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Innsbruck (German: [ˈɪnsbʁʊk] ⓘ; Austro-Bavarian: Innschbruck [ˈɪnʃprʊk]) is the capital of Tyrol and the fifth-largest city in Austria.On the River Inn, at its junction with the Wipp Valley, which provides access to the Brenner Pass 30 km (19 mi) to the south, it had a population of 132,493 in 2018.
The Bezirk Innsbruck-Land is an administrative district in Tyrol, Austria. It encloses the Statutarstadt Innsbruck , and borders Bavaria ( Germany ) in the north, the district Schwaz in the east, South Tyrol in Italy to the south, and the district of Imst in the west.
Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof (German, 'Innsbruck Main Station' or 'Innsbruck Central Station' [1]) is the main railway station in Innsbruck, the capital city of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol. [2] Opened in 1853, the station is a major hub for western and central Austria.
Highways in Tyrol are the Brenner motorway and the Inntal motorway. The Brenner motorway runs from Innsbruck (in Austria A13) to Modena (in Italy A22). Together with the Inntal motorway from Innsbruck to Kufstein is the part of the European route E45. The dual carriageway from Merano to Bolzano (MeBo) ends in Bolzano South in the Brenner motorway.
Overview of the most important transport routes in the region (large map), "Kleines Deutsches Eck" (l.below), Rosenheimer Kurve (l. above) The Deutsches Eck ("German Corner") is the name given to the shortest and most convenient road and railway link between the Austrian metropolitan region of Salzburg and the Tyrolean Unterland with the state capital Innsbruck.
The Mittenwald Railway (German: Mittenwaldbahn), popularly known as the Karwendelbahn (Karwendel railway), is a railway line in the Alps in Austria and Germany. It connects Innsbruck via Seefeld (both in Tyrol, Austria) and Mittenwald to Garmisch-Partenkirchen (both in Bavaria, Germany).
The line was electrified in the course of the extension of the Mittenwald line to Innsbruck, opened on 25 April 1913. In May 1913, the Ausserfern Railway was opened from Reutte to the station. This was electrified from the start. A special feature for decades was the operational stop for Austrian through trains between Innsbruck and Reutte.
Innsbruck station at the north end of the Brenner railway. The Brenner Railway (German: Brennerbahn; Italian: Ferrovia del Brennero) is a major line connecting the Austrian and Italian railways from Innsbruck to Verona, climbing up the Wipptal (German for "Wipp Valley"), passing over the Brenner Pass, descending down the Eisacktal (German for "Eisack Valley") to Bolzano/Bozen, then further ...