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19-504: On 19 June 1703, Bavarian troops besieged Kufstein . Fires broke out on the outskirts of the town, which engulfed the town itself, destroyed it and reached the powder store of the supposedly impregnable fortress . The enormous supplies of gunpowder exploded and Kufstein surrendered on 20 June. That same day, the Tyrolese surrendered in Wörgl ; two days later Rattenberg was captured and Innsbruck

38-584: A new factory in Kufstein , Austria . In 1972, licensed production of the American-180 submachine gun began. By 1980, the company began to diversify its production, and included a new line of environmental/horticultural products. In 1989, Voere merged with the trading company Kufsteiner Gerätebau und Handelsges m.b.H and formed Voere-KGH m.b.H . At that time, Voere began work as a precision machining subcontractor for other companies. The VEC-91 caseless rifle

57-568: A population of about 20,000 it is the second largest Tyrolean town after the state capital Innsbruck . The greatest landmark is Kufstein Fortress , first mentioned in the 13th century. The town was the place of origin of the Austrian noble family Kuefstein . It is located in the Tyrolean Unterland region on the river Inn , at the confluence with its Weißache and Kaiserbach tributaries, near

76-771: Is a funicular that links the city centre with the Kufstein Fortress . Archaeological findings in the Tischofer Cave in Kaisertal denote a settlement of the area more than 30,000 years ago, the oldest traces of human habitation in Tyrol. Incorporated into the Roman Empire in 15 BC, the Inn river formed the border between the Roman provinces of Raetia and Noricum . A church at Caofstein

95-629: Is also home to the University of Applied Sciences Kufstein which specializes in providing business education and is a center for international exchange. Kufstein has two exits along the A12 motorway ( autobahn ) from Innsbruck to Rosenheim . Kufstein railway station , opened in 1876, forms part of the Lower Inn Valley railway section of the Brenner-axis from Munich to Verona . The Festungsbahn

114-481: The Internet Movie Database . The song Kufsteinlied  [ de ] (also called Das Kufsteiner Lied ), originally composed by Karl Ganzer, has been covered by many musicians including Heino and Franzl Lang . Voere Voere is an Austrian firearm manufacturing company best known for its VEC-91 bolt-action rifle using caseless ammunition . The origins of the company date back to

133-455: The 1948 establishment of the metal-working company Koma in West Germany . Originally producing bicycle pumps , the company branched out into the production of air pistols in 1950. In 1955, Koma was renamed Voere. The company's name is a combination of the founders' names: Voe tter and Re stle. That year, Voere began the production of small-bore rifles. In 1965, the company relocated to

152-723: The Austrian domains were confirmed by the Treaty of Ilbersheim the next year. After the War of the Third Coalition , Kufstein once again was awarded to the newly established Kingdom of Bavaria in the 1805 Peace of Pressburg and the Tyrolean Rebellion of 1809 was crushed by the Bavarian Army . Finally in 1813/14 it passed to the Austrian Empire . In the 19th century, Kufstein Fortress

171-618: The Inn River. From 1415 onwards, his son and successor Duke Louis VII had the Fortress largely rebuilt and expanded. The possession of the strategically important Kufstein border fortress remained disputed. In 1504, the Habsburg emperor Maximilian I took the opportunity of the War of the Succession of Landshut within the Bavarian Wittelsbach dynasty: his Austrian forces laid siege to

190-788: The Inn river leaves the Northern Limestone Alps and enters the Bavarian Alpine Foreland . The town area comprises several small lakes, such as Pfrillsee , Längsee , and Hechtsee ; Egelsee and Maistaller Lacke are protected nature reserves. The municipal arrangement comprises the cadastral communities of Kufstein, Morsbach and Thierberg; the town itself is divided into five quarters (Zentrum, Sparchen, Weissach, Endach, and Zell). Glass manufacturer Riedel , haulage contractor LKW Walter , gunmaker Voere , and textile mat manufacturer Kleen-Tex are based in Kufstein. Kufstein

