Hungerburg

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The Hunger castle, also called high -Innsbruck, is a district of the city of Innsbruck the federal state of Tyrol in Austria.

• 2.1 19th and early 20th century
• 2.2 Recent History

Geography

Hunger Castle is located north above the city center, at altitudes around 860 m above sea level. A., on a high plateau at the foot of the northern chain under the Hafelekar ( 2334 m above sea level. A. ).

Structure

The Hunger castle belongs to two local villages and towns. By far the greater part belongs to Hoetting, a small strip in the east to Muehlau. To include field next to the settlement hunger castle itself and the local situation Gramartboden and mountain areas on Hafelekar.

History

19th and early 20th century

Until about 1840, the hunger castle terrace formed a fairly closed forest area, has heard the western area to Hoetting and its eastern area to Arzl or after 1740 to the municipality Muehlau. Was called the corridor on the gray stone, according to the Bank of Höttinger breccia, which is due open here.

Joseph Andrew of Attlmayr, the husband of Mary of Wörndle to Weiherburg, acquired in 1840 a ​​piece of Gramartwaldung, just at the edge of the municipality against Höttinger Muehlau. In 1840 he settled here dug a well and built a summer house to which he gave the name of Neuhof Mariabrunn. However, the range of the associated snack station was apparently meager what you once popularly earned the nickname hungry castle. This name was passed on to the 1906 developed here Terrassensiedlung. The Innsbruck Tourism pioneer Sebastian Kandler tried in 1900 to develop the hunger castle into a summer resort.

The first hunger Funicular, a funicular railway to the hunger Castle, was built in 1905 /06. The cable car from the hunger castle on the northern chain, to Seegrube and Hafelekar - Nordkettenbahn - was built in 1927/28.

Beginning in 1928, was sen at the instigation of Prof. Rudolf Schlenz. and Dominic Dietrich OPraem, Prior in Wilten, a parish established, initially with the former garden house Würth as makeshift church. 1931/32 the Theresienstadt church was built. The Austrian artist Max Weiler received 1946/47, the contract for the design of the church. His fresco made ​​because of the representation of the lance sting of a Tyrolean Protect captain in the Heart of Jesus in the population and the Church a scandal, so it had to be imposed for years.

In 1938 the two communities Hoetting and Muehlau were incorporated to Innsbruck, since then hunger castle increasingly developed into an independent district.

Recent history

The old Hungerburgbahn was replaced on December 1, 2007 through today Hungerburgbahn with other routing.