Kaunertal

Kaunertal is a municipality with 620 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the homonymous valley in the district of Landeck in Tyrol ( Austria ). The municipality is part of the judicial district of Landeck.

Geography

The municipality of Kaunertal occupies the entire area of the narrow and barren valley of the same rear and extends into several hamlets and farms along the road through the valley. The main village is at 1287 m Feichtenschlager.

Community structure

Quarters are cold Brunn, Nufels, space, hole, soil, Vergötschen, lower houses, Mühlbach, Feichtenschlager, Boedele, Ögg, Grasse and Wolf return.

Neighboring communities

Fendels, Graun im Vinschgau, Kaunerberg, Kaun, pound, Ried in the Upper Inn Valley, St. Leonhard im Pitztal, Solden, Toesens, Prutz.

Culture and sights

The Sanctuary Kaltenbrunn is in the front part of the valley at 1260m altitude. In 1272 the Knights Erbo Schenkenberg is said to have built as a penance for a murder a chapel here. A miraculous image of the 14th century they made ​​to the Sanctuary of the mercenaries. It is home altar figures from the period around 1720 and a crucifix in 1697.

The valley museum in the district court shows as a home museum objects of the old life and business forms, a collection of minerals, exhibits on mining and mountaineering as well as the portable workshop of a traveling shoemaker.

Economy and infrastructure

A gradual economic recovery took the community until the late 1950s. In the rearmost Kaunertal is the 1961-1964 term, 6 km long Gepatsch Reservoir, which receives water from the well Taschachbach in Pitztal and its water is passed over a 13.2 km long pressure water line to Prutz in the Inn Valley to the power house.

The glacier ski resort Kaunertal Glacier ( Kaunertal glacier lift ) in the rear Kaunertal with the development of the Weißseeferners, which had been operational since 1982 on the toll Kaunertal Glacier Road, brought further economic boost for the community. Today the ski area is organized with the Fendels. Another composite is the Imst-Pitztal Glacier Park - Kaunertal ( with the region of Imst ) around the Nature Park Kaunergrat.

Personalities

• Melchior Hefele (1716-1794), architect, was born in Kaltbrunn