Wipptal
The Wipptal runs as lower Wipptal of Innsbruck along the sill to the south, exceeds the burner ( 1,374 m) at its highest point (hence there is also the non-indigenous name Brenner ) and leads in South Tyrol along the Eisack as Upper Wipptal (Italian Alta Val Isarco ) about Sterzing up to Fortezza. The Wipptal separates the Stubai Alps and Sarntaler in the west of the Tux and Zillertal Alps in the east.
Name
The name of the valley probably goes back to a Celtic designation by which the Roman settlement Vipitenum was named. The present city was Sterzing something away in the early Middle Ages the extinct ancient settlement created as Baiuvarii new firm ( - ing name). The Italian Nationalist Ettore Tolomei put in the course of Italianisation in his Prontuario for the contemporary city the Italian name Vipiteno fixed.
Traffic
The Wipptal is due to the low height of the Brenner Pass for thousands of years one of the major north-south traffic routes through the Alps. Already in Roman times, joined the Via Raetia the province of Raetia with northern Italy. Today, run the burner or burner Street State Street, which opened in 1867 Brenner railway and the Brenner motorway with its most distinctive building, the Europa Bridge. The Brenner motorway (A13 north of the Brenner, A22 south of it ) is the most important and busiest north-south crossing of the Alps and situated on the route between Munich and Verona. The residents of the Wipptal been complaining for years about the traffic load. The planned Brenner Base tunnel will lead to a discharge.
Communities
From north to south, the following municipalities are located in Wipptal:
- Slap
- Elbows
- Pfons
- Mühlbachl
- Matrei am Brenner
- Steinach am Brenner
- Gries am Brenner
- Burner
- Sterzing
- Free field
- Fortezza
In valleys are:
A major tributary of the Wipptal is the Stubai Valley, which branches off to the south-west with Schönberg im Stubaital. The communities Natters and Mutters are counted to the Stubai Valley, although they lie to the west above the Wipptal.
Located in South Tyrol communities form with the municipalities of some valleys the district community Wipptal. The North Tyrolean municipalities of the Wipptal and its side valleys ( with the exception of Patsch and the Stubai valley ) form the Planning Association Wipptal.
Personalities
- Konrad Fischnaler, historians and heraldry
- Michael Gaismair, early modern peasant leader
- Heini Messner, alpine skier from Upper Mountain at the burner
- Herbert Plank, alpine skier from Sterzing
- Konrad Plautz, International Team Soccer Referee
- Alex Schwaz, Athlete of Kalch b. Sterzing
Pictures of Wipptal
