Seefeld in Tirol

An old farming village on a plateau between the Wetterstein and the Karwendel, on a road from Mittenwald to Innsbruck that has mattered since the Middle Ages. First mentioned in 1022, it has been a pilgrimage site since the fourteenth century and profited both from pilgrims and from its stacking rights as a trading station between Augsburg and Venice; Tyrolean shale oil has been extracted here since the same period. It was a holiday resort before 1900 and a winter sports centre from the 1930s, and it is the home village of Anton Seelos, who invented the parallel turn.