Unterperfuss is a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n state of

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

located 15 km west of Innsbruck and is one of the smallest villages of

. The area is restricted in the north by the

Inn River The Inn ( la, Aenus; rm, En) is a river in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. The river is long. It is a right tributary of the Danube and it is the third largest tributary of the Danube by discharge. The highest point of its drainage basin is ...

and in the east by the

Melach The Melach is a river of Tyrol, Austria, in the western part of the Innsbruck-Land District, a tributary of the Inn. The Melach has a length of . It is formed by the confluence of several smaller streams at the foot of the Lisenser Fernerkog ...

River. Unterperfuss has many facilities for horse-riding.

Population

Geography

Unterperfuss is located in the Inn Valley, about 15 km west of Innsbruck, opposite Zirl. With an area of two square kilometers and about 200 inhabitants, it is one of the smallest municipalities in Tyrol. The municipal boundaries are formed in the north by the Inn River and in the east by the Melach River, which flows here from the Sellrain Valley.

History

Unterperfuss became its own tax municipality in 1780. In the cadastre of that time, eleven houses are listed, ten of which were farms that were subject to the Stams monastery. There were also two mills and a sawmill. Forests are mentioned as community property, which were reserved for water protection structures on the Inn and Melach rivers. The family names at that time were Härtnagl, Mayr, Maizner, Wolf, Schiz, Hofer, Schaffenrath, Klaisner, Pranger and Fiz.

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Cities and towns in Innsbruck-Land District {{Tyrol-geo-stub