Finkenberg
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Finkenberg is a municipality with 1475 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the Zillertal valley and belongs to the district of Schwaz in Tirol ( Austria ). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Zell am Ziller.
- 4.1 Tourism
- 4.2 traffic
Geography
Finkenberg is located about three kilometers southwest of Mayrhofen, at the entrance to the Tux Valley, between the foothills of Penken and the Green Mountain. It is to Mayrhofen terms of area, second largest municipality in the Ziller Valley. The municipality comprises, inter alia, Zemmtal west of Zemmbach, a part of the Zemmgrunds, the Zamser reason the Schlegeisgrund with the Schlegeisspeicher, the border to South Tyrol with the Black Stone ( 3368 m), Large Möseler ( 3480 m), the high Feiler ( 3509 m), the High Wall ( 3289 m) and on the municipal boundary to the Schmirn Olperer ( 3476 m). In the municipality there are several Kees (glacier).
The municipality consists of the hamlets and farms old barn, Astegg, Au, Bösdornau, Brunnhaus, village, Dornau, Enntal, Freithof, Grent, Gschößwand, Gstan, high bar, Inner Mountain, Kohlstatt, Lindtal, Mooslau, Persal, Stone, Valley, Tiefental, Tuxegg and Zellberger.
Ginzling has a special statute for Tyrol: the district of Dornauberg left of Zemmbachs belongs to Finkenberg, while Ginzling heard right of Zemmbachs to Mayrhofen. Ginzling has its own mayor. The Zemmbach also forms the border between the Diocese of Innsbruck the west and east of the Archdiocese of Salzburg.
Neighboring communities
Ahrntal (I), Mayrhofen, Muehlwald (I) Pfitsch (I) Schmirn, Schwendau, Tux, Vals.
History
From the rear Zillertal are so far no pre- or proto-historic finds, nevertheless leave the place names close to a pre-Christian settlement. Legal numerous are the period marked by the Rätoromanern place names, they have since prehistoric times their herds of cattle driven from the south via the Pfitscherjoch to the pastures of the reasons Ziller and the Tux Valley.
With the penetration of the Bavarians started an active clearing land, which had a dense population of the area result. The first written mention of the name Finkenberg " Vinkenperg " was in the year 1389th In the 15th century copper and silver mining was carried out in Finkenberg. Until the 19th century it was a farming community, only with the onset of tourism, the situation changed.
By the Treaty of St. Germain Schlegeisgrund of the parish of St. James slammed the municipality of Finkenberg in Pfitsch ( this area is the farmers of St. Jakob today as pasture and grazing lands ). Since the end of World War II, Finkenberg has developed into an almost purely determined by the tourism community, also contributed to the 1987 completed construction of Finkenberg in the Penken at.
A famous son of the village is the former ski racer Leonhard Stock.
Culture and sights
Economy and infrastructure
Tourism
Finkenberg is strongly influenced by tourism, including the ski Penken ( Zillertal 3000). Ginzling positioned for climbers as an alternative for sustainable tourism. In the rear grounds dominated the alpine farming and the energy ( memory Schlegeis ).
Traffic
Finkenberg is accessible via the Zillertal road. The Zillertal Bahn runs to Mayrhofen, from there, there is bus service. The road to get there is extremely heavy traffic.
Personalities
- Horst Fankhauser (1944 ), mountaineer
- Richard Kroll (1968-1996), alpine skier
- Peter Stein Lechner ( born 1953 ), former lead singer of the philanderer
- Leonhard Stock (* 1958), skier