Valleys of Austria - Wachau, Zillertal, Otztal, Kleinwalsertal, Wipptal, Stubaital, Paznaun, Montafon, Maltatal (Paperback)

Chapters: Wachau, Zillertal, Otztal, Kleinwalsertal, Wipptal, Stubaital, Paznaun, Montafon, Maltatal. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Zillertal is the biggest valley branching off the Inn valley in Tyrol, Austria drained by the river Ziller. It is surrounded by the strongly glaciated Zillertal Alps to the south and east, the lower grass peaks of the Kitzbuhel Alps to the east and Tux Alps to the west. The largest settlement is Mayrhofen. The Berliner Hutte in the Zillertal Alps Mainstreet in MayrhofenThe Zillertal branches from the Inn trench near Jenbach, about 40 km northeast of Innsbruck, running mostly in a north-south direction. The Zillertal proper stretches from the village of Strass to Mayrhofen, where it separates into four smaller valleys, the Tux valley and the sparsely settled, so-called Grunde - Zamsergrund, Zillergrund and Stilluppgrund. Along the way, two more Grunde and the Gerlos valley, which leads to the Gerlos Pass and into Salzburg, branch off. Unlike other side valleys of the Inntal, the Zillertal rises constantly, but only marginally, from one end to the other - only about 100 m over 30 km. Permanent settlements cover about 9% of the entire area of the Zillertal municipalities. The Zillertal around 1898 Steam hauled tourist train on the narrow gauge ZillertalbahnNear the Tuxer Joch, a pass between the Wipptal and the Tux valley, there have been archeological finds from middle Stone Age. The oldest remains of settlements in the Zillertal date back to the Illyrians during the late Bronze and early Iron Ages - a tribe from the Balkan Peninsula who were absorbed by the Bavarians (Baiuvarii). The earliest written record of the Zillertal dates from 889, when Arnulf of Carinthia granted land to the Archbishop of Salzburg in...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=230208