Jenbach to a local railway junction in the Tyrolean Inn Valley. The market town is here at the entrance of the Zillertal or at the transition to the Achensee
Jenbach station with the Achensee and Zillertal
Railway is of interest to fans of historical trains. As a technical
uniqueness, three gauges meet at Jenbach station.
The normal
psurige Inntalbahn of the ÖBB with 1435 mm.
The Zillertalbahn is
a privately operated narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 760 mm.
The train runs from Jenbach at the entrance of the Zillertal (530m)
on a 31 km route to Mayrhofen (627m). It was built from 1899 to 1902
to transport wood and for magnesite mining in Tux from 1928. Today
it is mainly used for tourist purposes, as a "morning steam train"
and as a "afternoon steam train" with a historic locomotive. Info
Zillertalbahn;
The Achenseebahn is a narrow-gauge rack railway
(gauge 1,000 mm) and runs on 7 km with a maximum gradient of up to
16% from Jenbach station via Eben and Maurach to the shores of the
Achensee (931m), here with a connection to the Achensee shipping .
The Achenseebahn is the oldest exclusively steam-powered rack
railway in Europe. Achenseebahn prices: journey Jenbach - Seespitz
one-way: 22.- €; Mountain u. Downhill ride € 28 (as of 2007); Info
Achenseebahn;
Tratzberg Castle
A first fortified castle in
the exposed position above the valley floor of the Inn Valley was
mentioned in a document in the 13th century and served as a border
fortress against Bavaria. After a fire and complete destruction of
the castle in 1490/91, the oldest and still late Gothic part of
today's castle was built in 1500.
The palace complex
underwent multiple changes of ownership and various other
construction phases, the palace is particularly worth seeing because
of the overall condition that has been completely preserved in its
historical state, that is, the rooms in the original splendid
interior design such as armory, Habsburg Hall, palace chapel and the
Renaissance courtyard its striking arcades.
The castle is now
privately owned (Tratzberg Castle Family Foundation).
Tratzberg Castle, Tratzberg Castle, A-6200 Jenbach (approx. 2.5 km
southwest of Jenbach). Tel .: +43 (0) 5242 63566 Tratzberg Castle on
Facebook. Open: late March to early November facebook url used.
By train
The train station in Jenbach is
one of the largest train stations in the state of Tyrol and is the
starting point of the narrow-gauge railways "Zillertalbahn" and
"Achenseebahn", see the section on sights. Jenbach station is a
station on the Westbahn - the railway line from Vienna via Salzburg
and Innsbruck to Bregenz.
The website of the Verkehrsverbund
Tirol provides information about public transport in the state of
Tyrol.
By
You can reach Jenbach by car via the
Inntalautobahn exit Jenbach.
Toll-free arrival from Munich -
leave the A 8 motorway from Munich at Holzkirchen. From here either
on federal roads via Lenggries or via Tegernsee to Achensee, on to
Jenbach.
Taxi lion. Tel .: +43 676 7707488. Open: 24 hours a day.
Seppl Stubn. Phone: +43 (0)5244 61528.
Schlosswirt Tratzberg,
Tratzberg 3, 6200 Tratzberg, Austria. Tel.: +43 5242 67389. with guest
garden and children's playground. Open: April – May Sun – Wed 10 a.m. –
7 p.m., Thu – Sat 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.; June – August daily 10:00 a.m. –
9:00 p.m.; September – October Sun – Wed 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Thu –
Sat 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Price: main courses from €10.
Gasthof and Hotel Rieder, Fischl 3a, 6200 Jenbach. Phone: +43 5244 62446 . 27 guest rooms, 2 of which are wheelchair accessible, with bath or shower, toilet, balcony, direct dial telephone, safe and satellite TV and a view of the Inn Valley. Open: inn daily 8:00 a.m. – midnight, kitchen 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. + 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Price: Single room from €55, double room from €90 with breakfast.
It is often assumed among locals that the place name derives from "beyond the creek" because of the similar wording. A Sivrid of "Ympach" is mentioned as early as 1269, which is the oldest mention of the place. An earlier name of Jenbach was, for example, Ünpach, which probably refers to the estate of H. von Unpach and is mentioned as early as 1427. Between 1350 and 1500 the place is mentioned under "Uenpach", "Umpach" or "Uonpach". Since the name was pronounced "í-empach" in the dialect of the middle Inn valley, the falling vowel was rendered i-e as je. This resulted in today's Jenbach debate. There are three different interpretations of the place name: According to the name researcher Karl Finsterwalder, the place name could go back to a personal name. Serfs from a monastery that had estates in Jenbach and Aibling in Bavaria could have moved from Upper Bavaria to Tyrol. The syllable "Uon"- referred to people who owned a creek. These people who migrated may have brought the name stem Uon- with them. The art historian Erich Egg assumes that the hamlet "im (am) Bach" was called "Ympach" because of its location. The historian Otto Stolz believes that the lower reaches of the Kasbach were called "Impach" from the 15th century and "Jenbach" from the 18th century. However, a clear determination of origin cannot be made.
