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| Tina Picotes in Innsbruck, Tyrol |
Tina Picotes is visiting Tirol, a wonderful bundesland with centuries of history and an own culture.
Tirol or Tyrol is a federal state or Bundesland in western Austria. It comprises the Austrian part of the historical Princely County of Tyrol.
It is a constituent part of the present-day Euroregion Tyrol–South Tyrol–Trentino, together with South Tyrol and Trentino in Italy. The capital of Tyrol is Innsbruck.
More information: Province of Tyrol
The state of Tyrol is separated into two parts, divided by a 7-kilometre wide strip. The larger territory is called Nordtirol and the smaller area is called Osttirol. The neighbouring Austrian state of Salzburg stands to the east, while on the south Tyrol has a border with the Italian province of South Tyrol which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before the First World War.
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| Tina Picotes in The Golden Roof House, Innsbruck |
Tyrol shares its borders with the federal state of Salzburg in the east and Vorarlberg in the west. In the north, it adjoins to the German state of Bavaria; in the south, it shares borders with the Italian province of South Tyrol and the Swiss canton of Graubünden. East Tyrol also shares its borders with the federal state of Carinthia to the east and Italy's Province of Belluno, Veneto, to the south.
The state's territory is located entirely within the Eastern Alps at the Brenner Pass. The highest mountain in the state is the Großglockner, part of the Hohe Tauern range on the border with Carinthia. It has a height of 3,797 m, making it the highest mountain in Austria.
More information: Tyrol
In ancient times, the region was split between the Roman provinces of Raetia, left of the Inn River, and Noricum. From the mid-6th century, it was resettled by Germanic Bavarii tribes. In the Early Middle Ages it formed the southern part of the German stem duchy of Bavaria, until the Counts of Tyrol, former Vogt officials of the Trent and Brixen prince-bishops at Tyrol Castle, achieved imperial immediacy after the deposition of the Bavarian duke Henry the Proud in 1138, and their possessions formed a state of the Holy Roman Empire in its own right.
When the Counts of Tyrol died out in 1253, their estates were inherited by the Meinhardiner Counts of Görz.
In 1271, the Tyrolean possessions were divided between Count Meinhard II of Görz and his younger brother Albert I, who took the lands of East Tyrol around Lienz and attached it, as outer county, to his committal possessions around Gorizia inner county.
In 1271, the Tyrolean possessions were divided between Count Meinhard II of Görz and his younger brother Albert I, who took the lands of East Tyrol around Lienz and attached it, as outer county, to his committal possessions around Gorizia inner county.
The last Tyrolean countess of the Meinhardiner Dynasty, Margaret, bequeathed her assets to the Habsburg duke Rudolph IV of Austria in 1363. In 1420, the committal residence was relocated from Merano to Innsbruck. The Tyrolean lands were reunited when the Habsburgs inherited the estates of the extinct Counts of Görz in 1500.
More information: Stadt Innsbruck
In the course of the German mediatization in 1803, the prince-bishoprics of Trent and Brixen were secularized and merged into the County of Tyrol, which in the next year became a constituent land of the Austrian Empire, but Tyrol was ceded to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1805.
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| Tina Picotes inside her home in Kufstein |
Later, South Tyrol was ceded to the Kingdom of Italy, a client state of the First French Empire, by Bavaria in 1810. After Napoleon's defeat, the whole of Tyrol was returned to Austria in 1814.
Tyrol was a Cisleithanian Kronland, royal territory, of Austria-Hungary from 1867. The County of Tyrol then extended beyond the boundaries of today's state, including North Tyrol and East Tyrol; South Tyrol and Trentino, Welschtirol, as well as three municipalities, which today are part of the adjacent Province of Belluno.
More information: Kufsteinerland
After World War I, these lands became part of the Kingdom of Italy according to the 1915 London Pact and the provisions of the Treaty of Saint Germain. Since November 1918 it was occupied by 20-22000 soldiers of the Italian Army.
After World War II, Tyrol was governed by France until Austria regained independence again in 1955.
...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework of bone and a network of arteries, the earth's crust is structured in mountain ridges, river, creeks, and gullies.
Reinhold Messner
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