Rietz
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For the musician, seeJulius Rietz
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Rietz is a municipality
in the Imst district
and is located 23 km east of Imst
and 4 km west of Telfs
on the southern shore of the Inn River
. It is a peculiarity that the village has no sun during winter time because of the height of the Stubai Alps
. In recent years the number of inhabitants of Rietz has increased and now number 2,027. The village is mentioned in documents from 1264 and has been a community since 1325. The main source of income is tourism.
Julius Rietz
August Wilhelm Julius Rietz was a German composer, conductor and cellist. He was a teacher among whose students were Woldemar Bargiel, Salomon Jadassohn and Arthur Sullivan. He also edited many works by Felix Mendelssohn for publication.-Biography:He studied the cello under Schmidt, Bernhard...
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Rietz is a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in the Imst district
Imst (district)
The Bezirk Imst is an administrative district in Tyrol, Austria. It borders the district Reutte in the north, as well as sharing a small border with Bavaria...
and is located 23 km east of Imst
Imst
Imst is a city in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol. It lies on the River Inn in western Tyrol, some 55 km west of Innsbruck and at an altitude of 828 m above sea-level...
and 4 km west of Telfs
Telfs
Telfs is an Austrian market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land and is located 27 km west of Innsbruck. It is the third largest location of Tyrol and received its status in 1908. Telfs possesses an own district court. In the last years Telfs has frequently been increasing in the number of...
on the southern shore of the Inn River
Inn River
The Inn is a river in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. It is a right tributary of the Danube and is approximately 500km long. The highest point of its drainage basin is the summit of Piz Bernina, at 4,049 metres.- Geography :...
. It is a peculiarity that the village has no sun during winter time because of the height of the Stubai Alps
Stubai Alps
The Stubai Alps is a mountain range in the Central Eastern Alps of Europe. It is named after the Stubaital valley to its east. It is located southwest of Innsbruck, Austria, and several summits of the range form part of Austria's border with Italy...
. In recent years the number of inhabitants of Rietz has increased and now number 2,027. The village is mentioned in documents from 1264 and has been a community since 1325. The main source of income is tourism.