Lechtal

The upper Lech Valley

The Lech Valley is an Alpine valley in Austria, which belongs to a large part to the Tyrol and to a lesser extent to Vorarlberg and Bavaria. It is drained by the Lech.

Geography

Geographical Location

Geographically, the Lech Valley is bounded on the south by the Lech Valley Alps and in the north of the Allgäu Alps, the headwaters of the Lechquellengebirge.

From Lech Valley several side valleys branch off, including the left side of the Hornbachtal and the Tannheim Valley. Dexter joins a street with Stan Zach Berwang and Bichlbach by the Namlostal. By Bschlabertal leads to Bschlabs, soil and Hahntennjoch to Imst. The Gramaistal and the Kaiser are also right-hand side valleys of the Lech valley. In feet, it goes into the Bavarian Alpine foothills.

Structure

• The headwaters of the Lech in Vorarlberg includes the villages of Lech and Warth, it is expected to Tannberggebiet
• The Tyrolean Lech Valley with its side valleys includes large parts of the Außerfern (district Reutte ). The hot villages in the valley: Steeg, Hägerau, Holzgau, Stockach, Bach, Elbigenalp, Haselgehr, Elmen, Martinau, Vorderhornbach, Stan Zach, Forchach, Hornberg, Reutte, Breitenwang, Pflach Musau. The villages in the side valleys are Caesar's, Gramais, Bschlabs, soil, Hinterhornbach, Namlos, Heiterwang, and Vils and Tannheim / young wood ( at the top Vils).
• In trampling the valley in the Bavarian foothills of the Alps

Economy

The upper Lech valley in Vorarlberg is regarded as well-known ski resort ( here are the ski resorts of Zürs and Lech), while the rest of the valley is rather touristy little developed. Industrial and commercial areas are mainly in the Reutte basin available.

Dialect

The Austrian Lech Valley is characterized by an unusual dialect situation, which divided the Lech Valley in three quite different dialect regions. The municipalities in the top valley up to and including Steeg and Emperor belong to the maximum Alemannic. The center of Lech Valley Holzgau to Stan Zach is assigned to the Bavarian dialect region. In the lower valley from Forchach finally, in the east to Lähn (municipality Bichlbach ) outweigh Swabian dialect identifier. The Highest Alemannic and Swabian region are part of the Alemannic dialect area (see also border towns of Alemannic dialect area ).

National Park / Nature Reserve

In Tyrol's Lech Valley a national park Tyrolean Lech Valley was planned. It should cover an area of ​​4138 hectares. Since 1997, specific efforts underway, the Lechauen and its side valleys were to explain to a national park. In 2000, the area was reported as Natura 2000 to the European Commission in Brussels (European Reserve Lech Valley ). In early February 2003, the official review process for a National Park Act Tyrolean Lech Valley was initiated. Finally, the decision was made for a nature park and at an internationally recognized National Park, among other things because of conflicts with hunting. However, the Tyrolean provincial government decided in 2004 instead the establishment of a nature reserve and awarded at the same time the predicate Nature Park ( Tiroler Lech Nature Park ).

Flora and Fauna

Worth mentioning are the intra-Alpine river landscape with juniper trees, with the holdings of German tamarisk ( Myricaria germanica ), the abundance of birds and at least 1160 documented flowering plants.