Berwang

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

Reutte

License plate :

RE

Surface:

42.69 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 24 ' N , 10 ° 45' E Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '28 " N , 10 ° 44' 51" E

Height :

1342 m above sea level A.

Residents :

586 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

14 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

6622

Area code :

05674

Community code :

7 08 02

NUTS region

AT331

Address of the
municipal administration:

Berwang 82
6622 Berwang

Website:

www.berwang.tirol.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Dietmar Berktold ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : (2016)
(11 members)

4 Together for the Berwangertal, 4 Citizens' List, 3 Home worth living in

Location of Berwang in the Reutte district

View of Berwang with the Thaneller

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Berwang is a municipality with 586 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Reutte district in Tyrol ( Austria ). Districts are Brand, Bichlbächle, Gröben, Kleinstockach, Mitteregg , Rinnen , Tal. The community is located in the judicial district of Reutte .

geography

The cluster village is located on the slope of the hilltop that connects the Berwanger valley (to be reached from Bichlbach ) with the Rotlechtal . Kleinstockach and Bichlbächle are mountain farming areas in the Berwanger Valley. Brand, Mitteregg and Rinnen are in the Rotlechtal.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following eight localities (residents as of January 1, 2020):

Berwang (374)
Bichlbachle (5)
Fire (50)
Groben (31)
Kleinstockach (8)
Mitteregg (20)
Channels (96)
Valley (2)

Neighboring communities

Reutte	Cheerfulness	Bichlbach
		Lermoos
Nameless	Tarrenz	Nassereith

history

The place name is derived from ber (bear) and wang (meadow). The place was settled from Imst and came to Tyrol in 1266, but remained administratively with Imst. From 1430 it was under the jurisdiction of Ehrenberg (near Reutte ). In 1949 the first ski lift went into operation in Berwang . By the tourism , the structure of the formerly poor community changed, many farms were abandoned.

mayor

since 2004 Dietmar Berktold (ÖVP)

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1955, shows an upright black bear on a green shield base in silver . As a talking coat of arms, it symbolizes the place name ("Bärenwiese").

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church Berwang hl. James the Elder with first origins from 1430
Pension Bergheim in Berwang, planned and built by the architect Siegfried Mazagg in 1932, with very successful restoration and conversion since 2015
Village fountain in Berwang from 1988/89
the branch churches in the villages of Bichlbächle (18th century) and Kleinstockach (19th century)
six chapels and a wayside shrine

traffic

Berwang is connected via the Berwang-Namloser Straße (L 21), which branches off the Fernpassstraße (B 179) in Bichlbach and leads over Berwang and Namlos into the Lechtal, where it joins the Lechtalstraße (B 198) at Stanzach . About 5 km away in the municipality of Bichlbach is the Bichlbach-Berwang train station of the Ausserfernbahn .

Web links

Commons : Berwang - collection of images, videos and audio files

70802 - Berwang. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Berwang , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

View of Berwang from Thaneller
Berwang looking west
Berwang with Thaneller
Berwang in winter
Berwang
Chapel in Mitteregg with Schlierewand (2217 m) in the background
Reservoir in Berwang
View of the Catholic parish church (under monument protection)
Pension Bergheim (under monument protection)

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
^ Eduard Widmoser: Tiroler Wappenfibel . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-7022-1324-4 , p. 63 .
↑ Franziska Leeb: 87 and not a bit old , in: Die Presse, February 2, 2019. 87 and not a bit old. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .