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Gerlos is a municipality with 793 inhabitants (as of Jan. 2019) in Schwaz district of the state of Tyrol. The village is popular with skiing tourists, mainly families, as there is easy access to Zillertal Arena on Isskogel. The village lies in the Zell am Ziller judicial district.
The municipality of Gerlos has seven districts: Au, Gmünd, Innertal, Mitterhof, Oberhof, Ried and Schwarzach.
The municipal area of Gerlos has an area of approximately 120 km2. A third of this is forested, a quarter is High Alpine, and the rest are . Three percent of the area is used for agriculture.
Until the erection of a Gothic filial church in 1470, Gerlos was part of the parish of Zell am Ziller. St Lambert's tower and Leonhard church were built circa 1500. The parish church in Gerlos today still contains its substructure, up to the octagonal attachment. The other parts of Gerlos' church were built in 1735 by Hans Holzmeister. Gerlos became a parish in 1891.
Gerlos was first mentioned in a 1507 document as "saltus gerlaise" (Gerlos Pass). The valley and place name "gerlaise" is probably derived from the words "ger", meaning "pointed property", and "laise", a wild stream.Willibald Hauthaler, Franz Martin: Salzburger Urkundenbuch, Band II. Salzburg 1910, Nr. 308; Gerlos' forests are also referenced in the same year, under the name "silvam cui nomen Gerleis".
The area experienced a high when gold was discovered in the neighbouring towns of Hainzenberg and Zell am Ziller. Gold was also discovered in Gerlos itself, where it was mined from the 17th century up to 1870. The Gerlos Pass also played an important role in the Tyrolean Rebellion of 1809, when troops from Pinzgau invaded Tyrol.
Although the pass had been, for many centuries, the most important route from Tyrol to Salzburg, there were plans for the construction of a new road as early as 1630, although this never materialised: the roads were still in poor condition in late in the 19th century. In 1866, the "Bote für Tirol" wrote that Gerlos roads had of 20%, bumpy Sidewalk, rutted tracks over rock ground, and sharp bends. During this period, construction of a railway line had been planned, but this never happened. When construction of a new road began in 1910, huge problems were experienced due to landslide and loosing of the soil. A new road on the Salzburg side was only completed in 1962, by Franz Wallach, the builder of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road. It was another two years before the road on the Tyrolean side was passable. The Funsingau Hydroelectric power plant was also completed around this time.
The population of Gerlos has been increasing since its founding, although the population has fluctuated in recent times.
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The skiing season of 2020 was severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic - stays over the entire year totaled 486,444, with February overnights being reduced to only 139,347.
| Allgemeine Liste – Liste des Bürgermeisters | 61.02 | 7 | 56.54 | 6 |
| Liste für Gerlos | 38.98 | 4 | ||
| Voran stark für Gerlos | 20.63 | 2 | ||
| Neutral für Gerlos | 22.84 | 3 | ||
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