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3 unusual facts about Tyrolean


Laurent Chappis

Chappis is also credited along with the architect Denis Pradelle with creating a modern, functional style of mountain architecture which rejected both traditional Savoie styles and the Tyrolean chalet style of architecture.

Loden cape

A Loden cape is a coat of Tyrolean origin, made of a thick, water resistant woollen material with a short pile, first produced by peasants in Austria.

Operation Edelweiss

The units of the 4th German Mountain Division, manned with Tyroleans, were active in this thrust.


Battles of Bergisel

The Battles of Bergisel were four battles fought between the forces of Emperor Napoleon I of France and the Kingdom of Bavaria against Tyrolean militiamen and a contingent of Austrian regular soldiers at the Bergisel hill near Innsbruck.

Chinese export porcelain

From the mid-18th century, even copies of Meissen figures such as Tyrolean dancers were made for export to Europe.

Gerspunken

The duo were familiar with each other from their youth in the Tyrolean town of Mayrhofen, and had worked together for a short period at the Peter Habeler Mountaineering Academy during the summer of 2000.

Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof

The station is important for commuter traffic to and from the Tyrolean provincial capital, and in providing a hub function for east-west traffic ((Budapest) – ViennaSalzburgWörgl – Innsbruck (Zürich) / Bregenz) and north-south traffic (Munich – Wörgl – Innsbruck – BolzanoVerona – (Milan / Venice / Rome )).

Josef Moroder-Lusenberg

From his numerous sketch books we can see how precisely he observed nature, landscape and specially the Tyrolean and alpine lifestyle in Val Gardena.

Joseph Ennemoser

From 1813 he was in the Lützow Free Corps as an active leader of a group of Tyrolean marksmen which gained fame at Lauenburg and Jülich.

Karl Heinz Klee

He was also Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and a member of the International Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne and President of the Tyrolean Bar Association.

Karl Philipp von Wrede

He pushed back Tyrolean irregulars at Lofer on 11 May and defeated Franz Fenner's mixed regulars and Tyroleans at Waidring the next day.

Lower Inn Valley

A further distinction can be made between the Tyrolean Lower Inn Valley (Tiroler Unterinntal) (as far as Kufstein) and the Bavarian Lower Inn Valley (from Kiefersfelden).

Lurnfeld

He marched against Carinthia from his Tyrolean residence at Bruck Castle, crossing the border at Oberdrauburg and occupying Spittal to lay siege to the Ortenburg fortress.

Mother's Cake

In November 2008 Yves Krismer (guitar, vocals), Benedikt Trenkwalder (Bass) and Jan Haußels (Drums) met first to jam in Arzl im Pitztal, a small village in the Tyrolean Alps and hometown of Yves Krismer.

Oxapampa

In March 1857 a group of 300 Tyrolean and Prussian settlers, consisting mainly of poor peasant families and couples who weren't allowed to marry in their home countries, boarded the “Norton” to go to Peru.

Radio in Austria

As well, a shortwave transmitter in Aldrans was used until the 80s to cover the deep Tyrolean valleys which couldn't be reached by mediumwave or FM.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen

The present-day diocese was created by a papal bull of 6 August 1964, when the South Tyrolean parts of the Trento diocese around Bolzano and Merano were merged into the former Diocese of Brixen.

Sigmundskron Castle

Today its ruins house the fourth mountain museum established by the South Tyrolean mountaineer, Reinhold Messner.

South Tyrolean Apple PGI

From 1880 – 1890 South Tyrolean fruit farmers drained water from the bottom of the valley by controlling the River Etsch/Adige and in so doing gained useful cultivation land.

Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections, 2013

The Democratic Party was confirmed as the largest party in the Province (22.1%), followed by the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (17.5%), Union for Trentino (13.3%), Trentino Project (9.0%), Lega Nord Trentino (6.2%) and the Five Star Movement (5.8%).

Tyrolean grey cheese

Tyrolean grey cheese (Graukäse) is a strongly flavoured, rennet-free cows-milk cheese made in the Zillertal, Austria.

Tyrolean hat

A typical Tyrolean hat originally had a crown tapering to a point and was made of green felt with a brim roughly the width of a hand, something that was especially common in the Zillertal.

Tyrolean Jet Services

Tyrolean Jet Services (TJS) was established in 1978, as Austria´s first executive air operator, operating business jets and Management jets for Swarovski's Corporate Flight Department and for clients on the worldwide air charter market.

Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car

The modern Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car has a top station opposite the one of the German Eibsee Cable Car system.


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