Vorderwaldberg

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Vorderwaldberg
Vorderwaldberg
Location within Austria
Coordinates: 47°15′08″N 12°12′54″E / 47.25222°N 12.21500°E / 47.25222; 12.21500Coordinates: 47°15′08″N 12°12′54″E / 47.25222°N 12.21500°E / 47.25222; 12.21500
Country Austria
State Salzburg
District Zell am See
Area
 • Total 2.3 km2 (0.9 sq mi)
Elevation 1,150 m (3,770 ft)
Population (1 January 2013)[1]
 • Total 1,156
 • Density 500/km2 (1,300/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 5742
Area code 06565
Vehicle registration ZE

Vorderwaldberg is a dispersed settlement in the Oberpinzgau, the upper Salzach valley and the district of Zell am See/Pinzgau, and also a village in the municipality of Wald im Pinzgau, on the southern edge of the Kitzbühel Alps in Austria.

Geography

The settlement, which has about 90 inhabitants and 30 houses, lies up the valley from Wald im Salzachtal, on the southern slopes of the Salzach valley, the Vorderwaldberg, at an altitude between 950–1,300 metres (3,120–4,270 ft) on the Old Gerlos Road (Alten Gerlosstraße, the L 133).

The homesteads (Einöden) of Bachbauer and Watschbauer, and several other farmsteads belong to the village that extends for about 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) in an east–west direction.

Neighbouring settlements:

Lahn Rosental (Neukirchen)
Wald

History

Vorderwaldberg lies on the old mule track (Saumpfad) from Mittersill as a trading hub on the route over the Gerlos Pass (Pinzgauer Höhe) to Zell am Ziller. It was upgraded into a cart track in 1631.[2] In 1962 the new Gerlos Alpine Road (Gerlos Alpenstraße) via Krimml (today part of the B 165 Mittersill – Hainzenberg) was opened, that had been planned by graduate engineer Franz Wallack, the builder of the Großglockner High Alpine Road (Großglockner Hochalpenstraße). Consequently the Old Gerlos Road (Alte Gerlosstraße, today the L 133) lost its importance.[2]


Tourism and places of interest

The Sixt Chapel (Sixtkapelle) on the Sonnberg, below the Vorderwaldberg, on the Old Gerlos Road (47°14′54.9″N 12°12′57.2″E / 47.248583°N 12.215889°E / 47.248583; 12.215889). Below the Sixtus Chapel lies the Augentrost Chapel (Augentrostkapelle) which is also worth a visit.

The Arno Trail (Arnoweg) runs through this village, from Hinterwaldberg and Lahn, as a climb to the Pinzgauer Spaziergang.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahres- und Quartalsanfang, 2013-01-01.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Geschichte". www.wald.salzburg.at > Geschehen in Wald > Chronik > 1) (in German). Retrieved 2010. 
  3. ↑ Clemens M. Hutter (1999), "Abschnitt 2 – Pinzgauer Grasberge" (in German), Arnoweg (2. Aufl. ed.), Oberhaching: Bergverlag Rother GmbH, pp. 93, ISBN 978-3-7633-4293-8
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