Brandenberg
Brandberg is a municipality with 1551 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the Tyrol. It consists of the village of Brandberg and the more northerly district of Aschau, was first documented in 1140 and already forms since the beginning of the 19th century an independent municipality.
Geography
Location
Brandenberg is located in the Valley of the Brandenberger Ache within the jurisdiction in rats and mountain ranges in the north to the German border.
Community structure
The municipality comprises the cadastral Brandenberg and includes the following two places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):
- Aschau ( 384 )
- Brandenberg ( 1167 )
Brandenberg ( 130.18 km ²)
Aschau (D)
Brandenberg ( 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 -
Neighboring communities
Neighboring municipalities are Achenkirch, Breitenbach am Inn, Kramsach, Kramsach and Thiersee in Austria and Kreuth and Rottach -Egern in Germany.
Economy
Since the High Middle Ages a continuous agricultural use can be established, and today have in addition to tourism, especially hunting and forestry importance. Relics from the time of drift wood found throughout Brandenberger valley, which was a center of the timber industry until 1966. Best known are the Archduke - Johann -Klause, the Tiefenbach and the Kaiserklamm.
A specialty of the place is the Prügeltorte.
Culture and sights
- Parish Church of St. Georg
- Branch Church Our Lady of Sorrows in Aschau
- Hubertus chapel at the Archduke - Johann -Klause
Personalities
- Andrae Rupprechter (* 1961), German Federal Minister for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management