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42-720: The hut is located on the sunny southern side of the Wilder Kaiser ridge on a grassy terrace high above the villages of Ellmau and Going with an outstanding view that, on clear days, takes in the Großvenediger . Towering above this heavily frequented hut is the Ellmauer Halt that, at 2,344 metres (7,690 ft), is the highest mountain in the Kaisergebirge range. On fine summer days, the Grutten Hut

84-676: A separate sleeping block, the Josef Dorn Haus was built and in 1925 the then manager of the hut, Hans Eisenmann, created a climbing area through the Wilde Gschloß, the present-day Jubiläumssteig. In 1938 there were further modifications and extensions, including another sleeping block, the Emil Kempfle Haus . During the Second World War the Grutten Hut was commandeered, and it remained closed until 1951 after

126-537: A wooden terrace was built. By car from Kufstein drive through Scheffau to Ellmau . From Salzburg pass through Lofer and St. Johann in Tirol to Ellmau. Then branch north and finally drive along the toll road up to the Wochenbrunner Alm (1,080 m) where there is a large car park. The hut offers the following accommodation: There is no winter room . Ellmau Ellmau is a municipality in

168-636: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sankt Johann in Tirol Sankt Johann in Tirol , called Sainihåns ( German pronunciation: [zãɪ̯nɪ'ɦåns] ) in the local dialect, is a market municipality in the Kitzbühel district of Tyrol , Austria . In the regional ductus , the last syllable of the name is stressed as "Sankt yo-Hahn'" ( German pronunciation: [zaŋkt joˈhan] ). St. Johann in Tyrol

210-506: Is a popular destination for hikers and an important base for mountaineers and climbers, who can set out from here on numerous Alpine tours to the summits of the Wilder Kaiser. The Grutten Hut was built in 1899 on its present site by the Alpen Turner Kränzchen Section and Carl Babenstuber and was ceremonially opened on 14 July 1900. Soon afterwards, a glass veranda, a wash house and a mule stable were built. In 1922

252-699: Is also an 8-man gondola lift. 9 km away is the Hohe Salve lift which is also a gondola lift . You can then take the lift down the other side of the Hohe Salve to Hopfgarten. Individual tickets for these lifts can be bought at the stations or weekly, fortnightly and season passes from tourist information; these cover most lifts in the Skiwelt area. There are no lifts going up the Wilder Kaiser side except for one located in Kufstein. Taxis are available up to

294-683: Is also popular in summer, especially with British, Irish and German tourists. Located near the Wilder Kaiser (Wild Emperor) mountains, the Kitzbühler Horn dominates the town. It is well served by ski lifts and cable car. St. Johann is a major traffic junction, to which the following roads are connected: B 178 - Loferer Straße; B 164 - Hochkönig Straße ; B 176 - Kössener Straße; B 161 - Pass Thurn Straße. European route E641 , which connects Wörgl with Salzburg , passes through St. Johann in Tirol, intersecting here with highway B161 to Mittersill . The market town also has an express train station on

336-786: Is located in the center of the Leukental in the Tyrolean Unterland . The municipality is situated in a wide glacial cirque , intersected by the Leukental in a broadly north-south direction. Northwest of St. Johann are the Wilder Kaiser, the southern range of the Kaisergebirge in the Northern Limestone Alps . To the east is the mountain group of the Loferer and Leoganger Steinberge . Extending to

378-548: Is the Hartkaiser heated gondola which ascends the Hartkaiser taking around 7 minutes. The funicular car has now been placed at the top of the slopes as a monument to the former lift. At the top of the Hartkaiser is a restaurant and park with various interactive exhibits and wood carvings. About 4 km to the west at Scheffau is the Brandstadl Gondola Lifts, which are 4-man cars suspended by cable. There

420-622: Is the second largest airport in Tyrol. The distance between St. Johann and Salzburg is 65 km (40 mi), between St. Johann and Innsbruck 100 km (62 mi), and between St. Johann and Munich 125 km (78 mi). In St. Johann there are some important public services, like the district hospital, the Wintersteller army barracks and the Military Supply Centre West for the Armed Forces based in

