Nenzing

market community Nenzing
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Vorarlberg
Political District :	Bludenz
License plate :	BZ
Surface:	110.09 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 11 '  N , 9 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 11 '8 "  N , 9 ° 42' 15"  E
Height :	530  m above sea level A.
Residents :	6,200 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	56 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6710
Area code :	05525
Community code :	8 01 16
Address of the municipal administration:	Landstrasse 1 6710 Nenzing
Website:	www.nenzing.at
politics
Mayor :	Florian Kasseroler ( FPÖ )
Local council : (Election year: 2015) (27 members)	16 9 2 16 9 2  A total of 27 seats FPÖ : 16 ÖVP : 9 GREEN : 2
Location of Nenzing in the Bludenz district
Nenzing
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Nenzing is a market town in the Bludenz district of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg with 6200 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Nenzing is located in the westernmost state of Austria, Vorarlberg, in the Bludenz district at an altitude of 533 meters. With an area of ​​110.31 km², Nenzing is the fourth largest municipality in Vorarlberg. 49.3% of the area is forested, 21.1% of the area is Alps . At 2859  m above sea level A. is the Panüler the highest mountain in the community. The Nenzinger Himmel nature park is located at 1370  m above sea level. A. and the Alpe Gamp at 1564  m above sea level. A.

The districts of the municipality are:

Nenzing village Bleeding Bib Gurtis Horse

Heaps Rungeletsch Moths Mariex homeland

Nenzing borders on Switzerland in the south and the Principality of Liechtenstein in the southwest . This makes it, together with Feldkirch, the only municipality in Austria with two EU external borders.

history

The first proven permanent settlement from the Bronze and Iron Ages is on the "Scheibenstuhl" west of Nenzing. Later, the Romans built a fortification and defense system against the Alemanni.

The Knights von Ramschwag , who come from the Swiss canton of St. Gallen, built the Welsch-Ramschwag castle complex between 1270 and 1290. The castle and the castle estate Welsch-Ramschwag came to Austria as a fief in 1360.

In the first half of the 15th century, the Walsers founded the Nenzingerberg settlement, which until the 20th century had around 50 residents on nine individual farms. In 1955 the last Walser left the Nenzingerberg. Most of the houses were demolished and replaced by alpine buildings. The chapel (St. Martin's Church) has been preserved. From at least 1815 to 1920 (fire in the school building) there was a school of its own on the Nenzingerberg.

In 1474 the county of Sonnenberg , to which Nenzing also belonged, became Austrian property.

In a great fire in 1633 the church, rectory and 48 houses burned in the village, the plague claimed its victims again and the Thirty Years War brought poverty and famine. A second time in 1724 parts of the village were destroyed by a major fire and in 1762 there was a flood on the Meng . In earlier times Frastanz and Nenzing formed a kind of double community. Until the 18th century, both communities were a tax unit as small gnos under the Bruges . Ecclesiastically, the Nenzing districts of Motten, Mariex and Mittelberg have belonged to Frastanz since 1785.

In the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, Nenzinger also fought on the side of Andreas Hofer against the Bavarians and the French.

The Habsburgs ruled the places in Vorarlberg alternately from Tyrol and Upper Austria (Freiburg im Breisgau). From 1805 to 1814 the place belonged to Bavaria , then again to Austria . Nenzing has belonged to the Austrian state of Vorarlberg since it was founded in 1861. In 1872 a railway line was built through the municipality.

The place was part of the French occupation zone in Austria from 1945 to 1955 . In 1993 Nenzing was raised to a market town.

On May 22, 2016, the place hit the international headlines after a 27-year-old from Vorarlberg shot randomly into the crowd at a concert, killing two men and then himself. Twelve other victims survived with injuries.

On December 4, 2019, the market town of Nenzing received the Austrian SDG Award and was recognized as a pioneer in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Austria. This was the first time that the Senate of Economics, supported by the Austrian National Council and the Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism , had announced the Austrian SDG Award for sustainable communities and cities in Austria and Vorarlberg became Nenzing for 2019 and the state capital Bregenz .

In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria in 2020, the Nenzing districts of Nenzing-Dorf and Beschling were quarantined on March 22nd . This measure, which prohibited the residents of the affected areas from leaving them without good reason, was ordered by the Vorarlberg state government after 22 people tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in Nenzing on Saturday, March 21, 2020 . On April 3, the quarantine measure was lifted again.

Population development

At the end of 2002 the proportion of foreigners in the population was 10.8 percent.

Since both the birth balance and the migration balance have been positive for decades, the population of the municipality is growing rapidly.

Municipal coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was created in 1967 based on a design by the Schruns artist and heraldist Konrad Honold : It depicts two gold-crowned red leopards walking to the left . This coat of arms was awarded to the municipality on February 6, 1968 by the Vorarlberg state government .

