Elbigenalp

Elbigenalp ( Lechtalerisch also called " Duarf ") is a municipality in the district Reutte in Tirol, Austria with 849 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). It is 33.09 km ² and is situated at 1,039 m above sea level. The municipality is located in the judicial district of Reutte.

Location

The community is located approximately in the middle of the Lech Valley. The municipality is formed by various villages and Rotten along the Lech valley road, namely Köglen, Elbigenalp, Untergiblen, Obergrünau, sub Grunau and Obergiblen.

Neighboring communities

Bach, Haselgehr, Hinterhornbach, Holzgau.

History

The name derives from Eelbigen Alp = " elmige Alpe ," meaning " elm -covered Alps " from. Was first documented in Elbigenalp 1312. Since that time, the place is political and ecclesiastical center of a large parish in the Lech Valley. Elbigenalp is also famous for its houses with frescoes and stucco work, reminiscent of the bricklayers and plasterers who worked abroad.

Coat of arms

Blazon: On black Dreienberg a green elm tree in silver plate.

The coat of arms granted in 1972 symbolized as canting arms the place name ( " elm -covered Alps ").

Economy

Elbigenalp is also known for its wood carvings. It is there that only wood carving of Austria ( since 1951). One of the biggest CD and DVD pressing plants in Europe, kdg mediatech (formerly Koch Records ), took Elbigenalp of its output.

Culture and sights

  • Parish Church of St. Nicholas in an open field surrounded by the cemetery Elbigenalp.
  • Mount of Olives Chapel St.. Cross north of the village on a rocky outcrop
  • Chapel St.. Sebastian in Griesau
  • Chapel St.. Anna in Obergrünau
  • Chapel St.. Josef in sub Grunau
  • Museum with the estate of the lithograph Anton Falger in the municipal office. Originally from Elbigenalp painter, engraver and lithographer Anton Falger has painted two Totentanz cycles for his hometown.
  • The first is a composite of 18 tablets of wood framed panel paintings ( 108x272 cm ), which hangs on the east wall of the chapel above the stairs to the charnel house today; on the wood frame of each panel, the doomed person is named and written dialogue with death. Some boards are signed, some dated to 1840. Because it is the main work of the artist, the persons to be called Pope, King, artist, judge, citizen, soldier, child, mother, doctor, boy, bride, grandmother, Farmer, rich, beggars, murderers, maid, gravediggers.
  • The second dance of death consists of 14 frames, which are pairwise painted in 7 niches on the wall plaster; here there is no scenes with citizens, boy, grandmother and murderers. The artist has deliberately taken up the tradition of the dance of death at the cemetery wall. Signatures or datings are no longer visible; the development time must be earlier than 1876.

Personalities

In Obergiblen the painter Joseph Anton Koch was born in 1768. In Elbigenalp even the lithographer Falger Anton (1791-1876) was born, who was trained by the painter Charles Selb from Unterstockach and later Engelbert Kolp (1840-1877) and Koch's nephew Joseph Alois Knittel gave drawing lessons. The life of Knittel's niece Anna Stainer - Knittel (1841-1915) in turn was the inspiration for the novel " The Geierwally ".

  • Joseph Michael Schnöller (1707-1767), builder and architect
  • Nicholas Falger (1888-1960), politician of the CS, Member of Parliament 1926-1927
  • Franz Josef Lang (1894-1975), Austrian pathologist and professor at the University of Innsbruck
  • Peter Kaufmann (born 1970 ), Austrian musician and, among others, from 1990 to 2007 mate of the band Toni Knittel project Bluatschink
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