Throw Market

Werfen ( capital of a market town ) ; locality ; cadastral municipality Werfen market
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	St. Johann im Pongau (JO), Salzburg
Judicial district	St. Johann im Pongau
Pole. local community	Throw
Coordinates	47 ° 28 '34 " N , 13 ° 11' 20" E Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '34 " N , 13 ° 11' 20" E
height	548 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	1592 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	312 (2001)
Area d. KG	2.68 km²
Post Code	5450 throw
prefix	+ 43/6468
	Statistical identification
Locality code	14071
Cadastral parish number	55506
Counting district / district	Throw (50 424 000)
	; The market, south of Hohenwerfen; back left Hochgründeckstock of the Fritztaler Mountains , right Hochkeil the Dientner Mountains (in front of it Auköpfl ), in the back the Hohe Tauern around Gastein and Grossarl .
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; SAGIS

Werfen ( Werfen market ) is a place in the Pongauer Salzachtal , Salzburg State, as well as the capital , locality and cadastral community ( Werfen Markt ) of the municipality of Werfen in the district of Sankt Johann (Pongau) .

geography

Werfen is located about 37 km south of Salzburg , 14 km north of St. Johann im Pongau and 7 km north of Bischofshofen . It is located on the left bank of the Salzach at about 550 m above sea level. A. in the Bischofshofen-St.-Johanner basin , on its downstream north earth between the Hochkönig massif in the west and the Tennengebirge in the northeast. South the branches Fritztal in Ennspongau from north the valley narrows between Gesengköpfl and Zetzenbergkogel before it by the antenna Shrouded boiler to pass Lueg about.

The place is located on a valley terrace at the foot of the Schwarzkogel ( 1410 m above sea level ), the northeastern fore ridge of the Hochkönig. North on Gesengköpfl ( 885 m above sea level ) as well as south near Imlau , the terrain stretches to the Salzach, so that the place is cramped in its own small valley bay; The Schlaming valley shoulder rises on the other side of the Salzach . Dominating at the northern end of the village is the Werfener Burgberg with the Hohenwerfen fortress .

View into the Salzach Valley to the north, from Bischofshofen to Hallein. Market throw with fortress lower center

**Neighboring towns, villages and cadastral communities:**
Tenneck ^∗	Wimm ( KG, O Wimm or Scharten ^(?) )
Scharten (O and KG)		Schlaming (O) Dorfwerfen (KG, both Gem. Pfarrwerfen )
fire	Imlau (O) Reitsam (KG)	Semolina

^∗Tenneck belongs to the locality of Wimm or Sulzau , which is not directly adjacent, as the KGs Scharten and Wimm meet on the Salzach.

^(?) Assignment unclear

History, infrastructure and sights

Market coat of arms

The fortress from the east

The Salzach Valley has long been one of the most important Alpine transit routes, and the passage between Werfen and Pass Lueg is its natural key point. The old trunk road is now the state road B 159 Salzachtal Straße , which runs directly through the town (km 36.6–38.2).

The name Werfen probably comes from the Middle High German werve 'Wirbel, Strudel'. The oldest documentary evidence is around 1140 ( Perhtoldus prefectus de Werven ) The name probably originally referred to the entire valley area: Around 1075, the parish of St. Cyriak was established to the south as the mother parish of Pongau (today Pfarrwerfen ) with the parish village ( village of Werfen ) , here at the good pass point the castle ( Hohenwerfen ) . 1160 is a tollgate APED clusam iuxta Weruen (in the cell close to throw ') mentioned, the later Hohenwerfen may be as well as the pass-resistant Lueg (or simply the whole passage).

The Werfen market arose around the castle , probably founded as a place from 1190 and named as marckt as early as 1242 .

The secular administration was in (Hohen-) Werfen from the 12th century, while the ecclesiastical administration remained with the parish, so the place name has been distributed over several parishes.

A first church is mentioned around 1322, a Jakobuskirche , which indicates its importance for through traffic. Its successor (re-consecration 1404, possible new building 1516, new building 1652–57), today's church of St. James the Elder. , is baroque. It was only raised to a parish in 1855.

In 1425 the place was granted market privileges , making it one of the oldest markets in the Salzburg region. Werfen was the seat of a Salzburg nursing court throughout the later Middle Ages and modern times (whose district was only dissolved in 2002), first at the fortress, then in the village ( Werfen district court ) .

