Mittelberg (Vorarlberg)

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Mittelberg
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Mittelberg (Vorarlberg) (Austria)
Mittelberg (Vorarlberg)
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Vorarlberg
Political District : Bregenz
License plate : B.
Main town : Mittelberg
Surface: 96.85 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 19 '  N , 10 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 19 '22 "  N , 10 ° 9' 20"  E
Height : 1200  m above sea level A.
Residents : 5,054 (Jan 1, 2020)
Postcodes : 6991, 6992, 6993 (Austria)
87567, 87568, 87569 (Germany)
Area code : 05517
Community code : 8 02 28
NUTS region AT341
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Walserstraße 52
A-6991 Riezlern
Website: www.gde-mittelberg.at
politics
Mayor : Andi Haid ( ÖVP )
Local council : (2015)
(24 members)
12
3
6th
3
12 3 6th 3 
A total of 24 seats
  • ÖVP : 12
  • FPÖ : 3
  • Walser List: 6
  • Pro Kleinwalsertal: 3
Location of Mittelberg in the Bregenz district
Alberschwende Andelsbuch Au Bezau Bildstein Bizau Bregenz Buch Damüls Doren Egg Eichenberg Fußach Gaißau Hard Hittisau Höchst Hörbranz Hohenweiler Kennelbach Krumbach Langen bei Bregenz Langenegg Lauterach Lingenau Lochau Mellau Mittelberg Möggers Reuthe Riefensberg Schnepfau Schoppernau Schröcken Schwarzach Schwarzenberg Sibratsgfäll Sulzberg Warth Wolfurt VorarlbergLocation of the community of Mittelberg (Vorarlberg) in the Bregenz district (clickable map)
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The Kleinwalsertal
The Kleinwalsertal
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria
Mittelberg, taken around 1900
Residential building

Mittelberg is a municipality in Austria in Vorarlberg in the judicial district of Bezau , Bregenz district with 5054 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) and, like Lech , Damüls or Ebnit, is one of the Vorarlberg Walser villages . As a geographical exclave, it is identical to the Kleinwalsertal .

geography

Mittelberg can only be reached by road via Bavaria , i.e. the national territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, and is therefore also referred to as a functional exclave .

Mittelberg is located in the Allgäu Alps , which are part of the northern Eastern Alps. The highest point is the Great Widderstein ( 2536  m ). The Kleinwalsertal is cut off from the rest of Austria's territory.

The Breitach is the largest stream in the municipality. It flows through all three villages and absorbs the water from the side streams. In Mittelberg, streams like Derrabach, Turabach, Bärgundbach, Gemstelbach and Wildenbach feed the Breitach and its side streams.

The main mountains of Mittelberg include:

Community structure

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

The municipality consists of the only cadastral municipality Mittelberg and includes the three localities or counting districts and villages Hirschegg , Mittelberg with Baad (this village is usually run as a separate municipality part) and Riezlern (main town).

structure
Cadastral communities Locations in the municipality

Mittelberg (96.82 km²)

Hirschegg (D)

Au (R)
Dürenboden (R)
Last (W)
Secondary water (R)
Oberwäldele (R)
Tube (R)
Side (R)
Tobel (W)
Wäldele (ZH)

Mittelberg (D)

Maple (R)
Alpine forest (ZH)
Baad (D)
Bödmen (R)
Gemstelboden (R)
Höfle (R)
Tube (R)
Schwendle (R)
Support (R)
Tobel (R)

Riezlern (D)

Egg (R)
Kesselschwand (W)
Klausenwald (R)
Schwand (R)
Schwende (R)
Side (R)
Straussberg (ZH)
Forest (R)
Westegg (R)
Zwerwald (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

The municipality of Mittelberg borders on five municipalities in Vorarlberg, which all belong to the Bregenz district and are parts of the Bregenzerwald , whereby Schröcken and Warth, as belonging to the Tannberg, are already oriented towards the Arlberg region . The only neighboring German community is Oberstdorf, which borders Mittelberg from north to south-east.

Oberstdorf ( Lkr. Oberallgäu , RegBez. Schwaben , BY ,  DE )

Bezau
Schoppernau

Neighboring communities
Warth

history

The region was settled in 1270 by the Walsers who came from Switzerland and belong to the Alemanni ethnic group. Due to this origin, the inhabitants still differ from those of the surrounding communities in terms of language. Their dialect is assigned to the highest Alemannic dialects, while in the Allgäu a Lower Alemannic dialect and in the rest of Vorarlberg a High Alemannic dialect (Vorarlbergerisch) is spoken.

