Lienz

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Lienz (; Southern Bavarian: Lianz) is a medieval town in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is the administrative centre of the Lienz district, which covers all of East Tyrol. The municipality also includes the cadastral subdivision of Patriasdorf.

Geography

Lienz is located at the confluence of the rivers Isel and Drava in the Eastern Alps, between the Hohe Tauern mountain range in the north (including the Schober and Kreuzeck groups), and the Gailtal Alps in the south. It is connected with Winklern in Carinthia by the Iselsberg Pass. The neighboring municipality of Leisach marks the easternmost point of the Puster Valley.

By the consistent growth of the city, some smaller villages around – though officially municipalities in their own right – are now widely considered to be suburbs of Lienz. Those suburbs comprise: ::data[format=table]

Amlach, Tristach
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History

The area of Lienz had been settled since the Bronze Age about 2000 BC. Celtic people lived here from about 300 BC on, mainly as miners, who came under control of the Roman Empire in 15 BC. The area was incorporated into the province of Noricum and Emperor Claudius had a municipium called Aguntum erected near Lienz in the today's municipality of Dölsach. Aguntum became the see of an Early Christian bishop in the 5th century but decayed during the Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps and the subsequent fights with the Bavarii under Duke Tassilo I around 600. Part of the Slavic principality of Carantania, the area passed under Bavarian and finally Frankish suzerainty during the 8th century.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Lienz_-_Stadtpfarrkirche_St._Andrä2.jpg" caption="City parish church"] ::

Lienz itself was first mentioned as Luenzina in a deed issued by the Bishop of Brixen about 1030. The settlement itself, together with neighbouring Patriasdorf, then belonged of the Patriarchs of Aquileia, who were elevated to immediate landlords by Emperor Henry IV in 1077. It was then purchased by the scions of the Meinhardiner dynasty, who held the office of Aquileian Vögte (reeves) and chose Lienz as a residence. From about 1127 they called themselves Counts of Görz (Gorizia).

Located on the important trade route from Venzone in Friuli to Salzburg, the market town of Lienz received city rights on 25 February 1242. In 1278 the Counts finished Burg Bruck, a castle that until 1500 served as their local seat. When the Meinhardiner became extinct in 1500 upon the death of Count Leonhard of Gorizia, their estates were bequeathed to the Habsburg King Maximilian I and finally incorporated into the County of Tyrol. From the status of a princely residence, Lienz sank to the insignificance of a provincial town within the Habsburg monarchy.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Lienz_-_Pfarrbrücke.JPG" caption="Pfarrbrücke bridge"] ::

During the Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars, Lienz was occupied twice by French troops in 1797. After the Austrian defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz, Lienz with Tyrol passed to the newly elevated Kingdom of Bavaria according to the 1805 Peace of Pressburg. In 1809 it became the administrative centre of a district within the short-lived Napoleonic Illyrian Provinces, but was reconquered by Austrian troops in 1813. Within the Austrian Empire (the Cisleithanian part of Austria-Hungary after 1867) it was the seat of the district of the same name, one of the 21 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in Tyrol.

In November 1918 it was occupied by the Italian Army. After World War I the southern parts of the Tyrol (i.e. Trentino and South Tyrol) were awarded to the Kingdom of Italy under the terms of the London Pact and the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain, making the Lienz district of East Tyrol an exclave with no territorial connection to the mainland of North Tyrol. After the 1938 Anschluss of the Federal State of Austria into Nazi Germany, the Lienz district became a part of Reichsgau Kärnten (Carinthia).

On 8 May 1945 British forces occupied Lienz, which together with Carinthia and Styria became part of the British occupation zone. At this time several thousand members of the former Wehrmacht 1st Cossack Division coming from Yugoslavia arrived in and around Lienz. They surrendered to the British troops but were forcibly handed over to the Soviet Union, where most were executed or sent to the Gulag.

Climate

Lienz has relatively warm and humid summers and cold winters. 1971–2000 there was a recorded precipitation of 915 mm. Most of the rain falls during the summer months, especially from June to August (respectively 98 ,). The driest months are January and February (42 and)

The average temperature in July is 18.5 C. In January it is about −5.2 C. Lienz is also one of the sunniest cities in Austria with an average of 5.4 hours of sun per day or 1952 hours per year. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Dfb" (humid continental).

|−9|0|42 |−6|5|35 |−2|10|59 |2|14|66 |7|19|85 |10|23|98 |12|25|119 |12|24|100 |8|21|89 |3|14|96 |−3|6|77 |−7|0|50 |float=right |clear=both |source=ZAMG