During the Peasant Wars of 1525/26 Werfen was taken by the rebels without a fight. A local fire has been recorded for 1583. In 1731/32 there was a large expulsion of Protestants ( Salzburg exiles ) . In 1737 the Capuchins settled here ( Mariahilf ).

In the 1870s the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Bahn (Salzburg – Tiroler-Bahn) was built on the other bank of the Salzach , with Werfen station .

In 1879 Anton Posselt discovered the Eisriesenwelt above Wimm , which is now the largest known ice cave in the world. It was leased by the Salzburg Association for Speleology as early as the 1920s and set up as a show cave . Today it is one of the most important sights in Austria with 150,000 visitors annually. You can reach it on the serpentine road (ice cave road) , which crosses the Salzach below the fortress.

Hohenwerfen Fortress was partially destroyed by a major fire in 1931 and then rebuilt. After the Second World War, the fortress was used as a training facility by the Austrian Federal Gendarmerie until 1987 . Today it is an important show castle with exhibitions and a bird of prey show.

The A 10 Tauern motorway was opened here on October 25, 1977 , with a Werfen junction (Exit 43) at the train station. The extension of Pfarrwerfen - just opened on June 30, 1979, so Werfen still experienced the worst times on the guest worker route .

Jakobuskirche , church tower
A street

Web links

Commons : Throw - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Website of the municipal office
50424 - Throw. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b According to the local directory 2001 (OVZ) of Statistics Austria, Tenneck belongs to Sulzau, accordingly also the population of the register census of October 31, 2011.
According to SAGIS, the village Wimm corresponds to the census district Tenneck , the village and cadastral municipality Wimm on the other side of the Salzach belong to the village Scharten (layer in the chapter Borders online, accessed April 20, 2014)
^ The name "Werfen" , gemeindewerfen.at> Wissenswertes , accessed May 1, 2014.
^ FV Zillner: Salzburg Gender Studies. III. The Burgraves of Werfen. In: Communications from the Salzburg Society for Regional Studies. (MGSLK) 21 (1881), pp. 24-79 (reference p. 36).
↑ ÜB Salzbg 2 No. 350, information in Isolde Hausner; Austrian Academy of Sciences - Commission for Dialectology and Name Research (Ed.): Old German name book: the tradition of place names in Austria and South Tyrol from the beginnings to 1200. Part 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1989, p. 1117;
Hohenwerfen was built in the 1070s.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d The churches of Pfarrwerfen · Werfen · Werfenweng. Church leader, onA, chapter Parish Church of St. James the Elder in Werfen. P. 16 ff ( throwweng.gv.at PDF).
↑ Parish Church of St. James the Elder . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
↑ Worth knowing: Wappen , gemeindewerfen.at, accessed April 20, 2014.

[Ortschaft-1] According to the local directory 2001 (OVZ) of Statistics Austria, Tenneck belongs to Sulzau, accordingly also the population of the register census of October 31, 2011.
According to SAGIS, the village Wimm corresponds to the census district Tenneck , the village and cadastral municipality Wimm on the other side of the Salzach belong to the village Scharten (layer in the chapter Borders online, accessed April 20, 2014)

[2] The name "Werfen" , gemeindewerfen.at> Wissenswertes , accessed May 1, 2014.

[3] FV Zillner: Salzburg Gender Studies. III. The Burgraves of Werfen. In: Communications from the Salzburg Society for Regional Studies. (MGSLK) 21 (1881), pp. 24-79 (reference p. 36).

[4] ÜB Salzbg 2 No. 350, information in Isolde Hausner; Austrian Academy of Sciences - Commission for Dialectology and Name Research (Ed.): Old German name book: the tradition of place names in Austria and South Tyrol from the beginnings to 1200. Part 14, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1989, p. 1117;
Hohenwerfen was built in the 1070s.

[Kirchenführer-5] The churches of Pfarrwerfen · Werfen · Werfenweng. Church leader, onA, chapter Parish Church of St. James the Elder in Werfen. P. 16 ff ( throwweng.gv.at PDF).

[SN-6] Parish Church of St. James the Elder . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

[Wappen-7] Worth knowing: Wappen , gemeindewerfen.at, accessed April 20, 2014.