Seefeld in Tirol is an old farming village, now a major tourist resort, in

Innsbruck-Land District 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

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n state of

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with a local population of 3,312 (as of 1 January 2013). The village is located about northwest of

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on a

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between the

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and the

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on a historic road from

Mittenwald Mittenwald is a German municipality in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in Bavaria. Geography Mittenwald is located approximately 16 kilometres to the south-east of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It is situated in the Valley of the River Isar, b ...

to Innsbruck that has been important since the

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. It was first mentioned in 1022 and since the 14th century has been a pilgrimage site, benefiting not only from the visit of numerous

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s but also from its stacking rights as a trading station between

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and the

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. Also since the 14th century, Tyrolean shale oil has been extracted in the area. Seefeld was a popular holiday resort even before 1900 and, since the 1930s, has been a well known winter sports centres and amongst the most popular

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s in Austria. The municipality, which has been the venue for several

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Games, is the home village of

Anton Seelos Anton "Toni" Seelos (4 March 1911 – 1 June 2006) was an Austrian alpine skier and world champion. In the 1930s, Seelos invented the parallel turnNick Howe''The Blitz Form Kitz'' Skiing Heritage 1/1997 p.17. and became a world champion in the ...

, the inventor of the

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. With more than one million overnight stays each year, it is one of the most popular Tyrolean tourist destinations especially for

skiing Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IO ...

in winter, but also for walking holidays in the summer.

Geography

Neighbouring communities

To the northwest Seefeld borders on

Leutasch Leutasch is a municipality in the northern part of the district Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol about 30 km northwest of Innsbruck and 10 km northwest of Seefeld in Tirol Geography The village lies in the Leutaschtal, a ...

(village of Weidach), to the northeast on

Scharnitz Scharnitz is a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol located north of Innsbruck and from Seefeld in Tirol on the German border. It is one of the largest municipalities and has 10 parts: Au, Eisack, Gieße ...

(village of Gießenbach). Its eastern municipal boundary with

Zirl Zirl is a market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 10 km west of Innsbruck at the bottom of a pass up the side of the Zirler Berg, leading to Seefeld and ultimately to Germany. The location was me ...

runs along the arête from the Seefelder Joch and Seefelder Spitze. To the south lies Reith (village of Auland) and to the west

Telfs Telfs is a market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol, west of Innsbruck. It is the third largest municipality in Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical regio ...

(village of Mösern).

Topography

The village is situated on the south-facing

Seefeld Plateau The Seefeld Plateau (german: Seefelder Plateau) is a montane valley and basin landscape in the North Tyrolean Limestone Alps about 500 metres above the Inn valley in the Austrian state of Tyrol (Bundesland), Tyrol. The plateau covers the valley b ...

north of the River

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on the watershed between the basins of the Inn and the

Isar The Isar is a river in Tyrol, Austria, and Bavaria, Germany, which is not navigable for watercraft above raft size. Its source is in the Karwendel range of the Alps in Tyrol; it enters Germany near Mittenwald and flows through Bad Tölz, Munic ...

. The plateau (which also comprises the villages of

, Reith,

and Mösern) is surrounded by the

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mountain range to the west, and the

mountain range to the east; it falls away in a steep drop off to the Inn valley to the south. To the north, the high valley leads through the village of

towards the border with

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Seefeld in Tirol Austria from ESE on 2014-10-18

Seefeld has two main mountain areas (for walking or skiing): one is the rounded hill, the

Gschwandtkopf The Gschwandtkopf is a mountain south of the ski resort of Seefeld in Tirol in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is 1,495 metres high. There are two inns at the summit: the ''Ötzi Hut'' and the ''Sonnenalm''.''Seefeld Leutasch'' 1:25,000 hiking map, ...

(1,495 m); the other is on the slopes of the mountains to the east and called the ''Rosshütte'' after the large mountain restaurant halfway up. These mountains dominate the Seefeld Plateau; from left/north to right/south, they are the Seefelder Joch,

Seefelder Spitze The Seefelder Spitze is a mountain east of Seefeld in Tirol in the Karwendel Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is 2,221 metres high and there is a summit cross at the top.''Seefeld Leutasch'' 1:25,000 hiking map, Wanderland-Verlag, 4th edn., ...

