Reith im Alpbachtal
Reith in the Alpbach Valley is a municipality with 2699 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Kufstein in Tyrol ( Austria ). The municipality is located in the judicial district of rats mountain.
Geographical Location
The place is located at the entrance to the Alpbach Valley, which branches off from the Lower Inn Valley at Brixlegg. The municipal area extends from the Inn valley floor up to the border with the municipality of Alpbach and the Kerschbaumersattel ( border to the Ziller Valley) up.
The center with the lake Lake Reith is located on a wide high terrace at the entrance. Lake Reith and Egelsee are characteristic funnel-shaped depressions in the plateau, which are probably caused by the glacial leaching of gypsum lenses.
By Einhöfe scattered in far-flung municipality, the municipality has one of the largest freight route networks Tyrol. Result, the municipal budget is heavily loaded.
Community structure
The municipality comprises the three villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):
- Hygna ( 370)
- Reith in the Alpbach Valley ( 2126 )
- Scheffach (172 )
The municipality comprises the cadastral Hygna, Reith and Scheffach.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring municipalities are: Alpbach, Brixlegg, Bruck am Ziller, Hart im Zillertal, Kramsach, Münster, Strass im Zillertal.
History
Reith is a very old settlement, which is already being first mentioned around 976. In the 15th - 19th Century was operated in the area of the Reither Kogel ( 1336 m) at St. Gertraudi silver mining and copper mining. The degradation has long been the largest to Schwaz silver and copper mine in Tyrol. The mining industry is set, there are still large reserves of barite, their degradation, however, due to global competition currently not worth it.
From 1952 to 1976, the community was called Reith bei Brixlegg, changed its name but - especially for reasons of tourism - in Reith in the Alpbach valley. In addition to agriculture today, especially tourism plays a role, which are distributed about equally to the winter and summer season nights.
1979 Reith in the Alpbach valley was named by the Entente Florale Europe "The most beautiful flower village of Europe ". This award was based on the wonderful balcony flower arrangements, which is still one of the most beautiful in the Tyrolean lowlands, as well as the manicured flower islands in the local area and the beautiful townscape as a whole.
Since 2012 there is the " Hildegard of Bingen - Garden ", which is cherished by the local Hildegard -von -Bingen Club, a watchable herb garden, which can be visited at any time. For groups, there are also tours by appointment.
Culture and sights
- Parish Church of St. Peter with cemetery chapel Sts. Michael and Margaretha
- Widum north-west of the parish church
- Branch Church of St. Gertraud in St. Gertraudi
- Chapel in Hygna
- Castle ruins Kropfsberg
- Schloss Matzen
- Matzenpark
Traffic
Reith is for tourists who want to go on holiday in Alpbach, inevitable. At the site passes a country road, there are two branches themselves The highway leads on the one hand through a tunnel directly to Brixlegg, on the other side directly to Alpbach and Inner Alpbach.
Another road leads from Reith made also to Brixlegg, it is, however, curvier and steeper.
From Reith from a cable car runs to the Reither Kogel. Makes in winter from a small portion of the ski resort Alpbach and is used for summer hiking.
Personalities
- Anna Stöhr (* 1988), Sportkletterin
- Andreas Kapfinger ( b. 1977 ), member of the Austrian Paralympic Ski Team