Population development

The population fell between 1991 and 2001 due to a negative birth balance (−180) and a negative migration balance (−141). From 2001 to 2011 there was a very high level of immigration.

politics

Community representation

Municipal council election 2015
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
47.17
(-0.46)
15.02
(-16.12)
12.95
(-8.28)
25.22
( n. K. )
PROKW
WL
 

The community council consists of 24 members. After the municipal council and mayoral elections in 2015 :

  • 12 mandates for Mayor Andi Haid and open citizen list VP Kleinwalsertal  ( ÖVP )
  • 06 mandates Walser list
  • 03 mandates of the Free Walser Citizens List  ( FPÖ )
  • 03 mandates Initiative Pro Kleinwalsertal

Acting mayor of the community is Andi Haid from the ÖVP , who was confirmed in office in the direct mayor election 2015 with 76.4% of the votes.

Community name and coat of arms

Since the village of Mittelberg was the first of the three villages in Kleinwalsertal to be settled, and later to be the seat of the court (but the seat of the court was ultimately Hirschegg ), the community bears the name Mittelberg. The nominal municipality capital today is not Mittelberg, but Riezlern . There have been efforts in the past to change the community name to Kleinwalsertal . On the one hand, this is due to the fact that the other two localities have developed equally, and on the other hand, that the name Kleinwalsertal, in contrast to Mittelberg , has established itself in the population. However, these efforts have not been able to prevail to this day.

Coat of arms at Mittelberg.png
Coat of arms of the community of Mittelberg.gif

Blazon (coat of arms description):

“A blue shield from the bottom of which rises a rock on which stands an erect, natural ibex ; behind the rock is a high, green mountain cone that converges to a point. Rocks and mountain cones are overgrown with leg pines .
The shield is surrounded by a bronze-colored, ornamented border . "

The coat of arms shown on the right is the representation used by the municipality. It does not precisely follow the blazon. The left is a heraldically correct form, which is shown by the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv. In both illustrations, only the shield, not the frame, is redrawn.

The coat of arms is the former coat of arms of the Mittelberg court , so the Kleinwalsertal - unlike some Großwalsertal communities - does not have the Walserstern. The ibex has been found in the seal of the “freyen Walser court” since 1431. It was confirmed as the municipal coat of arms on April 5, 1929 by the Vorarlberg state government.

The ibex as heraldic animal is also used by Sonntag  (1966), Dünserberg  (1969), Bürserberg  (1970) and St. Gerold  (1970), as well as - not Walser - in Vorarlberg also Hohenems .

Economy and Infrastructure

Due to its geographical location, the municipality was connected to the German economic area in 1891 as a customs connection area.

tourism

Walmendingerhornbahn

The Walmendingerhornbahn , built in 1966, opens up a 43 km hiking area in summer and a ski area with two additional chairlifts in winter. The valley station is not far from the center of Mittelberg at 1200  m above sea level. A. The mountain railway ends at 1996  m above sea level. A. just below the summit of the Walmendingerhorn .

education

In the community there are elementary schools in Mittelberg, Hirschegg and Riezlern, as well as a middle school with an adjoining polytechnic school. There is also a special school in the Riezlern school center.

Club sport

Because of the geographic location, some sports clubs take part in games in Germany. The women's table tennis team of the SV Casino Kleinwalsertal competed in the Bavarian League in the 1980s and even became champion of the 2nd German Bundesliga in 2003.

Culture and sights

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

People related to the community

Web links

Commons : Mittelberg (Vorarlberg)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Mittelberg, population development. Retrieved March 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Wording and coat of arms: 96 municipal coats of arms ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.at archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Catalog for the exhibition Bregenz, Landhaus, June 16 to July 4, 2008, p. 45 (pdf, vorarlberg.at)
  4. ↑ See also Otto Stolz: Historical news about the occurrence of ibex in Tyrol and Vorarlberg. In: Publications of the Ferdinandeum 2, Chapter Large and Small Walsertal (Vorarlberg) , p. 14 (full article, p. 3–19, PDF on ZOBODAT , p. 12 there).
  5. ^ Ulrich Nachbaur , Vorarlberger Landesarchiv: Steinbock und Sterne - Walsertum and municipal coat of arms . Lecture, conference WALSERspuren - 700 years of Walser in Vorarlberg on September 17 and 18, 2012 in Bregenz ( Weblink, vorarlberger-walservereinigung.at) ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberger-walservereinigung.at
  6. ↑ a b How the ibex returned to the Kleinwalsertal . In: Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt online
  7. ↑ From forest fir trees to Walser stars ( memento of the original from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.gv.at archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , vorarlberg.at · Landesarchiv · Exhibitions · 96 municipal coats of arms
  8. ↑ DTS magazine , 1988/8 - dts regional / south p. 2