Fieberbrunn

Fieberbrunn is a market town with 4347 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the Tyrol. The municipality is located in the judicial district of Kitzbühel.

  • 2.1 Origin of the name
  • 4.1 Demographics

Geography

The market town of Fieberbrunn is in the Kitzbühel Alps and is the largest town of the PillerseeTal.

Fieberbrunn is a tourist resort with summer and winter season.

Neighboring communities

  • Aurach,
  • Hochfilzen,
  • Kitzbühel,
  • Leogang,
  • Saalbach -Hinterglemm,
  • St. Jakob in Haus,
  • St. Johann in Tirol,
  • St. Ulrich am Pillersee

History

About the time of the first occupation of the site is not known, but it is believed that even before the Roman period mining was carried out. The first written reference to the year 1156 as " Pramau " back.

Fieberbrunn once belonged to the Benedictine monastery Hofmark Pillersee Rott am Inn, which in Tyrol had considerable possessions.

In the 16th century the town was in its heyday, when mining ( 2057 meters) and has intensified in Rettenwandauen above the modern lake leek on Gebra. The iron obtained was processed to 1908 to the then world famous Pillerseestahl, which had an iron purity of more than 35% and was smelted in the hamlet Rosenegg.

1641 are mentioned in the local area five pits and eleven Neuschürfe. A pivotal point in the mining and metallurgy presented the Augsburg family Rosenberg of Rosenegg, which had settled in Fieberbrunn. They left the residences Altroseneck and Neuroseneck build. After mining and metallurgy had come to an end in 1908, was reintroduced in Fieberbrunn industry after the Second World War.

Origin of the name

According to the legend the Tyrolean Princess Margaret Maultasch suffered from fever and was healed when she drank at the fountain of the water of the sulfur source below the present church. Since that time the name of this well " fever fountain" and is named for the place of the earlier Pramau said.

1632 Claudia de Medici is the Legend has also cured by drinking the spring water.

Pictures

The Schwarzache in Fieberbrunn

Catholic parish church of Sts. Primus and Felician

Wildsee

Population

Demographics

Policy

Culture and sights

Economy

The company Gebro including Otto Broschek, the former director of the Vienna Port Authority, established pharmaceutical and since then expanded again and again - in 1947 was of the family Broschek.

Tourism

Fieberbrunn is a popular winter sports resort. The eponymous ski area has 19 slopes that are found along more than 30 kilometers of slopes and connected of eleven ski lifts of various kinds. The cable cars advertise itself with the slogan to be the bestversteckte ski, as it is hard to see from the valley. On the gondola Doischberg some of the eighth gondolas of the Expo 2000 in Hanover.

Capacity per hour

For the summer, tourism is the lake Lauchsee of significance at which the Simon- Schwaiger - Jump is.

Personalities

  • Christian Blattl the Younger (1805 - 1865), folk songs poet
  • Josef Hofer ( * 1955), musician
  • Manfred Perterer (* 1960), Editor in Chief
  • Andreas Widhölzl (born 1976 ), former Austrian ski jumper, world champion and Olympic champion
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