Reutte

Reutte is a marketplace town in the Austrian state of Tyrol. It is the place of work of the Reutte district. Reutte is located at the Lech, and has a population of 6704. Reutte is located at the Via Claudia Augusta, a Roman road leading from Italy to Germany. The Tyrolean Salt Road from Hall in Tirol to Lake Constance crossed the whole district of Ausserfern. Reutte become d a market metropolis by using Sigmund in 1489.

This became showed later by using Maximilian I who additionally delivered some in addition rights. The people of Reutte commemorate this with an annual pageant on the first Saturday in August. From 1692 the painter Paul Zeiller had a workshop in Reutte that later have become an art school. His son Johann Jakob Zeiller and cousin Franz Anton Zeiller each received their first classes there. During the length when Austria belonged to Germany 1938 to 1945 there has been an outpost of Dachau awareness camp near Reutte, known as Plansee Breitenwald. In April 1945, American troops of the 44th Infantry Division reached Reutte.