Lienz

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Location of Lienz within Lienz district
Lienz

Coat of arms	Location

Administration
Country	Austria
State	Tyrol
District	Lienz
Mayor	Johannes Hibler (ÖVP)
Basic statistics
Area	15.94 km² (6.2 sq mi)
Elevation	673 m (2208 ft)
Population	12,125 (01/01/2007)
- Density	761 /km² (1,970 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	LZ
Postal code	9900
Area code	04852
Website	www.stadt-lienz.at
Coordinates: 46°49′47″N 12°46′11″E / 46.82972, 12.76972

Lienz is a medieval city in Tyrol, Austria. It is the administrative centre of the Lienz district (Bezirk), which covers all of East Tyrol. Lienz is located at the confluence of the rivers Isel and Drava, between the Hohe Tauern mountain range in the north and the Gailtal Alps in the south. First mentioned as Luenzina in a deed about 1030 it received city rights on February 25, 1242. The municipality also includes the cadastral commune of Patriasdorf.

Liebburg, the City Hall of Lienz

Lienz is located at a road junction between the Drautalstraße highway, leading from Carinthia to the Puster (Pusteria) Valley and Italian province of Bolzano-Bozen (B100), and the the Felbertauernstraße (B108) from Lienz to Mittersill in Salzburg. It is also connected by the Drautalbahn railway line from Villach to Innichen (San Candido) in Bolzano-Bozen.

Lienz is the birthplace of Austrian Olympic skiing champion Josef "Pepi" Stiegler.

[edit] Neighboring municipalities

By the consistent growth of the city, some smaller villages around - though officially municipalities in their own right - are now widely considered to be suburbs of Lienz. Those suburbs comprise: