Mittelberg

Mittelberg is a municipality in the district of Bregenz in Vorarlberg Austria with 4921 inhabitants (December 31, 2013). It is as a geographical enclave identical to the small valley.

2.1 Population development

3.1 Municipal Council
3.2 municipality name and coat of arms

4.1 Tourism
4.2 Education
4.3 Club Sport

Geography

Mittelberg is on road users to connect through Bavaria, ie the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, achievable, and is therefore also known as Functional exclave.

Mittelberg in the Allgäu Alps, which are a part of the northern Eastern Alps. The highest elevation is the Great Aries Stone ( 2,536 m). From them the Kleinwalsertal against the rest of the country of Austria is cut off.

The Breitach is the largest river in the municipality. It flows through all three towns and takes the water from the tributaries on. In Mittelberg feed streams as Derrabach, Turabach, Bärgundbach, Gemstelbach and torrent Breitach and their tributaries.

Among the most important mountains of central mountains include:

Penalty ( 2387 m)
Bear's Head ( 2083 m)
Walmendingerhorn (1990 m)
Aries Stone ( 2536 m)
Twelve ( 2224 m)

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Mittelberg borders five municipalities in Vorarlberg, which all belong to the district of Bregenz, and parts of the Bregenzerwald are, with Schröcken and Warth as belonging to Tannberg already geared towards the Arlberg region. The only neighboring German community is Oberstdorf, which includes Mittelberg north to southeast.

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Community structure

The municipality has only one cadastral, Mittelberg, and 3 villages and Zählsprengel, the villages Hirschegg, Mittelberg Baad ( this village is local custom counted as its own town part ) and Riezlern ( main town ).

Mittelberg ( 96.82 km ²)

Hirschegg (D)

Mittelberg ( D)

Riezlern ( 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 town 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 -

History

The region was settled in 1270 by the coming from Switzerland Walser, who belong to the ethnic group of the Alemanni. Due to this origin the inhabitants differ linguistically today from those of the surrounding communities. Their dialect is assigned the highest Alemannic dialects, while speaking a low- Alemannic dialect and the rest of Vorarlberg a high of Alemannic dialect ( Vorarlbergerisch ) in the Allgäu.

Demographics

Policy

Responsible Judicial District is Bezau.

The municipality revenue from taxes and other charges in 2001 were at € 10,403,437, the municipal expenditure at € 26,732,399. The debt was 2001 18.421.179 €.

Municipal council

ÖVP: 13
FPO: 7
Initiative Pro Kleinwalsertal: 5

The seats parameters is outdated and obsolete!

The municipal council consists of 24 members. After the community representative and mayoral election 2010 are:

Acting Mayor is Andi Haid of the ÖVP.

Community name and coat of arms

As the village of Mittelberg has been settled as the first of three villages in the small valley, and later the seat of the court was ( seat of the court but was recently Hirschegg ), the municipality bears the name means mountain. Nominal municipal seat is not today Mittelberg, but Riezlern. There was in the past an attempt to change the community name on Kleinwalsertal. This is because on the one hand by the fact that the other two villages have created equal, and on the other hand, that the name Kleinwalsertal has established itself as opposed to community Mittelberg in the population. However, these efforts could not prevail.

Coat Description:

The coat of arms shown on the right is the representation that uses the community. It does not follow precisely the blazon. The left is a heraldic correct form, which is shown by the Vorarlberg State Archives. In both representations is just the sign, not the other features of the framework.

The coat of arms of the former coat of arms of the court Mittelberg, Kleinwalsertal therefore leads - not the Walser Star - unlike some Großwalsertal communities. The ibex is found since 1431 in the seal of the " free men of Walser Court ". As a municipal coat of arms, it was confirmed on 5 April 1929 by the State Government of Vorarlberg.

The Capricorn as an emblem also lead Sunday (1966 ), Dünserberg (1969 ), Bürserberg (1970 ) and St. Gerold (1970), and - not Walserisch - in Vorarlberg Hohenems also.

Economy and infrastructure

Due to its geographical location, the community was made to the German customs union area.

Tourism

The Walmendingerhornbahn was built in 1966 opens up in the summer, a 43 km wide walking area and in winter a ski area with two additional chairlifts. The lower station is located near the Mittelberger town center at 1200 m above sea level. A.. Mount The path ends at 1996 m above sea level. A. just below the summit of Walmendingerhorns.

Education

In the community there are primary schools in Mittelberg, Hirschegg and Riezlern, and a middle school followed by Polytechnic School. Furthermore, there is a special school in the school center Riezlern.

Club Sports

Because of the geographic location to take some sports clubs in the game operating in Germany part. Thus, the table tennis women's team of SV Kleinwalsertal competed in the 1980 in the Bavarian League.

Culture and sights

Parish Church of St. Jodok with Lourdes Chapel in Mittelberg
Evangelic church and Rom. - Cath. Parish Church of St. Anna in Hirschegg
Parish Church of the Virgin Mary in Riezlern
Kuratienkirche hl. Martin in Baad
Walser Museum in office Riezlern

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Leo Müller (1799-1844), inventor
Resi Hammerer (1925-2010), Austrian medalist in downhill skiing at the 1948 Olympic Games
Josef Fritz (1926-1975), politician ( ÖVP)
Ludwig Leitner ( born 1940 ), alpine skier in the Austrian and German national team
Klaus Amann (* 1949), literary scholar
Philipp Ther (born 1967 ), historian
Markus Eberle (born 1969 ), alpine skier in the Austrian and German national team
Stefanie Schuster (born 1969 ), alpine skier in the Austrian National Team
Werner Schuster (born 1969 ), a ski jumper and coach of the Swiss and German national team
Alexandra Robl (* 1975), mountaineer

Persons with respect to the municipality

Oliver Strohmaier (* 1968), ski jumper, grew up in Riezlern

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