Lermoos

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

Reutte

License plate :

RE

Surface:

56.41 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 24 ' N , 10 ° 53' E Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '0 " N , 10 ° 53' 0" E

Height :

1004 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,143 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

20 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

6631

Area code :

05673

Community code :

7 08 21

NUTS region

AT331

Address of the
municipal administration:

Unterdorf 15
6631 Lermoos

Website:

www.lermoos.tirol.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Stefan Lagg (Lermoos for everyone)

Municipal Council : (2016)
(13 members)

9 Lermoos for everyone, 4 village lists

Location of Lermoos in the Reutte district

Lermoos, view from the outskirts of Ehrwald

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Lermoos seen from the Zugspitze in winter (the Zugspitzeck is in the left foreground).

Lermoos is a municipality with 1143 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Reutte district in Tyrol ( Austria ). The community is located in the judicial district of Reutte .

geography

Lermoos is located on the western edge of the basin landscape of the Lermooser Moos through which the Loisach flows , a former swamp landscape, between the Lechtal Alps , the Ammergau Alps and the Wetterstein Mountains . The municipal area is 56.4 km², of which almost 10% is settled and 60% is forest.

Community structure

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

Lermoos (1064)
Upper garden (32)
Undergarden (47)

Neighboring communities

Berwang , Biberwier , Bichlbach , Ehrwald , Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Heiterwang , Nassereith , Reutte .

history

Lermoos is one of the oldest places in Ausserfern . It is first documented as "Larinmos" in the years 1073-1078 in a record of the Freising Monastery of the border in the Werdenfelser Land . At that time Lermoos belonged to the diocese of Brixen.

As early as the first century, a Roman road, the Via Claudia Augusta , ran through what is now the municipality . Due to its location on the important connection from northern Italy and from the salt deposits in Hall over the Fernpass to Bavaria and Swabia, Lermoos became economically very important in the Middle Ages. There was an intermediate warehouse there around 1500, and as early as 1318 a "new salt barn " was mentioned, which was replaced by a new building in 1678. This was dismantled in 2007 and partially rebuilt on the grounds of the Ehrenberg Castle World in the vicinity of the Ehrenberger Klause.

Further evidence of the town's heyday at that time is the establishment of its own post office at the beginning of the 16th century and a hospital and hospice in 1558.

With the expansion of the traffic routes over the Arlberg in the nineteenth century, the heyday of Lermoos came to an end, which was also reflected in the decline in the number of inhabitants: while the community still had 818 inhabitants in 1832, the number fell to 564 by 1900.

With the strong growth of tourism after the Second World War, it became the most important tourist community in Ausserfern. In the meantime (as of 2019) the statistics for Lermoos show over 600,000 overnight stays per year, which are roughly equally divided between the summer and winter seasons. Lermoos is part of the Tiroler Zugspitz-Arena tourism association and has its own ski area, Grubigstein, which is operated by the Langes mountain railways.

The origin of the place name is not completely clear; the name Larinmoos used in the first documentary mention could be derived from Lärchenmoos .

coat of arms

Since 1973 Lermoos has officially carried the coat of arms described as follows:

A seven-spoke black wheel in gold, following the shape of the shield in the lower half. The coat of arms symbolizes the history-defining importance of traffic for Lermoos.

politics

The municipal council has a total of 13 members.

With the municipal council and mayor elections in Tyrol in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 Lermoos for everyone, and 6 independent Lermoos.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Tyrol in 2016 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 9 Lermoos for everyone and 4 village lists.

mayor

2004–2016 Maria Zwölfer (Independent Lermoos)
since 2016 Stefan Lagg (Lermoos for Everyone)

traffic

Street: The 1984 opened Lermoostunnel relieves the City from the traffic.
Rail: The community is connected to the railway network via the Ausserfernbahn . Deutsche Bahn is currently operating the Ausserfernbahn with new regional trains of the 2442 series .
Cycle path: Lermoos is on the long-distance cycle path , which runs as Via Claudia Augusta along the ancient Roman road of the same name .

