The round hall
A pre-cinema display form of which little survives.
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Das Tirol Panorama is a modern building on the Bergisel hill south of Innsbruck, built specifically to hold one painting: the Giant Circular Picture, a panorama of nearly a thousand square metres that surrounds the viewer on every side. The painting was made in 1896 and depicts the third battle of Bergisel in 1809, when the Tyrolean peasantry rose under Andreas Hofer against French and Bavarian forces. You stand in the middle of the round hall and find yourself enclosed by the whole battle — a display form common in the nineteenth century before cinema, of which very few examples survive anywhere in the world. The building also holds the Kaiserjäger Museum documenting the history of the Tyrolean military units, and an exhibition on Tyrolean identity, history and symbols. The site itself is on Bergisel, where the famous ski jump and the Andreas Hofer monument stand, so a visit combines naturally with both.
A pre-cinema display form of which little survives.
The very hill the battle was fought on.
Bergisel 1-2, 6020 Innsbruck
Tyrolean Kaiserjäger MuseumA military museum on the Bergisel hill south of Innsbruck, devoted to the Tyrole1 minute walk4.4
The Bergisel Ski JumpBergisel is Innsbruck's contemporary Olympic icon: the ski jump remade by Zaha H3 minutes walk4.5
Wilten AbbeyA Premonstratensian abbey in the Wilten district, in place since the twelfth cen5 minutes walk4.7
Tyrolean Museum RailwaysA railway museum run by a volunteer association in Innsbruck, preserving tram ca5 minutes walk4.2
Wilten BasilicaA mid-eighteenth-century church in the Wilten district south of central Innsbruc6 minutes walk4.6An innkeeper and horse trader from the Passeier valley who led the Tyrolean peasant rising of 1809 against the Bavarian occupation backed by Napoleon, winning three times on the Bergisel hill before being defeated and shot at Mantua in 1810 on Napoleon's personal order. He became the emblem of Tyrolean identity and resistance, and his statue, monuments and image recur across the whole region.