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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

Landeck

License plate :

LA

Surface:

3.61 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 5 ' N , 10 ° 40' E Coordinates: 47 ° 4 '50 " N , 10 ° 40' 20" E

Height :

900 m above sea level A.

Residents :

390 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

6525

Area code :

05472

Community code :

7 06 01

NUTS region

AT334

Address of the
municipal administration:

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Website:

www.faggen.tirol.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Andreas Förg (Faggen community list)

Municipal Council : (2016)
(11 members)

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Location of Faggen in the Landeck district

The Maria-Hilf chapel in the center of Faggen

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Faggen is a municipality with 390 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the district of Landeck , in the state of Tyrol ( Austria ). The municipality is part of the Landeck judicial district .

The community belongs to the Kaunergrat Nature Park.

geography

Faggen is the smallest sized municipality in the High Court , the upper portion of the Upper Inn Valley , and is largely in the alluvial fan of the Kaunertal flowing forth Faggenbachs . The Romanesque place name means "place in the area of crossing a water divided into arms". The municipal area also includes isolated hamlets north of the village center.

The hamlets are as follows: Aussergufer, Untergufer, Obergufer, Innergufer, Oberfaggen, Unterfaggen, Prutz.

Neighboring communities are: Fließ , Kaunerberg , Kauns , Prutz .

history

Faggen was originally part of the judicial district of Ried in Tirol and after its dissolution in 1978 it became part of the judicial district of Landeck.

Culture and sights

Maria Hilf chapel in Unterfaggen

Economy and Infrastructure

Faggen is a very structurally weak community. It is dominated by agriculture, has no local supply and offers few jobs. That's why a lot of residents commute.

Sons and daughters of the church

Anton Sturm (1690–1757), baroque and rococo sculptor
Hubert Heiss (* 1955), Austrian ambassador to France

Web links

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

70601 - flags. Community data, Statistics Austria .