Vent valley

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Vent valley
The Venter Valley with Heiligkreuz (back) and winter stable (front right)

The Venter Valley with Heiligkreuz (back) and winter stable (front right)

location Tyrol , Austria
Waters Venter Ache
Mountains Ötztal Alps
Geographical location 46 ° 54 '  N , 10 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 54 '  N , 10 ° 58'  E
Venter Valley (Tyrol)
Vent valley
height 1470 to  1900  m above sea level A.
length 14 km
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The Venter valley near Winterstall
Radar image of the upper Ötztal from space (1994): The Venter valley running diagonally in the center of the picture, with the confluence of Rofental from the west and Niedertal from the south near Vent, north of it the Wildspitze , in the NE, already outside the picture, Zwieselstein. The elongated lake in NW is the Gepatschspeicher in the Kaunertal , south of it the large area of ​​the Gepatschferner , in the N the southern end of the Pitztal , in the E the uppermost Gurgler Valley , in the W Melagtal ( Langtaufers BZ). The glaciated ridges along the lower edge of the picture are the main Alpine ridge from Hochwilde in the E to Similaun to the Glockturm in the W

The Venter Valley is a source valley in the south-west of the Ötztal in the Ötztal Alps in Tyrol . It is around 14 kilometers long and the Venter Ache flows through it.

Location, landscape and course

The Venter Valley arises from the eponymous village of Vent ( 1895  m above sea level ) from the union of Rofental and Niedertal and runs in a south-west-north-east direction. At Zwieselstein ( 1470  m above sea level ) the Venter Valley joins the Ötztal with the Gurgler Valley to the east .

The Venter Valley is separated from the Gurgler Valley to the east by a ridge that rises from the Mittagskogel ( 2825  m above sea level ) to the south and in the Ramolkogel at an altitude of 3549  m above sea level. A. achieved. The bounding ridge in the east extends from the Gaislachkogel ( 3056  m above sea level ) also rising to the Wildspitze ( 3768  m above sea level ).

In contrast to the neighboring Gurgler Valley, there are practically no side valleys, and the cirques are also less clearly defined. The Venter Ache has cut a deep gorge into the valley floor over long stretches.

Development and settlement

The valley is sparsely populated, with the exception of Vent and comprising fraction Holy Cross (155 inhabitants) with the villages Neder, sides and Winterstall, the Stamp Bodenegg and Holy Cross, scattered settlement Venter valley and a plurality of individual farms . The valley is accessed via the 13.4 km long Venter Straße (L 240), which branches off from the Ötztalstraße in Zwieselstein and is secured by several avalanche galleries , including the 623 m long Bruchscheibe gallery, one of the longest in Tyrol.

Natural hazards

Because of the steep slopes, the Venter Valley is often threatened by avalanches . There are a total of 67 avalanche lines on both sides. In the winters from 1973/74 to 2002/03 243 avalanches were registered, in the years from 1986 to 2004 Venter Straße had to be closed 173 times between Bodenegg and Winterstall and 241 times between Winterstall and Vent, with the month of March being the most frequent of Lock was affected. In avalanches, residents of the valley were repeatedly killed.

From the 17th to the 19th century, there were several devastating eruptions of the Rofener Eisseee , causing a tidal wave to pour through the Venter Valley into the Ötztal and partly into the Inn Valley .

literature

  • P. Pohle: Settlement and development of the Alps . An introduction to the study project in the Venter Valley from 10.9. – 24.9.1997. In: P. Pohle (Hrsg.): Settlement and development of the Alps . Reports of a study project in the Venter Valley 1997. Workshop papers . No. 11 . Institute for Geography at the University of Giessen, Giessen 1999, p. 1-6 .

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Web links

Commons : Venter Tal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Register census from October 31, 2011 - population by location (PDF; 6 kB)
  2. ^ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (publisher): Statistisches Handbuch Bundesland Tirol 2009 , p. 22 ( PDF; 9.3 MB )
  3. ↑ Hannes Schlosser: Alpine history in a nutshell: Vent in the Ötztal. Oesterreichischer Alpenverein, Innsbruck 2012, p. 93 ( PDF; 2.1 MB ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bergsteigerdoerfer.at
  4. ↑ Luis Pirpamer: natural event avalanche: a natural occurrence . In: R. Lackner, R. Psenner, M. Walcher (eds.): Is it the Sindt river? Cultural strategies & reflections for the prevention and management of natural hazards. alpine space - man & environment, vol. 4. Innsbruck University Press, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-902571-32-8 , pp. 75-84. ( PDF; 2.7 MB )