462-539: The Bürgermeister acting as chairman. The council is made up as follows (2022-2028): The St. Johann parish board consists of seven members, proportional to the parish council. It is chaired by the Bürgermeister who is directly elected by the villagers of St. Johann. The two vice Bürgermeisters are chosen by the council. On 13 May 1954 the Tyrolean state government granted the following coat of arms to

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504-634: The Hochkönigstraße (B 164) branches from the Loferer Straße to run southeast from St. Johann towards Fieberbrunn . The municipality of St. Johann in Tirol includes the Weiler ( hamlets ) and Dörfer ( villages ) of Almdorf, Apfeldorf, Bärnstetten, Berglehen, Fricking, Hinterkaiser, Mitterndorf, Niederhofen, Oberhofen, Reitham, Rettenbach, Scheffau, Sperten, Taxa, Weiberndorf, Weitau, Winkl Schattseite, and Winkl Sonnseite. On

546-482: The Wilder Kaiser mountains and the steep wooded and meadowed hills to the south. The village is a very popular holiday resort both in winter and summer. In winter a variety of winter sports are possible on the local pistes and, in summer, the area is ideal for walking, mountain biking and climbing. The adjacent hills to the south of Ellmau have several lifts and a brand new gondola ascending them (which replaced

588-414: The district hospital , the barracks , the schools, traders , single and multi-family homes . A total of about 28 km (17 mi) of routing, or 56 km (35 mi) (double) of piping has been laid. In 2009, 29 gigawatt-hours (100 TJ) of heating was purchased, that corresponds to an oil consumption of about 3.4 million litres (900 thousand US gallons) per year. In the medium term

630-730: The 7th century in the wake of the European migrations and as result of the settlement of the Germanic tribe of the Bavarii . In the following centuries the nobles of the House of Liuchinger, after whom the Leukental is named, established a county in the valley. The Liuchingers lived at Leukenstein Castle, which is located at the foot of the Niederkaiser . The exact site of the castle, which

672-509: The 8th century (probably before 738), the missionaries built a Catholic church in the region of St. Johann, which was dedicated to St. John the Evangelist , from which the town's name was derived. The church of St. Johannes was first mentioned in a document in the year 1150. In 1446, the bishops of Chiemsee were given the responsibility of the parish of St. Johann, from which time onwards it became their summer residence. The opening of

714-707: The B170 south to Zell Am See and Carinthia . The B178 also runs west to Kufstein and Innsbruck . The nearest autobahn is at Kufstein and heads north to Germany and Munich and southwest to Innsbruck and Italy. The nearest main line railway stations are in Sankt Johann in Tirol , with services throughout Austria and beyond, and in Kufstein, with services to Germany and Italy. The nearest airports are Salzburg Airport and Innsbruck Airport which offer both scheduled and holiday charter flights around Europe and also inland flights. Munich Airport offers long haul flights to

756-807: The Bavarian border. This region was already settled in the 4th century BC by a Celtic tribe, the Ambisontiers, who pursued copper mining in the surrounding mountains. In 15 BC the Romans conquered the Eastern Alpine region and the Leukental became part of the Roman province of Noricum . Following the downfall of the West Roman Empire in 476 AD the region went to the Duchy of Bavaria in

798-730: The Leukental, flows through the center of St. Johann in Tirol; the section flowing north from Kitzbühel to St. Johann is known as the Kitzbüheler Ache. Several tributaries join the Großache within the municipality of St. Johann: the Reither Ache  [ de ] (called the Aschauer Ache in its upper course) joins the main stream south of the town proper and the Fieberbrunner Ache joins to

840-586: The Loferer Straße leads into the Sölllandl valley and region via Going am Wilden Kaiser and, traveling northeast, it continues through the Leukental towards Kirchdorf in Tirol . The Kössener Straße  [ de ] (B 176) branches from the Loferer Straße to extend north of St. Johann into the Kohlental towards Schwendt via the Huberhöhe mountain pass . Following along the Fieberbrunner Ache,

