The Tuxertal is a valley located in
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 ...
,
Austria
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. A
side valley
Side valleys and tributary valleys are valleys whose brooks or rivers flow into greater ones.
Upstream, the valleys can be classified in an increasing order which is equivalent to the usual orographic order: the tributaries are ordered from th ...
of the
Zillertal
The Ziller Valley (german: Zillertal) is a valley in Tyrol, Austria that is drained by the Ziller River. It is the widest valley south of the Inn Valley (german: Inntal) and lends its name to the Zillertal Alps, the strongly glaciated section of t ...
, from which it branches at
Mayrhofen
Mayrhofen is a town in the Zillertal (Ziller river valley) in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is located approximately an hour from the Tyrolean capital city of Innsbruck.
Population
Tourism
The town offers a variety of summer and winter sports ...
, the Tuxertal is about 13 km long and accessible on the Tuxer Straße (Tux Road). From Mayrhofen () to Hintertux (1500 m) in the municipality of
Tux
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, the village that gives the valley its name, there is a height difference of about 850 m. The valley ends at Hintertux and the
Hintertux Glacier
The Hintertux Glacier (german: Hintertuxer Gletscher) is the tourist name for the glaciers of the Gefrorene-Wand-Kees, also called the Tuxer Ferner, and the nearby Riepenkees at the top of the Tuxertal, a side valley of the Zillertal in the Austr ...
. The Tuxbach, which rises near Hintertux, flows as far as Mayrhofen where it empties into the River
Ziller
The Ziller () is a right tributary to the Inn, in the Zillertal in Tyrol, Austria. It is long, and its basin area is . It springs from the ridge of the Zillertal Alps, and feeds the Zillergründl Dam. In Mayrhofen it receives the Zemmbach (that ...
.
The five main settlements in the Tuxertal are (from the head of the valley):
Hintertux (1,500 m), Madseit (1,385 m), Juns (1360 m), Tux (former Lanersbach) (1,300 m), Vorderlanersbach (1,300 m) and the parish of
Finkenberg
Finkenberg is a municipality in the Schwaz district in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
Geography
Finkenberg lies about 3 km southwest of Mayrhofen at the entrance to the Tuxer valley.
Sightseeing
* Garnet Chapel near the Penken The Penken is a mo ...
(840 m).
The Tuxertal is the only way of reaching the Hintertux Glacier by means of road and cable lift.
Gallery
Image:TuxerKalb.JPG, Tux cattle
Image:Tuxerbach Austria 2007-05-26.JPG, Tuxbach stream, fed by meltwaters
External links
The Tuxertal - the westernmost of the side valleys
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Valleys of Tyrol (state)