!!!Bergisel

Bergisel, Mountain, Tyrol, 746 m, situated in the Wilten district of 
Innsbruck, traversed by the Brenner railway and tunnels. On the 
mountain is the ski-jump built for the Olympic games in 1964 and 1976. 
- In 1809, 4 battles were fought on the mountain by the Tyrolean 
peasants under A.  Hofer against the French and Bavarian armies 
(Tyrolean victories on May 25, May 29 and August 13, Tyrolean defeat 
on November 1), in 1817 shooting range of the Tyrolean Kaiserjaeger 
regiment, a rifle association house was built there in 1845 and turned 
into a Kaiserjaeger museum in 1880, Andreas Hofer gallery with works 
by F.  Defregger and A.  Egger-Lienz. In 1959, a chapel was built with 
commemorative registers for the Tyrolean soldiers who died in World 
War I and World War II. The A.-Hofer monument was built by H. Natter 
in 1892.


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