Axamer Lizum

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Axamer Lizum is a place in the Stubai Alps in Tyrol, and town in the municipality Axams in the district Innsbruck-Land. The pasture is known as a winter sports.

Geography

Axamer Lizum means an area in the rear of the valley Axamer Bach, about 11 kilometers southwest of Innsbruck city center. A Lizum referred to a Tyrolean, pasture area at the end of the valley '. Towards the south to the Axamer Lizum is bounded by the Kalkkoegel, towards the north, for Axams 4 km away, is a unsettled narrow valley stretches.

The scattered settlement on the 1550 m above sea level. A. Height includes about 25 buildings of the skiing area, including the Hotel Olympia, the Lizumalm, and the north increased lying Schafalm.

History: Axamer Lizum

The Axamer Lizum was at the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 built ( Olympia Hotel, former sports accommodation, built by Erwin Klein) and expanded to the games in 1976, including a funicular railway up to the 2340 m above sea level. A. high Hoadl ( Olympic track ). It now includes the comb Pleisen - Hoadl in the West ( Salfeinskamm, for Grinzenser Sendersbachtal without runway exit ), as well as the areas around the Birgitzköpfl (1982 m above sea level. A. ) and the rearmost Geroldsbachtal below the Saile ( Nockspitze, 2404 m above sea level. A. ).

It offers skiers and other winter sports enthusiasts the largest ski area in the immediate vicinity of Innsbruck. With good snow skiing is possible up to the places Axams, Götzens or mother, with all the exits to Götzens and mother by the re-establishment of the ski Mutterer Alm are artificial snow and thus most of the winter season passable (connection via the Birgitzköpflhütte ). A direct chairlift ( Birgitzbahn, 4- speed rail detachable) on the Birgitzköpfl is currently - after lengthy negotiations - in the detailed planning stage. A connection of the skiing area Schlick 2000 in the Stubai reasons of nature protection ( rest area Kalkkögel ) is currently not implemented.

Also, an illuminated toboggan run leads from the valley station of the lift companies up to Axams.

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