Reith im Alpbachtal is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

Kufstein Kufstein (; Central Bavarian: ''Kufstoa'') is a town in the Austrian state of Tyrol, the administrative seat of Kufstein District. With a population of about 19,600 it is the second largest Tyrolean town after the state capital Innsbruck. The grea ...

district in the state of

Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...

located in the

Alpbachtal The Alpbachtal is a valley in Tyrol, Austria. It is a side valley of the Inn valley. The Alpbachtal takes its name from the ''Alpbach'' stream, which flows through the entire valley. The entrance to the valley is the municipality of Brixlegg. A ro ...

valley, 32.9 km southwest of

, 19.6 km west of

Wörgl Wörgl () is a city in the Austrian state of Tyrol, in the Kufstein district. It is from the international border with Bavaria, Germany. Population Transport Wörgl is an important railway junction between the line from Innsbruck to Munich, an ...

, and 44.1 km east of Innsbruck, the main capital of

. The village is a very old settlement which was mentioned for the first time in documents around 976. From the 15th to 19th century

silver Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (from the Latin ', derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical ...

and

copper Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkis ...

were mined. The main sources of income nowadays are agriculture and tourism.

References

Cities and towns in Kufstein District {{Tyrol-geo-stub