Elbigenalp

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

Reutte

License plate :

RE

Surface:

33.08 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 17 ' N , 10 ° 26' E Coordinates: 47 ° 17 '28 " N , 10 ° 26' 21" E

Height :

1039 m above sea level A.

Residents :

887 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

27 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

6652

Area code :

05634

Community code :

7 08 08

NUTS region

AT331

Address of the
municipal administration:

Dorf 55a
6652 Elbigenalp

Website:

www.elbigenalp.tirol.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Markus Gerber

Municipal Council : (2016)
(11 members)

4 New community list - GLN, 5 For ELBIGENALP - Mayor candidate Markus Gerber - FE, 1 Neutral list - NL, 1 For fair cooperation list - FFML

Location of Elbigenalp in the Reutte district

View of Elbigenalp from the summit of the Rotwand

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Elbigenalp (also called "Duarf" in Lech Valley) is a municipality in the Reutte district in Tyrol ( Austria ) with 887 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). It is 33.09 km² and is located at 1,039 m above sea level. The community is located in the judicial district of Reutte .

geography

The community is roughly in the middle of the Lech Valley . The municipal area is formed by various villages and Rotten along the Lechtalstraße , namely Köglen, Elbigenalp, Untergiblen, Obergrünau, Untergrünau and Obergiblen .

Community structure

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

Elbigenalp (398)
Köglen (96)
Obergibles (69)
Obergruenau (54)
Untergiblen (181)
Untergrünau (89)

structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Elbigenalp (33.09 km²)	Elbigenalp (D) Köglen (D) Obergiblen (R) Obergrünau (R) Untergiblen (D) Untergrünau (R)
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 -

Neighboring communities

Bach , Häselgehr , Hinterhornbach , Holzgau .

history

The name is derived from Eelbigen Alp = "elmige Alpe", ie "Alpe covered with elms". Elbigenalp was first mentioned in a document in 1312. Since then, the place has been the political and ecclesiastical center of a large parish in the Lech Valley. Elbigenalp is also known for its houses with fresco and stucco work , which are reminiscent of the bricklayers and plasterers who were also active abroad. There were also prominent visitors: Queen Marie of Bavaria and her sons stayed at Dengelhaus frequently in the summer between 1865 and 1887.

politics

mayor

until 2016 Bernhard Singer
since 2016 Markus Gerber

coat of arms

Blazon : A green elm in a silver shield on a black Dreiberg .

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1972, symbolizes the place name as a talking coat of arms ("Alpe covered with elms").

Population development

Culture and sights

Elbigenalp parish church

Catholic parish church Elbigenalp : The parish church stands in an open field and is surrounded by a cemetery with two chapels.
Mount of Olives Chapel St. Cross north of the village on a ledge
Chapel of St. Sebastian in Griesau
Chapel of St. Anna in Obergrünau
Chapel of St. Josef in Untergrünau
Museum with the estate of the lithographer Anton Falger in the municipal office. The painter, engraver and lithographer Anton Falger, who comes from Elbigenalp, painted two dance cycles for his hometown.
The first is a panel painting (108 × 272 cm) composed of 18 wooden panels and framed, which today hangs on the east wall of the chapel above the stairs to the ossuary; the doomed person is named on the wooden frame of each panel and the dialogue with death is written down. Some panels are signed, some are dated to 1840. Because it is the main work of the artist, the people involved should be named: Pope, king, artist, judge, citizen, soldier, child, mother, doctor, boy, bride, grandmother, farmer, rich man, beggar, murderer, maid , Grave digger.
The second dance of death consists of 14 individual pictures, which are painted in pairs in 7 wall niches on the plaster; the scenes with the citizen, boy, grandmother and murderer are missing here. The artist has consciously taken up the tradition of the dance of death on the cemetery wall. Signatures or dates are no longer visible; the time of origin must be before 1876.

economy

One of the largest CD and DVD pressing plants in Europe, kdg mediatech (formerly Koch Records ), started from Elbigenalp.

education

Technical college for arts and crafts and design Elbigenalp

Personalities

Epitaph by Joseph Anton Koch, Rome, Campo Santo Teutonico

The painter Joseph Anton Koch was born in Obergiblen in 1768 . The lithographer Anton Falger (1791–1876) was born in Elbigenalp . He was trained by the painter Karl Selb from Unterstockach and later gave drawing lessons to Engelbert Kolp (1840–1877) and Koch's nephew Josef Alois Knittel . The life of Knittel's niece Anna Stainer-Knittel (1841–1915) in turn formed the basis for the novel " Die Geierwally ".

Joseph Michael Schnöller (1707–1767), builder and architect

Marie of Prussia (1825–1889), Queen of Bavaria, had a country house in Elbigenalp

Nikolaus Falger (1888–1960), politician of the CS , member of the National Council 1926–1927

Franz Josef Lang (1894–1975), Austrian pathologist and professor at the University of Innsbruck

Peter Kaufmann (* 1970), Austrian musician and from 1990 to 2007 colleague of Toni Knittel in the Bluatschink band project

Web links

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

Community website
Elbigenalp , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

↑ State Law Gazette for Tyrol No. 34/1972 ( digitized version )

^ Eduard Widmoser: Tiroler Wappenfibel . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-7022-1324-4 , p. 10 .

↑ Hans Georg Wehrens: The dance of death in the Alemannic language area. "I have to do it - and don't know what" . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2563-0 . Pp. 253-258.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )