Ischgl

Ischgl is a municipality in Tyrol ( Austria ) with 1565 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) and 10,600 guest beds. The municipality is located in the judicial district of Landeck.

Geography

Ischgl is located at 1377 m above sea level. A. Paznaun between the Silvretta and the Verwallgruppe.

Community structure

Ischgl ( 103.33 km ²)

Ischgl ( D)

Mathon (D)

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

• M = center of the municipality
• Stt = district
• R = Rotte
• W = hamlet
• D = village
• ZH = Scattered houses
• Sdlg = settlement
• E = bowery (only if they have their own town code)

The complete list that uses the Statistics Austria, can be found at Topographic settlement Labelling according to STAT

Please note that some places may have different spellings. So Katastralgemeinden write differently than the same localities.

Source: Statistics Austria - Tirol list (PDF)

The neighboring municipalities are Galtür, Kappl, Valsot ( Switzerland ) Samnaun ( Switzerland ), St. Anton am Arlberg and Sent ( Switzerland ).

History

The former mining village ( Glöckner, Romansh for " island " ) was settled by Rhaetians from the Engadine and in the 13th century by the Walser people around 1000 years ago. A navigable connection to the Tyrol 's Upper Inn Valley did not exist, so that Ischgl was economically more connected to the Engadine and Vorarlberg and also drove trade with the Vinschgau, Swabia and Bavaria. Added to this was a privilege of the Archduke Sigismund from 1460, which allowed Ischgl, duty-free export cattle in certain areas and for duty free cereal. From 1505 the law was added to a feeder routes money to continue to service with the condition that the paths from the Engadine over the Zeinisjoch into Montafon.

In the 17th century the trade was less because the Engadin of Tyrol solved and thus the relationships were looser. After the mid-18th century had Jamtaler Further increases to the extent that the road was no longer passable by pack animals, the trade came to a standstill.

In the 19th century began a large exodus. By decline of trade, the population could not be fed in the barren valley. Many residents left the region, and children as workers in a foreign land sent (see Swabian children ).

At the end of the 19th century did, however, with tourism to a new source of income. Between the years 1882 and 1889 several shelters were built by Austrian and German Alps clubs.

The former image of a mountain farm village was completely lost in recent decades in favor of a hotel complex. Ischgl is now regarded as an example of mass tourism and event tourism in the après-ski.

Culture and sights

• Parish Church of St. Nicholas in Ischgl
• Mortuary chapel and cemetery in Ischgl
• Widum above the church in Ischgl
• Expositurkirche hl. Sebastian in Mathon
• Chapel St.. Anna on the Bodenalpe
• Chapel Mariahilf in level
• Chapel of the Holy 3 Kings in Mathon
• Chapel St.. Gallus in Oberpardatsch
• St Mary of the Snow in Pasnatsch
• Chapel St.. Blasius to the 14 Holy Helpers in Paznaun
• Chapel in Plattsburgh
• Chapel of the 7 Sorrows of Mary in Unterpardatsch
• Chapel St.. Anthony in Versahl
• Chapel shrines in Unterschrofen and Vergöß
• Calvary on a hill south of Ischgl

Entrance into the valley

St. Nicholas Church Ischgl

Tourism

Ischgl is best known for its ski area - the Silvretta Arena - which connects the city with the Swiss Samnaun. It is 238 km of pistes and 43 lifts one of the largest and is considered the same as one of the snowiest ski resorts in the Alps. The winter season begins each year in late November and lasts until early May.

Companies are the lifts from the Silvretta Cable Car Company, which was founded on 7 October 1961. The construction of the first Ischgler gondola was from 1962 to 1963, interrupted by the crash of the cab shortly before commissioning. In December 1963, the Silvretta cable car, the then longest cable car in Austria opened was. Meanwhile, the ascent is to the ski resort over three plants that Silvrettabahn ( max. 24 gondola ) since 1976 on the Fimbabahn, which is an 8 -seater gondola since 2007 and since 1972 the Pardatschgradbahn (4- nacelle ). This is renewed until the 2014/15 season as 3S lift from Doppelmayr. The maximum number of persons that can be carried with all facilities of the ski area, is about 88,900 people per hour.

The season opener and season finale are regularly celebrated with big pop concerts. Ischgl's character is marked Austria on the one hand by far the highest density of four- star hotels. In addition, Ischgl has a wide range of restaurants, bars, shops, events and nightlife.

Three major pop concerts form every winter season as well as other events fixed points. So are both the opening as well as at Easter and the season finale international stars of the music industry in Ischgl in the Top of the Mountain Concerts on the stage. The hotelier Günther Aloys played a major role in the breakthrough as a resort of Ischgl, among others, the establishment of the first design hotels in Ischgl and the organization of concerts and celebrity appearances.

In the summer, the region is particularly interesting for mountain bikers who can be transported by cable car up to almost 2,800 meters above sea level. With a route network of more than 1,200 km, the region is one of the largest in the Alps. Every August, the most lucrative mountain bike marathon race in Europe is organized, the Ischgl Iron Bike.

Regular events

• Top of the Mountain Concert: Three major pop concerts form as well as other events themes in every winter season: To stand out both for the opening as well as at Easter and the season finale international stars of the music industry in Ischgl in the Top of the Mountain Concerts on the stage ( to Top of the Mountain Concert season -opening, the Top of the Mountain Easter Concert ( Easter ) and the Top of the Mountain Concert season finale ).
• Ischgl Iron Bike: the Ischgl Iron Bike is the most lucrative mountain bike marathon races in Europe. It is held annually in August. The Iron Bike is played on three different length routes, with the longest distance (79 km / 3820 hm) is considered one of the most challenging marathon race.

In April 2002, Bill Clinton appeared at the event Message from the Mountains at Ischgl.

Local partnerships

• Schengen ( formerly Remerschen, a community in Luxembourg Moselle ), since June 2006

Personalities from Ischgl

• Marco Ladner, ski freestylers

Others

After the municipality is the seventh meteorite that was found in Austria, named. The fist-sized meteorite, a chondrite was found in 1976 in a mountain road and identified as a meteorite in 2008 and is located in the Natural History Museum Vienna, which houses the oldest collection of meteorites in the world.