Reutte district

location
Basic data
state	Tyrol
NUTS III region	AT-331
Administrative headquarters	Reutte
surface	1236 km²
Residents	32,838 (January 1, 2020)
Population density	27 inhabitants / km²
License Plate	RE
District Commission
District chief	Mag. Katharina Rumpf
website	www.tirol.gv.at/ bezirke / reutte
map

The Reutte district is a political district of the Austrian state of Tyrol , it is congruent with the Ausserfern region .

It borders:

• on the north by Bavaria ( Oberallgäu , Ostallgäu and Garmisch-Partenkirchen )
• in the south to the districts of Landeck and Imst and
• in the west to Vorarlberg (districts Bregenz and Bludenz ).

geography

The district covers 1,235.67 km², these extend over the Lech Valley , the Tannheim Valley and the so-called intermediate gates between Reutte and the Fernpass . In terms of mountains, the district has a share of the Lechtal Alps , Wetterstein Mountains , Allgäu Alps (including Tannheimer Mountains ) and the Ammergau Alps .

Important lakes are the Plansee , Heiterwanger See , Haldensee , Urisee and Vilsalpsee .

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  The upper Lechtal from the mountain station of the Lechtaler Bergbahn

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  Upper Lechtal near Steeg , Hägerau , Holzgau

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  Lower Lech course near Musau

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  Lechtal Alps

history

About the origin of the word "Ausserfern"

Presumably the name derives from "Besides the Fern" ( Fernpass ). Outside and inside are frequent descriptive additions to a valley in Tyrolean and differentiate between the valley entrance and the rear valley areas, or between the valley section from the main town of the valley downstream and the areas uphill, or simply the directions in and out of the valley. “Ausserfern” may refer to the valley up to the historic ascent to the Fernpass.

Regional history

The area was settled by Alamannen along the Via Claudia Augusta from the 10th century and came to the County of Tyrol at the end of the 13th century by Duke Meinhard as part of the territorialization of the Holy Roman Empire , although there are close economic and cultural ties to the Allgäu region stayed. For a long time, the Ausserfern was ecclesiastically subordinate to the diocese of Augsburg , which had already been given important sovereign rights here by King Heinrich IV with the wild ban in 1059 . The cheaper transport connections to the Allgäu and Upper Bavaria also contributed to this orientation , while there was only one winter-safe connection to the Inn Valley , namely the Fernpass.

Population development

Economy and Infrastructure

Reutte

The tourism is an important source of income, because of the rather barren and high-lying ground is hard to manage, but there is a certain amount of dairy farming . In addition, industry and commerce play a role , especially in the central Lech Valley and the Reutten Basin .

The district forms a closed labor market and has a comparatively low proportion of outbound and inbound commuters from other regions.

In the field of services, tourism dominates, especially in the Zugspitze, Tannheimer Tal, Plansee, Lechtal and side valleys areas. Larger industrial centers are Reutte, Elbigenalp, Höfen and Vils, important production companies can be found in the metal and construction industries.

The Tiroler Zugspitz Arena, with the Ehrwalder Alm ski areas in Ehrwald and Grubigstein in Lermoos, as well as the Bichlbach / Berwang ski area, provides the basis for tourism in the Ausserfern region. With over 800,000 overnight stays in the 2017/18 winter season, it is one of the top 20 winter tourism regions in Tyrol. There is also significant tourism in the Tannheimer Tal. The Tiroler Lech Nature Park with the Lech as one of the last natural rivers in Europe, combined with the multitude of sporting opportunities, is also of touristic importance.

traffic

The main connection to the rest of Tyrol is the Fernpass . The B179 Fernpassstraße leads through the Ausserfern from the Fernpass to the German border at Vils. The B179 is an important transit and holiday route. Miles of traffic jams are not uncommon, especially on holiday weekends. The tendency to expand this traffic problem beyond the holiday weekends can be clearly seen in recent years. Via the Lechtalstraße B198 you can get from Reutte through the Lech Valley to Vorarlberg.

On the Ausserfernbahn , the area can be reached by rail from Garmisch-Partenkirchen or Kempten (Allgäu) .

Culture

Linguistic peculiarity

In linguistic terms, there is a mixed form of Swabian or Alemannic and Bavarian , whereby the spoken dialect often differs from valley to valley and from place to place. The areas populated from Upper Bavaria and the Inn Valley , such as the Ehrwalder Basin and the side valleys of the Lech Valley , are linguistically similar to the dialects of the Upper Inn Valley , while a Swabian-Alemannic dialect dominates in the area around Reutte , in Vils and in the Tannheim Valley and in the upper Lechtal Most Alemannic dialects are spoken around Steeg , which was settled from Vorarlberg over the Arlberg Pass .

Sports

Due to the geographical conditions, winter sports in the Ausserfern region have always played a major role. The district is home to some ski racers such as Nicole Hosp , Harti Weirather , Josef Pechtl , Walter Schuster and Josef Rieder .

In the district capital Reutte, SV Reutte is the largest sports club in the district with its 17 branches. The club is best known for its football department, which at times played in the fourth-class Tyrolean league, as well as the successful athletics department.

Administrative organization and spatial planning

Community structure

The Reutte district is divided into 37 communities , including the town of Vils and the market town of Reutte . The population figures are from January 1st, 2020.

NUTS classification: AT331

In the official statistics of the EU led NUTS headings from is Außerfern one of the five groups of districts (level NUTS: AT -2) in Tyrol, carries the code AT331and includes the political district of Reutte.

Regional planning

Today the term is used in particular as the regional development Ausserfern - the region is part of the European regions Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino , EUREGIO Via Salina and Zugspitze-Wetterstein-Karwendel .

