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Elbigenalp (Lechtalerisch also called "Duarf") is a municipality of the district Reutte in Tyrol (Austria) with 906 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2022).The municipality is located approximately in the middle of the Lechtal. The municipal area is formed by various villages and Rotten along the Lechtal road, namely Köglen, Elbigenalp, Untergiblen, Obergrünau, Untergrünau and Obergiblen.

Culture and sights

    Catholic Parish Church Elbigenalp: The parish church stands in an open field and is surrounded by a cemetery with two chapels.
    Ölberg chapel of St. Cross north of the village on a rocky outcrop
    Chapel of St. Sebastian in Griesau
    Chapel of St. Anna in Obergrünau
    Chapel of St. Joseph in Untergrünau
    Museum with the estate of the lithographer Anton Falger in the municipal office. The painter, engraver and lithographer Anton Falger, who came from Elbigenalp, painted two death dance cycles for his home village.
    The first is a panel painting (108 × 272 cm) composed of 18 wooden panels and framed, which today hangs on the east wall of the chapel above the stairs to the ossuary; on the wooden frame of each panel is named the person who died and the dialogue with death is written down. Some panels are signed, some dated 1840. Because this is the artist's major work, the acting persons should be named: Pope, King, Artist, Judge, Citizen, Soldier, Child, Mother, Doctor, Boy, Bride, Grandmother, Peasant, Rich, Beggar, Murderer, Maid, Gravedigger of Death.
    The second dance of death consists of 14 individual pictures, painted in pairs on the wall plaster in 7 wall niches; the scenes with citizen, boy, grandmother and murderer are missing here. The artist has deliberately taken up the tradition of the dance of death on the cemetery wall. Signatures or dates are no longer visible; the time of creation must be before 1876.