Pill, Tyrol

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Pill is a municipality with 1123 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district Schwaz, Tyrol ( Austria ). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Schwaz.

Geography

Pill is located in the lower Inn valley near Schwaz. The settlement is formed through the center of the valley, at the foot of the cone of Pillbachs, and scattered settlements on the slopes of Kellerjoch (Low Mountain, Hochpillberg ). The once marshy bottom has been made ​​in the 18th and 19th centuries to farmland.

Place name

The place name Pill was first mentioned in 1288 as " super bottle iuxta ripam ". Since the certificate forms on an original -u-, which was umlauted later by a -i of the following syllable, point out the place name K. Finsterwalder following can be interpreted as the area on the water. The same word basic form is also found in Apulia. With Pill so it is a apa names with labial not shifted. The etymology is also geographically conclusive, since the village is both close to the Inn as is crossed also by Piller Bach.

Culture and sights

See list of listed properties in Pill

Economy and infrastructure

Today Pill is a commuter community. Pill is connected transport network is over the Inn valley motorway at exit Vomp and the Western Railway with the stop Pill Vomperbach. Pill 's corporate headquarters EGLO Lights.