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Steinach Am Brenner
Steinach am Brenner is a market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol located south of Innsbruck in the Wipptal at the Sill River. Geography Steinach am Brenner is located in Wipptal, along the Sill River Valley at the junction of Gschnitz (Gschnitztal). It is run by B182 road and is 31 km south of Innsbruck and 12 km from the border with Italy. There is the railway station ''Steinach in Tirol'' of the Brenner Railway. The A13 motorway, which runs the Wipptal on the western side, is on an elevated position above the village. History Origin The first documented settlement of Steinach am Brenner dates back to 985, when the village was situated on a hill, near the Church of St. Ursula, as "Muron." The present name is mentioned for the first time in 1220, apparently derived from "Steina", referring to the many large rocks at the place. In 1349, the Court was moved permanently to Steinach from Aufenstein, placed at the entrance to the Valley o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and state. A landlocked country, Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has a population of 9 million. Austria emerged from the remnants of the Eastern and Hungarian March at the end of the first millennium. Originally a margraviate of Bavaria, it developed into a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1156 and was later made an archduchy in 1453. In the 16th century, Vienna began serving as the empire's administrative capital and Austria thus became the heartland of the Habsburg monarchy. After the dissolution of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gschnitz
Gschnitz () is a municipality with 415 inhabitants (1 January 2011) in the south of North Tyrol. Setting Gschnitz is at the end of the valley of the same name that branches off from the Wipptal at Steinach am Brenner. The municipality borders are from the Talschluss () to the South Tyrol. The Gschnitz Brook provides the village with drinking water. Nearby municipalities are Brenner, Neustift im Stubaital, Obernberg am Brenner and Trins. History Origin The village is mentioned for the first time in 1284 as "Gasnitz". In 1288 the valley had nine ''Schwaighöfe'' (alpine farms) seven of them in Gschnitz, which formed the centre of the village, and two at Laponesalm. The right of succession in Tirol originated from these nine Schwaighöfe and was adopted in all the other valleys in the region. In 1471 the rivalry between Gschnitz and Trins arose and reached a point that the inhabitants of the two villages blocked the entrance to the valley; the Steinach am Brenner Court had to in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Messner
Heinrich "Heini" Messner (born 1 September 1939) is a retired Austrian alpine skier. He competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won two bronze medals: in the giant slalom in 1968 and in the downhill in 1972. Career On 5 January 1967 Messner won the first ever World Cup race, a slalom; he had 15 more World Cup podium finishes later in his career. In the 1970s he pioneered the use of short skis in the technical races. Messner retired in 1972 season and for two years trained the Austrian women’s team. He then moved to Steinach am Brenner where he ran a ski school, a boarding house, and a ski rental service. National titles Messner has won five national championships at individual senior Senior (shortened as Sr.) means "the elder" in Latin and is often used as a suffix for the elder of two or more people in the same family with the same given name, usually a parent or grandparent. It may also refer to: * Senior (name), a surname ... level. * Austria Alpine Ski Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Luger
Georg Johann Luger (March 6, 1849 – December 22, 1923) was an Austrian designer of the famous Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. Early life and military service Georg Luger was born in Steinach am Brenner, Tyrol to Dr. Bartholomaeus von Luger, a surgeon. After Georg's birth, his family moved to Italy, where Dr. Luger taught at the University of Padua. Georg grew up with Italian as his second mother tongue and finished ''Grundschule'' (primary school) and '' Gymnasium'' (university-preparatory school) in Austrian Padua. After graduation, his parents sent him to Vienna, where he studied at the ''Wiener Handelsakademie'' (Vienna Commercial Academy), the predecessor to today's Vienna Business School. In October 1867, Luger volunteered for military service as a Reserve Officer Cadet with the . He was promoted to ''Cadett-Corporal'' (Officer Cadet Corporal) on June 1, 1868, and to ''Faehnrich'' (Ensign) on October 1. Luger's good marksmanship brought him to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Institute For Meteorology And Geodynamics
The Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics (german: Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, ZAMG) is the national meteorological and geophysical service of Austria. It is a subordinate agency of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. The ZAMG headquarters are located in Vienna, with regional offices in Salzburg, Innsbruck, Graz and Klagenfurt. ZAMG was founded in 1851 and is the oldest weather service in the world. Its task is not only to operate monitoring networks and to conduct research in various fields, but also to make the results available to the public. Organization The Hohe Warte in the Döbling district of Vienna is the headquarters of the Institution and is the regional office for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland. Other regional ZAMG offices are: * Regional office for Salzburg and Upper Austria (city of Salzburg) * Regional office for Vorarlberg and Tyrol ( Innsbruck) * Regional office for Carinthia (Klagenfurt) * Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orgelbau Pirchner
Orgelbau Pirchner is an Austrian manufacturer of pipe organs, located in Steinach am Brenner, Tirol. History The company was founded in 1817 by Franz Reinisch in Gries am Brenner, http://orgeln.musikland-tirol.at/ob/Reinisch-Joseph.html but moved to Steinach as early as 1825. In 1935 Johann Pirchner Sr. took over the company, but had to stop production during World War II. Between 1945 and 1973, the workshop built over 120 pipe organs. In 1973 his son, Johann Pirchner Jr., continued the Pirchner tradition, focusing on the construction of pipe organs with slider chests and tracker action. After building a new workshop in 1997, Johann Pirchner Jr. handed the company to his son Martin Pirchner, who took the ''Meisterprüfung'' in organ building in 1996. Today Orgelbau Pirchner builds instruments for churches, concert halls, universities and schools. The company's primary focus is on designing and building slider chest organs with tracker-action. The scales of the pipes and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Von Stadl