882-539: The United States of America and Asia, in addition to European flights. Ellmau is connected by the local bus network with services to Kufstein and Sankt Johann in Tirol , the westbound bus to Kufstein goes via the village of Söll . In the summer and winter tourist seasons there are special buses running between Going , Stanglwirt, Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser , Blaiken and Söll (Hohe Salve), ideal for skiers or summer hikers. This Tyrol location article

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924-576: The Wochenbrunn from which you need to walk to ascend further. In a clockwise direction from the northwest are the following places. Ellmau is well served by good roads, linked to the European road network. The village is located on the south side of the B178 road which bypasses the village, and travels east toward Sankt Johann in Tirol where it continues northeast to Lofer and Salzburg or joins

966-590: The best-known chip board manufacturers in Europe. Today, the region around St. Johann in Tirol is one of the agricultural centres of Tyrol, despite its harsh climate and heavy precipitation. Agriculture in the wide basin of the St. Johann bowl has a great tradition as the former breadbasket of Tyrol and, even today, farming continues to play an important role. A relatively large number (for the Tyrol) of farms are established in

1008-441: The border opening when there was a great influx into the Tyrol. In the 1960s, further major upgrades and extensions were added. Even after a new well was dug its supply was hardly any greater, and just before its 100th anniversary a costly sewer conduit was built. This not only ensures the supply of water and drainage, but also provides the lodge with electricity and telephone service. In 2002 the sanitary facilities were modernised and

1050-539: The construction of the Gisela Railway linked St. Johann to the international railway network, with the result that the economy boomed and tourism began to take hold. In 1927, Oberndorf and St. Johann split and from this time onwards Oberndorf became a separate parish. In 1954, St. Johann received its own Coat of Arms ; in 1956, St. Johann reached the elevated status of a market town . The parish council ( Gemeinderat or Ortsparlament ) comprises 19 members,

1092-479: The copper and silver mines in 1540 increased the wealth of St. Johann. The mines were located in the small hills, known as Rerobichl close to Oberndorf , which belonged to St. Johann. In the 17th century the Heilig-Geist-Schacht ("Holy Ghost Shaft") was the deepest shaft in the world, over 780 metres (2,559 ft) deep. The mining of copper and silver continued until the 18th century. In 1875,

1134-458: The day of the census in 2001 (final result in 2004) St. Johann had 7,959 inhabitants. The population of the town is steadily increasing; in 2004 it was growing at 1.8 per cent. Since autumn 2007 St. Johann in Tirol has been the most populous municipality in the district of Kitzbühel. St. Johann is situated in the Leukental, which extends from Jochberg to the Streichen close to

1176-515: The district of Kufstein in the Austrian region of Sölllandl . It lies 12 km southeast of Kufstein and 9 km west of Sankt Johann in Tirol . It is located at an elevation of 820 m above sea level . It was mentioned for the first time in the records in 1155 and is nowadays part of the Ski Welt skiing area. Ellmau is in very picturesque alpine countryside famed for its proximity to

1218-535: The end of 2008 which supplies the largest buildings in the village. Since December 2007 The St. Johann Village Heating Company ( Ortswärme St. Johann in Tirol GmbH ) has supplied households, firms and public institutions in St. Johann in Tirol with district heating . The firm is 74% owned by the parish of St. Johann in Tirol and 26% by the firm of Fritz Egger . The head office is in Bahnhofstraße 5 , in

1260-513: The funicular) . In the winter several Drag Lifts are in operation for skiers going into the lower stage of hills, in addition to smaller nursery slope lifts. The main lifts are open in both summer and winter. The Astberg is located about 1.5 km east from the village, it is a 4-person chair lift going to the top of the Astberg, where there is a cafe. About 2 km to the west of the Village

1302-412: The introduction of district heating in St. Johann will save about 12,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually in the village centre. To read the heat meters and to visualize the individual house systems, an optical fibre was laid as part of the installation of the heating district network. There are many sports facilities for locals and visitors alike: Since 2004 St. Johann has a modern event hall:

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1344-515: The municipality of St. Johann in Tirol: In a green and red vertically-divided shield are, on the right, an inverted, silver ibex horn and, on the left, a gold bishop's crozier. The shield bears the colours of the old flag of the court, whose first seat was in St. Johann before 1271. The ibex horn commemorates the "nobles of Velben" ( Edlen von Velben ) who lived near St. Johann in the 13th and 14th centuries. The bishop's crozier recalls that

