Hochfilzen is a town and municipality in the
Kitzbühel district
The Bezirk Kitzbühel is an administrative district (''Bezirk'') in Tyrol, Austria. It borders Bavaria (Germany) in the north, the Kufstein and Schwaz districts in the west, and the Pinzgau region (Salzburg) in the east and south.
Area of the dist ...
of the Austrian state of
Tyrol
Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...
. It is located in the Pillersee valley 5 km east of
Fieberbrunn
Fieberbrunn is a market town in the Austrian state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol in the Kitzbühel (district), Kitzbühel district. It is located at , in the Kitzbühel Alps. Fieberbrunn is the most populous municipality in the Pillerseetal valley.
Acco ...
. Population was 1,147 in 2016.
It is a popular winter sports resort, especially for
cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...
. In
2017
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(9 to 19 February) it hosted the
Biathlon World Championships, as it also did in
2005
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,
1998 and
1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
, and it is a regular venue in the annual
IBU World Cup
A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the concept i ...
series.
Training area
In 1875 Hochfilzen was joined to the railway network and soon afterwards a
military training area
A military training area, training area (Australia, Ireland, UK) or training centre (Canada) is land set aside specifically to enable military forces to train and exercise for combat. Training areas are usually out of bounds to the general public, ...
was established here. The training area is used today by the
Austrian Bundesheer
The Austrian Armed Forces (german: Bundesheer, lit=Federal Army) are the combined military forces of the Republic of Austria.
The military consists of 22,050 active-duty personnel and 125,600 reservists. The military budget is 0.74% of natio ...
as an army sports centre for
biathlon
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not tim ...
as well as
survival training by the
Jagdkommando
The Jagdkommando (German for ''Hunting Commando'') is the Austrian Armed Forces' Special Operations group.
Role
The duties of this elite unit, like its counterparts such as the United States Army Special Forces, are chiefly counter-terrorism an ...
. The training area was once one of the scenes in the
Lucona Scandal, which shook Austrian politics at the end of the 1970s.
Population
See also
*
Wiesensee (Tirol), a glacial lake in the northwest corner of the municipality
References
External links
Hochfilzen official homepageBiathlon at Hochfilzen
Ski areas and resorts in Austria
Kitzbühel Alps
Cities and towns in Kitzbühel District
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