Umhausen

Umhausen is a municipality with 3109 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Imst ( district court Silz ), Tyrol, Austria.

  • 3.1 Demographics

Geography

The municipality is located in the Ötztal Umhausen in a valley widening on the Murkegel of Horlachbachs, scattered in several villages and hamlets.

The neighboring municipalities are Arzl, Jerzens, length field, Oetz, Roppen, Sankt Leonhard im Pitztal, Sankt Sigmund im Sellrain, Sautens and Silz.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following six localities ( in parentheses population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Farst (10 )
  • Köfels (39 )
  • Lower Thai ( 362)
  • Easts (355)
  • Tumpen ( 624)
  • Umhausen ( 1693)

The municipality comprises the cadastral sac.

A geological feature provides Köfels: For a comprehensive three billion cubic meters of landslide about 8000 years ago was caused by pressure and friction heat a transformation of gneiss into a glassy rock, which is called Köfelsit. It is clearly evident the fracture surfaces on the mountain and the mine dump.

Through the landslide also the Horlachbach accumulated and formed later the Stuibenfall in the hamlet of Lower Thai.

Outside of the district Tumpen, below Farst, is the angel wall to which climb several shots. Part of the wall serves as a tourist climbing with over 70 routes of varying difficulty.

Most of the rock belt above the two hamlets Platz and Lehn with the silicate rock wall and the upstream swards at the foot of the angel wall is since 2008 a nature reserve with an area of ​​39.8 hectares. The siliceous screes, due to their exposure to many thermophilic sites. In the joints shrub shrubs grow as the True Whitebeam (Sorbus aria) or the Common Hazel (Corylus avellana ). Because of the many rough edges and steps the wall forms a richly structured habitat for rock plants. Here you will find a pioneer vegetation with sedums and Sempervivum species. On the plateau levels Lawn bands are formed, consisting mainly of blue grasses ( genus Sesleria ) exist. Even the toxic juniper (Juniperus sabina ) comes here frequently. The angels wall is one of the Natura 2000 protected areas.

History

Umhausen was a center of the flat cultivation, the Blue Flax Flower in the coat of arms also points out. The blue wave in the coat of arms represents the Stuibenfall

Today the community is a bi-seasonal tourist with some businesses.

Population

Demographics

Policy

Culture and sights

  • Parish Church of St. Vitus in Obergurgl village with Nepomuk chapel and mortuary chapel
  • Parish Church of St. Martin in Tumpen slightly elevated above the valley floor with cemetery chapel
  • Kaplaneikirche hl. Anthony of Padua in Niederthei
  • Johann Nepomuk Fountain
  • Expositurkirche Our ​​Lady of Sorrows in Köfels
  • Pilgrimage church Maria Schnee in Easts
  • Natural Monument Stuibenfall
  • Wasserwaalweg to Stuibenfall: to secure trail along a long time ago man-made irrigation system to the harvest.
  • , On the way to Stuibenfall, an archaeological open-air park, which is the living conditions and lifestyle of the inhabitants at that time in the Neolithic period, built Ötzidorf 2001.
  • The Larchzieh'n in which a 35 -meter-long larch stem is pulled through the town, is a centuries-old carnival tradition which is performed with intervals of several years. The Larchzieh'n place until the 1960s, instead of only when no bachelor had married in the village. Since 1996 is the Larchziehen in four - to five -year intervals (1996, 2000, 2005, 2010) instead.

Radon occurrence - spa Umhausen

In the 1990s it was discovered in Obergurgl occurrence of radioactive noble gas radon, which were particularly studied scientifically by the University of Innsbruck. The discovery was made by statistical studies where a significant accumulation of lung cancer was found in Obergurgl: The number of deaths was about four times as high as the average of the Tyrolean population in the years 1970-1991. In confined spaces, extremely high radon concentrations were measured, the highest value was in July 1992 at 274,000 Bq / m³, which is more than a thousand times the recommended guideline value of 200 Bq / m³. Cause of this extreme radon levels are geological features in the alluvial fan of the landslide of Köfels.

Sources with water containing radon in the local area to meet all the demands of a healing source for chronic rheumatic and analgesic treatment. The medicinal waters comprises about 200 million cubic meters and is supported by two deep wells in the village of Neudorf. Umhausen may be called subsequently Bad sac. Meanwhile, a spa was built. It lies on a hill above Umhausen, in addition to the therapies are many hiking trails, mountain and mountain biking routes.

Sledge center Grantau, World Cup 2011

In the Grantau located since 1999, the " National Training Centre West for sledding on natural tracks ". World Cup races are annually driven on the 955m long track. 2011, the Natural Track Luge World Cup held on the toboggan run Grantau.

Personalities

  • Karl Marberger (1910-1995), Kronenwirt and National
  • Hans Marberger (1917-2002), Urologist and university professor
  • Franz Pizzinini (1910-1974), painter and restorer
  • Trientl Adolf (1817-1897), priest and agricultural advisers

Pictures

Stuibenfall

Landslide of Köfels

Parish Church of St. Vitus

Larchzieh'n

Representation of the Church of Saint Vitus in the Church

Imst District Arzl im Pitztal Silz, Tyrol Sturzstrom Climbing garden Becquerel FIL World Luge Natural Track Championships 2011 Haiming, Tyrol Imsterberg Karres Obsteig Stams
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