Berwang is a municipality with 564 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).
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in the
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
n state of
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 ...
. The districts are ''Brand'', ''Bichlbächle'', ''Gröben'', ''Kleinstockach'', ''Mitteregg'', ''Rinnen'', ''Tal''. The municipality is located in the district
court Reutte.
It is a popular ski resort in winter, and a hiking and mountain biking destination in summer.
Geography
The
cluster village is located on the slope of the dome, which connects the ''Berwanger valley'' (to reach from
Bichlbach) with the ''Rotlechtal''. ''Kleinstockach'' and ''Bichlbächle'' are mountainous villages in the Berwanger valley. ''Brand'', ''Mitteregg'' and ''Rinnen'' are located in ''Rotlechtal''.
Constituent communities
The municipal area comprises the following eight villages (population as of 1 January 2019:
*Berwang (357)
*Bichlbächle (6)
*Brand (50)
*Gröben (31)
*Kleinstockach (8)
*Mitteregg (21)
*Rinnen (88)
*Tal (3)
History
The place name is derived from ''ber'' (bears) and ''wang'' (meadow). The place was settled by
Imst
Imst (; Southern Bavarian: ''Imscht'') is a town in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol. It lies on the River Inn in western Tyrol, some west of Innsbruck and at an altitude of above sea level. With a current population (2018) of 10,504, Imst ...
and came to Tyrol in 1266, but remained with administrative but still at Imst. From 1430, it was the
court Ehrenberg (at
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 1949, the first ski lift went into operation in Berwang. Through tourism, the structure of the formerly poor community changed, many farms were dissolved.
Mayor
Since 2004 Dietmar Berktold (ÖVP).
Coat of arms
The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1955, shows a raised black bear on a green silver signpost. It symbolizes the toponym ("bear meadow") as a talking emblem.
Culture and sights
* Catholic ''parish church Berwang'' hl. James the Elder with first origins from the year 1430
* Pension Bergheim in Berwang, designed and built by architect ''Siegfried Mazagg'' in 1932, with very successful restoration and conversion since 2015
* Village fountain in Berwang from the year 1988/89
* The Filialkirchen in the villages Bichlbächle (18th century) and Kleinstockach (19th century)
* Six chapels and a shrine
Traffic
Berwang is connected via the Berwang-Namloser Straße (L 21), which branches off in Bichlbach from the ''Fernpassstraße'' (B 179) and leads via Berwang and Namlos into the Lechtal, where it ends at Stanzach in the ''Lechtalstraße'' (B 198). About 5 km away in the municipality of Bichlbach is the ''station Bichlbach-Berwang the Außerfernbahn''.
References
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Cities and towns in Reutte District
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