Hinterhornbach

Hinterhornbach
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Reutte
License plate :	RE
Surface:	50.55 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 21 '  N , 10 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '28 "  N , 10 ° 27' 3"  E
Height :	1101  m above sea level A.
Residents :	91 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	1.8 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6646
Area code :	05632
Community code :	7 08 15
Address of the municipal administration:	Hinterhornbach 18 6646 Hinterhornbach
politics
Mayor :	Martin Kärle (Together for Hinterhornbach)
Municipal Council : (2016) (9 members)	9 ÖVP Together for Hinterhornbach
Location of Hinterhornbach in the Reutte district
Hinterhornbach in the Hornbachtal
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hinterhornbach is a municipality in the Reutte district in Tyrol ( Austria ) with 91 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Hinterhornbach is around 1100  m above sea level. A. in the rear part of the Hornbach valley , a side valley of the Lech valley , at the foot of the 2592  m high Hochvogel in the Allgäu Alps .

Community structure

The small community includes only one cadastral community and locality .
In addition to the village of Hinterhornbach itself, the Rotten Krummenstein and Pretterhof belong to the community. The self-catering house Kaufbeurer Haus also belongs to the community. The community is located in the judicial district of Reutte .

Neighboring communities

Bad Hindelang ( Lkr. Oberallgäu. , BY , DE )		Weißenbach am Lech Vorderhornbach
Oberstdorf ( Lkr. Oberallgäu. , BY , DE )		Elmen
Holzgau	Elbigenalp	Häselgehr

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1235. The settlement took place as an alpine area from the Allgäu over the yokes . The original individual farms were transformed into farm groups and hamlet-like settlements.

Hinterhornbach was from time immemorial the parish Elbigenalp , from 1515 Elmen (1758 Kuratie , 1761/64 Widum ) and the jurisdiction of Ehrenberg subordinated, and belonged to the lawyers of Unterlechtal of the Lechtal region . 1810-1833 (1805-1816 in the Innkreis of the Kingdom of Bavaria , then again Austrian) the village was united with Hinterhornbach to form the tax district (Austrian: tax communities ) Hornbach . In 1883 Hinterhornbach developed its own community.

Migration in the 1950s and 1960s could be stopped by infrastructure measures such as road expansion in the valley.

coat of arms

Blazon :

A silver ram's head in blue over two narrow, oblique wavy bars .

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1979, symbolizes the place name as a talking coat of arms and also reminds of the earlier important sheep breeding.

Population development

politics

The municipal council has a total of nine members.

• With the municipal council and mayor elections in Tyrol in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 5 ÖVP common for Hinterhornbach, and 4 ÖVP community list Hinterhornbach.
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Tyrol in 2016 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 9 ÖVP together for Hinterhornbach.

mayor

• until 2010 Wilfried Lechleitner (ÖVP)
• since 2010 Martin Kärle (ÖVP together for Hinterhornbach)

Culture and sights

Hinterhornbach parish church

See also:  List of listed objects in Hinterhornbach

• Catholic parish church Hinterhornbach Our Lady of Good Advice

Personalities

• Johann Kärle (1835–1913), painter

literature

• Hinterhornbach hiking guide. Natural and cultural hiking guide by Gustav and Georg Dinger , ed. vd Section Donauwörth d. German Alpine Club, Verlag Ludwig Auer, ISBN 978-3-9807169-6-3
• Sebastian Hölzl: The municipal archives of the Reutte district: T. Without market Reutte and city of Vils . Volume 1, Office of the Tyrolean State Government, Tyrolean State Archives, Innsbruck 1997, ISBN 978-3-901464-06-5 (= Volume 37 of Edition Atelier: Tiroler Geschichtsquellen ), 15 / Hinterhornbach , p. 232 ff.

Web links

Commons : Hinterhornbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Contact details for the municipality at tirol.gv.at
• Entry on Hinterhornbach in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Hinterhornbach , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"
• History of Hinterhornbach by the DAV Donauwörth

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Anreiter, Christian Chapman, Gerhard Rampl: The community names of Tyrol: origin and meaning. Volume 17 of publications of the Tiroler Landesarchiv , Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0449-0 , section Hornbach (front, back) , p. 508 ff.
2. ↑ Provincial Law Gazette for Tyrol No. 26/1979 ( digitized version )
3. ↑ Tyrol Atlas: Coat of Arms of Tyrol - Hinterhornbach ( Memento from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )