Einfirst (Hohenems)

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Former Hotel Einfirst in Hohenems
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Aerial photo - site plan

The first ridge (about 473  m above sea level ) in the Austrian town of Hohenems - Emsreute is a hill and also the name of a former hotel and inn . The house is a listed building . The house is about 400 m as the crow flies from the center of Hohenems.

The Einfirst hill is geologically diverse layers of the Helveticum , which are covered with moraine material .

Name derivation

First means the " first " or " supreme " and is found in a similar form and meaning z. B. in engl. : " First " ( angels .: " Fyrst ") or in swedish : " först (a) " and in this context is also related to the word prince . In mountain ridges, "First" denotes a series of peaks of a mountain range and is therefore another word for mountain ridge (e.g. Churfirsten or Dornbirner First ), but can also designate a single, outstanding mountain (e.g. Mountain First ( 1617  m above sea level ) in Fraxern or First in the Bernese Oberland ( 2167  m above sea level ).

The word "First" generally designates a ridge edge and can be found e.g. B. also as a term for the upper cutting edge of two roof surfaces ( roof ridge ), in geology it describes the layer in direct contact with the reference horizon ( hanging wall) and in mining the tunnel roof ( ridge ).

In the present case, the name means a single protruding geological hill.

history

The first first mentioned in a document in 1270. The name of a branch of the Emser Knights is named after this hill: Adimainfirst . In 1367 the Ainwirst , 1373 the Ainvirst , 1418 the Einvirst and 1431 the Ainvirst are mentioned in a document. It is said not only to have been a vineyard, but also a noble residence or courtyard with other buildings and fields.

In a feudal deed, Constance, January 15, 1431, Märckh von Embs, Marquards von Embs ritters sun, ... with a well, called the Au, and a vineyard on the Einfirst, and the upper Einfürst, all located to Embs, item die schildhuben located in the Bregenzerwald enfeoffed by King Sigmund.

The Hotel Einfirst of the same name was built in 1904/1905 according to plans by August Amann in wood construction with two-storey surrounding verandas for the Amann brothers (Steaffes) after Karl Amann had received the concession for the management of this location. On August 27, 1905, the ceremonial opening took place with the participation of the Hohenems Citizen Music. The first tenant was Cornelius Jehle.

The later tenants, the Peters family, informed the guests that the operation of the "Einfirst" inn would be temporarily suspended on October 15, 1914, because the warlike events had significantly changed the economic situation ( First World War ). After that, the building served as a residential building. In 1938 Frieda Amann (Mohrenwirt) bought the house from the Amann siblings and ran an inn until 1945. The surrender of the Wehrmacht and the institutional collapse of the National Socialist dictatorship also had an impact on this building. It was confiscated by the French occupying forces and used as an inn for the officers (casino) and later housed various groups of people ( displaced persons ) whose aim was to emigrate to Israel or the USA . After the seizure was over, the doctor Dr. Püschl a home for handicapped children.

Which was managed as inn Einfirst the house of the company. Again 1950 to 1955. 1957 sold Frieda Amann Kästle (ski factory) , which used as a work home for company employees.

The last renovation of the house by Hubert Häusle, who bought it from the Benetton company in 1997, was jointly recognized in 2008 by the Federal Monuments Office , the cultural district and the city of Hohenems as a particularly successful renovation project.

Building fabric

The wood-knit building with shingle armor is around 12 m high and has Art Nouveau elements.

literature

  • Dehio Vorarlberg 1983
  • Daniela Egger: Hohenems Reading Book: Stories about the Schlossberg . Dornbirn 2015, Unartproduktion, ISBN 978-3-901325-97-7 .
  • Austrian radio: The Einfirst inn in Hohenems . Dornbirn 1996, ORF series: Vorarlberg Heute, TV report from November 14, 1996, ORF 2.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ObjectID: 7721.
  2. ↑ See Johann Christoph Adelung in the Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect, Vienna 1811 edition on the keyword “Firste”.
  3. ^ Official and advertising gazette of the municipalities of Hohenems, Götzis, Altach, Koblach and Mäder , No. 17 of April 27, 2002.
  4. ^ Official and advertising gazette of the municipalities of Hohenems, Götzis, Altach, Koblach and Mäder , No. 17 of April 27, 2002.
  5. ^ A house with an eventful history , Vorarlberger Nachrichten, supplement p. 19.
  6. ↑ Aromn Tänzer, The History of the Jews in Hohenems and in the rest of Vorarlberg , p. XXI.
  7. ↑ Austrian Journal for Art and Monument Preservation, Volume 53, Issue 1 , p. 259.
  8. ^ A house with an eventful history , Vorarlberger Nachrichten, supplement p. 19.
  9. ↑ Hohenemser Gemeindeblatt No. 40/1914, Hohenems in the First World War 1914 (1) and A house with an eventful history , Vorarlberger Nachrichten, supplement p. 19.
  10. ^ A house with an eventful history , Vorarlberger Nachrichten, supplement p. 19.
  11. ^ A house with an eventful history , Vorarlberger Nachrichten, supplement p. 19.
  12. ↑ Award for renovation of old houses , Vorarlberg online, October 30, 2009.
  13. ^ A house with an eventful history , Vorarlberger Nachrichten, supplement p. 19.

Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '35.7 "  N , 9 ° 41' 28.4"  E