Bach, Austria

Bach
Bach
	Coat of arms
	Bach Location within Austria
	Coordinates: 47°16′00″N 10°24′00″E
Country	Austria
State	Tyrol
District	Reutte
Government
• Mayor	Wolf Albert
Area [1]
• Total	56.86 km2 (21.95 sq mi)
Elevation	1,070 m (3,510 ft)
Population (2018-01-01)[2]
• Total	614
• Density	11/km2 (28/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	6653
Area code	05634
Vehicle registration	RE
Website	www.bach.tirol.gv.at

Bach is a municipality with 612 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2019) in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol. Bach belongs to the court district Reutte.

Geography

Bach is located in the upper Lech Valley, four watercourses flow through the municipality, two major watercourses, these are the river Lech (Tyrolean Lech Nature Park) and the Alperschonbach and two smaller watercourses: the Modertalbach and the Sulzlbach. The sea level is 1070 meters.

History

The place Bach was first mentioned in documents in 1427. Fresco-decorated houses are reminiscent of the earlier seasonal workers in the Lech Valley, who moved abroad. As usual in the Lech Valley, the municipality of Bach was settled very late. In order to obtain new land and new farms, property owners commissioned farmers to clear land and then keep it in a special feudal relationship.

Bach was subordinate to the court Ehrenberg and was assigned there in 1500 to the lawyer Mitter Lechtal. In the court Ehrenberg around 1649, the political communities were referred to as parishes, with Bach was part of the parish Elbigenalp. Until 1854 Bach was always referred to as Stockach, only in the following time was the municipality name Bach in use.

Politics

The council has 11 members.

With the municipal council and mayor elections in Tyrol 2016, the municipal council has the following distribution:

7 members: Together for the community Bach

2 members: village community Bach

1 member: for each other in the community Bach

1 members: We Bacher for Bach

Mayor

Until 2010 Albert Wolf (ÖVP)

Since 2010 Egon Brandhofer (ÖVP)

Bach, church: katholische Pfarrkirche unserer lieben Frau Maria Reinigung

Stockach, church: katholische Expositurkirche zum heilige Josef stätte

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References

"Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
"Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.

External links

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[wikidata-f3373d889b3e667af72d1979ec2c3615f4e35537-v3-1] "Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.

[wikidata-e49e74cba12ebc857db3ff1e3141c6ab850aaa31-v3-2] "Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.