Hochfilzen is a town and municipality in the Kitzbühel district of the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is located in the Pillersee valley 5 km east of Fieberbrunn. Population was 1,147 in 2016.
In 1875 Hochfilzen was joined to the railway network and soon afterwards a military training area was established here. The training area is used today by the Austrian Bundesheer as an army sports centre for biathlon as well as survival training by the Jagdkommando. The training area was once one of the scenes in the Lucona Scandal, which shook Austrian politics at the end of the 1970s.
Population
Historical population
Year
Pop.
±%
1869
285
—
1880
332
+16.5%
1890
341
+2.7%
1900
376
+10.3%
1910
453
+20.5%
1923
465
+2.6%
1934
499
+7.3%
1939
526
+5.4%
1951
645
+22.6%
1961
956
+48.2%
1971
1,098
+14.9%
1981
1,059
−3.6%
1991
1,111
+4.9%
2001
1,109
−0.2%
2011
1,123
+1.3%
Hochfilzen, road panorama with smoking chimney
See also
Wiesensee (Tirol), a glacial lake in the northwest corner of the municipality