Provincial exhibition - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1984 - 3.50 Shilling

The stamp image shows a part of the painting "The meeting of the imperial troops with the South Tyrolean contingent under Andreas Hofer at Sterzing in April 1809" by Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1830). In 1984 exactly 175 years had passed since the successful revolt of the Tyroleans against foreign rule and for a return to Austria. On this occasion, the national exhibition "The Tyrolean nation (1790 -1820)" took place in the Tyrolean Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck. The war which Austria waged against Napoleon alone in 1809 was one of the most unfortunate in its history and included the Tyrolean uprising in the planning from the beginning. In fact, at that time, almost without the assistance of the army, the Tyrolans liberated their land from the Bavarian occupation. Taking advantage of the bottlenecks of the country was in August 1809 the 30,000 -strong invading army in Pustertal (Lienzer Klause), beaten in the Oberinntal (Pontlatz) and in the Eisackschlucht south of Sterzing and finally defeated on 13 August on Mount Isel and expelled from the country , The significance of this battle is also clear from a letter from Napoleon, who then promised the Tyroleans autonomy and independence from Bavaria.