Bach, Austria

Bach is a municipality with 669 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Reutte, Tyrol ( Austria ) and is part of the judicial district of Reutte.

Geography

Bach is located in the upper Lech Valley, it flow four rivers by the municipality, two large waters, which are the River Lech ( Tiroler Lech Nature Park ) and Alper Even Bach and two smaller water bodies: the Modertalbach and Sulzlbach. The altitude is 1070 meters.

Community structure

Stream consists of a single, same cadastral.

Bach ( 56.86 km ²)

Bach ( D)

Schönau (D)

Stockach (D)

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

  • M = center of the municipality
  • Stt = district
  • R = Rotte
  • W = hamlet
  • D = village
  • ZH = Scattered houses
  • Sdlg = settlement
  • E = bowery (only if they have their own locality code)

The complete list that uses the Statistics Austria, can be found at Topographic settlement Labelling according to STAT

Please note that some places may have different spellings. So Katastralgemeinden write differently than the same localities.

Source: Statistics Austria -

The settlement is formed by several hamlets and groups of farms, and consists of the districts: Kraichen, Sulzlbach, Schönau, Stockach Winkl, under Bach, Oberbach, Benglerwald, Seesumpf, Klapf and Unterbichl.

Neighboring communities

Borders the following municipalities: Elbigenalp, Gramais, Haselgehr, Holzgau, Emperor and Zams.

History

The place Bach was first documented in 1427. Decorated houses frescoes recall the previous seasonal workers in the Lech Valley, who went abroad. The municipality of Bach in the Lech Valley How often the case was settled very late. To get new land and new farms, commissioned landowner farmers to clear land and this then to get in a particular fief ratio.

Bach was under the court Ehrenberg and was assigned there in 1500 the legal profession Mitter- Lech Valley. In court Ehrenberg political communities were designated as parishes in 1649, where Bach was part of the parish Elbigenalp. Until 1854 Bach was always referred to as Stockach, only in the following period the municipality name Bach was common.

Coat of arms

Blazon: Argent, a right blue wave oblique beams with three silver springs upward and right- turned- fish.

The awarded on October 30, 1973 municipal coat of arms symbolized as canting arms the place name.

Tourism and economy

Bach is a two seasonal tourism community. The town is the starting point for many hikes (eg in the Madautal valley, the Val di Sole, a lift to 2226 m high Jöchelspitze ). In summer you can stream many of pastures and huts hike (eg Madau, Sulzlalm, Baumgartalm, Sonnalm, Frederic Simmshütte, Memminger Hütte, Ansbacher Hütte, Württemberg house). Furthermore, lead some topics and long-distance hiking trails through Bach:

  • European Route E5 branches off into the Madautal valley with creek.
  • Since July 2012, the distance footpath passes - Lechweg by Bach.
  • The Lech Valley Panorama Trail leads from the top station of the Jöchelspitzbahn to Bernhardseck.
  • Botanical trail leads from the top station of the Lech Valley lifts to nearby laugh and head directly to the Lech Valley Heuberg Museum.

In winter there are numerous trails and a Nordic WISBI training track. This is a training slope with permanent timekeeping. Two additional trails ( 1.5 and 5 km) are in the meadows between Bach and Stockach with a timekeeping available. Of course, the community also lives by the resort Jöchelspitze or the nearby ski resort Warth.

In Bach there are many hotels, grocery stores, taverns and businesses. But it also commute to their workplaces, many residents of the community in the surrounding villages or to Reutte.

Images of Bach

Holy Nepomuk on the Lech bridge

Views of the parish church

The turquoise - blue Lech in Bach

Klotz Chapel with Gendenktafeln ( direction Madautal valley )

Village square with a fountain (autumn)

Parish Bach

View of Bach in the Lech Valley

Looking creek and on the Lech Valley Alps (Winter)

Culture and sights

  • Parish Church of Our Lady Immaculate Cleaning: The church was built in 1790-1792 and is like almost all the Lech Valley churches on a rock safely over the waters of the Lech. 1992/93 an interior renovation was carried out and the original baroque condition restored. Set next to the cemetery and cemetery chapel and a war memorial.
  • The Lech bridge at the church as cable-stayed bridge was rebuilt in 2009 after the 2005 flood. Here, the parsonage was demolished.
  • Seesumpfkapelle
  • Antoniuskapelle
  • Local chapel Schönau
  • Expositurkirche St. Joseph in Oberstockach
  • Klotz Chapel and Cemetery
  • Heuberg Museum on the Jöchelspitze
  • Modertal waterfall Seesumpf

Personalities

  • Anselm Klotz from the district Stockach defeated for the first time from the free tip and 1875 Parseierspitze of the Lech valley side.
  • Josef Alois Knittel (1814-1875), the Freiburg sculptor was born in the district Oberbach.
  • Charles Selb (1760-1819), painter and lithographer from Unterstockach, teacher of Anton Falger (1791-1876), also a painter and lithographer.
  • Toni Knittel ( b. 1963 ), artist name Bluatschink, is a well-known singer, songwriter and author of the musicals Knight Rüdiger and the known Lechtalmesse.
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