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church Lermoos hl. Catherine

Personalities

Johann Petz (1818–1880), sculptor
Josef Beyrer (1839–1924), sculptor
Walter Schuster (1929–2018), ski racer
Hilde Hofherr (* 1930), ski racer
Josef Rieder (1932–2019), ski racer
Gernot Langes-Swarovski (* 1943), honorary citizen
Bernadette Rauter (* 1949), ski racer
Josef Pechtl (* 1949), ski racer

Famous guests or residents

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : March 20, 1790 (diary of the Italian trip)
Christoph Probst : Member of the " White Rose "

gallery

Parts of Lermoos in the snow
Lermoos, sunny winter day
View from Lermoos to the Wetterstein Mountains
View from the Zugspitze to Ehrwald (front), Lermoos (middle right in front of the Grubigstein ) and Biberwier (left)

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Lermoos - travel guide

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 217-218, no. 245 .
↑ Ignaz Mader : The tower and the salt barn in Lermoos . In: Publications of the Museum Ferdinandeum . Vol. 12 (1932), pp. 233-238 (PDF, 440 KB).
↑ Fingernail-Grüll, Schmid-Pittl: Salzmagazin, Salzstadel. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
↑ Schumacher, Wiesauer: Salzstadel. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
^ Heinz Moser : Lermoos (local chronicles of the Tyrolean State Archives No. 40) . In: Tiroler Landesarchiv (Ed.): Ortschroniken des Tiroler Landesarchiv . tape 40 . Municipality of Lermoos, Innsbruck 1979, p. 22 .
^ Heinz Moser : Lermoos (local chronicles of the Tyrolean State Archives No. 40) . In: Tiroler Landesarchiv (Ed.): Ortschroniken des Tiroler Landesarchiv . tape 40 . Municipality of Lermoos, Innsbruck 1979, p. 82-84 .
^ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Regional Planning and Statistics Department: Tourism in Summer 2018 , page 28
^ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Regional Planning and Statistics Department: Tourism in Winter 2018/2019 , page 28
^ Heinz Moser : Lermoos (local chronicles of the Tyrolean State Archives No. 40) . In: Tiroler Landesarchiv (Ed.): Ortschroniken des Tiroler Landesarchiv . tape 40 . Municipality of Lermoos, Innsbruck 1979, p. 6 .

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

[2] Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 217-218, no. 245 .

[3] Ignaz Mader : The tower and the salt barn in Lermoos . In: Publications of the Museum Ferdinandeum . Vol. 12 (1932), pp. 233-238 (PDF, 440 KB).

[4] Fingernail-Grüll, Schmid-Pittl: Salzmagazin, Salzstadel. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 28, 2020 .

[5] Schumacher, Wiesauer: Salzstadel. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved May 28, 2020 .

[6] Heinz Moser : Lermoos (local chronicles of the Tyrolean State Archives No. 40) . In: Tiroler Landesarchiv (Ed.): Ortschroniken des Tiroler Landesarchiv . tape 40 . Municipality of Lermoos, Innsbruck 1979, p. 22 .

[7] Heinz Moser : Lermoos (local chronicles of the Tyrolean State Archives No. 40) . In: Tiroler Landesarchiv (Ed.): Ortschroniken des Tiroler Landesarchiv . tape 40 . Municipality of Lermoos, Innsbruck 1979, p. 82-84 .

[8] Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Regional Planning and Statistics Department: Tourism in Summer 2018 , page 28

[9] Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Regional Planning and Statistics Department: Tourism in Winter 2018/2019 , page 28

[10] Heinz Moser : Lermoos (local chronicles of the Tyrolean State Archives No. 40) . In: Tiroler Landesarchiv (Ed.): Ortschroniken des Tiroler Landesarchiv . tape 40 . Municipality of Lermoos, Innsbruck 1979, p. 6 .