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Kufstein

Country
Austria
State
Tyrol
City
Kuffstein
Type of Location
Multiple
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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By Air

Just outside the city limits lies the airfield Kufstein Langkampfen (Loik), mainly from the start of gliders. The major international airports of Innsbruck, Munich and Salzburg are each an hour's drive away.

By railway

The station marks the end or beginning of 950 KBS Munich-Kufstein and Kufstein-Innsbruck Unterinntalbahn and represents the first and last stop on Austrian soil of the Western Railway to and from Salzburg dar.Furthermore, the Kufstein station of the German / Austrian border station of Western Railway with a ridership of 5,000 passengers per day. The railway line from Munich - Innsbruck - Verona is one of the main north-south and east-west at the same time connections in Europe. Since the double-track line (especially between tree churches and has Wörgl) too little capacity is currently the Brenner Base Tunnel and the new (additional) Unterinntaltrasse between churches and tree Kundl built, reaching a four-track line.

By Road

The city lies at the Inn Valley motorway A12 with two runs (Kufstein North / South Center and Kufstein / Felbertauern). The A12 runs from Rosenheim Kufstein on (to here as the German A93 ) in Tyrol 's Upper Inn Valley .The B171 runs from Kirchbichl by the city to the state line to Kiefersfelden, the B173 comes from Schwoich and empties into the B 171, B 175 leads from the B 171 from the city to Ebbs and continue on down the village to the border on Niederndorferberg.

Key places to visit
Kufstein Fortress, Ruins Thierberg, Historic town center, Madersperger Museum, Parks, Inn-Salzach-design


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Places to Visit

Kufstein Fortress

The fortress of Kufstein is the landmark of the city of Kufstein and one of the most impressive medieval buildings in the Tyrol. Often incorrectly referred to the fort is called Fort Geroldseck.She lies on the mountain fortress above the town of Kufstein on a 90 m high rock on the River Inn and is accessible by elevator. Is 1205, the fortress first mentioned in documents as "Castrum Caofstein". She was then in possession of the bishops of Regensburg .From 1415 Duke Ludwig the Bearded, the fortifications.In 1504 besieged Emperor Maximilian I, the town and fortress of Kufstein, and conquered them also. He let the system rebuild and expand into a fortress.

Ruins Thierberg

The ruins Thierberg located in the northeast of Kufstein. It is, as its name suggests, in 721 m above sea level. A. on the mountain beast, a small mountain from which on clear days you can even Wörgl can see.The ruins Thierberg consists of a tower that was built in Roman times, but never built properly completed and is now being restored by the city of Kufstein.On Thierberg there is a chapel and a hermitage currently uninhabited.In former times near the snake castle that was demolished a short time after its completion.

Historic town center

Under a historic city center (also historic old town center or general language) refers to either the settlement history or historic preservation valuable stock of a city core, the greatest possible extent its original building has received through the centuries, or could keep. Through historical city centers can be identified as such types of cities.At a historic town center also include, for example, suburban cores from the early days, but not only smaller quarters or space and streetscapes. This is the historic town layout, with its distinctive townscape (streets, squares, parcels, read Gebietsumgrenzung) preserved and historic buildings, which partially or completely protected monument is to be present.

Madersperger Museum

In Kinkstrasse there is a small Madersperger Museum.It is worth noting that since 1998, reintroduced river Inn (May-October) from the fishing Gries Kiefersfelden, Ebbs, Villabassa to Oberaudorf in Bavaria. It was planned, the cruise to 2009, to the Rosenheim expand. Obstacles are the intermediate power plant as well as the regular passenger numbers, which provide even in the summer of 2010 for the discussion of the setting.

Parks
 
  City Park (downtown)
  Innpark (on Fischer Gries)
  Kinkpark (in Endach)

Inn-Salzach-design

The Inn-Salzach-design, also called the Inn-Salzach style, refers to a typical architectural style of old towns in the region of Inn and Salzach. Several houses form of fake facades before the actual roof of an enclosed configuration. Core area is the area between Innsbruck, Passau and Hallein, but the style ranges to South Tyrol, Upper Austria and Lower Austria, and passed on these countries to enter into Moravia and Silesia.

Right Time to Visit

July - September

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