Tyrol /Tirol/ - History, Culture, Photos: Tiroler Schützen

The history of Tiroler Schützen dates back to the Middle Ages. In Tyrol, there were already in the 13th c. representation of whole estates, not only the nobility and clergy, but also citizens, and peasants were represented. Duke Frederick IV Habsburg in 1416 created a new military order for Tyrol, by the nobility lost its dominance. The main weight contributed by citizens and farmers. The essential thing was that Tyrol could be summoned only to defend their own country.
Schützenkompanie Telfs, 2012.

Crucial in the constitutional sense then those designated as Landlibell provisions, the Emperor Maximilian I Habsburg, in common with the Tyrolean Landtag in 1511 were issued. Very early on there were men capable of military events for the purpose of training in marksmanship. At least since 1400 called the people armed with a crossbow "shooters". Under the Emperor Maximilian, who promoted the very nature shooters, there were already many shooting ranges, and with the improvement of rifles, there were increasing these facilities. In 1704 Schützen took the wheel and sharpshooters, who had proved in 1703 at the Bavarian hype so for the first time a strong regiment of 16 companies together.
Three generations of Tiroler Schützen from Telfs, Oberinntal.

A new chapter in the history of the Schützen date back to 1796, when Tyrol was invaded from the French-Bavarian troops of Napoleone. At that time was created a popular military service in connection with the league of the Sacro Cuore (Herz Jesu). The sovereignty of Austria, that it had always guaranteed a wide autonomy to the Tyrolese population, was brusquely interrupted in the 1805 from the dominion of the Bavarian government of Napoleonic imposition. Against of it, from 1805 to 1809, a violent rising broke out, headed from the Tyrolese hero and martyr Andreas Hofer, than captured was sentenced to death and executed, by shooting, in Mantua 1810. The Schützen later defended in 1848,1859 and 1866, the southern border of Tyrol, cooperated with the companies of the "Welschtirol", Tyrol Trentino.
Schützenkompanie Telfs, 2012.

Finally in 1915, when Italy betraying the Triple Alliance, declared war on Austria-Hungary, the southern border Tyrol was defenseless and the ordinary troops were engaged on the foreheads Russian and Serbian, the Schützen was engaged to defend their earth on the southern depositor.

History of Tyrol

The earliest evidence of human settlement in the area of the Tyrol dates back to the late Neolithic period, and man is known to have lived here ever since. In early history, the Tyrol was a gateway between north and south and a link between two cultural areas - a role that has very much shaped the history of the Tyrol and is still relevant today. The Via Claudia Augusta built by the Romans to connect southern Germany with northern Italy passed through the Tyrol.
In the 13th century, Count Meinhard II of Gorizia combined the titles to the lands to the south and north of the Brenner to create the County of the Tyrol. In 1363 Margarethe Maultasch passed on the County of the Tyrol to the Habsburg Dukes Rudolf, Albrecht and Leopold of Austria. That made the Tyrol one of the Austrian Hereditary Lands.
In the Late Middle Ages, a free peasantry was the norm in the Tyrol rather than serfdom.
In 1511 Emperor Maximilian I issued a national defence proclamation called the "Landlibell", which largely remained in force until 1918. Under this law the Tyroleans were granted the privilege of only having to do military service within the borders and in defence of the Tyrol.
Until the late 18th century, the Habsburgs respected the law and constitution that had developed in the County of the Tyrol. Only later did the Tyrol have to accept the role of a crown territory ruled from Vienna. In 1805 the Tyrol was ceded to the Bavarians, who suspended the constitution, increased taxes, made various ecclesiastical changes and introduced conscription. In 1809 the Tyroleans rose up against the Bavarians under Andreas Hofer. Three times they liberated the Tyrol, but after six months they had to bow to the sheer numbers of the Bavarian forces. As the leader of the revolt, Andreas Hofer is still an object of veneration for many Tyroleans today. After the First World War, the old Tyrolean territories south of the Brenner passed to Italy.
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