(2,215 m), Härmelekopf (2,224 m) and

Reither Spitze The Reither Spitze is a mountain in the Karwendel in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol that, thanks to its location at the southwestern end of the Erlspitze Group, is particularly well known for its great views of the surrounding area from its ...

(2,374 m). Notable other landmarks include the Seekirchl, a small, onion-domed church, and the Pfarrhügel, a spur of the Gschwandtkopf running into the town centre and forming a small attractive hill. There is also a popular bathing lake called the Wildsee.

Lakes and streams

On the east side of the ''Seefelder Joch'' rise the tributaries of the ''Haglbach'', which flows west through the valley of ''Hermannstal'', then swings south on reaching the

to run along the municipal boundary and feed the Wildsee. The Wildsee is threatened by

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deposition from the ''Haglbach''. In future it is planned to excavate a

reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...

east of ''Innsbrucker Straße'' to collect these sediments. The tailstream of the Wildsee, now called the Seebach, runs through Seefeld in a northerly direction and collects the waters of the Raabach shortly after passing the village centre. This section was called the ''Mühlbach'' by Peter Anich in 1762. The Raabach has its source in the southeast near the Mösern ''Mähder'' and was once impounded to form a reservoir that gave the church of Seekirchl its name. Below the Schlossberg, near the Seebach, is a

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-containing spring, that, under the name of the Franz Josef Spring, was mentioned in 1900 for the first time in the Directory of Spas of the Imperial-Royal Province of Tyrol and Vorarlberg (''Verzeichnis der Kurorte und Bäder der K.K. Statthalterei für Tirol und Vorarlberg'') and used until 1984 as a health spring.Mag. Helmut Pintarelli: Gutachten zum Verkehrswert, ehemaliges Hotel Schneeweiss (Geschäftszahl: 20 E 84/12k) vom 13 December 2012, pp. 12 ff.
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is 1,000 Bq/L). The ''Klammbach'' originates at the Wildmoosalm below the lake of

Wildmoossee The Wildmoossee is an aperiodic mountain lake, 3 kilometres west of Seefeld in Tirol near the village of Wildmoos in the market borough of Telfs. The lake lies in the area of the water-soluble main dolomite of the Seefeld Plateau at a heig ...

and runs northwest of the village on the far side of the Geigenbühel, passes the Triendlsäge (where there is a reservoir with a capacity of 450 m³ which supplies a small

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generating 45 kW) and merges with the ''Seebach'' by the ''Lehenwald'' woods in front of the ''Bodenalm'' to form the ''Drahnbach''. The latter flows towards

and empties into the

tributary, the Gießenbach. Kaltwassersee Tyrol

The reservoir at near the ''Rosshütte'' (called the ''Kaltwassersee'' and named after the local area) has a capacity of 66,500 m³ and receives its water from the public mains. In 2015 it was additionally fed between April and August from the ''Blauer Schrofen'' spring below the Seefelder Spitze. The additional water from the Kaltwassersee for

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was raised in 2009 from 100,000 m³ to 165,000 m³ per year.

Climate

Population

Culture and sights

* Parish and

pilgrimage church A pilgrimage church (german: Wallfahrtskirche) is a church to which pilgrimages are regularly made, or a church along a pilgrimage route, like the Way of St. James, that is visited by pilgrims. Pilgrimage churches are often located by the grave ...

of St. Oswald * Former Augustine monastery west of the church, today a five-star hotel. Founded in 1516 by Maximilian I as a hostelry * Pfarrhof, above and south of the church * Lake church of the Holy Cross (Seekirchl) in the west of the village: symbol of Seefeld, built under Archduke Leopold V by Innsbruck's court architect, Christoph Gumpp, in the

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style (built 1629–1666), paintings by Josef Anton Puellacher * Seefeld's woodland cemetery on the eastern edge of the village with its chapel and monument to those who died on the railway journey from

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at the end of April 1945 * Hermitage and old ruined castle of Schlossberg north of the village * Milestone, originally unengraved, probably Roman. A

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has been inscribed later

Infrastructure

Rail services

Seefeld is on the

Karwendel Railway The Mittenwald Railway (german: Mittenwaldbahn), popularly known as the Karwendelbahn (Karwendel railway), is a railway line in the Alps in Austria and Germany. It connects Innsbruck via Seefeld (both in Tyrol, Austria) and Mittenwald to Garmi ...

