Bödele
The Bödele is a local recreation area on the Losenpass on Vorarlberger Landesstraße 48 between the city of Dornbirn in the Vorarlberg Rhine Valley and the community of Schwarzenberg in the Bregenz Forest .
geography
Politically, the area of the Bödele belongs to the municipality of Schwarzenberg, but it is mainly used as a local recreation area by the people of Dornbirn, which is why the people of Dornbirn call it “their” Bödele. The name Bödele is often used at Dornbirn .
The Losenpass connects the Rhine Valley and Bregenzerwald valleys at an altitude of 1,139 meters. The highest elevation in the Bödele area is the Hochälpelekopf with a height of 1464 m.
history
The Bödele used to be a Vorsäß before Otto Hämmerle - the eldest son of Franz Martin Hämmerle and partner of the Dornbirn textile company FM Hämmerle - bought the twelve Vorsäß huts on the Oberlose around 1900. He set up an alpine farm with a dairy and had the vacant huts converted into holiday homes, which were mainly used by members of the Hämmerle family.
In 1904, Hämmerle acquired the Gasthaus am Bödele from Josef Klocker , which he had expanded into a hotel in stages (Alpenhotel Bödele, completely burned down in 1933.) The chapel of St. Mary that he donated and an artificially created swimming lake, the Bödelesee, were also intended to attract tourists. In 1907/08, Hämmerle had a road from Dornbirn to the Bödele built at its own expense.
economy
tourism
The Bödele is actually used less by tourists who have traveled far than by the residents of the surrounding area. Here it is above all the residents of the city of Dornbirn who like to use the local recreation area not far from their city. Especially on days when the Rhine Valley is covered with fog, the townspeople make the pilgrimage to the sun on Bödele (by car about 15 minutes, by bus 18 minutes from Dornbirn city center). But also many friends of nature and skiing from the surrounding Rhine Valley communities and the Lake Constance area can be found on the Bödele.
Ironically, parts of the Bödele (the Hochälpele) were also referred to as "Swabian trap" in the past, with reference to the Swabians from the border region who enjoy sports here.
The Alpenhotel Bödele, built by Otto Hämmerle in the early years of the 20th century, was still able to record very good economic successes in the early years. After Hämmerle's death in 1916, the hotel business went steadily downhill. The global economic crisis and the thousand-mark block contributed to this. In the winter of 1933 the hotel was destroyed by flames. It was not until 1952 that hotel operations were resumed in an enlarged former country house further south. In 1959, the Berghof Fetz was added to the Alpenhotel as a second hotel. The Alpenhotel Bödele was run by World Cup winner Marc Girardelli and his family from the mid-1980s . In 2006 the younger Alpenhotel, which also burned down in 2001, was handed over to new owners.
Skiing
The Dornbirn ski pioneer Viktor Sohm and his friends have been going on ski tours on the Bödele since 1899.
As early as 1904 there was the first ski jumping on the still simple jumping hills on the Bödele. Today the Lankschanze is an FIS homologated ski jumping hill with a construction width of 83 meters.
In 1907 the first ski lift in Central Europe was put into operation on the Bödele. Of course, this construction could not be compared with a modern ascent aid of today (see Bödele sledge lift ). Rather, it was a kind of sledge that was pulled up the mountain by a rope by a motor. Nevertheless, due to this early development, the Bödele, together with the Arlberg, can be described as the cradle of skiing in the Alps.
In 1950, a drag lift was finally built on the Lank and put into operation in 1951 ("Lanklift"). In 1957 the drag lift followed the Hochälpelekopf. The Lanklift was converted into a 4-seater chairlift in 2000. Today the Bödele-Schwarzenberg ski area has twelve lifts, two of which are double T-bar lifts (Weisstanne 1 + 2 and Oberlose 1 + 2) and a pommel lift (Schanzenblick) that went into operation in 2015.
On January 10, 1987 there was a women's World Cup downhill run on the Spielmoos run and on 6/7. In January 1989 there were two more giant slalom runs for the women’s World Cup .
The multiple World Cup winner Marc Girardelli , who comes from Lustenau and competes for Luxembourg , used the nearby Bödele as a child and adolescent - but also later when he bought the Alpenhotel Bödele - for his training sessions.
literature
Nikola Langreiter, Petra Zudrell: Who Owns the Bödele? : Understanding a cultural landscape , Dornbirn / Salzburg 2020, Residenz Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7017-3511-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.vn.at/dornbirn/2017/04/13/vorarlberg-einst-und-jetzt-alpenhotel-boedele.vn
- ↑ https://www.boedele.at/hotel/
- ↑ In 1905 the Austrian ski pioneer Hannes Schneider won ski jumping.
- ↑ Constructed by Ing.Hugo Rhomberg and Ing.Alfred Rüsch, the sledge was guided next to the jump track. The elevator sled was attached to a 70 m long hemp rope that was pulled by a 4.5 HP vehicle engine. The ski jumpers could ride while sitting on two benches. Delivery rate approx. 40 jumpers per hour (quoted from Vorarlberger Nachrichten of January 28, 1975, page 7).
- ↑ Spelling in the 1950s still " Lanck ".
- ↑ Ceremonial opening on January 28, 1951. Construction costs at that time S 710,000.00 (quoted from Vorarlberger Nachrichten of January 28, 1975, page 7). For the opening, the Dornbirn music school director Friedrich Jung composed the "Bödele-Skiliftmarsch" especially. Manufacturer of the system: Doppelmayr . Conveying capacity 750 people / hour (after the conversion in 1976: 1200 people / hour). The Lanklift was used as a drag lift (2 people per suspension arm ), but it was already designed in 1951 that it could be used as a single chair lift (this variant was not implemented).
- ↑ http://www.schwarzenberg.at/news/30-jahre-ist-es-her/
- ↑ https://data.fis-ski.com/alpine-skiing/calendar.html?place_search=&seasoncode_search=1989§or_search=AL&date_search=&gender_search=l&category_search=WC&codex_search=&nation_search=&disciplinecode_search=&search=today&disciplinecode_search=fritom=today
- ↑ The location of this hotel is not the same as the location of the Alpenhotel Bödele, which burned down in 1933. The former Alpenhotel Bödele was located 200 m further north, approximately at the height of "Berghof Fetz".
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 30 ″ N , 9 ° 48 ′ 30 ″ E