Biberwier

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

Reutte

License plate :

RE

Surface:

29.39 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 23 ' N , 10 ° 54' E Coordinates: 47 ° 23 '0 " N , 10 ° 53' 34" E

Height :

989 m above sea level A.

Residents :

622 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

21 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

6633

Area code :

05673

Community code :

7 08 03

NUTS region

AT331

Address of the
municipal administration:

Fernpassstrasse 27
6633 Biberwier

Website:

www.biberwier.tirol.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Paul Mascher (We for our Biberwier)

Municipal Council : (2016)
(11 members)

4 We for our Biberwier, 3 Biberwier active, 4 Future-oriented, independent, together for Biberwier

Location of Biberwier in the Reutte district

Biberwier am Grubigstein (middle left, seen from the Zugspitze )

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Biberwier is a municipality with 622 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Reutte district in Tyrol ( Austria ). The community is located in the judicial district of Reutte .

geography

The street village is located on the southern edge of the Lermooser Moos , between a mountain slope and the landslide landscape of the Fernpass in the Tyrolean Alps. The municipality is traversed by the Loisach , which rises west of the town. The community is located near the border with Germany on the edge of the Wetterstein Mountains and can be seen from the Zugspitze .

Community structure

structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Biberwier (29.42 km²)	Biberwier (D) Fernpass (ZH) Marienberg (ZH) Schmitte (D)
Legend

Legend for the breakdown table

In the cadastral municipalities column , all cadastral municipalities of a municipality are listed. In the brackets the respective area is given in km².

All settlements recorded by Statistics Austria, which also have their own local area code, are listed in the Localities column . In the hierarchy level of the same column, indented to the right, only settlements that consist of at least several houses are shown.

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = capital of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
Hgr = group of houses
E = single farmstead (only if you have your own local area code)

The complete list of Statistics Austria is in: Topographical settlement identification according to STAT

It should be noted that some places can have different spellings. Thus, cadastral communities can spell themselves differently than localities or communities of the same name.

Source: Statistics Austria - List for Tyrol (PDF)

Neighboring communities

	Lermoos	Ehrwald
		Mieming
Nassereith		Obsteig

history

The name is derived from beavers that have been proven to have lived in the municipality until 1800. Finds from Roman times testify to the early importance of the place on the Via Claudia Augusta . The track grooves at the northern entrance to the town are probably of a later date. From the Middle Ages until 1921, the largest mining operation in existed here at the Silberleithe, Außerfern , the union Silberleithen that calamine , - lead - and zinc ore mined. Since the end of 2004, the Silberleithen Montan hiking trail has opened up this former mining area for tourism. With the Lermoos tunnel opened in 1984 , the town was relieved of through traffic.

Biberwier is on the long-distance cycle path , which runs as the Via Claudia Augusta along an ancient Roman road of the same name .

Today, Biberwier with the Marienbergjoch ski area and the Blindsee , Mittersee and Weißensee swimming lakes is a two-season tourist community.

coat of arms

Blazon : Divided by gold and blue in a snake cut, on the left in the upper field, following the dividing line, a blue wheel , the hub of which is covered with the gold mining symbols mallet and iron , on the lower right a sitting beaver looking to the left . The colors of the municipality flag are yellow-blue.

The beaver in the municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1983, symbolizes the place name, mallets and iron refer to historical mining, the wheel to the important transport sector.

Culture and sights

Biberwier, parish church of St. Joseph

Personalities

Karl Koch (1887–1971), composer, choir director and music teacher
Johann Weinhart (1925–2019), sculptor
Stefan Schennach (* 1956), politician
Markus Inderst (* 1974), journalist and book author

Web links

Commons : Biberwier - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Biberwier - travel guide

70803 - Biberwier. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Biberwier , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

Individual evidence

↑ Provincial Law Gazette for Tyrol, No. 25/1983. ( Digitized version )
↑ Tirol Atlas: Coat of Arms of Tirol - Biberwier ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

[1] Provincial Law Gazette for Tyrol, No. 25/1983. ( Digitized version )

[2] Tirol Atlas: Coat of Arms of Tirol - Biberwier ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )