Steeg (Tyrol)

Steeg

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

Reutte

License plate :

RE

Surface:

67.95 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 15 ' N , 10 ° 18' E Coordinates: 47 ° 14 '33 " N , 10 ° 17' 40" E

Height :

1122 m above sea level A.

Residents :

662 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

6655

Area code :

05633

Community code :

7 08 31

NUTS region

AT331

Address of the
municipal administration:

Steeg 30
6655 Steeg

Website:

www.steeg.tirol.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Günther Walch ( community list )

Municipal Council : (2016)
(11 members)

11 Church List

Location of Steeg in the Reutte district

Aerial view of the upper Lech Valley
(in the foreground Steeg, then Hägerau , Holzgau )

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Steeg is a municipality with 662 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Reutte district in Tyrol ( Austria ).

geography

Steeg is the first place in the uppermost Tyrolean Lech Valley and the westernmost place in the Reutte district .

The community area covers 6,799.76 hectares, of which are:

11.82 hectares of construction area
391.89 ha used for agriculture
3,253.16 hectares of Alps (mountain pastures and alpine pastures)
1,444.19 hectares of forest
44.34 hectares of water
36.63 ha federal road
1,617.73 hectares of other areas
- 10.89 hectares of trails
- 0.08 ha cemetery
- 0.60 ha sports field
- 2.36 hectares of various sites
- 1,603.80 hectares unproductive

Community structure

Steeg consists of a single cadastral municipality of the same name or five localities (residents as of January 1, 2020):

Dickenau (95)
Haegerau (185)
Dorsal elbow (73)
Lechleiten (65)
Steeg (244)

The districts are several villages and hamlets , such as Walchen, Hägerau , Ebene, Dickenau, Steeg, Hinterellenbogen, Prenten , at the end of the Lech Gorge are Lechleiten and Gehren (both belong to the diocese of Feldkirch ).

Neighboring communities

Warth ( Bregenz district )	Oberstdorf (Bavaria)
Lech ( Bludenz district )		Holzgau
		Emperor

history

Steeg was first mentioned in a document in 1427. The first settlers were the Walsers , who fled their old homeland.

Population development

politics

The municipal council has 11 members.

In the 2016 municipal council elections, the municipal list received 11 seats.

mayor

since May 16, 1999 Günther Walch (community list)

coat of arms

A black arch bridge spans a vertical, silver wavy ribbon on a green surface. This represents the river crossing mentioned in the late Middle Ages, after which the municipality was named.

Culture and sights

Parish church Steeg

Catholic branch church hll. Sebastian and Rochus in Hägerau

Parish church Steeg , 1122 m above sea level
Hägerau Church, 1107 m
Lechleiten chapel, 1539 m
Gehren Chapel, 1465 m

economy

The central dairy for the upper Lech Valley is located in Steeg. There are a total of 33 livestock farms (including 27 cattle farms).
In 2010, tourism generated an overnight volume of 86,743 overnight stays for tourism companies.

traffic

From Steeg, the Lechtalstraße B 198 leads uphill to the Vorarlberg community of Warth and further over the Hochtannbergpass into the Bregenzerwald and down the valley to the district capital Reutte .
The road to Kaisers branches off from Steeg to the south .