Bach, Austria Explained

Bach
Pushpin Map:Austria
Pushpin Mapsize:270
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Austria
Coordinates:47.2667°N 10.4°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Austria
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Tyrol
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Reutte
Parts Style:para
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Wolf Albert
Elevation M:1070
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:CET
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset:+1
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Registration Plate:RE
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:6653
Area Code Type:Area code
Area Code:05634
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)