Pinswang
Pinswang is a municipality with 411 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Reutte, Tyrol ( Austria ).
Pinswang lies on the eastern side of a basin-like extension of the Lech river north of Reutte. The settlement area is divided into the districts Oberpinswang, Unterpinswang, hamlets and White House.
The first mention of Pinswang 1095th The name is derived from the Old High German Pinuz what " rush, grass area with rushes " means. As early as 200 BC, the area was inhabited by Celts of Pinswang. The Roman road Via Claudia Augusta, from which a portion of the scratch is still accessible, led by the municipality. Below the Burgschrofens there is the cave castle hole. A shell stone suggests that the overhanging rock has already offered people protection in the Stone Age.
Near Pinswang are the castles of Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau Castle and the ruins hole.
Pinswang is a commuter community today.
Culture and sights
Personalities
- Franz Xaver Kleinhans (1699-1776), court architect of the Rococo in the Bishopric of Augsburg, who was responsible for ecclesiastical and secular buildings and renovations in the Allgäu region, but also in Swabia and Tirol.
- David Schoenherr ( Pinswang 1822-1897 Innsbruck), historian