The coat of arms is derived from that of the knight family of the Lords of Ramschwag .

politics

Parish Church of St. Mauritius

Ramschwag castle ruins in the hamlet of Bazul, photo around 1905

Getzner spinning mill site

Schatzmann metal goods factory

The community council consists of 27 members. Municipal council and mayoral election 2015 :

• " FPÖ and party-free Nenzing": 16 seats
• “We for Nenzing - People's Party and Party Free”: 9 mandates
• "Echt.nenzing green and party-free": 2 mandates

Mayor is Florian Kasseroler (FPÖ). He was confirmed in office in the direct mayor election in 2015 with 73.76% of the votes.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Nenzing

• Stellfeder mountain fort : The late Roman mountain fort Stellfeder from the 4th to 5th centuries is a ruin at the exit of the Gamperdonatal .
• Gampfall (waterfall in the Gamperdonatal / Mengschlucht ).
• Welsch-Ramschwag Castle: Welsch-Ramschwag Castle was built between 1270 and 1290 by the Lords of Ramschwag , a noble family from the canton of St. Gallen . The castle did not last long, because angry Walgau farmers destroyed the complex on September 28, 1405 during the Appenzell War, and Welsch-Ramschwag has been in ruins ever since. From 1997 to 2000 the ruins were restored.
• Parish Church of St. Mauritius : Parish Church of St. Mauritius, a baroque church with Carolingian and Gothic elements from the previous churches and baroque furnishings, is in one of the oldest parishes in Vorarlberg. The foundations of the oldest documented church in the country from the early 6th century were excavated below the choir.
• Martinskirche Beschling: late Gothic church, extended in the Baroque style, with a late Gothic winged altar from 1484 and a wooden picture ceiling from the 17th century. This coffered ceiling was partly designed by the Nenzing artist Christian Lutz .
• Maria Heimsuchens Gurtis Church: built in 1791
• Chapel Latz St. Valentin and St. Magnus: built around 1630, during the plague, restored in 2000
• Getzner spinning mill: The spinning mills were established in 1832 by Christian Getzner .
• Town hall: The Gasthof Sonne , a former stagecoach station , used to stand on the site of today's town hall . This was demolished and a new town hall was built in 1958. It was rebuilt and expanded between 2000 and 2002.
• Ramschwagsaal: The Ramschwagsaal was opened by the municipality of Nenzing in 1992 and offers space and a stage for local clubs and events.
• ARTENNE (1841; 2011): The Artenne is a farmhouse in Kirchgasse that was built in 1841 and opened in 2011 as an exhibition and event space. In 2011 it received the Austrian Building Owner Award from the Chamber of Architects.
• European protected area Spirkenwälder Innergamp
• European protected area Spirkenwald Oberer Tritt

economy

Liebherr plant in Nenzing / Austria

In 2003 there were 88 commercial enterprises with 2042 employees and 182 apprentices on site. There were 2361 employees subject to wage tax.

One of the largest companies is the Liebherr company , which produces rope excavators , crawler cranes and special civil engineering machines here. The former ship and offshore cranes division has been moved to other plants. In 2016, around 1700 employees worked at this Liebherr location.

traffic

Motorway: Nenzing has a connection to the A14 motorway (Rheintal- / Walgauautobahn) in all directions (Bregenz and Bludenz), which is located north of the community center.

Train: The Nenzing stop is located in the municipality, where both S1 and REX trains in the direction of Lindau and Bludenz stop . The bus stop is also approached by bus line 76, which starts at the bus stop and goes to Bludenz .

There is also the Schlins-Beschling stop at the Beschling district, where only the S1 stops.

education

There are (as of January 2003) 619 students on site. In Nenzing there are also five kindergartens, four elementary schools and one secondary school.

Personalities

Sons and daughters:

• Michael Jutz (1859–1940), Member of the National Council (CS)
• Edwin Hartmann (1910–1996), Nordic and Alpine skier born in Gurtis
• Kurt Kraft (* 1927), former mayor and former member of the state parliament
• Hermann Gamon (1929–2015), ski racer and trainer
• Manfred Honeck (* 1958), conductor and violist
• Christof Moser (* 1964), pianist, composer, university professor
• Simon Gächter (* 1965), economist

People with a relationship to Nenzing:

• Christian Stooß (1879–1958), community leader and member of the state parliament

Honorary citizen:

• Josef Marte (October 5, 1853– April 21, 1911) Farmer, head of the Nenzing community, member of the state parliament, member of the state committee
• Otto Marte (February 19, 1893–1982) farmer, mayor of the Nenzing community, economic council, treasurer of the parish of Nenzing for 50 years
• Georg Schelling (1906–1981), priest and journalist
• Karl Gamon (December 26, 1918– March 15, 2004) Senior teacher, headmaster of the Nenzing secondary school, founding member of the Nenzing Nursing Association

Web links

Commons : Nenzing  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality of Nenzing
• 80116 - Nenzing. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birgit Ortner u. a. In: Nenzinger series of publications. Number 4, archive of the market town of Nenzing (ed.): The Nenzingerberg - The abandoned Walser village. Nenzing 2007, ISBN 978-3-900143-06-0 .
2. ^ History , website of the municipality of Frastanz.
3. ↑ Vorarlberg: 27-year-old shot two men in a rampage. In: derStandard.at . May 22, 2016. Retrieved May 23, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Sobotka: Austrian SDG Award sets an important example for raising awareness about global sustainability goals, parliamentary correspondence No. 1162 from December 5th, 2019, website of the Austrian parliament.
5. ↑ Parts of Nenzing in quarantine: residents "understanding". In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). March 21, 2020, accessed March 23, 2020 . 
6. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Nenzing, population development. (PDF) Retrieved March 31, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Vorarlberger Landesregierung (Ed.): 96 municipal coats of arms - national emblem and civic pride. Vorarlberger Landesarchiv, Bregenz 2008, ISBN 978-3-902622-04-4 .
8. ↑ Photos of beautiful old coats of arms
9. ↑ Burgruine Welsch-Ramschwag, History ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.