In Jenbach, settlements from the end of the early Bronze Age and from the early La Tène period could be detected.
Jenbach was first mentioned in a document from 1269. From 1410, smelting works for the smelting of silver and copper from the Schwaz Erzberg were established in Jenbach – under the leadership of the Fugger family.
After the ore wealth in Schwaz had dried up and the copper and silver works had been shut down, an iron works was operated from 1685. In 1773/74 this had passed to the era except for one third; In 1865 the state became the sole owner. In 1870 the hut was sold to the "Salzburg-Tiroler-Montangesellschaft". In 1881, Julius & Theodor Reitlinger bought the factory from this company for 75,000 guilders and modernized it. Among other things, a cable car was built to transport ore to the rakes. From 1916, Julius' son, Friedrich Reitlinger, took over the business.
In 1938, after the suicide of Friedrich Reitlinger in the course of the Anschluss, the factory initially became state property and was sold (“aryanized”) to Ernst Heinkel in 1939.
On February 22, 1945, as part of the Allied Operation Clarion, six B-24 Liberator bombers dropped around 12 t bombs on the primary target, the freight yard, to prevent Reichsbahn movements (e.g. troop supplies) in Germany and Austria for the upcoming invasion. Five days later, during the second bombing raid at 2:20 p.m., seven B-24 bombers from the 12th US Air Force dropped around 19 t of bombs again on the train station and on the premises of the Sensen Union, which was not important in terms of the war economy. Presumably, their large premises were confused with the local and strategically important Heinkel aircraft works. Among other things, Heinkel in Jenbach supplied accessories for the Me 163 rocket fighter, the V1 flying bomb and the V2 rocket. Jenbach train station was only an alternative target for the air raid on Augsburg. Eight people died and 35 houses were damaged, some of them severely. In April 1945, in front of the French Liberation Army (CC1 to CC5) under General Charles de Gaulle, which was rapidly advancing in southern Germany, more and more scattered SS units, including Heinrich Himmler's General Staff, flocked to Jenbach and sought protection in the Alpine valleys in the allegedly existing "Alpine Fortress". They spread fear and terror throughout the village by sheer numbers and their fanatical determination to "fight to the last bullet". On April 20, 1945, the last heavy air raid took place, a combination of on-board fire from medium bombers of the 75th Wing of the USAAF and bombings from "Flying Fortresses" Boeing B-17, which did not lead to any personal injuries.
The Heinkel works were not restituted after 1945, but remained under
"public administration" until 1955. In 1959 the "Jenbacher Werke
Aktiengesellschaft" was founded and listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange.
The company now manufactured locomotives and diesel engines, among other
things. In 1998 there was a change of ownership and the name was changed
to "JENBACHER AG". In 2003 the AG was taken over by General Electric
(GE). The current "GE Jenbacher AG" is the world market leader in the
manufacture of gas engines for decentralized power generation and
combined heat and power plants (CHP) in the range from 0.3 to 3 MW
(megawatt).
In 1982 Jenbach was raised to a market town.
In 2006, the municipality joined the Tyrolean Climate Alliance.
Jenbach is located in the Lower Inn Valley, 36 km east of the
provincial capital of Innsbruck, between the foothills of the Karwendel
Mountains and the Rofan Mountains, south of Lake Achen. In terms of
tourism, Jenbach belongs to the Karwendel silver region.
congregational structure
The municipal area consists of only one
village (residents as of January 1, 2023):
Jenbach (7492)
The
former village of Fischl is no longer designated as a village in 2019.
The place has economic importance today through the GE Jenbacher, Siko Solar, TIWAG, Katzenberger, Gubert (concrete) and Holz Binder. In the 20th century, the Jenbacher works produced railway wagons, diesel locomotives, compressors and much more. a. Today, GE Jenbacher practically only produces combined heat and power plants or gas engines and exports them all over the world. Siko Solar and TIWAG deal with energy. Katzenberger and Gubert produce concrete and precast concrete parts. Holz Binder primarily produces laminated beams for roof constructions. The "Kasbach" is used by some small power plants to supply electricity.
HTL Jenbach for building services engineering, mechanical engineering
and industrial engineering
NMS Jenbach
Jenbach train station is an express train stop and, as a special
feature, has railway lines in three different gauges:
1435 mm
(standard gauge) of the ÖBB main line (Unterinntalbahn)
1000 mm of
the Achenseebahn
760 mm of the Zillertalbahn