209-509: The Kufstein citizens with rights of jurisdiction. Kufstein passed to the County of Tyrol in 1342, when it was a wedding gift to Countess Margaret from her husband, Emperor Louis's son Louis the Brandenburger . However, it fell back to Bavaria upon Margaret's death in 1369. Duke Stephen III of Bavaria granted Kufstein city status in 1393, due to its prominence as a trading and docking point on

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228-568: The border with Bavaria , Germany . The municipal area stretches along the Lower Inn Valley between the Brandenberg Alps in the northwest and the Kaiser Mountains in the southeast. The remote Kaisertal until recently was the last settled valley in Austria without transport connections, prior to the completion of a tunnel road from Kufstein to neighbouring Ebbs in 2008. North of the town,

247-548: The cemetery, but in threes near the river bank. The theory rests on clues that were mentioned in the local chronicle of Matrei am Brenner . In gratitude for their freedom, in 1704 the Landstände pledged to have a St. Anne's Column built and this was erected in Innsbruck in 1706. The Bavarian Rummel forms – together with the struggle for Tyrolean freedom in 1809, which regularly overshadows it both in expert and public discourse –

266-634: The town, and at the Imperial Diet in Cologne the next year, the emperor resolved upon the cession of the Kufstein territories to the Habsburg lands of Tyrol. Maximilian had the prominent Kaiserturm tower of the fortress erected, which was finished in 1522. During the War of the Spanish Succession , the castle was again besieged by Bavarian troops under Elector Maximilian II Emanuel in 1703, nevertheless

285-861: Was occupied by French and US forces; it was the site of a French sector United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Displaced Persons camp . Due to its long history, the city of Kufstein has various sights to offer: Kufstein is twinned with Locations in and around Kufstein have been used for a number of films and television programmes: Destiny (1942), Mountain Crystal (1949), Bluebeard (1951), White Shadows (1951), Das letzte Aufgebot (1953), The Flying Classroom (1954), Graf Porno und die liebesdurstigen Töchter (1969), Vanessa (1977), Sachrang (1978), TV documentary series Bilderbuch Deutschland (1996), Da wo das Glück beginnt (2006), Da wo es noch Treue gibt (2006), and Da wo die Freundschaft zahlt (2007). For further information see

304-557: Was an important element of Tyrolean historical consciousness and Tyrolean identity and made a lasting contribution to the creation of the image of the "fighting Tyrolean farmer". Kufstein Kufstein ( German pronunciation: [ˈkʊfˌʃtaɪ̯n] ; Central Bavarian : Kufstoa ) is a town in the Austrian state of Tyrol , the administrative seat of Kufstein District . With

323-814: Was cleared on 25 June without a fight. But the Bavarians then suffered reverses at the hands of the Tyrolese on 1 July at the Pontlatzer Bridge in the upper Inn Valley , at the Brenner Pass and near Innsbruck. On 26 July, Saint Anne's Day, Tyrol was freed again and Maximilian Emanuel retreated to Bavaria via Seefeld in Tirol . In 2011, during construction work in Pfons in the Wipptal valley, graves were uncovered, which were presumably those of Bavarian soldiers, who were not buried in

342-766: Was first mentioned in a 788 deed issued by Bishop Arno of Salzburg . At that time, the Lower Inn Valley was part of the Bavarian realm under the Agilolfing duke Tassilo III , who was deposed by Charlemagne and replaced by Prefect Gerold . The Fortress is first documented in 1205 as a possession of the Bishop of Regensburg and the Duke of Bavaria . In the early 14th century, the Wittelsbach emperor Louis IV , also Bavarian duke, vested

361-521: Was turned into a bastille for political prisoners, such as the Hungarian outlaw Sándor Rózsa , who spent several years here before he was finally pardoned in 1868. The town's economic development was decisively promoted by the opening of the Lower Inn Valley Railway line in 1858. In the late days of World War II the historic town centre suffered from Allied bombing . After the war, Kufstein

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