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Lienz is located at a road junction between the Drautalstraße highway, leading from Carinthia to the Puster Valley in the Italian province of South Tyrol (B100), and the Felbertauernstraße (B108) from Lienz to Mittersill in Salzburg. It is also connected by the Drautalbahn railway line from Villach to Innichen in South Tyrol.
The Bezirk Lienz (Italian: Distretto di Lienz) is an administrative district in Tyrol, Austria.It is the only district in East Tyrol.The district borders the Pinzgau in the north, the districts Spittal an der Drau and Hermagor (both Carinthia) in the east, Veneto in the south, and South Tyrol in the west.
The settlement is situated in the East Tyrolean part of the Puster Valley, stretching along the upper Drava river between the Villgraten Mountains (Defereggen) in the north to the foothills of the Lienz Dolomites, the westernmost peaks of the Gailtal Alps. The farmsteads lie mostly on the sunny terraces or on the valley floor north of the Drava.
The Lienz Dolomites are an alpine mountain range located in the Austrian states of East Tyrol and Carinthia. It lies at the western side of the wider Gailtal Alps and contains its highest peaks. The range lies between the Drau Valley in the north and the Gail Valley to the south.
Burg Bruck is a medieval castle in Lienz in Tyrol, Austria.Burg Bruck is 711 metres (2,333 ft) above sea level. [1]It was completed in 1278 as the residence of the Meinhardiner Counts of Görz.
The Carmelite friary in Lienz was founded in 1349 by the Countess Euphemia of Görz [2] and her two sons, Albert IV and Meinhard VII. It was set up for a community of twelve residents but the number of brothers rose to about 20.
After World War II, East Tyrol became part of the British occupied zone of Austria. In Austria, East Tyrol borders the federal states of Carinthia in the east and Salzburg in the north, while it also shares borders with the Italian provinces of South Tyrol (Alto Adige, northern part of the region Trentino-Alto Adige ) in the west and Belluno ...
When the last of the Counts of Gorizia died in 1500, their estates around Lienz fell to the Habsburg emperor Maximilian I and were incorporated into the County of Tyrol. Longtime quarrels with the Republic of Venice were settled when the border with the Venetian Domini di Terraferma was established along the Carnic mountain crest.