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23 unusual facts about Vorarlberg


Bludesch

Bludesch is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.

Bürserberg

Bürserberg is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.

Christian Horvath

Christian Horvath (born 7 November 1981 in Feldkirch, Austria) is an Austrian figure skater.

Der Atem des Himmels

In the fall of 1953, a 41-year-old woman, Erna von Gaderthurn, leaves her arrogant and domineering mother shortly after her father dies to take up a position as teacher in the small village of Blons high in the Vorarlberg in western Austria.

Eichenberg, Austria

Eichenberg is a municipality in the district of Bregenz in Vorarlberg in Austria.

Essen Minster

This organ was built by the renowned organ workshop, Rieger of Schwarzach, which was founded by the organ builder Franz Rieger.

Feldkirch

Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, a medieval city and capital of an administrative district

Innerbraz

Innerbraz is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.

Kirill Petrenko

Petrenko formally studied music at the Vorarlberger Landeskonservatorium in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, graduating with honours in piano studies.

Klösterle, Austria

Klösterle is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.

Langen bei Bregenz

Langen bei Bregenz is a municipality in the district of Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria.

Lorüns

Lorüns is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.

Ludesch

Ludesch is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.

Marcel Büchel

Born in Feldkirch, Austria, Büchel began his career with the youth teams of Swiss club FC St. Gallen and Italian club Siena.

Mikko Rämö

He signed a contract for the 2008-09 season in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, and had a further career change when he joined to EHC Black Wings Linz on 29 January 2009.

Per Lundell

He also played in several other European leagues, he played in the German Deutsche Eishockey Liga for Starbulls Rosenheim (1996–1997) and for Nürnberg Ice Tigers (1998–1999 and 2000–2001), he also played in Austria for Feldkirch during the 1997–1998 and he also has played in Norway for Stjernen during the 2004–2005 season.

Raggal

Raggal is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bolzano-Brixen

In turn, the Austrian parts of the Brixen diocese around Feldkirch, Vorarlberg were at first allocated to the Diocese of Innsbruck and elevated to the Diocese of Feldkirch in 1968; the Ladin districts of Fodom (Livinallongo del Col di Lana and Colle Santa Lucia) and Anpez (Cortina d’Ampezzo) passed from Brixen to the Diocese of Belluno.

Sankt Gerold

Sankt Gerold is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.

Silbertal

Silbertal is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.

Sonntag, Austria

Sonntag is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.

Stallehr

Stallehr is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria.

The Allegory of Faith

Atlases depicted in this painting contain maps primarily of Vorarlberg and Tirol at the western end of Austria, so perhaps the painting was in that area, according to Wheelock.


Angelica Kauffman

Kauffman was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland, where her father was working for the local bishop but grew up in Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg/Austria where her family originated.

Au, Vorarlberg

Franz Beer (master builder and co-founder of Vorarlberg School; * April 1, 1660 in Au (Vorarlberg); † January 21, 1726 in Bezau

Baumschlager-Eberle

Since starting up business in Vorarlberg, the westernmost state of Austria, with the focus of its activities on housing and residential architecture, the company has meanwhile become internationally established with branches in Lochau (Austria), Vienna, St. Gallen (Switzerland), Zürich (Switzerland), Vaduz (Liechtenstein) and Beijing.

Bielerhöhe Pass

Nearby is the highest peak in Vorarlberg, the Piz Buin (3312 m) and the Silvrettasee, which is frozen solid most years by the end of January and covered with snow.

Clunia, Austria

Clunia is the name of an ancient Roman city that is situated in Feldkirch (Vorarlberg, Austria) and indicated on the Tabula Peutingeriana.

Counts of Montfort

The influential and wealthy counts of Montfort had their name from an ancestral castle, Montfort, which was situated quite close to today's Swiss border near Götzis in the present-day Austrian state of Vorarlberg.

Eichenberg

Eichenberg, Austria, a municipality in the district of Bregenz in the state of Vorarlberg, Austria

Feldkirch–Buchs railway

In June 2008 the Canton of St. Gallen, the Federal State of Vorarlberg and the Principality of Liechtenstein signed an agreement for a project to upgrade the line (and the surrounding ones) and to increase the rail traffic.

Franz Pfanner

Franz Pfanner (born at Langen, Vorarlberg, Austria, 1825; died at Emaus, South Africa, 24 May 1909) was an Austrian Trappist monk, founder of Mariannhill Abbey in South Africa.

Georg Friedrich Haas

Georg Friedrich Haas grew up in Tschagguns (Vorarlberg) and studied composition with Gösta Neuwirth, Iván Erőd, and piano with Doris Wolf at the Musikhochschule in Graz, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Styria.

Languages of Austria

Vorarlberg uses a High Alemannic, the same dialect group as that spoken in Northern Switzerland (outside Basel) and parts of southern Alsace, France.

The languages of Austria include German, the official language and lingua franca; Austro-Bavarian, the main language outside Vorarlberg; Alemannic, the main language in Vorarlberg; and several minority languages.

Oberriet

It also includes the former Imperial palace (Kaiserpfalz) at Kriessern, but not the formerly attached village of Mäder in Vorarlberg and Diepoldsau.

Principle Hope

Principle Hope is the name of a route through the 130 foot high vertical rock face of the "Bürs plate cliff" (in German:"Bürser Platte") overlooking the village of Bürs in Vorarlberg, Austria.

Scheibenschlagen

The tradition of Scheibenschlagen is particularly widespread in and around the area of the Upper Rhine Plain (in the Black Forest, Breisgau, Basel-Landschaft, Alsace,) as well as in Vorarlberg, parts of West- and South Tyrol, in Bündner Oberland Breil/Brigels and in Churer Rheintal Untervaz.

Toni Innauer

Anton ("Toni") Innauer (born 1 April 1958 in Bezau, Vorarlberg) is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Untervaz

Neuburg Castle was first built during the late 13th Century, most likely for the Baron Tumb von Neuburg (Vorarlberg).

UPC Cablecom

Cablecom operates in Switzerland, including the cities of Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Berne, Lausanne, Lucerne and Winterthur, and Vorarlberg (Austria) serving 1.56 million cable television customers, as well as approximately 250 smaller broadband cable operators.

Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences

The Fachhochschule Vorarlberg / FHV (Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences) in Dornbirn, Austria is a leading Austrian University of applied sciences(see Awards).

Walser

In Austria, there are 14 Walser communities: Grosses Walsertal (Blons, Fontanella, Raggal, St. Gerold, Sonntag, Thüringerberg), Kleinwalsertal (Mittelberg, a practical enclave of Germany), Brandnertal (Brand), Montafon (Silbertal), Reintal (Laterns), Tannberg (Schröcken, Lech, Warth), all in Vorarlberg; and in Paznauntal (Galtür), in Tyrol.