The Stadl family (also spelled von Stadler or von Stadel) was the name of an Austrian noble family from Styria, which also belonged to the provincial nobility in Lower Austria. The lords of Stadl from the Kornberg line were raised to barons, a side branch to imperial counts styled as ''Reichsgraf von und zu Stadel-Kornberg''. The male line of the family died out at the end of the 19th century. History The Stadl family was first mentioned in 1180 with Hugo von Stadl. The Knights of Stadl achieved great wealth and prestige in 1539 through the marriage of Christoph von Stadl to Anna von Graben, the heiress to the Lords von Graben zu Kornberg. Subsequently, Emperor Maximilian I. granted the Stadler dynasty the combination of their coat of arms with that of the lords of Graben (the Grabnerish with the upright spade). The inheritance of the lords of Graben included numerous and widely scattered lordships, estates and castles. This included the important lordship of Kornberg near Riege ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Steinach may refer to: Places and rivers *in Germany: **Steinach, Baden-Württemberg, a municipality in the Ortenaukreis district **Steinach, Bavaria, a municipality in the Straubing-Bogen district **Steinach, Thuringia, a town in the Sonneberg district **Steinach (Rodach), a river of Thuringia and Bavaria, tributary of the Rodach, itself a tributary of the Main **Untere Steinach, a river in Bavaria, tributary of the Schorgast **Warme Steinach a river of Bavaria, tributary of the Red Main **Steinach (Neckarsteinach), a river of Hesse and Baden-Württemberg, a tributary of the Neckar in Neckarsteinach **Steinach (Nürtingen), a river of Baden-Württemberg, a tributary of the Neckar in Nürtingen *in Austria: **Steinach am Brenner, a municipality in Tyrol *in Switzerland: **Steinach, St. Gallen, a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen **Steinach (Lake Constance), a tributary of Lake Constance People *Eugen Steinach (1861-1944), leading Austrian physiologist and pioneer in endocrino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyrolean Rebellion
The Tyrolean Rebellion (german: Tiroler Volksaufstand) is a name given to the resistance of militiamen, peasants, craftsmen and other civilians of the County of Tyrol led by Andreas Hofer supported by his wife Anna and a strategic council consisting of Josef Speckbacher, Peter Mayr, Capuchin Father Joachim Haspinger, Major Martin Teimer and Kajetan Sveth, against new legislation and a compulsory vaccination programme concerning smallpox ordered by king Maximilian I of Bavaria, followed by the military occupation of their homeland by troops organised and financed by Napoleon I of the First French Empire and Maximilian I. The broader military context is called the War of the Fifth Coalition. Backgrounds Governing and military situation In September 1805 the Electorate of Bavaria under Prince-elector Maximilian I Joseph of Wittelsbach, that had been allied with the Habsburg monarchy under the common federally structured Holy Roman Empire, went over to Napoleonic France: th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Hofer
Andreas Hofer (22 November 1767 – 20 February 1810) was a Tyrolean innkeeper and drover, who in 1809 became the leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against the Napoleonic and Bavarian invasion during the War of the Fifth Coalition. He was subsequently captured and executed. Hofer is still today venerated as a folk hero, freedom fighter and Austrian patriot. His great-grandson Andreas Hofer was a member of the very important resistance group against Nazi Germany around the priest Heinrich Maier. Life Andreas Hofer was born 1767 in St. Leonhard in Passeier, in the Habsburg crown land of Tyrol. His father was an innkeeper of the ''Sandhof'' inn and Andreas followed in his footsteps when he inherited the establishment. He also traded wine and horses in adjacent Northern Italy and learned the Italian language. He married Anna Ladurner. In 1791 he was elected to the Tyrolean Landtag assembly. In German he was known as a ''Wirt'' (innkeeper) and thus ever after ''Sandwirt''. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Pius VI
Pope Pius VI ( it, Pio VI; born Count Giovanni Angelo Braschi, 25 December 171729 August 1799) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 15 February 1775 to his death in August 1799. Pius VI condemned the French Revolution and the suppression of the Gallican Church that resulted from it. French troops commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the papal army and occupied the Papal States in 1796. In 1798, upon his refusal to renounce his temporal power, Pius was taken prisoner and transported to France. He died eighteen months later in Valence. His reign of over two decades is the fifth-longest in papal history. Biography Early years Giovanni Angelo Braschi was born in Cesena on Christmas Day in 1717 as the eldest of eight children to Count Marco Aurelio Tommaso Braschi and Anna Teresa Bandi. His siblings were Felice Silvestro, Giulia Francesca, Cornelio Francesco, Maria Olimpia, Anna Maria Costanza, Giuseppe Luigi and Maria Lucia Margherita. His matern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matrei Am Brenner
Matrei am Brenner is a small municipality in the southern part of the District Innsbruck-Land and is located approximately 17 km south of Innsbruck. Matrei has always been an important station for commerce. On 1 January 2022 the municipalities of Pfons and Mühlbachl were merged into Matrei. The village has 3,500 inhabitants, at 992 m. above sea level and the Sill river flows through it. Geography At Mühlbachl, the road branches off to the north, one follows the valley along the river to get to Innsbruck, the other on the eastern shore, with a more circuitous route through Patsch, Lans and Ampass, comes up to Hall in Tirol. The first was the way, covered by the Germanic Sovereigns of the Holy Roman Empire, through the Scharnitz pass, to Rome for the coronation. History The place was inhabited in the late Bronze Age (1200 BC) as shown by the remains discovered in the area and by signs of Hallstatt culture. In 1964 during work at "Gasthof Heisenstecken" a hundred urns were f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
