Lienz District

Lienz District
Bezirk Lienz
Lienz District Bezirk Lienz
District
Country	Austria
State	Tyrol
Number of municipalities	33
Administrative seat	Lienz
Government
• District Governor	Bettina Heinricher
Area
• Total	2,016.41 km2 (778.54 sq mi)
Population (2019)
• Total	53,833
• Density	27/km2 (69/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)

The Bezirk Lienz (Italian: Distretto di Lienz) is an administrative district (Bezirk) in Tyrol, Austria. It is the only district in East Tyrol. The district borders the Pinzgau (Salzburg) in the north, the districts Spittal an der Drau and Hermagor (both Carinthia) in the east, Veneto (Italy) in the south, and South Tyrol (Italy) in the west.

The area of the district is 2,016.41 square kilometres (778.54 sq mi) with a population of 48,833 o January 1, 2019, and population a density of 25 per square kilometre (65/sq mi). The administrative center of the district is Lienz.

In 1918, it was occupied by the Italian Army.^[1] In 1919, Trentino and South Tyrol were split from what is now the Austrian state of Tyrol in the Treaty of Saint-Germain (these three entities made up the old Austro-Hungarian county of Tyrol). Since this time, East Tyrol has been separated from North Tyrol by about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) of border between the federal state of Salzburg and South Tyrol. Accordingly, it forms an inner-Austrian exclave of the federal state of Tyrol. It was also the only part of modern Tyrol not occupied by France after the Second World War, instead forming part of the British zone.

Geography

The district comprises parts of the Puster Valley, the valleys of Iseltal, Defereggen, Virgental, Kalser Tal, and the Tyrolean Gailtal. Mountain ranges in the district include parts of the Hohe Tauern with Venediger Group and Glockner Group, the Defereggen Alps, the Lienz Dolomits and the Karnisch Alps.

The shortest road connection to North Tyrol is the Felbertauern road (P1) and the Felbertauern tunnel (about 5.3 kilometres (3.3 mi)). Lienz is located at a road junction between the federal Felbertauern road (B108), a road to the Puster Valley (B100) and South Tyrol, and a road to the Drautal valley and Carinthia.

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1869	26,833	—
1880	27,422	+2.2%
1890	26,988	−1.6%
1900	26,895	−0.3%
1910	29,074	+8.1%
1923	28,591	−1.7%
1934	31,169	+9.0%
1939	33,445	+7.3%
1951	37,747	+12.9%
1961	41,123	+8.9%
1971	45,614	+10.9%
1981	47,494	+4.1%
1991	48,338	+1.8%
2001	50,404	+4.3%
Source: Statistik Austria