Pflach

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Pflach
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Pflach (Austria)
Pflach
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Tyrol
Political District : Reutte
License plate : RE
Surface: 13.77 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 31 '  N , 10 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '50 "  N , 10 ° 42' 59"  E
Height : 840  m above sea level A.
Residents : 1,446 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 105 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 6600
Area code : 05672
Community code : 7 08 26
NUTS region AT331
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Kohlplatz 7
6600 Pflach
Website: www.pflach.at
politics
Mayor : Helmut Schönherr (community list Pflach)
Municipal Council : (2016)
(13 members)

8 Community list Pflach - Mayor Helmut Schönherr, 5 Together for the future

Location of Pflach in the Reutte district
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Pflach is a municipality with 1,446 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Reutte district in Tyrol ( Austria ). It belongs to the judicial district of Reutte .

geography

The municipality of Pflach is located at 840 m above sea level in the Reutten basin and extends over an area of ​​13.8 km².

Pflach is an elongated row village about 2 km north of Reutte . The out-commuter community has experienced settlement expansion and densification.

Community structure

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

  • Pflach (905)
  • Top last (440)
  • Lower last (101)
structure
Cadastral communities Locations in the municipality

Oberletzen (1.51 km²)
Pflach (11.27 km²)
Unterletzen (1.06 km²)

Top last (D)

Wiesbichl (Sdlg)

Pflach (D)

Hüttenbichl (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 -

The municipality was expanded to include Oberletzen in 1974 (previously an exclave of the municipality of Wängle ) and in 1981 by Unterletzen (previously municipality of Musau ). In 2011 Oberletzen had 321 inhabitants, Pflach 860 and Unterletzen 75.

Neighboring communities

Lechaschau , Musau , Pinswang , Reutte

in Germany: Schwangau

history

Pflach in 1962

The place was first mentioned in 1275 as "Plech", which is derived from the Middle High German vlach (level). Iron ore has been mined in tunnels on the 2048  m high Säuling since the Middle Ages. In 1509, the Höchstätter trading family from Augsburg founded a brass smelting works that rose to Western European importance in the 16th century. The area was converted into a large mill in 1606 by Burkhard Laymann, caretaker of the fortress and lordship of Ehrenberg , which remained important into the 20th century.

On August 23, 2005, like the Whitsun flood from May 21 to 23, 1999 , the place was hit by a severe flood.

coat of arms

Blazon : shield quartered in black and gold, in the first and fourth fields the Ulrich's cross, in the second and third the mining symbol Schlegel and Eisen in confused colors.

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1976, commemorates the mining industry and, with the Ulrich cross , of the Hüttenmühl chapel, which was built in 1515 and consecrated to Saints Ulrich and Afra .

Economy and Infrastructure

Pflach is on Fernpassstraße  and is connected to the rail network via a stop on the Ausserfernbahn . At the same time, it is on a long-distance cycle path that runs as the Via Claudia Augusta along an ancient Roman road of the same name .

Culture and sights

  • Subsidiary Church of the Three Kings
  • Hüttenmühlkapelle Hll. Ulrich and Afra (Ulrichskirche)
  • Chapel at the military cemetery
  • Mariahilfkapelle in Oberletzen (consecrated to St. Vitus, Modestum and Kreszenzia)
  • Chapel of Christ at the Scourge Column in Unterletzen
  • Railway bridge of the Ausserfernbahn over the Lech

Personalities

Town twinning

FranceFrance Sérézin-du-Rhône in France since 1988

literature

  • G. Mutschlechner, R. Palme: The brass factory in Pflach near Reutte - an important industrial company at the beginning of the modern era. Series Ausserferner Schriften , RTW Verlag, Reutte 1976

Web links

Commons : Pflach  - 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: Municipality: Pflach. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
  3. ^ Eduard Widmoser: Tiroler Wappenfibel . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-7022-1324-4 , p. 68 .