Sellrain is a municipality in the district of

Innsbruck-Land The Bezirk Innsbruck-Land is an administrative district (''Bezirk'') in Tyrol, Austria. It encloses the Statutarstadt Innsbruck, and borders Bavaria (Germany) in the north, the district Schwaz in the east, South Tyrol in Italy to the south, and th ...

in the

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

n state of

Tyrol Tyrol ( ; historically the Tyrole; ; ) is a historical region in the Alps of Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, f ...

located southwest of

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; ) is the capital of Tyrol (federal state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the Wipptal, Wipp Valley, which provides access to the ...

in the Sellrain Valley. The River

Melach The Melach is a river of Tyrol, Austria, in the western part of the Innsbruck-Land District, a right tributary of the Inn. The Melach has a length of . It is formed by the confluence of several smaller streams at the foot of the Lisenser Fernerk ...

and its tributary the Fotscherbach flow through it. Most inhabitants are farmers and also have another job in the neighboring

. There are two Catholic churches in the village St. Quirin and St. Anna. They are both over 300 years old.

Population

History

The first settlement developed around the ferruginous healing spring Rothenbrunn, which was used by Innsbruck nobles and citizens since the Middle Ages. The place name is first mentioned in a document dated 1271 as Selrain. The origin of the name is disputed. It may be based on the ancient field name *selia ('Sennhütte'). In any case, the name is pre-Roman.

References

Cities and towns in Innsbruck-Land District {{Tyrol-geo-stub