Telfs

Telfs is a market town with 14,803 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Innsbruck Land, Tyrol, Austria. Telfs is the seat of a district court and the center of the judicial district Telfs.

  • 4.1 Town twinning

Geography

Telfs located 27 kilometers west of the provincial capital of Innsbruck in a basin-like extension of the Inn valley at the foot of the 2,662 meter high Hohe Munde.

Telfs has an area of 45.5 km ² and a total population of more than 14,000 inhabitants and is thus in terms of population the third largest city in Tyrol to Innsbruck and Kufstein. Telfs forms the western boundary of the district and is the most populous city in Tyrol's Upper Inn Valley.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 11 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Bairbach (49 )
  • Birch Mountain ( 19)
  • Brand ( 12)
  • Book (32 )
  • Behind Mountain (31 )
  • Fief ( 19)
  • Moesern (264 )
  • Panels ( 38)
  • St. Veit (38 )
  • Telfs ( 14184 )
  • Wild moss ( 1)

The municipality comprises the cadastral Telfs.

Neighboring communities

History and Economics

In the 19th century until well into the 20th century Telfs was a center of the textile industry, former factory buildings still dominate the townscape. These are partly responsible for the high proportion of immigrants of the community, because at that time many workers from countries such as Turkey and the former Yugoslavia were hired. They have contributed to economic and cultural development of the region.

Today the economy of production plants, energy (E -Werk - Gemeindewerke Telfs ) is determined and service. The community experienced in recent years a strong growth, new settlements were established mainly in former forest areas at the foot of the Hohe Munde.

The population of Telfs called Telfer, not Telfser. Reason is the Romansh origin of the place name. This ends with the Latin nominative -s, derivatives are therefore formed without -s.

In 1988 was held from June 3 to June 5 at the Inter -Hotel Tyrol in Telfs- Book Bilderberg conference.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Alps countries (Arge Alp ) was built, the ten -ton Peace Bell in the higher-lying district Moesern that sounds by 17 clock every day. In Mösern is the Möserer (since February 2008 in the possession of Telfs; purchase price two million euros ) and as a special two lakes Lottensee and Wildmoossee that appear only every few years.

2006 began in Telfs to nationally respected controversies of the construction of the first Muslim prayer storm in Tyrol and the second in Austria ( minaret controversy Telfs ).

The political leadership of Telfs considered for 2008, a survey of the market town to the rank of a city. The study carried out by postal voting citizen survey in 2007, this request was rejected by 65.4 % No votes.

Population

Policy

The last mayor elections took place simultaneously with the local elections on March 14, 2010.

Christian Härting was elected mayor. This was decided in a runoff election.

Twinning

Coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms, which was awarded with the market survey in 1908 by Emperor Franz Joseph I, comes from the Counts of Eschenlohe and is almost identical with the arms of Eschenlohe and Garmisch -Partenkirchen.

Culture and sights

  • The parish church of Sts. Peter and Paul as a three-aisled cruciform basilica with two towers façade was built in 1860-1863. First documented in 1113, the consecration of an upper chapel ( " superior capella ") by Bishop Gebhard of Trent has already testified, among which probably in 1859 in favor of the parish church of the new building broken cemetery chapel is to understand the painful Mother of God on the Telfer Cemetery.
  • Telfer Franciscan monastery: the monastery and the church itself was built at the beginning of the 18th century
  • Holy Spirit Church: inaugurated in 2002, designed by the architect Peter Thurner, equipped with a series of paintings on the Holy Spirit by Maurizio Bonato
  • Carnival and Heritage Museum in Noaflhaus
  • Eyup Sultan Mosque: built in 2007, with a minaret
  • Peace Bell: built in 1997 for the 25th anniversary of the ARGE Alp to symbolize the cohesion
  • Inter -Hotel Tyrol: was measured by the number of beds to the early 2000s, the largest hotel in the Alps

Interior of the Parish Church

The minaret of the Eyüp Sultan Mosque

Education

  • 2 Elementary Schools
  • 2 new secondary schools
  • Polytechnic School
  • Walter Thaler school: Special Education Centre
  • Heinrich Jacoby School: general educational comprehensive school
  • Trade School and Business Academy eco telfs
  • Bundesrealgymnasium
  • Technical College ( BORG )
  • Cultural Noaflhaus: Telfer Municipal Museum

Other educational institutions are

  • Music School Region Telfs
  • Community College Telfs
  • Educational institution Mundium
  • Mundemed: lectures on health

Traffic

  • Street: Telfs stands at the intersection of important routes, namely through the Inn Valley, direction Mieminger Plateau and continue to the Fern Pass and the connection to Seefeld in Tyrol and to Garmisch -Partenkirchen.
  • S -Bahn: Telfs is reachable via lines S1 and S2 S-Bahn Tyrol.

Sports

Swimming pool, sports center Telfs ( with climbing wall, etc.), sports ground Emat, tennis courts Birch Mountain, Golf Course Wild Moss, cycling and walking routes

In mid-November 2013, the idea was a climbing bouldering hall with a focus to build from the market town, country, Tourism and Alpine Club launched. Opening of the 1.7 - million - euro project could be as early as autumn 2014.

Regular events

  • Tyrolean folk plays: Telfs is the venue for the annual since 1981 Tyrolean folk plays. There are premiered pieces by Felix Mitterer et al.
  • Schleicherlaufen: is held every five years -find traditional carnival tradition, in which several hundred masked - only men - participate (most recently 2010). The first indications of a mask and bustle in Telfs come from the 1571. Since the second half of the 19th century, the drama has that form in which it is still listed in essence today.

Personalities

  • Father Vincent Maria Gredler (1823-1912), natural scientist and high school principal in Bolzano
  • Josef Anton Puellacher (1737-1799), Austrian painter
  • Puellacher Leopold (1776-1842), Austrian painter of classicism
  • Anton Josef Treasury (1902-1968), politician of the Nazi Party, SS -Hauptsturmführer
  • Joseph scoop (1745-1822), Austrian painter
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