Bach is a municipality with 612 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2019) in the district of

Reutte Reutte (; Swabian: ) is a town in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is the administrative center of the Reutte district (''Districts of Austria''). Reutte is located on the Lech, and has a population of 6,704 (as of 2018). Neighbouring municipal ...

in the

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Tyrol Tyrol ( ; historically the Tyrole; ; ) is a historical region in the Alps of Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary, f ...

. Bach belongs to the court district Reutte.

Geography

Bach is located in the upper

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Valley, four watercourses flow through the municipality, two major watercourses, these are the river

(Tyrolean Lech Nature Park) and the Alperschonbach and two smaller watercourses: the Modertalbach and the Sulzlbach. The sea level is 1070 meters.

History

The place Bach was first mentioned in documents in 1427. Fresco-decorated houses are reminiscent of the earlier seasonal workers in the Lech Valley, who moved abroad. As usual in the Lech Valley, the municipality of Bach was settled very late. In order to obtain new land and new farms, property owners commissioned farmers to clear land and then keep it in a special feudal relationship. Bach was subordinate to the court Ehrenberg and was assigned there in 1500 to the ''lawyer Mitter Lechtal''. In the court Ehrenberg around 1649, the political communities were referred to as parishes, with Bach was part of the ''parish Elbigenalp''. Until 1854 Bach was always referred to as ''Stockach'', only in the following time was the municipality name ''Bach'' in use.

Politics

The council has 11 members. With the municipal council and mayor elections in Tyrol 2016, the municipal council has the following distribution: 7 members: Together for the community Bach 2 members: village community Bach 1 member: for each other in the community Bach 1 members: We Bacher for Bach

Geography

History

Politics

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