Innsbruck - city of bureaucrats and civil servants
On the underestimated role of bureaucracy and administration over the centuries.
University City of Innsbruck
Since 1669, the university has been more than just an educational institution. In many respects, Innsbruck would not be the same city without its students.
Colonial goods, coffee and enlightenment
From the beginnings of the enlightened, bourgeois age and coffee house culture in Innsbruck
Innsbruck's industrial revolutions
The city of Innsbruck was significantly shaped by two industrial revolutions.
The success story of the Innsbruck glass painters
In the society of the Danube Monarchy, which was not yet regulated down to the last detail, hard-working and capable people from the peasantry, the working classes or craftsmen were able to make astonishing progress without formal training, qualifying examinations or state authorisation.
From alpine summer retreat to the Piefke Saga
Since the late 18th century, Tyrol has gradually developed from a transit country into a tourist destination.
Sporty Innsbruck
Innsbruck can look back on a long tradition as a city of sport.
Johann von Sieberer: Innsbruck's good spirit
The self-made millionaire was probably Innsbruck's biggest private patron.
Prachensky I.: Lebensreform und Sozialdemokratie
"Light, air and sun" was the motto of the Lebensreform, which began in the late 19th century in step with the development of social democracy and the rise of the bourgeoisie.
Innsbrucker Kulturkampf
Von Burschenschaften, Unruhen und der Affäre Wahrmund.
Wilhelm Greil: DER Bürgermeister Innsbrucks
One of the most important figures in the city's history was the mayor of Innsbruck, Wilhelm Greil
The Wallschen and the Fatti di Innsbruck
The old dispute between Italian and German-speaking Tyroleans escalated into bloody riots in November 1904.
Klingler, Huter, Retter & Co: master builders of expansion
At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, entire neighbourhoods were created in the historic gold rush of expansion.
The First World War
Even though Innsbruck was not directly on the front line, the First World War was felt in the city.
A republic is born
Few eras are more difficult to grasp than the interwar period.
Franz Baumann and Tyrolean modernism
Franz Baumann was probably Innsbruck's most famous architect of the 20th century.
Theodor Prachensky: Civil servant between monarchy and republic
In the late 1920s, pioneering building projects were realised in Innsbruck under Theodor Prachensky.
The Bocksiedlung and Austrofascism
The interwar period is one of the most contradictory and difficult to categorise chapters in Austrian history.
The Rapoldis: hydropower and resistance
From the end of the monarchy to the post-war period, Martin and Maria Rapoldi were among the most impressive personalities in Innsbruck's city politics
Theatres, country stages, cinemas & Kuno
About Innsbruck amusements in farmers' theatres and cinemas.
Innsbruck during National Socialism
It was only a small step from Greater German liberal ideas to National Socialism.
Franz Hofer: The Gauleiter of Tyrol
Franz Hofer's story reflects the way National Socialism was dealt with after the end of the war.
The Reichskristallnacht in Innsbruck
The pogroms, which went down in history as Kristallnacht, also claimed numerous victims in Innsbruck.
Air raids on Innsbruck
The air raids of the Second World War changed Innsbruck's appearance in almost all parts of the city.
Operation Greenup – Innsbrooklyns (Neu)Anfang
Perhaps the most spectacular episode in Innsbruck's history, which was not remembered for a long time, took place at the end of the Second World War.
Risen from the ruins
The post-war period was characterised by hunger, shortages, illness and anarchy.
Kunst am Bau: Nachkriegszeit in Bildern
What inconspicuous works of art on everyday buildings tell us about ideals and reality in the post-war period.
The Red Bishop and Innsbruck's moral decay
In the 1960s and 70s, modern and conservative ideas of virtuous living clashed in Innsbruck.
Innsbruck's Olympic renaissance
The effects on the city of the Olympic Games of '64 and '76 were not only of a sporting nature.