Wipptal
TheWipp Valley[1][2][3](German:Wipptal) is an Alpine valley inTyrol,Austria and inSouth Tyrol,Italy, running betweenInnsbruckandFranzensfeste.TheBrenner Pass(1,374 m) at the Austro-Italian border divides it into the northern, Austrian Lower Wipp Valley (Unteres Wipptal) and the southern, Italian Upper Wipp Valley (Oberes Wipptal). The Lower Wipp Valley extends along theSillRiver southward fromInnsbruck,where the Sill meets the largerInn River,up to the Brenner Pass. South of the border, the Upper Wipp Valley stretches along theEisackRiver by way ofSterzingtoFranzensfeste.It forms theWipptal Districtof the province of South Tyrol.
The BrennerAutobahn(motorway) (A13 in Austria, A22 in Italy) passes through the valley, beginning with theEuropa Bridgenear Innsbruck. It is an important road connection across the Alps, forming part of the connection betweenMunichandVerona.The inhabitants of the Wipp Valley have been complaining for years about the volume of traffic. TheBrenner railwayalso runs through the valley. The proposedBrenner Base Tunnelwould remove all long-distance trains from the valley.
Wipptal was politically and culturally united in theCounty of Tyroland theRoman Catholic Diocese of Bolzano-Brixenup to theTreaty of St Germainin 1920.
References
[edit]- ^Chow, Fotini Katopodes; Snyder, Bradley J.; De Wekker, Stephan F. J. (2013).Mountain Weather Research and Forecasting: Recent Progress and Current Challenges.Dordrecht: Springer. p. 179.Bibcode:2013mwrf.book.....C.
- ^Grupe, Gisela; Grigat, Andrea; McGlynn, George C. (2018).Across the Alps in Prehistory Isotopic Mapping of the Brenner Passage by Bioarchaeology.Cham: Springer International Publishing. p. 8.
- ^Willemse, Saskia; Furger, Markus (2016).From Weather Observations to Atmospheric and Climate Sciences in Switzerland: Celebrating 100 Years of the Swiss Society for Meteorology.Zurich: Hochschulverlag an der ETH Zürich. p. 236.
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