Hopfgarten im Brixental
Hopfgarten im Brixental, in dialect Hopfgåscht, is a market town with 5560 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the Kitzbühel district in the north-eastern Tyrol, Austria. The municipality is located in the judicial district of Kitzbühel.
The market town of Hopfgarten im Brixental to the central market area, the village of Kelchsau, the districts Pesendorf ( Inner Grafenweg ) Penningdörfl and the scattered settlements on the mountains, with a total area of 166.57 km ², the largest municipality in the district of Kitzbühel and one of the largest in Tyrol.
- 3.1 Demographics
- 5.1 traffic
- 5.2 Tourism
- 5.3 infrastructure
- 7.1 Club Life
Geography
The main town is nestled in a scenic and climatically favored location on the Brixentaler Ache, the valley of the front Brixentales prevents fog and wind.
Structure
Of the 16,657 hectares of the municipal area is about 5,600 ha of forest, 2,800 ha of arable land and 7,500 ha pasture area. In the town center, the market accounts for only about 130 ha, so not even 1% of the municipal territory.
The park is situated at approximately 620 meters above sea level, the highest point of the municipality ( and at the same time the highest point of the district Kitzbühel) is the peak of Torhelms in Langen base with 2,494 m.
Today, the market town of Hopfgarten has about 5,300 inhabitants, with the second homes around 6,600.
The municipal area covers seven villages (in brackets population as at 31 October 2011):
- Glantersberg (181 )
- Grafenweg ( 813)
- Gruberberg (83 )
- Hopfgarten market ( 2611 )
- Kelchsau (664)
- Penningberg ( 879 )
- Salvenberg (319 )
The municipality comprises the cadastral Hopfgarten Hopfgarten country and market.
Hopfgarten country ( 165.21 km ²) Hopfgarten market (1.33 km ²)
Glantersberg ( ZH)
Grafenweg ( ZH)
Gruberberg ( ZH) Hopfgarten market
Kelchsau (R )
Pfenningberg ( ZH)
Salvenberg ( ZH)
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 -
Neighboring communities
History
The history of Hopfgarten is so far divided in two, as it has ever been before 1 January 1948 independent rural community and a market town, but they were always closely intertwined. The history of the rural community is of course influenced by the centuries and even today significant agriculture (currently about 230 farms, of which approximately 70 full -time farmers ), which was operated on the wide fertile slopes of the mountains and will, but also of a once profitable mining and and one in 1880 downed, known throughout Europe for their time and flowering glass Industry ( Glashütte Hörbrunn ). The special importance of the market town was mainly due to the awarded around 650 years ago the market law, which is expressed by a certificate from the parish archives from the year 1362. With this at the time privileged right it was the Hopfgartner citizens permitted on every Monday, throughout the year, to hold a weekly market, could be sold on the wholesale and small cattle, cheese, lard, leather, and other merchant goods. Buying and selling outside the market was strictly forbidden.
In 1869 Hopfgarten had a population of 2,757 with more residents than the city of Kufstein (then 2,691 ). With the general economic recovery after the Second World War, the old town houses were on the market its new face. Apart from agriculture, and trade, tourism, trade and the retail industry gained more and more importance. The closest market center with buildings of historical significance is affected by regulation pursuant to the town center and sites of local protection law special structural protection. The closed construction of town houses is comparable to well-known places such as rats Mountain, Hall or Kitzbühel.
Population
Demographics
Policy
The current mayor of Hopfgarten is Paul Sieberer. He has held this position since 1998.
The council consists of 17 members, with the current compilation looks like this:
- ÖVP - 14 seats
- SPÖ - 2 seats
- Green - 1 seat
There is a choice every 6 years for the mayoral and council elections.
Economy and infrastructure
The community is therefore still fundamentally on three relatively equally important economic pillars agriculture and forestry, trade / commercial / light industry and tourism / services. While the situation in the tourism sector steadily improved, the field of agriculture and forestry has to deal with regional problems on the basis of the Europe-wide developments. Trade and Industry currently has around 160 companies with approximately 1,240 jobs. The municipality itself operates as the sole owner an electricity plant, which supplies about three quarters of Hopfgartner households and farms some 1,000 ha own forest.