|location = Lienz (1971–2000) |single line = Yes |metric first = Yes |Jan record high C = 12.9 |Feb record high C = 21.0 |Mar record high C = 24.0 |Apr record high C = 25.9 |May record high C = 30.0 |Jun record high C = 33.0 |Jul record high C = 37.7 |Aug record high C = 33.7 |Sep record high C = 30.0 |Oct record high C = 26.0 |Nov record high C = 17.2 |Dec record high C = 15.5 |year record high C = 37.7 |Jan high C = 0.1 |Feb high C = 4.7 |Mar high C = 10.1 |Apr high C = 14.4 |May high C = 19.3 |Jun high C = 22.5 |Jul high C = 24.9 |Aug high C = 24.4 |Sep high C = 20.5 |Oct high C = 14.2 |Nov high C = 5.7 |Dec high C = 0.2 |year high C = 13.4 |Jan mean C = -5.2 |Feb mean C = -1.9 |Mar mean C = 3.1 |Apr mean C = 7.6 |May mean C = 12.7 |Jun mean C = 15.9 |Jul mean C = 17.9 |Aug mean C = 17.2 |Sep mean C = 13.0 |Oct mean C = 7.3 |Nov mean C = 0.6 |Dec mean C = -4.2 |year mean C = 7.0 |Jan low C = -9.0 |Feb low C = -6.3 |Mar low C = -1.6 |Apr low C = 2.1 |May low C = 6.7 |Jun low C = 9.9 |Jul low C = 11.8 |Aug low C = 11.5 |Sep low C = 7.8 |Oct low C = 3.0 |Nov low C = -2.7 |Dec low C = -7.3 |year low C = 2.2 |Jan record low C = -24.7 |Feb record low C = -24.5 |Mar record low C = -15.6 |Apr record low C = -5.7 |May record low C = -7.4 |Jun record low C = 1.3 |Jul record low C = 3.1 |Aug record low C = 1.8 |Sep record low C = -2.2 |Oct record low C = -11.6 |Nov record low C = -18.8 |Dec record low C = -21.1 |year record low C = -24.7 |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 42.4 |Feb precipitation mm = 35.0 |Mar precipitation mm = 58.6 |Apr precipitation mm = 65.6 |May precipitation mm = 85.4 |Jun precipitation mm = 97.8 |Jul precipitation mm = 119.0 |Aug precipitation mm = 99.9 |Sep precipitation mm = 88.5 |Oct precipitation mm = 96.3 |Nov precipitation mm = 76.5 |Dec precipitation mm = 50.1 |year precipitation mm = 915.1 |Jan snow cm = 31.1 |Feb snow cm = 21.6 |Mar snow cm = 21.7 |Apr snow cm = 5.7 |May snow cm = 1.0 |Jun snow cm = 0.0 |Jul snow cm = 0.0 |Aug snow cm = 0.0 |Sep snow cm = 0.0 |Oct snow cm = 1.4 |Nov snow cm = 18.1 |Dec snow cm = 29.1 |year snow cm = 129.7 |unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm |Jan precipitation days = 5.4 |Feb precipitation days = 4.2 |Mar precipitation days = 5.7 |Apr precipitation days = 7.4 |May precipitation days = 10.6 |Jun precipitation days = 11.8 |Jul precipitation days = 11.2 |Aug precipitation days = 11.2 |Sep precipitation days = 7.9 |Oct precipitation days = 7.3 |Nov precipitation days = 6.4 |Dec precipitation days = 5.9 |year precipitation days = 95.0 |time day = 14:00 |Jan humidity = 74.1 |Feb humidity = 55.4 |Mar humidity = 48.6 |Apr humidity = 46.8 |May humidity = 50.5 |Jun humidity = 51.7 |Jul humidity = 51.0 |Aug humidity = 52.7 |Sep humidity = 54.4 |Oct humidity = 57.8 |Nov humidity = 69.7 |Dec humidity = 79.9 |year humidity = 57.7 |Jan sun = 76.1 |Feb sun = 151.2 |Mar sun = 175.4 |Apr sun = 175.8 |May sun = 200.2 |Jun sun = 205.6 |Jul sun = 237.5 |Aug sun = 227.7 |Sep sun = 194.1 |Oct sun = 164.6 |Nov sun = 97.0 |Dec sun = 46.2 |year sun = 1952.0 |Jan percentsun = 41.7 |Feb percentsun = 57.5 |Mar percentsun = 55.3 |Apr percentsun = 49.9 |May percentsun = 48.6 |Jun percentsun = 49.8 |Jul percentsun = 56.4 |Aug percentsun = 58.5 |Sep percentsun = 60.2 |Oct percentsun = 54.4 |Nov percentsun = 45.5 |Dec percentsun = 30.0 |year percentsun = 50.7 |source 1 = Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191012234750/http://www.zamg.ac.at/fix/klima/oe71-00/klima2000/klimadaten_oesterreich_1971_frame1.htm | archive-date = 12 October 2019 | url = http://www.zamg.ac.at/fix/klima/oe71-00/klima2000/klimadaten_oesterreich_1971_frame1.htm | title = Klimadaten von Österreich 1971–2000 – Tirol-Lienz | language = de | publisher = Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics | access-date = 25 October 2019}}

Population

|align=right |1869|2484 |1880|3142 |1890|3878 |1900|4549 |1910|6532 |1923|6591 |1934|6885 |1939|8458 |1951|10096 |1961|11132 |1971|11741 |1981|11661 |1991|11864 |2001|12079 |2011|11955

Politics

The municipal council (Gemeinderat) consists of 21 members. Since the 2022 Tyrolean local elections, it is made up of the following parties:

Transport

Lienz is located at a road junction between the Drautalstraße highway, leading from Carinthia to the Puster Valley in the Italian province of South Tyrol (B100), and the Felbertauernstraße (B108) from Lienz to Mittersill in Salzburg. It is also connected by the Drautalbahn railway line from Villach to Innichen in South Tyrol. The Felbertauerntunnel between Mittersill and Lienz was completed in 1967.

Notable people

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Lienz_Leonhard.jpg" caption="Tomb of [[Leonhard of Gorizia]] in St. Andreas parish church, 1506-1507"] ::

Sport

International relations

Twin towns – Sister cities

Lienz is twinned with:

References

References

  1. Klein, Wilhelm. (1967). "Die postalischen Abstempelungen auf den österreichischen Postwertzeichen-Ausgaben 1867, 1883 und 1890".
  2. "Archived copy".
  3. [http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=591789&cityname=Lienz%2C+Tirol%2C+Austria&units= Climate Summary for Lienz]
  4. "Alle Ergebnisse und Visualisierungen zu den Wahlen in Tirol 2022.".
  5. Susannah Osborne. (2 November 2012). "East Tirol – Austria's secret ski destination". The Guardian.
  6. {{CathEncy. Schlager. Patricius
  7. {{CathEncy. Scheid. Nikolaus

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