Weer

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Tyrol

Political District :

black

License plate :

SZ

Surface:

5.6 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 18 ' N , 11 ° 39' E Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '19 " N , 11 ° 38' 44" E

Height :

558 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,610 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

6116

Area code :

05224

Community code :

7 09 37

NUTS region

AT335

UN / LOCODE

AT TWR

Address of the
municipal administration:

Dorfstrasse 4
6116 Weer

Website:

www.weer.at

politics

Mayor :

Markus Zijerveld

Municipal Council : (2016)
(13 members)

10 General Weerer List
3 We for Weer are socially - independent - different

Location of Weer in the Schwaz district

Weer from the south

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Weer is a municipality with 1610 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Schwaz district in Tyrol ( Austria ). The community is located in the judicial district of Schwaz .

geography

The clustered village is located on the eastern part of the Murkegel des Weerbach at an altitude of 558 meters. The Weerbach (a small side stream of the Inn ) rises in the Tuxer Voralpen and forms the border between the districts of Schwaz and Innsbruck-Land as well as between the two communities Weer and Kolsass. South of the village in the Tux Alps lies the Geiseljoch , over which a road that is closed to public traffic leads into the Tuxertal .

Of the community area (561 hectares), around 330 hectares are used intensively for agriculture.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (alphabetically): Kolsass , Kolsassberg , Pill , Terfens and Weerberg .

history

There are numerous prehistoric finds in the area. Many old court and field names also indicate later Roman settlement. From Innsbruck, the Roman road led down the Inn Valley , including through Weer.

Around 550 the Bavarians invaded the Weer area from the Tyrolean Lower Inn Valley. The place name, probably derived from a Celto-Illyrian language root, was first mentioned in a document in 1075. Like the entire Schwazer Bergrevier, Weer experienced a heyday in the 16th century. A gold panning was operated in Weer around 1500, and a smelter was in operation for the iron extracted on the Kolsassberg . In the 16th century, the floodplains on the Inn began to be cleared, which doubled the number of farms.

Weer was a farming village until the Second World War . As a result of the industrialization in the Wattens and Schwaz area, there was a lot of building activity, and so numerous residential buildings were built in the districts of Gries and Weerer Ebene. Weer is therefore a popular community today, so there are more outbound than inbound commuters.

Culture and sights

Weer, parish church Sankt Gallus

See also: List of listed objects in Weer

Personalities

Veit Graber (1844-1892), zoologist

Individual evidence

↑ homepage Gem. Weer , accessed on January 20, 2014
^ Agathe Gaisböck: Contribution to the settlement and economic history of the lower Inn Valley. History of the communities Weer and Weerberg , in: Tiroler Heimat 6, 1933, pp. 48–127.

Web links

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

History-Tyrol: Weer

70937 - Weer. Community data, Statistics Austria .

[1] Gem. Weer , accessed on January 20, 2014

[2] Agathe Gaisböck: Contribution to the settlement and economic history of the lower Inn Valley. History of the communities Weer and Weerberg , in: Tiroler Heimat 6, 1933, pp. 48–127.