Zwieselstein

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Zwieselstein ( village )
locality
Zwieselstein (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Imst  (IM), Tyrol
Judicial district Silz
Pole. local community Soelden
Coordinates 46 ° 56 '14 "  N , 11 ° 1' 40"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '14 "  N , 11 ° 1' 40"  Ef1
height 1470  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 158 (January 1, 2020)
Post Code 6450 Sölden
Statistical identification
Locality code 16453
Counting district / district Gurgl-Vent-Zwieselstein (70220 001)
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Coming from Obergurgl
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; TIRIS
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Zwieselstein is a village and a fraction ( locality ) of the municipality of Sölden in the Imst district in Tyrol with 158 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Zwieselstein is located around 4 km south of Sölden at 1,470  m above sea level. A. in a small basin in the rear Ötztal , where the valley forks into the Venter and Gurgler valley and the Venter and Gurgler Ache flow together to form the Ötztaler Ache .

In addition to the village of Zwieselstein, the group includes the Timmelsjoch customs guard house and the Lenzenalm, Stabelealm, Zargertaje and Obere and Untere Zwieselsteintajen.

history

Zwieselstein is mentioned for the first time in 1269 in a document with which Count Meinhard II of Tyrol received three farms in the Ötztal " .. tes in Eztal in Walde et Tzwiselstayn " from Count Heinrich von Eschenbach . The place Zwiselstain is mentioned in documents from the years 1347 and 1367 . The name comes from the fact that the valley "Zwieselt" (divides) here.

Since 1627 Zwieselstein belonged to the parish of Sölden. The Maria-Hilf-Chapel was built from 1747 to 1749.

In 1911 the Ötztalstraße  to Zwieselstein was completed. Due to the convenient location between Sölden and Obergurgl , Zwieselstein also took part in the development of tourism in the community, albeit to a much lesser extent than the two places mentioned.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ↑ Chronicle of the Ötztal ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on oetztal.at @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oetztal.at
  3. ↑ Sölden , in the history database of the association "fontes historiae - sources of history"
  4. ↑ Hasso v. Busse, Thomas Seidel, Dietmar Munz, Helmut Heuberger: The socio-economic structural change of the inner Ötztal (municipality of Sölden). Studies on population development, workforce and tourism. In: MaB project Obergurgl, publications of the Austrian MaB program, Volume 10, Innsbruck 1987, pp. 25–114 hdl : 10013 / epic.40860.d001 (PDF; 16.5 MB)