Berwang

Berwang is a municipality with 564 inhabitants in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol. The districts are Brand, Bichlbächle, Gröben, Kleinstockach, Mitteregg, Rinnen, Tal. The municipality is located in the district court Reutte.
It is a popular ski resort in winter, and a hiking and mountain biking destination in summer.

Geography

The cluster village is located on the slope of the dome, which connects the Berwanger valley with the Rotlechtal. Kleinstockach and Bichlbächle are mountainous villages in the Berwanger valley. Brand, Mitteregg and Rinnen are located in Rotlechtal.

Constituent communities

The municipal area comprises the following eight villages

Bichlbächle
Brand
Gröben
Kleinstockach
Mitteregg
Rinnen
Tal
History

The place name is derived from ber and wang. The place was settled by Imst and came to Tyrol in 1266, but remained with administrative but still at Imst. From 1430, it was the court Ehrenberg. In 1949, the first ski lift went into operation in Berwang. Through tourism, the structure of the formerly poor community changed, many farms were dissolved.

Mayor

Since 2004 Dietmar Berktold.

Coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1955, shows a raised black bear on a green silver signpost. It symbolizes the toponym as a talking emblem.

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church Berwang hl. James the Elder with first origins from the year 1430
Pension Bergheim in Berwang, designed and built by architect Siegfried Mazagg in 1932, with very successful restoration and conversion since 2015
Village fountain in Berwang from the year 1988/89
The Filialkirchen in the villages Bichlbächle and Kleinstockach
Six chapels and a shrine
Traffic

Berwang is connected via the Berwang-Namloser Straße, which branches off in Bichlbach from the Fernpassstraße and leads via Berwang and Namlos into the Lechtal, where it ends at Stanzach in the Lechtalstraße. About 5 km away in the municipality of Bichlbach is the station Bichlbach-Berwang the Außerfernbahn.