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

Reutte Reutte (; Swabian: ) is a market 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 6704 (as of 2018). Neighbouring mu ...

in the

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n state of

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

. The municipality is located in the district court

Geography

The village is located on the southern edge of the Lermooser Moos, between a mountain slope and the landslide landscape of the Fern Pass in the Tyrolean Alps. The municipality is crossed by the

Loisach The Loisach is a river that flows through Tyrol, Austria and Bavaria, Germany. Its name might be Celtic in origin, from Proto-Celtic ''*lawo'' and ''*iskā'', both of which mean "water". The Loisach goes through the great swamp . The Loisach is ...

, which springs west of the village. The community is located near the border with Germany on the edge of the Wetterstein Mountains and is visible from the

Zugspitze The Zugspitze (), at above sea level, is the highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains as well as the highest mountain in Germany. It lies south of the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and the Austria–Germany border runs over its western su ...

History

The name derives from

beaver Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers a ...

s, who have demonstrably lived in the municipality until 1800 and arrived back in recent years. Corpus of finds from the Roman period bear witness to the early importance of the place on the Via Claudia Augusta. The track grooves at the northern entrance, though referred to as Roman, are from Medieval times. From the Middle Ages to the year 1921, at the ''Silberleithe'', there was the largest mining operation in the Außerfern, called "Gewerkschaft Silberleithen", mining silver, lead and zinc ore. Since the end of 2004, the historical ''Montan hiking trail'' Silberleithen opened up this former mining area for tourism. With the Lermooser tunnel, bypassing the village, and opened in 1984, the place was relieved of transit traffic. Biberwier is located on a bicycle path, which runs as Via Claudia Augusta along an ancient Roman road of the same name. Today Biberwier with the ski area ''Marienbergjoch'' and the swimming lakes Blindsee, ''Mittersee'' and ''Weißensee'' is a two-season tourism community.

Coat of arms

Blazon In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visua ...

: ''Divided by gold and blue in the serpent cut, left in the upper field, following the division line, a blue wheel, whose hub is covered with the gold mining markers mallet and iron, right below a sitting, looking to the left beaver.'' The colors of the community flag are yellow-blue. The beaver in 1983 awarded municipal coat of arms symbolizes the toponym, mallets and iron refer to the historic mining, the wheel on the important transport system.

Personalities

* ''Karl Koch'' (1887-1971), composer, choirmaster and music teacher * ''Johann Weinhart'' (* 1925), sculptor * ''Stefan Schennach'' (born 1956), politician * ''Markus Inderst'' (* 1974), journalist and author

References

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Mieming Range Cities and towns in Reutte District {{Tyrol-geo-stub