Sellrain
municipality in Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol, Austria
Sellrain is a municipality in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol located 14.40 km (8.95 mi) southwest of Innsbruck in the Sellrain Valley. The River Melach and its tributary the Fotscherbach flow through it. Most inhabitants are farmers and also have another job in the neighboring Innsbruck. There are two Catholic churches in the village St. Quirin and St. Anna. They are both over 300 years old.
Population
History
The first settlement developed around the ferruginous healing spring Rothenbrunn, which was used by Innsbruck nobles and citizens since the Middle Ages. The place name is first mentioned in a document dated 1271 as Selrain. The origin of the name is disputed.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Sellrain” as municipality in Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol, Austria. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as municipality in Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol, Austria. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q694284. VIAF identifies the subject as 127611428. Authority coordinates are 47.213, 11.214. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1271.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sellrain” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.