Fiss
Fiss is a municipality with 1012 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the Landeck district in Tyrol ( Austria ).
- 4.1 Municipal Council
- 4.2 Coat of Arms
- 4.3 Regional Policy
- 6.1 traffic
- 6.2 Tourism
Geography
Fiss is located on the sun terrace approximately 500 m above the valley floor of the Upper Inn Valley, on a flat, south-facing slope. Thus, it belongs to the High Court. Above the village rises the Schönjoch ( 2491 m above sea level. A. ), the northwestern peak of the Samnaun group. Talgegenüber is the lower Glockturm comb with Pfroslkopf ( 3148 m above sea level. A. ), and the valley of the entrance to the Kaunertal and the Kaunergrat with the Aifnerspitze ( 2779 m above sea level. A. ), both Ötztal Alps.
Fiss is an annual average of over 2000 hours of sunshine at the top of Central Europe.
Neighboring communities
Community structure
The municipality has only one cadastral, a village and a Zählsprengel Fiss.
Districts are Fiss, Fiss yards, cross, Plazör, Schöngamp, Telfeshof.
History
The name Fiss itself is difficult to interpret. The origin of the place name is in Latin fossa, ditch ' or fodia, pit, dump ' suspected in which the scattered village nestles: In 1288, the name of the foot was first mentioned in a document of the Abbey of Marienberg.
The first settlement, however, suspected earlier by the Veneto - Illyrian. In Roman times, the leading over the Reschenpass Via Claudia Augusta was over the plateau of Fiss.
From the time of Romansh settlement in the 16th and 17th century stone houses are preserved in the village today.
1427 already lived about 250 people in Fiss, 1841 with a high of 538 recorded. The late 19th and early 20th century were marked by emigration ( among other things, to America ), so that the population dropped to about 300. 1928 Fiss received an access road.
After the Second World War began, tourism in Fiss. The coinage of the village through narrow and winding streets built with Western Tyrolean farmhouses learned by the onset of tourism in the 1960s, a transformation by hotels and pensions. This was also a fire in the village in 1972.
Policy
Serfaus was originally part of the judicial district of Ried in Tirol and, after the dissolution of the judicial district of Ried in 1978 part of the judicial district of Landeck.
Municipal council
- Fiss council list: 8
- For Fiss: 3
The seats parameters is outdated and obsolete!
Allocation of seats for the municipal elections in 2010:
- 72.79 % - 8 mandates Fiss council list
- 27.21 % - 3 seats for Fiss
Mayor Markus Pale from the Fiss council list.
Coat of arms
Description:
The sun is the sign of the sun plateau, on which the community Fiss befindetdie ears as a symbol of the high alpine of barley Imperial barley, which had its origin in Fiss.
Regional Policy
The municipality is part of the Tyrolean Planning Association sun terrace and the tourist region Serfaus -Fiss -Ladis. Seat the congregation Planning Association is Fiss, chairman of the Mayor ibid. Seat of the Tourist Board is Serfaus ( Serfaus -Fiss -Ladis information, and he also holds 80 % of the Serfaus -Fiss -Ladis Marketing GmbH ).
Capital of the municipality
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Center of the municipality is the village of Fiss ( nominal municipal seat is the town of the whole church full name). Fiss is located above the valley of Ried. The Talschulter the sun terrace breaks just south of the bags to Fraunstobel Bach precipitously. The place is located directly above the Serfauser country road (L 19).
The settlement extends over slightly more than a kilometer at altitudes of about 1400-1500 m above sea level. A. ( the village church is located 1438 m above sea level. A. ), and significantly higher than the north neighboring village of Ladis, but about the same as Serfaus. Almost the entire population of the community lives in the village.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
The Serfauser country road ( L19 ) is a steep winding of Ried in the Upper Inn Valley on Telfeshof leads up and the bag Bach extends then to Serfaus. For Fiss courtyards branches off the Ladiser road ( L286 ).
Tourism
Fiss is part of the Serfaus -Fiss -Ladis and in winter many ski trails and ski slopes. Furthermore, the region has an extensive network of hiking trails and mountain huts.
Since the summer of 2005, there is the Summer Fun Park Fiss. Main attractions include the summer toboggan run Fiss runabouts, the attractions Fiss Flyer and the giant swing Skyswing and since summer 2008 summer snow world.
Culture and sights
- See also: List of the listed objects in Fiss
- Parish Church of St. John the Baptist Cemetery with funeral chapel and war memorial chapel
- Two village well
- Natural Monument Gande
- The Blochziehen in Fiss is an old carnival tradition. The custom is performed on the list for Austria Intangible Cultural Heritage ( National Treasure ) of UNESCO.