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Winter snow in Kitzbühel
Winter snowing skiing holiday KItzbuhel Austria. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Winter snowing skiing holiday KItzbuhel Austria
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Kitzbühel
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Kitzbühel.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Kitzbühel (German: or ; Bavarian: Kitzbiché ) is a medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol, Austria, about 100 km (62 mi) east of the state capital Innsbruck, and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbühel District (Bezirk).
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BEFORE TOURISM
Work and settlement beneath the snowline
In the 12th century, the name Chizbuhel is mentioned for the first time in a document belonging to the Chiemsee monastery (where it refers to a "Marquard von Chizbuhel"), whereby Chizzo relates to a Bavarian clan and Bühel refers to the location of a settlement upon a hill.
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1875
A route reaches Kitzbühel
When Emperor Franz Joseph finally resolved the confusing constitutional situation, and following completion of the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway in 1875, the town's trade and industry flourished.
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Ski landscape in Kitzbuhel Austria
Ski resorts with great trace in Austria Jochsberg. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Ski resorts with great trace in Austria Jochsberg
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- Open-licence photograph
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2020
Winter becomes organised
KitzSki, Kitzbühel's main ski lift operator, has managed to defend the title of “World's Best Ski Resort Company” for the seventh time in a row at the 2020 World Ski Awards.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Kitzbühel is recorded at 47.449° N, 12.392° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 2,000 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.
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Winter snow in Kitzbühel
Winter snowing skiing holiday KItzbuhel Austria. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Winter snowing skiing holiday KItzbuhel Austria
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
TODAY
Kitzbühel now
Together with the pistes and ski lifts in neighbouring Kirchberg in Tirol, Jochberg and by the Thurn Pass Kitzbühel is one of the largest ski regions in Austria.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Winter snow in Kitzbühel
AOD.EU.KITZBUHEL.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Ski landscape in Kitzbuhel Austria
AOD.EU.KITZBUHEL.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Kitzbühel overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.