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20-687: Franzensfeste is located in the southern Wipptal valley on the Eisack river, about 19 kilometres (12 mi) south of Sterzing and 11 kilometres (7 mi) north of Brixen . The settlement is situated on the western side of the valley, at the Sachsenklemme narrow where it is only a few hundred meters wide, along with the Brenner Railway line and the state road SS12 while the Autostrada A22 (Brenner Highway), running elevated on

40-563: A defensive system on the strategically-important Brenner route since he feared an invasion from the south. The village was settled for strategic purposes, was well protected by the surrounding mountainous and could block the entrance to the Eisack Valley. Work began on June 17, 1833, and the Franzensfeste Fortress was inaugurated by Franz' successor Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria on August 18, 1838. The construction of

60-547: Is a part of each Manifesta Biennial. The education team is among the first to begin developing programmes in Manifesta's host cities. The programmes created by the team are derived from conversations, extensive field research and sociocultural and educational mapping. The programme is developed collaboratively with artists and associations of the host city and includes projects that are educational, curatorial, artistic, research-based, and accessible to everyone. The education team

80-635: Is an Alpine valley in Tyrol , Austria and in South Tyrol , Italy, running between Innsbruck and Franzensfeste . The Brenner Pass (1,374 m) at the Austro-Italian border divides it into the northern, Austrian Lower Wipp Valley ( Unteres Wipptal ) and the southern, Italian Upper Wipp Valley ( Oberes Wipptal ). The Lower Wipp Valley extends along the Sill River southward from Innsbruck , where

100-671: The COVID-19 pandemic ). In 2022, Manifesta is being hosted by Pristina , followed by Barcelona in 2024, and Ruhr in 2026. The 10th edition of Manifesta in Saint Petersburg in Russia created tensions as the government had just prohibited " gay propaganda ". The 12th edition of Manifesta was held in Palermo, Italy, around the theme "The Planetary Garden. Cultivating Coexistence". The exhibition put forward an interpretation of

120-654: The Treaty of St Germain in 1920. [REDACTED] Media related to Wipptal (Tyrol) at Wikimedia Commons 47°00′N 11°30′E  /  47°N 11.5°E  / 47; 11.5 Manifesta Manifesta , also known as the European Nomadic Biennial , is a European pan-regional contemporary cultural biennale . Manifesta was founded in 1994 by Dutch art historian Hedwig Fijen. The first edition took place in Rotterdam . One of

140-555: The 1990s Franzensfeste was an important customs goods-station for cattle, but with the entry of Austria in the European Community has lost importance. In the summer of 2008 the fortress of Franzensfeste was opened to the public for the first time as one of the locations of Manifesta 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary art. In 2009 the location hosted the so-called "Landesausstellung", an event remembering

160-435: The 19th century when the construction of the fortifications was begun, to which the site is also closely linked in name (into Italian language), and the railway. The parish was originally Mittewald, still the common land, with the two villages of Oberau and Unterau. Archeological findings have shown the area to be settled by 2500 B.C. as indicated by the finding of home pottery. The Wipptal has always played an important role in

180-676: The Alps, forming part of the connection between Munich and Verona . The inhabitants of the Wipp Valley have been complaining for years about the volume of traffic. The Brenner railway also runs through the valley. The proposed Brenner Base Tunnel would remove all long-distance trains from the valley. Wipptal was politically and culturally united in the County of Tyrol and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen up to

200-699: The Austrian Southern Railway line at Maribor in Styria , opened in 1871. The Franzensfeste Fortress, however, lost its strategic importance with the signing of the Triple Alliance military agreement by Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy in 1882. The fortifications were transformed into a military ammunition depot, which kept even when was transferred to Italy according to the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain . In 1939 began

