Wangle

Wangle
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Reutte
License plate :	RE
Surface:	9.33 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 29 '  N , 10 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '13 "  N , 10 ° 41' 20"  E
Height :	882  m above sea level A.
Residents :	930 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	100 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6610
Area code :	05672
Community code :	7 08 35
Address of the municipal administration:	Oberdorf 4 6610 Wängle
Website:	www.waengle.at
politics
Mayor :	Christian Mueller
Municipal Council : (2016) (11 members)	4 AWG - Together for Wängle, 4 Active Citizens Representation Wängle, 3 New Wängler Citizen List
Location of Wängle in the Reutte district
View of Wängle
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Wängle is a municipality with 930 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Reutte district in Tyrol ( Austria ).

location

Wängle is located west of Reutte in the Reutten basin at the foot of the Hahnenkamm skiing and hiking area . It is one of the oldest settlement areas in Ausserfern . The cluster village has largely grown together with the surrounding hamlets. The village Hinterbichl forms a municipality of Lechaschau lying exclave of the municipality.

Neighboring communities

Höfen , Lechaschau , Musau , Nesselwängle and Weißenbach am Lech .

Community structure

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

• Hinterbichl (35)
• Wooden (164)
• Wangle (556)
• Winkl (175)

Districts are Hinterbichl, Holz, Niederwängle and Winkl.

history

Wängle was first mentioned in a document in 1278. For a long time it was the parish center of the parishes on the western side of the Lech.

In 2007/2008 the postcode was changed from 6600 to 6610. Wängle is the first municipality in the Reutten valley basin with its own postcode.

coat of arms

Blazon : In blue, a black robed Saint Martin riding on a silver horse over a green shield base, sharing a red cloak with the sword.

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1976, shows the church patron and reminds of the importance of the region as a former ecclesiastical center.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Wängle

Sports

In 2005 the Ski Speed ​​World Championship took place in the Reuttener Seilbahnen ski area.

Economy and Infrastructure

Wängle is on the sunny side of the Reutte holiday region in a quiet location. Many hiking and Nordic walking trails lead along the edge of the valley basin or over footpaths into the hiking area of ​​the Hahnenkamm.

Huts & Alms: Gehrenalpe, Lechaschauer Alpe, Schneetalalm, Höfener Alm, Cillyhütte (in winter: Cillyhütte and Singerhütte).

Wängle is on the long-distance cycle path , which runs as the Via Claudia Augusta along an ancient Roman road of the same name .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Ignaz Zangerle (1905–1987), adult educator
• Harti Weirather (* 1958), downhill world champion from 1982

Web links

Commons : Wängle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 70835 - Wängle. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Wängle , in the history database ofthe association "fontes historiae - sources of history"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Wängle. State of Tyrol, March 14, 2010, accessed on January 5, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Results of the 2016 municipal council elections in Wängle. State of Tyrol, February 28, 2016, accessed on January 5, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
5. ^ Eduard Widmoser: Tiroler Wappenfibel . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1978, ISBN 3-7022-1324-4 , p. 69 .