The village is located on the southern edge of the Lermooser Moos, between a mountain slope and the landslide landscape of the Fern Pass in the Tyrolean Alps.

Corpus of finds from the Roman period bear witness to the early importance of the place on the Via Claudia Augusta.

Since the end of 2004, the historical Montan hiking trail Silberleithen opened up this former mining area for tourism.

Today Biberwier with the ski area Marienbergjoch and the swimming lakes Blindsee, Mittersee and Weißensee is a two-season tourism community.

[3] The beaver in 1983 awarded municipal coat of arms symbolizes the toponym, mallets and iron refer to the historic mining, the wheel on the important transport system.