Durchholzen is a village in the municipality of

Walchsee Walchsee is a municipality in the Austrian state of Tyrol in the Kufstein district The Bezirk Kufstein is an administrative district (bezirk) in Tyrol, Austria. It borders Bavaria (Germany) in the north, the Kitzbühel district in the southeast, ...

in the Austrian state of

Tyrol Tyrol ( ; historically the Tyrole; ; ) is a historical region in the Alps of Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, f ...

and has 570 inhabitants.

Geography

Durchholzen lies around 3 km southwest of the municipal centre of Walchsee. The lowest point in the parish is Durchholzen (Schmiedtal) at 650 m, the highest is the

Pyramidenspitze The Pyramidenspitze is a mountain, 1,998 metres high, of the Kaisergebirge in the Austrian state of Tyrol. The Pyramidenspitze is only the second highest summit in the Zahmer Kaiser after the largely unknown, Vordere Kesselschneid, but is the m ...

mountain at Besides the village of Durchholzen, the hamlet of Seetal, the settlements of Sonnleiten and Liesfeld, and several individual farmsteads and alms are also within the parish. The street names in the village are Durchholzen, Hochberg, Kaiserw

Liesfeld, Lindenw

Moosen und Sonnleit

History

Durchholzen is first mentioned around 1141 on the occasion of a transfer of ownership to

Wessobrunn Abbey Wessobrunn Abbey (Kloster Wessobrunn) was a Benedictine monastery near Weilheim in Bavaria, Germany. It is celebrated as the home of the famous Wessobrunn Prayer and also of a Baroque school of stucco workers and plasterers in the 18th century. ...

, where it is recorded as ''Durchholsen''. In the oldest Bavarian ducal

urbarium An urbarium (, English: ''urbarium'', also ''rental'' or ''rent-roll'', , , , ), is a register of fief ownership and includes the rights and benefits that the fief holder has over his serfs and peasants. It is an important economic and legal sourc ...

, which dates to 1231/34, it is recorded within the abbey's estate as ''Durchholtz''.

Tourism

In summer the

Sommerrodelbahn A summer toboggan is an amusement or recreational ride which uses a bobsled-like sled or cart to run down a track usually built on the side of a hill. There are two main types: an alpine coaster or mountain coaster is a type of roller coaste ...

and a play park are the tourist attractions of the village, in winter the main draws are the ski slopes and lifts on the Zahmer Kaiser.

References

{{Reflist Kufstein District