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Reutte in the 17th and 18th century

It is no chance that Reutte became the centre of the baroque art. In the following article you will find the historical backgrounds and the connections that made the artistic development of the little market plausibly.

In the 17th century plaster and the brass smelting had a certain economical significance. Reutte was a major junction for salt trade - 1500 salt barrels were transferred every year in this time. Reutte was an appealing point for traders and manual workers, who were attracted by the wealth that came through the salt trading into being.

In the 16th and 17th century Reutte was haunted by diseases for incidence the invasion of “Schmalkalden“ and prince Moritz of the Sachs as well as the pest epidemic which decimated the people of “Außerfern“ people to 60 percent.

In the 18th century two enormous blazes burnt nearly the whole village “Reutte“ to the ground, which had the consequence that the economic force reduced fatally. Especially bad for the rebuilding of the economic was the on one side specialisation; the salt trade began to flag, and after the construction of the road „Arlbergstraße“ in the year of the lord 1780 Reutte was avoided by business and salt traders for the reason of detour.

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