Tux, Tyrol

Tux is a municipality with 1914 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) and the Schwaz district court in the district of Zell am Ziller, in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

  • 4.1 Agriculture
  • 4.2 Tourism
  • 4.3 magnesite

Geography

Tux is in the Tux Alps, a subgroup of the Zillertal Alps. The community occupies the rear and most of the Tux Valley, a side valley of the Ziller Valley branches off near Mayrhofen southwest. The municipal area extends up to 3476 m high glacier Olperer and up to 2338 m high Tux yoke, a heavily used already in the early days of transition between the Zillertal and the Wipptal. Other striking elevations in the municipality are the 3288 m high peak Frozen Wall and the 3231 m high High riffler. The highest farms are located on 1630 m.

Districts

Tux consists of the five districts Vorderlanersbach Lanersbach, Jun's, Madseit and Hintertux.

On January 25, 2005 by the provincial government to rename Lanersbach in Tux decided, since although the community as a whole Tux is, but there was no place names Tux.

Vorderlanersbach

( 1257 m above sea level. A. ) is the first district on the road from Finkenberg. On the hillside above the village are the hamlets Belpiano and Gemais. The peasantry Gemais at 1450 m was made due to their stylistic unity that dates back to the 17th century, a historical monument. They evolved from a former Schwaighof. The 2292 m high Geiseljoch on the way to the Inn valley was formerly a most trodden path for the exchange of goods to the markets of Hall in Tirol and Innsbruck. From Vorderlanersbach opens up a one-cable circulation car Rastkogelbahn the ski area, which is connected to the neighboring ski resorts Penken and Eggalm.

Lanersbach

( 1281 m above sea level. A. ) is located about two kilometers behind Vorderlanersbach and forms the cultural and social center of the Tux Valley. Lanersbach is both the seat of the municipality of Tux, as well as existing since 1891 parish. The parish church was built in Lanersbach 1686 instead of an earlier Gothic church and 1750 in Baroque style. In the south of the village located at about 1800 m Höllensteinhütte a small farming museum. A gondola leads to the skiing and hiking area Eggalm.

Jun's

(1340 m above sea level. A. ) is a long village about 2 km into the valley behind Lanersbach. It consists of several smaller hotel buildings and residential buildings. Worth seeing is a mill building in which the cultivated barley was ground here a few decades ago. In Jun's end two about 5 km long toboggan runs that lead down from the cave stone hut and the Grieralm. The paths are lit so that an evening sledding is possible.

Madseit

(1402 m above sea level. A. ) behind the hamlet of Jun's and is a small settlement with a few hotel premises and residential houses. Behind the small settlement at the mouth of Madseitbachs in the Tux brook, the valley narrows.

Hintertux

( 1493 m above sea level. A. ) is in the rearmost part of the valley, at the foot of the Hintertux Glacier (one of Austria's most popular Sommerskiregionen ), and is surrounded by mountains and glaciers. It consists of hotels, guest houses and isolated farmhouses. The Church of the Assumption was completed in 1952 instead of 1941 demolished the previous building.

In Hintertux set to various mineral springs the highest spa in Europe. In the immediate vicinity of the clamping nail house is the Spannagelhöhle, which is the largest natural cave in the Central Alps with over 10 km in length. The listed protective cave can be visited under expert guidance.

In the Tux In addition, a year-round ski area, offering a wide range of ski lifts. The village is the starting point for many hikes and high - alpine tours. During the autumn months the ski season starts on the Hintertux glacier. The Hintertux Glacier ski area is part of the Zillertal Ski Area 3000th The Hintertux Glacier is also a popular summer ski area, which is open throughout the year.

Hintertux has 178 inhabitants (as of 2006). It belonged until 1926 to the municipality Schmirn on the burner.

Neighboring communities

Finkenberg, Hippach, Kolsassberg, Navis, Schmirn, Schwendau, Wattenberg Weerberg

History

Was first documented the valley in 1280.

The Tux valley was committed even in prehistoric times, as proven discoveries from the Middle Stone Age. The first inhabitants of the valley were probably Breonen, which belong to the tribe of the Reti and settled in Wipptal.

Shepherds and cowherds populated the valley from Schmirntal over the Tux yoke and cultivated it by its clearing land. 889 came the Tux Valley, with other parts of the Zillertal with the Archbishop of Salzburg. In 1280 the name Tux ( Tukkes ) is first mentioned. Originally a pure waters label, the label went through the valley. You probably derives from the Indo-European root " teg " on what to run, flow, melt means. The first farms were Schwaighöfe who had to deliver her interest in natural history.

The rearmost valley between Lanersbach and Hintertux was up to the year 1438 feud of the Court of Matrei am Brenner Steinach am Brenner and later. Until 1926 Hintertux belonged to the municipality Schmirn. 1926 Hintertux graduated with Lanersbach and the captaincy Lämperbichl together to Tux.

Culture and sights

Natureispalast Hintertux Hintertux glacier. Guides also with the aspects science and adventure through 40 m long parts of a crevasse 25 m below the slopes of Frozen wall.

Economy

Agriculture

On the meadows and pastures of the Tux valley is today farmed, although most companies continue this only as a sideline.

Tourism

The tourism with numerous catering and accommodation establishments is the most economically important branch of industry in the valley. Three ski areas were opened up for the whole ski tourism: in 1961 the first area Eggalm, from 1968 to the Hintertux Glacier and from 1984 the Rastkogelbahn, which was associated from 2001 with an aerial tramway to the ski area Penken. Capacity has been greatly increased, especially in the 2000s in all ski areas by expanding the lift infrastructure. The Hintertux Glacier is operated from the outset as year-round skiing. It is equally important for the region of the merger of the ski areas in Tux Finkenberg and Mayrhofen ( Penken ). After Mayrhofen Tux has to have the second highest number of overnight stays in the Zillertal.

Magnesite

From 1927 to 1976 was about 500 m above the Magnesitbergwerk Vorderlanersbach Tux, the highest in Europe. There magnesite was won by up to 400 workers in mining and tunnel mining. Special cableways for passenger and material transport linked the work with Lanersbach and the loading station in the Zillertal in Mayrhofen. Situated on the Schrofenalm, about 500 m from the factory was a small settlement with apartments, a school, a grocery store, a movie theater, etc. for company employees and their families. After cessation of operation in 1976, the factory was completely demolished and renatured. Were preserved only in 1947 according to plans by Hubert Prachensky built with frescoes by Max Weiler Barbara chapel and two former houses, the " Schrofenhäuser ".

Traffic

Tux is of Mayrhofen on a road distance. From the local train station of the Zillertal Railway, there is a bus service. The closest railway station is the ÖBB Jenbach, which is the starting station of the Zillertal Railway simultaneously. Within the Tux valley daytime running between Vorderlanersbach Hintertux and the free Tux sports. In the winter months there is also a paid Nightliner to two clock early.

Personalities

Tuxer Joch Gefrorene-Wand-Spitzen Hoher Riffler (Zillertal Alps) Wattenberg, Tyrol Surface mining Max Weiler (artist) Jenbach railway station Achenkirch Brandberg, Tyrol Eben am Achensee Gallzein Gerlos Gerlosberg Hainzenberg Kaltenbach, Austria Pill, Tyrol Rohrberg, Austria Schlitters Stans, Tyrol Stummerberg Terfens Uderns Vomp Wiesing Zellberg
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