, lives in Tristach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Statistics Austria municipality data from Tristach
2. ↑ State Statistics Tyrol (VZ 2001) (PDF; 4.1 MB)
3. ^ Office of the Tyrolean provincial government, Tyrolean provincial statistics
4. ↑ State of Tyrol, wastewater disposal in the Lienz district (PDF; 7.2 MB)
5. ↑ Hubert Peterka, Willi End: Alpine Club Guide Lienzer Dolomiten, Bergverlag Rother , Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7633-1243-9

Web links

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

• Homepage of the community of Tristach