Breitenbach am Inn

Breitenbach am Inn is a municipality in the Kufstein district in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 5.5 km west of Wörgl and 19 km southwest of Kufstein. The village has five parts and received new parts and house numbers in 2006. It was founded in the middle of the 19th century.Shortly before 800 AD Breitenbach has been mentioned as "Mensalpfarre" for the monk's cell in Kufstein, the parish church of St. Peter is one of the oldest churches in Tyrol. Breitenbach is one of three Freising's "Urpfarren" in Tyrol. Breitenbach occurs relatively late on documents, for the first time in 1157 as a parish of the panel Kanonikerstift St. Andrae in Freising. The original boundaries of the ancient and mother parish Breitenbach include the areas of the parishes Brandenberg, Steinberg, Mariatal, Voldöpp and Mosen , all of which until 1891 was eliminated permanently from this association. 739-1818 of the Inn formed by the confluence of the Habach to Kufstein, the boundary between the territory of the Archdiocese of Salzburg in the right and that of Freising on the left bank of the river. With the ecclesiastical territorial division was accompanied by the secular and more than 900 years, from the Bavarian land acquisition by the year 1504, Breitenbach shared the fortunes of the Duchy of Bavaria.

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