Silz: Kühtai - Ortsblick
Kühtai combines a compact high-altitude settlement with broad lift-served slopes in a way that reflects its position in the Stubai Alps. At 2,020 metres, it is Austria’s highest ski resort, set around the Kühtaisattel on the route between the Sellrain Valley and Ötztal. The built-up core is small, while pistes, cableways and mountain roads extend across the surrounding ridges and bowls. Kühtai is also shaped by the Finstertal reservoir, part of the Sellrain-Silz hydropower scheme. The 17th-century Jagdschloss Kühtai, built for Archduke Leopold V, recalls the settlement’s earlier role as a hunting retreat rather than a year-round town.
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Gemeinde Silz occupies the upper Inn Valley and high slopes of the Stubai Alps in Tyrol. The Inn is the valley’s defining waterway, while the municipal territory climbs toward Kühtai, a high-alpine settlement at 2,020 metres and a base for winter sports. This contrast between valley floor and pass country shapes Silz’s character. In the main settlement, Petersberg Castle recalls the area’s medieval past. Browse other webcams across Tyrol to place this setting in a wider geographic context.
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