Strass im Zillertal

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Rhinestone is a municipality with 819 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the Zillertal and belongs to the district of Schwaz in Tirol ( Austria ). The municipality is located in the judicial district of Schwaz.

Geography

Districts: Village, Upper Village, sub- village, Redwood, branch wood, Brettfall, yard and Raffl

Strass is located at the foot of the nearly vertical drop of 628 m high rocky flight of the board case of the northern pillar of the Larchkopfs ( 1367 m), at the entrance of the Zillertal. The village was built on the embankments of the Inn and Ziller. The majority of the municipal area, including the district of Redwood, located in the Inn Valley, the rest is part of the Zillertal.

Recently, several companies were settled. The wastewater treatment system can treat the entire sewage from 31 municipalities in the regions of the Zillertal, Achen Valley and Mid Unterinntal.

Neighboring communities

Bruck am Ziller, Buch in Tirol, Münster, Reith in the Alpbach Valley, Schlitters Wiesing

History

On the Brettfallschrofen remains of a fortified, prehistoric settlement were found. It is thought that the area had been settled rhinestone already in Roman times. It is first mentioned Straze 1112 and 1427, it appears as a local congregation of the Court of Rottenburg.

Importance was given rhinestones in the border town and customs station to the then Salzburgian Zillertal and to 1504 for the Bavarian Inn Valley. From the 15th until the 17th century was mined for silver and copper at the White Schrofen. 1809 Strass scene of heavy fighting the War of Liberation against the Bavarian occupiers.

Redwood

In the district of Redwood let 1580 Tyrolean sovereign Archduke Ferdinand II for himself and his wife Philippine Welser build the hunting lodge Thurneck. 1704 laid originating from Schwaz counts of Tannenberg the seat of the court after Turneck and let it rebuild from 1704 to 1706 in the style of High Baroque. 1809 was completely looted.

After several uses, the agricultural teaching and research institute was established in 1870, which still exists today. Here possesses several types of schools also various research and experimental institutions for the agricultural sector.

The Redwood City is divided between the municipalities of Strass im Zillertal and Buch in Tirol. The east of the creek located Rotholzer part belongs to the municipality rhinestones. In this part, there are also numerous schools and the research and testing facilities.

The fire brigade Redwood is the fire department of the schools and other institutions. It is composed of members of the operation of the schools as well as non-operating together in Redwood resident volunteers. It celebrated its centenary in 2005. In addition to their task of the special fire protection of their schools is also responsible for the Ortschutz for the community rhinestone associated part of Redwood.

Culture and sights

• The former hermitage Maria Brettfall on Brettfall rocks

Traffic

Strass has connection to the Inn valley motorway and over the Zillertal Railway with two stops ( rhinestones and Redwood ) on the rails - distance transport in Jenbach.

By 1995 Brettfalltunnel opened was the place rhinestones are exempt from traffic B169 Zillertal road.

Community partnership

Since 1980, the community rhinestone maintains a community partnership with the German town of boars in the Lower Franconian nature park Haßberge. The compound was originally developed from the existing since 1967 contacts of Knabenkapelle boars and the brass band rhinestones. The partnership is maintained mainly by private and official visits and return visits.

Personalities

• Alois Leitner ( * 1924), politician, councilor in Strass im Zillertal