Autore: Neuhauser, Georg
Titolo: From the Forest to the Water. The History of the Brandenberg Timber Drift in the Lower Inn Valley (North-Tyrol/Austria) from its Beginnings in the Fifteenth Century to 1966
Periodico: Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico in Trento
Anno: 2025 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 111 - Pagina finale: 137

The mining boom in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period led to a sharp increase in wood demand. To secure the quantities of the wood resource needed for salt production in Hall in Tyrol and ore smelting throughout the region, remote valleys such as the Paznaun Valley were developed for forestry as early as the thirteenth century. With the establishment of the first state-owned smelting works in Brixlegg in 1463, the Brandenberg Valley in the Lower Inn Valley increasingly came into focus as part of the flourishing mining industry. The first documented mention of a rake on the Brandenberger Ache dates back to 1412, and by 1500 at the latest, a large dam already existed on the upper reaches of the river on Bavarian territory. Due to the lack of roads, the logs felled in the valley were floated down the Ache to the main collection site in Kramsach until the summer of 1966. Thus, the log driving activity from the Brandenberg Valley was the long est-operating drift of its kind in Tyrol.




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