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22 unusual facts about St. Johann in Tirol


Ackerl Hut

From St. Johann in Tirol along the Adlerweg trail, (here known as the Wilder Kaiser Trail (Steig)) in 3 hours.

Alex Fiva

He took his first World Cup victory in the night event in St. Johann in Tirol, and his second win came in the next week in Les Contamines.

Andreas Matt

In his next World Cup events, in January 2009, he finished second in St. Johann in Tirol and won in Les Contamines.

Barbara Warren

Born Barbara Mueller in St. Johann in Tirol, Austria to Hans and Ingrid Mueller, she and her identical twin sister, Angelika Drake, left their farmhouse at 14 for high school in Innsbruck and then, at age 17, went on to study art history at the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze in Florence, Italy.

Bishopric of Chiemsee

The bishopric was very small, consisting of 10 parishes when it was created and 11 in 1804, the most of being located as exclaves in the vicinity of St. Johann in Tirol.

Daniel Albrecht

Unconscious, Albrecht received medical attention for about 20 minutes before being airlifted by helicopter to a hospital in nearby St. Johann.

Errol Kerr

He opened the 2008–09 season with a thirtieth place in St. Johann in Tirol and a fifteenth place in Lake Placid, and then tenth place worldwide at the Skicross World Championships 2009 in Japan.

Hiroomi Takizawa

The 2008–09 season was opened with an abysmal 60th place in St. Johann in January, but he returned five days later to record a thirteenth place in Les Contamines.

Jouni Pellinen

In freestyle skiing he made his World Cup debut in January 2009 in St. Johann in Tirol, and collected his first World Cup points the same month, with a 5th place in Flaine and a twelfth place in Lake Placid.

Julia Shaw

In 2008 she won the World Masters Championship Time Trial Championship (Women age 40-44) at St. Johann in Tirol.

Katharina Gutensohn

She also finished twice on the podium, the latest a second place at St. Johann in Tirol on January 5, 2009.

Kitzbüheler Ache

During the August 2002 European flood, parts of St. Johann in Tirol were affected by the flood due to high water levels of Kitzbühler Ache and Reither Ache.

Leoganger Ache

The B 164 Hochkönig Road (which comes from Bischofshofen via Dienten and Saalfelden) runs along the Leoganger Valley over the Grießen Pass and via Fieberbrunn to St. Johann in Tirol – it is the only internal Austria link between Tyrol and the east which does not cross a high Alpine pass, but is also linked to Salzburg via the Little German Corner.

Maukspitze

To the south, the Maukspitze falls steeply and abruptly (Niedersessel, Hochsessel), in places with vertical rock faces, into the Leukental towards St. Johann in Tirol.

Michael Schmid

In January 2009, he won a World Cup race for the first time, in St. Johann in Tirol.

Schleierfall

From the waterfall the Rettenbach forms the boundary between the parishes of Going am Wilden Kaiser and St. Johann in Tirol and discharges in Rettenbach into the Reither Ache river.

Simon Jecl

He made his World Cup debut in January 2008 in Les Contamines, and collected his first World Cup points in January 2009, with a 27th place in St. Johann in Tirol.

Simon Stickl

He opened the 2008–09 season with a 21st place in St. Johann in Tirol.

Sölllandl

Sölllandl (also Söllandl or Sölland) is a valley and geographical region located in Tyrol, Austria that covers the villages of Söll (Tirol), Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser, Ellmau, and Going am Wilden Kaiser in the Tyrolean Unterland between Wörgl and St. Johann in Tirol.

Spertental

The Aschauer Ache rises at the foot of the Großer Rettenstein and then flows to Kirchberg, continuing to Reith bei Kitzbühel before discharging into the Kitzbühler Ache near St. Johann in Tirol.

Stradalli Cycle

In August 2011, the company became an official sponsor of the World Masters Cycling Federation and therefore an official sponsor of the Masters Races in the Austrian market town St. Johann in Tirol.

Tommy Eliasson

As of March 2013, he has one World Cup podium finish, a bronze at St. Johann in Tirol in 2008/09.