Vent (municipality of Sölden)

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Vent ( village )
locality
Vent (municipality of Sölden) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Imst  (IM), Tyrol
Judicial district Silz
Pole. local community Soelden
Coordinates 46 ° 51 '34 "  N , 10 ° 54' 50"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 51 '34 "  N , 10 ° 54' 50"  Ef1
height 1895  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 136 (January 1, 2020)
Post Code 6458 vent
prefix + 43/5254f1
Statistical identification
Locality code 16452
Counting district / district Gurgl-Vent-Zwieselstein (70220 001)
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The mountain village of Vent
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS
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Vent [ ˈfɛnt ] is a mountain village and a fraction ( locality ) of the municipality of Sölden in Tyrol with 136 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

The village is located on the Venter Ache at an altitude of 1895 meters at the end of the Venter Valley , which forks in Vent into the Rofental and the Niedertal . The place formed an independent rural community until the middle of the 19th century, but has belonged as a village to the municipality of Sölden in the Ötztal since 1854 . Vent entitled since 2008 mountaineering village of PES .

Area of ​​the locality

The Rofenhöfe ( Rotte Rofen ), located about one kilometer west of the village at an altitude of 2,014 meters, are the highest permanently populated mountain farms in Austria.

The Breslauer Hütte , the Hochjochhospiz , the Martin-Busch-Haus (New Samoarhütte) and the Vernagthütte are also in the locality . The local pastures are the Ramolalm , Niedertalalm and Rofenbergalm .

history

Vent was first mentioned in a document from Ulrich von Ulten dated June 5, 1241 as Vende , which could mean something like "place, place". K. Finsterwalder assumes a pre-Roman origin of the name. He tries the derivation for "Vent" first from the tribe of the Venosten ; According to him, other options would be the Gothic vinja , but also the Old High German winne (pasture place). He comes to the conclusion that “the name Vende could be related to the Indo-European base agendhg- 'bind, weave ', which in Celtic gave rise to the word benna 'basket, wagon basket', in Lithuanian it became the name for 'herd' [...] . ”In addition, he is considering a derivation of“ Vende ”from a pure personal name such as Vendo (n), Vendus. Likewise, many of the field names are of Romanesque origin.

For a long time Vent was under the jurisdiction of the nearby Kastelbell court . All farms were under the manorial rule of nobles from the Vinschgau . It was not until 1810 and 1827 that Vent was assigned to the Silz court and in 1891 received its own parish.

From 1860 onwards, Franz Senn worked in Vent as curate and provisional officer, one of the later founding members of the German Alpine Club . During his time in Vent, Senn, together with the mountain guide Cyprian Granbichler, who also works in Vent, and others, made several first ascents , including the Finailspitze , the Vernagtspitze and the Kreuzspitze . In addition, in view of the omnipresent shortage, Senn recognized the importance of tourism as an important source of income for the local mountain farmers. He laid out paths and trails in the extensive alpine terrain and initiated local tourism. For many, he is therefore considered the founder of tourism in Tyrol.

During the summer season, around 3500 sheep from the South Tyrolean Schnalstal graze above Vent for a few months. The total of four Ötztal shaft drives over the Hochjoch and Niederjoch every year take place northwards in early June and southwards in mid-September. The find of Ötzi on the Tisenjoch suggests that these paths have apparently been used for a long time .

On May 20, 2019, the only access road ( L240 ) was closed after a rock fall of around 20 m³. The L240 was closed for two weeks, after a geologist's examination it was temporarily accessible again, single-lane in fixed time periods.

During the period in which the road was closed continuously, food and other goods had to be flown in by helicopter.

photos

  • Vent from the south

  • Vent with the Niedertalbach

  • Vent from the east (1974), Gasthaus Wildspitze

  • With the Wildspitzbahn down to Vent

literature

  • German Alpine Association, Branch Mark Brandenburg (Ed.): The Venter Valley. Munich 1939.
  • Kurt Scharr : Life on the border of the permanent settlement. Land in the "Ötztal Mountains" (Ötztal - Schnals - Passeier) from the 13th to the middle of the 19th century (Schlernschriften 314 / Ötztal-Archiv 7). Innsbruck 2001
  • WG Schöpf: Parish ceremonies in the farthest part of the Ötztal. Notes on the "Jakobus Gotshaus" vent and its development. In: Tiroler Heimatblätter 85 (2010) 33–39 (part 1). 69-75 (part 2).
  • Vent im Ötztal - a classic among mountaineering villages (PDF) , brochure of the Austrian Alpine Association in the mountaineering villages series

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ↑ Ideas - Deeds - Facts, No. 1: Start conference mountaineering villages in the mountaineering village of Ginzling, from 10-11. July 2008 , Austrian Alpine Association within the project "Alpine Convention specifically: Via Alpina and Bergsteigerdörfer" department Planning Conservation, Innsbruck 2008, p 4. PDF download ( Memento of 8 November 2018 Internet Archive ), called on the 7th November 2018.
  3. ^ K. Finsterwalder: Tyrolean local names. Collected essays and papers . Edited by HM Ölberg - N. Grass [FRKG 16 / SchlSchr 286]. Vol. 2: Work relating to individual parts of the country. Inntal and Zillertal. Innsbruck 2/1990, p. 786
  4. ^ The shaft drive in the Ötztal , compiled by T. Schmarda