with links to

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via

Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen (; Bavarian: ''Garmasch-Partakurch''), nicknamed Ga-Pa, is an Alpine ski town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the seat of government of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen (abbreviated ''GAP''), in the O ...

and

. It is also served by

S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban- suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble co ...

line 5 from Innsbruck to Scharnitz (to Garmisch-P.). From the start of the winter timetable in 2010, Seefeld station became the highest

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(ICE) stop in Europe. At weekends it is served by two ICE trains in each direction daily (2014 timetable).

Bus services

Three bus routes run by the

Tyrol Transport Association 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 ...

stop in Seefeld, as does a long distance bus route (at the Rosshütte bus stop):

Road transport

The Bundesstraße 177 federal highway (''Seefelder Strasse'') to the German border is part of the

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E 533. It runs from

over the

Zirler Berg The Zirler Berg near Zirl in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol (Bundesland), Tyrol is a mountain, high, in the Karwendel Alps, a western part of the Northern Limestone Alps. It is a southern foothill of the Reither Spitze (2,374 m) and ...

and

. Another road link from the

Inn valley The Inn ( la, Aenus; rm, En) is a river in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. The river is long. It is a right tributary of the Danube and it is the third largest tributary of the Danube by discharge. The highest point of its drainage basin is ...

runs from

via Mösern, along the road to

and enables Mittenwald to be reached over the Scharnitz Pass.

Innsbruck Airport Innsbruck Airport , also known locally as ''Kranebitten Airport'', is the largest international airport in Tyrol in western Austria. It is located approximately from the centre of Innsbruck. The airport, which was opened in 1925, handles region ...

lies about 20 km from Seefeld. In winter there are direct flights from e. g. Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt.

Communication and telecommunication

The

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by ''Telesystem Tirol'' for

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was conducted in 1975 by a family firm based in Auland. Today about 900 participants in Seefeld and Reith are connected.

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is transmitted by a

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on the Gschwandtkopf.

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and

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is available in the entire permanent settlement of Seefeld at a rate of 42.2

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. It is

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with symmetric bandwidth of up to 20 Mbit/s,

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up to 30 Mbit/s. Broadband internet is also provided over the cable network. Since August 2012 there has been free

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access in the pedestrian zone, the spa park, the sport and congress centre, around the Seekirchl and at the ''Casino Arena'', around the

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s on the Gschwandtkopf and at several stations in the Rosshütte

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Sports facilities

In recent years Seefeld has expanded and renovated its sports facilities and positioned itself as the Nordic Competence Centre (''Nordisches Kompetenzzentrum'') for the training of national teams and clubs as well as the Stams Skiing Grammar School (''Skigymnasium Stams''). * Toni Seelos Olympic Ski Jumps in the ''Casino Arena'' on the northwest slopes of the Gschwandtkopf ( HS 109 und HS 75) *

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 ...

stand with 30 firing points * 279 km of runs 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 ...

, 125 km of which is for skating and 154 km for classic cross-country skiing *

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roller skiing Roller skiing is an off-snow equivalent to cross-country skiing. Roller skis have wheels on their ends and are used on a hard surface, to emulate .Bryhn, Rolf and Knut Are Tvedt (eds.): ''Kunnskapsforlagets idrettsleksikon''. (Norwegian Encycloped ...

route with a length of 3.6 km and width of 3 m with variations from 560 m to 4.7 km *

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courses for

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and

giant slalom Giant slalom (GS) is an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline. It involves skiing between sets of poles ("gates") spaced at a greater distance from each other than in slalom but less than in Super-G. Giant slalom and slalom make up t ...

on the Gschwandtkopf *

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s of Rosshütte, Gschwandtkopf and Geigenbühel-/Birkenlifte *

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s for skating and Bavarian curling * Two grass areas for

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, another is planned * WM Halle with 8 indoor

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s and 4 outside courts * Seefeld Tennis Club with 6 clay courts * Golf courses: Seefeld-Reith Golf Club (9 hole, par 70) and Panorama golf course of am Geigenbühel, an 18-hole course in Wildmoos (Telfs) * 266 km

