Silz, Tyrol

Silz is a municipality with 2559 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Imst ( district court Silz ) of the Austrian state of Tyrol and the District Court seat.

  • 3.1 Demographics

Geography

Silz located in the Upper Inn Valley between Imst and Telfs. The Silzer Innau is a protected since 1997 8.4 -acre floodplain west of the town, with a restraining order at certain months of the year.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the two villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Kühtai (35 )
  • Silz ( 2443 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Silz.

Silz ( 65.67 km ²)

Kühtai (D) Silz (D)

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

1857 emigrated seven families and 20 individuals of Silz from Peru and founded the village Pozuzo, are maintained with the still active contacts.

Population

Demographics

Policy

Culture and sights

  • Anger Chapel St.. Sebastian
  • Castle St. Petersberg with chapel
  • Former hunting lodge in Kühtai
  • Chapel in Kühtai
  • Chapel in Simmering
  • Church of the Visitation in Kühtai
  • War memorial chapel at the Old Federal Road
  • Mount of Olives Chapel
  • Parish Church of Sts. Peter and Paul was built 1846-1848 in neo-Romanesque style

Twinning

  • Pozuzo Peru, Peru

Economy

Silz is the seat of one of the two judicial districts of the district Imst. The power plant group Silz (power plants Silz Kühtai ) is one of the most efficient power plants in Europe. The municipality belongs to the winter holiday resort Silz Kühtai. For the summer tourism in Silz rafting on the Inn River plays a significant role. Furthermore, there are in the town of some commercial and agricultural enterprises ( potatoes ).

Traffic

The place can be reached via the Inn valley motorway and the Arlberg railway.

Personalities

Sons and daughters

  • Franz scraper (1923-2010), politician
  • Joseph Marberger (1777-1811), freedom fighter
  • Johann Georg Oegg (1703-1782), Art Smith ( "King of the forge" )
  • Johann hasslwanter (1805-1869), Governor of Tyrol 1867-1869
  • Ferdinand brain (1875-1915), k.k. School professor and historian
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