1386-575: The north of the town centre. The Großache ultimately empties into the Chiemsee in Bavaria as the Tiroler Achen . The town’s train station serves as a regional transport hub and several federal highways ( Bundesstraßen ) intersect in the municipality. The Loferer Straße  [ de ] (B 178) runs from west to northeast through the municipality. Traveling west from St. Johann,

1428-547: The parish office. The heating company does not have its own energy generation with the exception of backup and peak-load boilers in the centre of the village. The energy is generated by the Egger factory from waste heat and biomass in conjunction with an absorption heat pump and is transferred at the boundary of the factory site into the district heating network. At the end of 2009 around 400 buildings and 1,300 households in St. Johann were heated by district heating. These include

1470-689: The route of the Giselabahn, which is also called the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway and has access to the international railway network to Salzburg, Innsbruck and to Munich via Wörgl. In addition there is an airport for light aircraft and gliders, airfield ( ICAO Code LOIJ), used by light aircraft , parachutists and gliders : runway length 645 m or 2,116 ft, radio frequency 120,350 MHz, 47°31.2′N 12°26.9′E  /  47.5200°N 12.4483°E  / 47.5200; 12.4483 , 670 m (2,198 ft) altitude. It

1512-489: The shopping centre for the district of Kitzbühel. Many new firms have settled here, especially along the B 178 federal road, where they benefit from its central location. In addition, the opening of a pedestrian zone in the 1990s has improved the town centre, which receives an average of 20,000 visitors per day. Several firms are based in St. Johann, such as the headquarters of the Fritz Egger GmbH & Co , one of

1554-836: The southeast is the valley of the Fieberbrunner-Ache  [ de ] . In the south is the Kitzbüheler Horn , a nearly 2,000 m (6,600 ft) mountain that sits at the centre of the Kitzbühel district and is part of the Kitzbühel Alps . Due to its location in a valley basin, St. Johann in Tyrol is largely spared from the Alpenföhn storms that plague the Inntal to the east-northeast, but gets extremely abundant snowfalls due to its location on

1596-464: The southern, windward side of the Wilder Kaiser. The town center sits at an altitude of 660 m (2,170 ft) above sea level. The municipal area covers an area of 5,915 hectares (22.84 sq mi) and the highest elevation within the municipality is the Maukspitze in the Wilder Kaiser with a height of 2,231 m (7,320 ft) above sea level. The Großache , the principal river of

1638-555: The village used to be a summer residence for the bishops of Chiemsee . Tourism and the restaurant trade are amongst the most important branches of the economy in the area. With approximately 520,000 overnight stays per year, roughly evenly split between summer and winter, St. Johann is one of the major tourist resorts in the Tyrol. Its holiday infrastructure ranges from hotels to campsites and from restaurants to discothèques. In recent decades, St. Johann has experienced an economic boom in trade, services and light industry and it has become

1680-763: The west of Austria. Additionally, you can find the following institutions in St. Johann: the District Forest Inspector, the District Administration for Agriculture, the Road Maintenance Department, the nursing home in St. Johann, the health and social care service and the police department. The market town has water supply, sewage and waste disposal systems that are organised by the parish council. In addition to electricity and natural gas there has also been an environmentally friendly district heating system since

1722-473: The wide, level basin and on its fairly gently (with a few exceptions) slopes. According to Statistik Austria about a third of the farms form the main source of income. These primary income farms use rather more than half the agricultural and forested land in the municipality. St. Johann in Tirol is an important tourist centre with impressive ski-slopes and related facilities. The ski resorts are especially populous starting after Christmas into early January. It

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1764-534: Was also the judicial seat for the county, is no longer known today, but is recalled by the farm name of Burgwiesen ("castle meadows"). Following the extinction of the Liuchingers around 1170, their county ended up in the hands of the Falkensteins, but this noble family also died out after just 70 years and the county in the Leukental was subsequently ruled by officials representing the Bavarian dukes. In

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