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running Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. Running is a type of gait characterized by an aerial phase in which all feet are above the ground (though there are exceptions). This is ...

and

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routes * 570 km of

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and

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routes *

Beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two or more players on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side of the ...

court * Two

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s with outdoor riding paddocks * Fitness studio

Economy

Tourism

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Seefeld is an important centre for

. The Nordic events at both the 1964 and 1976

were hosted at Seefeld. Competitions during the 1933,

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and 2019 FIS Nordic Skiing World Championships also took place here. In both the Winter Olympics and the 1985 World Championships only the normal hill in

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took place in Seefeld, the large hill took place in

) as well as some of the events at the 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games in January 2012. World Cup competitions have been located here a number of times. During the 2019 World Championships, ski jumping took place in Seefeld in Tirol. The 1963 Biathlon World Championships also took place in Seefeld in Tirol. The

alpine skiing Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for ...

area is small and appropriate for beginners. There are two separate small areas which are not connected except by a ski bus (free of charge) or taxis. The terrain itself is quite good and there is good access to other facilities (walks, shops and the Olympia swimming complex). Seefeld is popular with walkers because of its plateau location; there are many attractive walks which don't depend on climbing up and down mountains. However, the walks into the mountains are beautiful too, especially since the

is a huge nature reserve. Recommended walks include down through the Schlossbachklamm to Hochzirl (then the train back), and from the cable car stations down into the Eppzirlertal (if you're fairly fit). There are possibilities for multi-day walks through the Karwendel towards the

Achensee Lake Achen (german: Achensee) is a lake north of Jenbach in Tyrol, Austria. It is the largest lake within the federal state, and has a maximal depth of 133 metres. Together with the Achen Valley it parts the Karwendel mountain range in the west f ...

. Together with eleven other towns Seefeld is a member of the community ''Best of the Alps''.Seefeld member page on Best of the Alps
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Notable people

(1911–2006) was an Austrian alpine skier and world champion. In the 1930s, Seelos invented the

. The

Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze is a ski jumping hill in Seefeld, Tirol, Seefeld outside of Innsbruck, Austria. It is a part of the Seefeld Nordic Competence Centre consists of two hills, a normal hill with a hill size of HS109 (construction point, K- ...

in Seefeld in Tirol is named after him. *

Regina Schöpf Regina Schöpf (later Bacher; 16 September 1935 – 30 October 2008) was an Austrian alpine skier Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types o ...

(1935–2008) was an Austrian alpine skier who competed in the

1956 Winter Olympics The 1956 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VII Olympic Winter Games ( it, VII Giochi Olimpici invernali) and commonly known as Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 ( lld, Anpezo 1956 or ), was a multi-sport event held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from ...

. She was born in Seefeld *

Jan-Carl Raspe Jan-Carl Raspe (24 July 1944 – 18 October 1977) was a member of the German militant group, the Red Army Faction (RAF). Early life Raspe was born in Seefeld in Tirol (then Germany, now Austria). He was described as gentle but had difficulty co ...

(1944-1977) was a member of the German militant group the

Red Army Faction The Red Army Faction (RAF, ; , ),See the section "Name" also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (, , active 1970–1998), was a West German far-left Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group founded in 1970. The ...

. Raspe was born in Seefeld. He co-founded Kommune II in 1967 and joined the

, also known as the "

Baader-Meinhof Gang The Red Army Faction (RAF, ; , ),See the section " Name" also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (, , active 1970–1998), was a West German far-left Marxist-Leninist urban guerrilla group founded in 1970. Th ...

" in 1970

Gallery

File:InntalMieming03.jpg, View from the Seefelder Joch File:Seefeld St Oswald Widum 01.jpg , Sankt Oswald parish church File:Seefeld 1.JPG, Heilig Kreuz church File:Seefeld 7.JPG, Main square of the old town

References

1964 Winter Olympics official report.
pp. 95–103. Accessed 30 October 2010.
1976 Winter Olympics official report.
pp. 199–203. Accessed 10 November 2010.

External links

Official Homepage of Olympiaregion Seefeld

Webcams in Seefeld

Pictures of Seefeld
{{authority control Cities and towns in Innsbruck-Land District Mieming Range Ski areas and resorts in Austria