Strengen is a municipality in the district of

Landeck Landeck () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, the capital of the district of Landeck. Geography Landeck is located in the Tyrolean Oberland in the west of the state at an elevation of about . The town is situated in the valley of the Inn ...

in the

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n 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 ...

located 7.7 km west of the city of

. The village was first mentioned in an

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in 1774 as "Gstreng". The main source of income is tourism.

People

Hugo Stoltzenberg Hugo Gustav Adolf Stoltzenberg (27 April 1883 – 14 January 1974) was a German chemist associated with the German government's clandestine chemical warfare activities in the early 1920s. Stoltzenberg was a close collaborator of Nobel Prize laur ...

, chemist *

Barbara Zangerl Barbara Zangerl (born 24 May 1988) is an Austrian rock climber who is widely considered as one of the best all-round female climbers in the world. At various stages in her career, she has climbed at, or just below, the highest climbing grades a ...

, climber

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Cities and towns in Landeck District Verwall Alps {{Tyrol-geo-stub