Mayrhofen

Mayrhofen is a market city with 3875 population within the Zillertal and belongs to the district of Schwaz in Tyrol. The municipality is placed in the district court Zell am Ziller. Mayrhofen is today known as a wintry weather sports activities motel for alpine snowboarding. The first settlers within the Mayrhofen area likely got here from the south over the Joche.

They coined the pre-Germanic names like Ziller, Stillupp, Tux, Zemm and Floite. The call Mayrhofen goes lower back to an episcopal Meierhof. The place was first referred to around 1200 in a sign in of the Archbishopric of Salzburg. Until 1801 Mayrhofen belonged to the main group Pramberg, modern Brandberg, from then it seems as an independent essential crew, from which through the years the community Mayrhofen was created. In 1816, after the Congress of Vienna, Mayrhofen, like the relaxation of the Salzburg Zillertal, came to Tyrol. In 1837, 427 Zillertal Protestant needed to depart their homes, together with many Mayrhofen households.