Traffic
The convenient location of the municipality - it is up to the Salzburg -Tiroler -Bahn ÖBB and has for passenger two railway stations, it is also coupled to the Brixental road B 170 from Wörgl to Kitzbühel, the connection to the Inn valley motorway is only 8 km - ensures good compounds. Nevertheless, the Brixental is not as extremely heavy traffic as a side valley of the Inn valley and can therefore come up with a very good quality of life.
Tourism
In the tourism industry, there are in the community currently has around 3,000 beds, the annual number of nights is an average of 350,000, with summer and winter half-year hold approximately in balance. The Hohe Salve, also known Hopfgartner mountain, already around the turn of the century as the most scenic mountain in the country ( " Rigi " Tyrol ) is fully developed as a ski resort and at the ski area Wilder Kaiser- Brixental ( ski world ) connected by nearly 100 lifts. 's Historic fame that in October 1949 which was then taken with a length of 2.850 m and a height difference of 900 m longest chairlift in Europe to the Hohe Salve in operation., completed in 1998, recreational facility " Salvenaland " provides the local population and the guests on a area of approximately 7 hectares of a bath complex with a lake and basin, a spacious playground and sports fields.
Infrastructure
The community is school providers from three primary schools, a secondary school ( school district for the Itter ), a polytechnic school and a general special school. In the existing two kindergartens currently about 100 children are cared for. Since 1995 in Hopfgarten the Landesmusikschule Brixental that teaches more than 400 students in the music sector. In 2008, a Schülerhort was opened. In the Old residential and nursing home the town of Hopfgarten is home to around 60 people, 25 of whom are cared about fellow at the nursing station. Medical care in place to ensure practical three doctors, two dentists and two veterinarians.
Until 2002 was Hopfgarten seat of a district court.
Culture and sights
As an important cultural Baroque, twin-towered church, which is dedicated to St James and St Leonhard applies the renovated in recent years Hopfgartner parish church ( " Cathedral of Brixen Valley ")., Was built in 1758-1764 and is due to its size, architecture and distinctive position in the middle of the market 's most visible landmark of Hopfgarten. Concluding the restoration work which was inaugurated in September 1998 a new organ was installed, which was built by Metzler ( Dietikon / CH). with 44 stops on three manuals and pedal it is among the most remarkable organs in Tirol.
Leisure
Since the construction and commissioning of the " Salve ", a cultural and recreational center with the large room, the cultural area and the fitness - operation in the fall of 1985, a wealth of events on offer in Hopfgarten. Thus, not only concerts by bands and groups, classical concerts, plays the home stage, sporting events, balls and Tyrolean evenings held, but it has become a cultural turn "around the culture " is formed, which has been accepted particularly the cabaret events.
Club Life
There are in the market town a very active club life in the cultural, sporting and social fields. Not an indispensable part of social life and the service of others are the two volunteer fire departments, the local office of the Red Cross (which was merged in late 2004 with the local authority Westendorf in a joint office " Ortsstelle Brixental ", and now the service from the border area between Hopfgarten and Westendorf provides ), the mountain Rescue Service and the social and Health Care Ward. There is in the community 2 bands, 2 male choirs, two church choirs, two people's theaters, many different sports and cultural associations as well as the folklore society with the Schuhplattlergruppe; One of the oldest clubs in Hopfgarten is the Archers, which was founded in 1650.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Leupold crowd pop (1485-1563), leading Baptist personality of the 16th century
- Andreas Feil Benedict Moser (1777-1831), professor of theology in Innsbruck and Tübingen
- Michael Unterguggenberger (1884-1936), 1931-1934 Mayor of Wörgl sat, as an emergency program to ideas of free economy in Wörgl
- Lara ( born 1980 ), singer ( Pop, Folk Music )
Men and women who worked on site
- Matthias Wißhofer, (1752-1819), from 1781 dortiger Coadjutor, Dean, freedom fighters, polymath and inventor