Scheffau

Scheffau is a municipality with 1463 population inside the district of Kufstein, Tyrol, in Austria. The municipality is positioned in the judicial district Kufstein. Scheffau become first cited in 1160 as Seefenouwen. Smaller crude settlements of Bajuwaren, however, date again to the 9th century. Until 1504 Scheffau belonged politically to the Duchy of Bavaria.

Only after the give up of the Bavarian War of Succession, the municipality become united with the courts Kufstein, Rattenberg and Kitzbühel with Tyrol. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, a political community turned into fashioned underneath Bavarian management. In 1865 the network Scheffau ultimately have become impartial. Scheffau actually method the crooked meadow. In the Middle Ages, the Au changed into called a wet meadow and later greened place. The municipal coat of fingers provided in 1972 indicates In silver over inexperienced left diagonal foot a black-blackened gold-plated black eagle head. The left foot in green symbolizes the gently sloping terrain, the crooked Au.