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44-805: It connects the Kitzbühel Alps and the Leogang Steinberge. The road over the pass leads from Hochfilzen in Tyrol to Leogang in Salzburg, but it lies almost entirely in the state of Salzburg. The pass is traversed by the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway and the Hochkönig-Straße (B164). This Salzburg state location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Tyrol location article

88-669: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kitzb%C3%BChel Alps The Kitzbühel Alps ( German : Kitzbüheler Alpen or Kitzbühler Alpen ) are a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps surrounding the town of Kitzbühel in Tyrol , Austria . Geologically they are part of the western slate zone ( greywacke zone ). Two-thirds of the Kitzbühel Alps lie within the Austrian province of Tyrol,

132-545: Is also a large number of mountain huts belonging to the various Alpine clubs . Their highest peaks are concentrated to the south-western corner and reach rather modest 2,500 m, the highest being the Kreuzjoch at 2,558 metres above sea level. Roughly in the centre of the range lies the famous ski resort of Kitzbühel , the venue of the Hahnenkamm race, one of the most spectacular and well-known ski races in

176-798: 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

220-673: Is formed by the valley of the Inn between Wörgl and Jenbach . The Kitzbühel Alps are divided by the Kitzbüheler Ache into the Glemmtal Alps in the east (Salzburg) and the Kelchsau Alps in the west. The highest summit in the Kitzbühel Alps is the Kreuzjoch in the southwest of the mountain range northwest of Gerlos at 2558 metres above sea level . The general height of the peaks descends gradually from around 2500 m in

264-786: 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

308-622: 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

352-539: 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

396-634: 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

440-729: The Schmittenhöhe (1,965 m). Popular mountain destinations on the edge of the Inn valley are the Pölven (1,595 m) and the Gratlspitz (1,899 m). The Kitzbühel Alps are found in the regions of St. Johann in Tirol , Kitzbühel and its environs, Pillerseetal , Brixental , Wildschönau and Alpbach . The Kitzbühel Alps Tourist Region only covers part of the geographical Kitzbühel Alps. The Kitzbühel Alps have relatively few rugged mountain tops and are well suited to walking and skiing. There are several large ski resorts in

484-542: The Silurian period that are often clayey-sandy on top. In the vicinity of Kitzbühel itself, Silurian limestones may also be found and, to the west, the grey, coarse-grained Schwaz dolomite which transitions towards the east, near Leogang, into Spielberg dolomite. Also represented is the post- Variscan period, with its Rotliegendes (red slates), and thick sandstones from the Permoskyth . All these successive layers of

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528-414: 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

572-482: The greywacke zone and are mainly composed of slate and phyllites . The mountain top profiles and the cirques are relatively smooth; their slopes mostly green with numerous alpine meadows ( Almwiesen ). Nevertheless, rock formations of limestone and dolomite do occur e.g. on the Großer Rettenstein . n the western part of the Kitzbühel Alps most of the valleys run in a north-south direction; in

616-730: 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

660-509: 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

704-807: 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

748-730: 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

792-586: 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,

836-521: The area both in the Tyrolean and Salzburg regions. The Dienten Mountains are a geologically-related extension of the mountains to the east. The Pinzgau Ridgeway ( Pinzgauer Höhenweg ) runs through both ranges in an east-west direction. Many ski route and the Saalach Valley Ridgeway ( Saalachtaler Höhenweg ) run through the Kitzbühel Alps. The mountain ranges that surround the Kitzbühel Alps are: The Kitzbühel Alps belong to

880-590: 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

924-539: 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,

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968-479: 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,

1012-458: 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

1056-469: The east they are predominantly oriented east-west. The Alpine geographical reason for this is the striking longitudinal trench of the river Salzach . This so-called Tauern Northern Edge Fault ( Tauernnordrand-Störung ) played an important role during Alpine folding and even today forms a distinct landscape and geological boundary with the three-thousanders of the High Tauern . The western border of

1100-535: 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

1144-510: The greywacke zone were probably - together with those of the Northern Limestone Alps - overturned to the northern edge of the Alps during the time of Alpine orogeny from a region of deposition far to the south. Their mainly gently rolling nature makes the Kitzbühel Alps suitable for alpine farming , hiking and skiing . The Kitzbühel Alps are a very popular tourist destination. In addition to innumerable managed Alpine pastures and inns, there

1188-412: 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:

1232-631: The mountain range is, petrographically , less clear because here its transition to the Innsbruck quartz phyllites is not clear-cut. By contrast, in the northwest and north (Inn valley near Schwaz , Brixental and the Steinernes Meer ) the difference between the gently folded slate and the limestone and dolomite rock of the Limestone Alps hits the observer in the eye. The major rocks of the Kitzbühel Alps divide into two groups by age,

1276-515: 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

1320-799: The north by the Inn River and the Northern Limestone Alps . The boundary of the region runs along the Salzach valley via Zell am See, where the Salzach swings north, to Saalfelden . Its northern boundary runs from east to west from the Saalfelden basin along the valley of the Leoganger Ache to the Grießen Pass and from there through the Pillersee valley, Leukental and Sölllandl to Wörgl and Kufstein . Its northwestern boundary

1364-575: 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,

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1408-503: The older rocks probably dating to the Ordovician period. For example, the deep underground complex of Wildschönau slate is quite uniform and has no fossils at all, just volcanic deposits. Above it lies weakly metamorphosed volcanic rock , up to 600 metres thick, made up of quartz porphyroids and tuff , mainly in the west ( Hohe Salve , Hahnenkamm and Wildseeloder ). Over the porphyroids lie various horizontal beds of slate from

1452-547: 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

1496-708: The remaining third is in Salzburg province . They are about 80 kilometres (50 mi) long from east to west and 25 to 35 km wide. They extend from the Ziller valley and Tux Alps in the west to the Saalach river and Zell am See on Lake Zell ( Zellersee ) in the east. They are bordered to the south by the Zillertal Alps and the High Tauern mountain range on the other side of the Salzach River, on

1540-615: 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

1584-489: 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

1628-773: 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

1672-464: 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

1716-555: 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

1760-527: 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

1804-431: The west to around 2000 m in the east. Other important summits are the Western Salzachgeier (2,469 m), the Kröndlhorn (2,444 m), the Großer Rettenstein (2,366 m), the Geißstein (2,363 m), the Wildseeloder (2,118 m), the Großer Beil (2,309 m), the Großer Galtenberg (2,425 m), the Kitzbühler Horn (1,996 m), the Hohe Salve (1,828 m), the Hahnenkamm (1,712 m) and

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1848-473: 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

1892-512: The world. The highest summits in the range are (in order of height above the Adriatic): St. 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

1936-413: 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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