220-684: The Bicentenaire of the Tyrolean riots in 1809. The emblem of Franzensfeste consists of an argent inverted upsilon symbolizing the roads to the village. The gules area, on top left, symbolizes the rock; the azure , top right, the lake and the vert the meadows. The emblem was adopted in 1968. According to the 2011 census, 59.63% of the population speak German , 38.51% Italian and 1.86% Ladin as first language. [REDACTED] Media related to Franzensfeste at Wikimedia Commons Wipptal The Wipp Valley ( German : Wipptal )

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240-907: The Sill meets the larger Inn River , up to the Brenner Pass. South of the border, the Upper Wipp Valley stretches along the Eisack River by way of Sterzing to Franzensfeste . It forms the Wipptal District of the province of South Tyrol. The Brenner Autobahn (motorway) (A13 in Austria, A22 in Italy) passes through the valley, beginning with the Europa Bridge near Innsbruck. It is an important road connection across

260-626: The city's history as the expression of a syncretism of cultures across the Mediterranean. The curators used the idea of the garden as a metaphor on how it might be possible to aggregate differences and to compose life out of movement and migration. After the cancellation of Manifesta 13 (planned to have been held in Marseille) due to Covid19, Manifesta 14 was held in Pristina, Kosovo, in 2022. Manifesta's Education and Mediation programme

280-560: The city-run nonprofit organization sponsoring the exhibition, cancelled the event due to political turmoil around the green line of Nicosia. Previous editions have taken place in Rotterdam (1996), Luxembourg (1998), Ljubljana (2000), Frankfurt (2002), San Sebastián (2004), Nicosia (2006 – cancelled), Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol (2008), Murcia in dialogue with northern Africa (2010), Limburg (2012), Saint Petersburg (2014), Zürich (2016), Palermo (2018), and Marseille (2020 – known as Manifesta 13 , it took place despite

300-455: The construction of the hydroelectric basin for the power plant in Brixen made necessary for the electrification of the railway; the work was completed the following year and the village of Unterau was flooded. Franzensfeste in 1940 was elevated to municipality, became an important railway junction and the infrastructure for the maintenance of the locomotives and housing the staff were built. Until

320-611: The coordinators in Rotterdam was Thomas Meyer zu Schlochtern of the Rotterdamse Kunststichting . Among the local artists brought into the international scene, were Jeanne van Heeswijk , Bik Van Der Pol , and Joep van Lieshout . The 2006 edition of Manifesta was set to happen in Nicosia , Cyprus , under the direction of Florian Waldvogel, Mai Abu ElDahab, and Anton Vidokle . In June 2006, Nicosia for Art,

340-699: The fortress and later of the Brenner railway, helped thousands of workers who found accommodation in Franzensfeste contributing to the development and growth of the village. In 1867 with the opening of a station on the Brenner Railway , Franzensfeste consolidated its role as a transport hub not only on the north-south direction, but also with the eastern branch-off into the Puster Valley (the Puster Valley Railway ) to Carinthia and

360-562: The name "Post-Reifer". It is still in operation today. The military importance of the place became evident during the Tyrolean Rebellion in 1809 when General François Joseph Lefebvre , commander of 2500 Royal Saxon troopers, was defeated in an ambush by Andreas Hofer ’s Tyrolean insurgents at the narrow which later was called Sachsenklemme ("Gorge of the Saxons”). In the 1830s, Emperor Francis I of Austria wanted to build

380-650: The same side, pass through the lake in its northern part entering a tunnel on the opposite side; the state road cross than the Eisack river nearby the railway station due north. The valley is confined by the Zillertal Alps in the northeast and the Sarntal Alps in the southwest, rising up to the Tagewaldhorn peak at 2,708 m (8,885 ft). Franzensfeste was founded recently. The village dates from

400-602: The transit of goods on the north-south bound, first as the Amber Road between Greece, Sicily and Northern Europe later in the Roman period, between Aquileia and the regions beyond the Alps; also a 140-metre (460 ft) long stretch of the Roman Via Claudia Augusta has been unearthed. In the 17th century, where the station is now placed, there were a few farms, one of which, was turned into an inn with

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