List of municipalities in the district

Regions are Tyrolean planning associations (as of March 2017)

local community	location	Ew	km²	Ew / km²	Judicial district	region	Type	photo
Brook		623	56.86	11	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Berwang		586	42.69	14th	Reutte	Intermediate gates	local community
Biberwier		622	29.39	21st	Reutte	Intermediate gates	local community
Bichlbach		788	30.62	26th	Reutte	Intermediate gates	local community
Breitenwang		1,456	18.94	77	Reutte	Reutte and the surrounding area	local community
Ehenbichl		821	7.31	112	Reutte	Reutte and the surrounding area	local community
Ehrwald		2,610	49.32	53	Reutte	Intermediate gates	local community
Elbigenalp		887	33.08	27	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Elmen		383	29.6	13	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Forchach		263	14.24	18th	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Grän		592	20.9	28	Reutte	Tannheim Valley	local community
Gramais		41	32.43	1.3	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Häselgehr		676	50.52	13	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Cheerfulness		533	35.7	15th	Reutte	Intermediate gates	local community
Hinterhornbach		91	50.55	1.8	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Yards		1,210	8.37	145	Reutte	Reutte and the surrounding area	local community
Holzgau		401	35.98	11	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Young wood		308	7.05	44	Reutte	Tannheim Valley	local community
Emperor		75	74.43	1	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Lechaschau		2,094	6.11	343	Reutte	Reutte and the surrounding area	local community
Lermoos		1,143	56.41	20th	Reutte	Intermediate gates	local community
Musau		390	20.66	19th	Reutte	Reutte and the surrounding area	local community
Nameless		73	28.75	2.5	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Nesselwängle		462	23	20th	Reutte	Tannheim Valley	local community
Pfafflar		105	33.59	3.1	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Pflach		1,446	13.77	105	Reutte	Reutte and the surrounding area	local community
Pinswang		405	9.37	43	Reutte	Reutte and the surrounding area	local community
Reutte		6,918	100.78	69	Reutte	Reutte and the surrounding area	market community
Schattwald		450	16.15	28	Reutte	Tannheim Valley	local community
Stanzach		462	31.73	15th	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Steeg		662	67.95	9.7	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Tannheim		1.105	51.28	22nd	Reutte	Tannheim Valley	local community
Vils		1,492	30.77	48	Reutte	Reutte and the surrounding area	urban community
Vorderhornbach		250	17.23	15th	Reutte	Upper Lechtal	local community
Wangle		930	9.33	100	Reutte	Reutte and the surrounding area	local community
Weißenbach am Lech		1,252	82.01	15th	Reutte	Reutte and the surrounding area	local community
Zöblen		233	8.78	27	Reutte	Tannheim Valley	local community

literature

• F. Fuchs: Heimat Ausserfern - A local history of the Reutte district. Exceptferner Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Reutte 1984, ISBN 3-9002-8101-7 .
• H. Gasser: The Ausserfern experience. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz / u. a. 1978, ISBN 3-7020-0319-3 .
• Catholic Tyrolean Teachers' Association & District School Council Reutte: The Reutte District - The Ausserfern. Koch, Höfen 2004, ISBN 3-7081-0005-0 .
• L. Lechenbauer: Ausserfern - A gem in Tyrol. Theiss, Wolfsberg 1973.
• R. Lipp: Ausserfern. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / u. a. 1994, ISBN 3-7022-1927-7 .

Science and economy

• F. Greif, W. Schwackhöfer: The social wasteland in the high mountains using the example of the Ausserfern. (= Series of publications by the Agricultural Institute of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. 31). Österreichischer Agrarverlag, Vienna 1979.
• H. Koller: The electricity industry of the Ausserfern. (= Contributions to Alpine economic and social research. 57). Wagner, Innsbruck 1969, DNB 365120472 .
• R. v. Klebelsberg: Ausserferner geology. In: Schlern writings. 111, Innsbruck 1955, pp. 9-23.
• G. Mutschlechner: The ore mining in Ausserfern. In: Schlern writings. 111, Innsbruck 1955, pp. 25-52.
• R. Schöner, H. Scholz, H. Krumm: The medieval iron production in the Füssener Land (Ostallgäu and Ausserfern) - New results for the mining and smelting of iron ores from the Wetterstein limestone. In: Arch. F. Storage research Geol. B.-A. 24, Vienna 2003, pp. 193-218.
• H. Thurner: The long-distance railway, a new north-south line Germany-Italy - a contribution to the people's welfare of West Tyrol's lifeblood. Self-published by Thurner, Innsbruck 1924.
• Franz Gemeinböck, Markus Inderst: Mittenwaldbahn. Innsbruck - Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Reutte. Kiruba-Verlag, Mittelstetten 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812977-5-1 .

History, culture

• WA Ruepp: Ausserferner peculiarity. A human search for clues. Ehrenberg-Verlag, Reutte 2004, ISBN 3-901821-08-2 .
• Oswald Trapp : Oberinntal and Ausserfern. (=  Tyrolean Castle Book. VII). Athesia, Bozen 1986, ISBN 88-7014-391-0 .

Periodicals

• Except for remote news . Reutte.
• Series Ausserferner Schriften , RTW Verlag, Reutte.

See also

• List of natural monuments in the Reutte district

Web links

• Association for regional development Ausserfern of the 37 municipalities in the district
• District authority Reutte
• Wolfgang Ruepp on the Ausserferner Eigenart (selected chapters of the book)
• History of the Reutte district

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Finsterwalder : The place names in Ausserfern. In: H. M. Ölberg, N. Grass: Tyrolean toponymy - collected essays and works. Volume 3, Wagner, Innsbruck 1995, pp. 1197-1210.
2. ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 206, no. 228 .
3. ↑ TOURISM IN WINTER 2017/2018. Retrieved April 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)

Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '  N , 10 ° 43'  E