!!!Reutte

Reutte, Tirol, market town in the district of Reutte, alt. 853 m, 
pop. 5,306, area 100.90 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourism (126,255 
overnight stays in 1992, mainly in the summer), centre of transport 
and traffic on the River Lech, main town in the Ausserfern region. - 
District commission, district court, rural police headquarters, forest 
inspectorate, Chamber of Agriculture, association of fire-fighting 
services, hospital, district construction office, tax office, customs 
office, surveying office, health authority, hydraulic engineering 
authority, employment services, Economic Chamber, Chamber of Labour, 
rural police provincial headquarters, local health and social 
insurance office and dental clinic, Sisters of Mercy, New Apostolic 
community, child counselling service, family counselling service, 
Kolpingwerk apprentice relief organisation centre, youth centre, 
Drei-Tannen stadium, Bundesrealgymnasium (federal mathematics-oriented 
secondary school), commercial college, Fachschule fuer wirtschaftliche 
Berufe (commercial college), commercial vocational school, adult 
education centre, electric power station and waterworks, Reutte-Hoefen 
airfield, Reutte mountain railway (municipality of Hoefen) leading up 
to the Hoefener Alpe mountain; approx. 68 % of the 3,332 employed 
persons (1991) work in the services sector, also metal-working and 
textile industries, electricity suppliers. Until the late Middle Ages 
Reutte was located on an important salt transportation route. - 
Vicariate parish church (since 1628 connected with the Franciscan 
monastery) with Gothic choir and Baroque nave rebuilt after a fire 
1864, on the high altar, pilgrimage painting of St. Anne with Mary and 
the child Jesus by J. Lederer (1515); ruins of Ehrenberg fortress (in 
the 17%%sup th/%  century extended to form the most expansive 
fortification in the country); Mittelflurhaus farmhouse types with 
curved window grilles and façade paintings, residence of the 
Zeiller family of painters and museum of local history and culture; 
Lakes Urisee, Frauensee, Plansee and Heiterwanger See nearby.

!Literature
F. Bauer et al., Reutte - 500 Jahre Markt, 1489-1989, 
1989.


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