Innsbruck is an Austrian city, located in the west of the country, in a valley in the middle of the the Alps; it is the second plus big city of Europe in this situation, after its alpine binocular Grenoble. It is the capital of the Land of the the Tyrol, and is crossed by the river the Inn.

Its name comes from the name of the river — Inn — and of the word Brücke (the German bridge in ) and means the bridge on Inn .

It is the fifth town of Austria from the point of view of its population, after Vienna, Graz, Linz, and Salzburg: The city gathers approximately 120  000 inhabitants while its agglomeration shelters 165  000 people.

The dynamism and the capacity of attractivity of Innsbruck in the area must partly with the Tourisme (in particular of Winter sports), still reinforcing its economic and cultural role regional (University, town of congress).

Geography

Situation and relief

The city is located between the solid mass Karwendel at North and the first buttresses of the central chain of the Alps (Patscherkofel) at the south.

Climate

  • annual Precipitations: 875 mm
  • Annual average of the temperature of the air: 9,4 °C (January: -3°C; July 19,6°C)
  • average Moisture of the air: 74%
  • annual average Sunning: 1.764 h.

Hydrography

The territory of the commune of Innsbruck is traversed by the following rivers:

  • flowing Them of the river Inn, which also crosses the commune of Innsbruck:

    • Sulzenbach
    • Geroldsbach (since Götzens)
    • Lohbach
    • Hötting er Bach
    • Fallbach
    • Mühlauer Bach
    • Cheap Sill
    • er Bach
  • rivers of the solid mass Karwendel:
    • Gleirschbach, which is thrown in the Isar.
      • Angerbach

Close cities

This is a list of the communes which divide a border with the commune of Innsbruck. All these communes belong to the District of Innsbruck-Land.

History of the city

One finds in the area of Innsbruck of the traces of the human activity of the Neolithic . The names of the places whose origin is former to the Roman epoch as well as the presence of funeral urns with Wilten, Amras, Hötting and Mühlau go back to 3  000 years

(to be supplemented)

Demography

Innsbruck is the 5th city most populated of Austria, after Vienna, Graz, Linz, and Salzburg: The city gathers approximately 120  000 inhabitants while its agglomeration shelters 165  000 people. | |}

Policy

In Innsbruck, the Maire is not elected with the Vote for all direct: he is elected by the municipal council .

The municipal council

The municipal council of the commune of Innsbruck comprises 40 members. the last elections took place the April 23rd 2006.

The Senate of the city

The Senate of the city comprises 7 members.

Twinning

  • , since 1963.
  • , since 1963. Innsbruck shares with this city part of its history. The two cities have a Funiculaire.
  • , since 1980.
  • , since 1982.
  • , since 1982.
  • , since 1995.
  • , since 1998.

Transport

The highways A12 and A13 pass near Inssbruck. They serve in particular Vérone and the remainder of the Italy, Munich and the remainder of the Germany.

The Gare of Innsbruck one of is attended of Austria.

The city has of a network of Tramway and a network of Trolleybus.

  • History of the tram of the city

  • the future development of the tram of the city

Religion

The city is the seat of a diocese, which includes the west and the center of the Tyrol, to the river Ziller, as well as the District of Lienz. Until the end of the Second world war, this territory was part of the diocese of Bressanone, in the the Trentin-Tyrol of the South in Italy.

Personalities

See also: List of the personalities of Innsbruck

The city owes much with Maximilien 1 {{er}} of Habsbourg and with the empress Marie-Therese but the Winter Olympics, in 1964 and 1976, opened new horizons to him by equipping it with tracks of toboggan, skating rinks and many tracks.

Culture, architecture

The popular museum of art Tyrolean

The Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum is located in an old convent of the 12th century, just beside Hofkirche, it is the most beautiful ethnographic museum of Austria.
  • With rez of roadway: Very important collection of Crib S
  • On the first floor: Pieces of furniture, parts with living reconstituted, collection of bells of cows, combs to card…
  • On the second floor: Painted cupboards and beds, traditional and folk costumes.

Hofkirche

Just beside the museum, (twinned ticket), it contains the monument grandiloquant ever built more:

The mausoleum of the Maximilien emperor

The tomb of the emperor Maximilien Ier, whom it made build of alive sound is surrounded by a guard of honor of twenty-eight (it of was envisaged forty) statues of bronze of more than two meters in height, called by the inhabitants of Innsbruck: " black catches " representing the ancestors of the Habsbourg in the broad sense since one can see there Clovis Charlemagne, Godefroy de Bouillon. Does that of Rodolphe Ier shine with the crotch through being touched by thousands of visitors, thus seeking one does not know which amulet? The statues all can receive a flambeau.
It is while going up towards the furnace bridge: The tomb itself is surrounded by a grid Renaissance, and is surmounted statue out of bronze of knelt Maximilien. This forever been useful mausoleum because the tomb is empty, Maximilien being buried with the castle of Wiener Neustadt.

The money vault

One reaches it by a staircase, it is here that the tombs of the Archduke Ferdinand II are and of its Filipino wife Welser who was a rich person commoner and thus did not have the right to rest in the crypt of the Habsbourg to the Abbaye of Stams

The monument of Andreas Hofer

The tomb of Andreas Hofer (1767 - 1810) hero of resistance tyrolienne against the Napoleonean invasion in 1809, is in this church.

The Small gold roof

The Goldenes Dach is undoubtedly the frontage most photographed Austria, it is avoided of a cabin of honor built in 1494 by Maximilien Ier for its marriage with White Marie Sforza. She is surmounted by a second loggia covered with a made roof of 2557 gilded copper plates.

A photograph of the small Gold roof

The Helbling house

Gothic house of style which was transformed into style Rococo in 1732.

Sports

The city accommodated twice the Winter Olympics:

Economy and media

Media

  • ORF - Landesstudio the Tirol
  • Tiroler Tageszeitung , newspaper local daily.
  • Telesystem the Tirol , local television.
  • the Tirol TV , local television.
  • Antenna the Tirol
  • Welle 1 Stadtradio
  • 6020 Stadtmagazin
  • 6020ONLINE.at eMagazin
  • Die Neue Zeitung für the Tirol
  • Tiroler Kronenzeitung
  • Stadtblatt Innsbruck
  • Innsbruck informiert
  • Life Radio operator
  • FREIRAD 105.9 - Freies Radio operator Innsbruck

Some photographs

Random links:Fontenay-Mauvoisin | Wolfunkind | Fisheries | Maritime Troscart | J. Chalmers Doane

© 2007-2008 speedlook.com; article text available under the terms of GFDL, from fr.wikipedia.org