Alpbach - "The most beautiful village of Austria" .
This is a glorious place in the Astrian Tyrol, the place exclusively tourist, because the own population is just a couple of thousand inhabitants. The location name on the dialect sounds not like alpbach, but as aibach. The consonants are not very important at all: Alm is a mountain meadow, Alb - foothills, mountains ... In general, everything is here on Ai ... Well, the Bach is, naturally, the stream. But the town still managed to be called and Ipakh, if finally speech in the ancient documents was about him. N today on his coat of arms has a silver stream, so the alpbach!
History.
Of course, in an offheemable times, there was a bronze century. In the chronicles, he would be mentioned in the region of 1240 (unless of course it was about him). But until 1920, the village did not have roads at the Valley at all. So there is a lot of genuine old antiquity! Health lived the miners, copper and some silver were actively mined in the 15th century. It is reliably in the documents, it appears in 416 due to the comment of the Fugger family from Augsburg that is bought by Albach mining. But at the end of the 19th century, mines have exhausted and mining here turned.
In the 30s, when the village was tushed here again "opened", and since 1953, only traditional wooden buildings were prescribed here and change nothing in the pedestrian zone at all. This is a tourist place, it received the premium "The most beautiful village of Austria" and "the most beautiful blooming village of Europe." There are 22 peasant compounds, they go from generation to generation at least 200 years. So that they do not please in other people's hands now even allowed to pass them and daughters.
What to see in Alpbach?
- Catholic church of St. Overlook and East Cemetery. The characteristic feature of the cemetery is the "Croicifix" figurines, that is, crucified Christ, forged from iron over graves
- Holded houses or from here are called Follcholzhauses - they are very intricately decorated with flowers, like the peasant houses on the slope
- Forerchintenberg Mountain with Mountain Museum
Congress Center and Forum Alpbach.
He is very successful in the slope. It is the venue for the European Forum forum. The forum has existed since 1945 and since 1955 it is held here. It is devoted to the problems of higher education, politicians, scientists, Nobel laureates are usually arrived at him. It takes place at the end of summer. And the seminars here are held all year round.
When and why come to Alpbach
We know Alpensbach as a place with quite complex ski slopes and in general place for winter tourism. But in the summer there is much more beautiful. Here Eval opportunities for pedestrian tourism, Scandinavian walk, tracing, fishing (trout), rafting, canoeing, horseback sport, stand and other types of shooting, tennis, swimming, hunting, climbing, slotting on a glacier, fitness and generally just in summer here is more beautiful and more pleasant. After all, you can see the famous wooden houses with flowers!
Alpensbach is also invisible and folk Tyrolean music (famous iodley).
What to try in Alpbach.
Well, of course there is food and opportunities to get acquainted with Tyrolean cuisine. Tight home food for example in Almhütten. In the gasthouse kitchen is different. But the famous Austrian junks are everywhere (the offers of their pears, different berries), and there are also liqueurs in Alpsbach. The traditional Austrian Ryabinna Brandy (Fogelsberan) is very interesting from the pastry. There is a small brewery, cheesery with soft traditional cheeses. Nearby in Tirler Brandenberg bake PRügeltorten. They are a little similar to the Saxon cake tree. In the place of the foam of coffee shops and the famous mineral water. Of course, excellent peasant products: sausages, oil, fresh greens ...