Hohenems

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Hohenems (Austria)
Hohenems
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Vorarlberg
Political District : Dornbirn
License plate : DO
Surface: 29.19 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 22 '  N , 9 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '0 "  N , 9 ° 40' 0"  E
Height : 432  m above sea level A.
Residents : 16,731 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 573 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 6845
Area code : 05576
Community code : 8 03 02
NUTS region AT342
UN / LOCODE AT HOH
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Strasse 4
6845 Hohenems
Website: www.hohenems.at
politics
Mayor : Dieter Egger ( FPÖ )
Local council : (2015)
(36 members)
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A total of 36 seats
Location of Hohenems in the Dornbirn district
Dornbirn Hohenems Lustenau VorarlbergLocation of the municipality of Hohenems in the Dornbirn district (clickable map)
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hohenems is a town with 16,731 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Dornbirn district of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg .

In the city is the Hohenems Palace , the former residential palace of the Counts of Hohenems . In the 18th century, two of the three most important manuscripts of the Nibelungenlied were found in the palace library . Hohenems was the residence of numerous Jewish families from the 17th to the 19th century . In the 20th century Hohenems became world famous through the Schubertiade music festival .

geography

Hohenems is located in Vorarlberg , the westernmost federal state of Austria in the central Rhine Valley on the border with Switzerland at an altitude of 432 meters. 42.0% of the area is forested.

There are no other cadastral communities in Hohenems.

Districts

Hohenems is divided into eleven districts:

"Over the track"

"Under the train"

  • Gmuand
  • Sole
  • Herrenried
  • farmers

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Hohenems borders on six other political communities. Two of these, namely the market town of Lustenau and the district capital Dornbirn , are in the same political district ( DO ), three in the Feldkirch district ( Fraxern , Götzis and Altach ) and the community of Diepoldsau in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen . In the case of Diepoldsau, the municipal border in the Old Rhine thus also forms the state border between Austria and Switzerland . This is also the EU's external border, but since Switzerland joined the Schengen area in 2008, systematic checks on persons at the border have been abolished. (The municipalities are given clockwise, starting in the north.)

history

First page of manuscript C of the Nibelungenlied (around 1220)
Hohenems 1613

City coat of arms and origin of the House of Hohenems

The coat of arms of Hohenems, the ibex , is likely to be traced back to the same heraldic animal in the coat of arms of Graubünden , because the first documentary mention of the Ems family comes from the year 1170 for Ober- or Wälsch-Ems ob Chur . Whether the Counts of Ems actually come from this place is controversial, as historian Andreas Ulmer mentions that the Counts of Ems may also come from ancestor Hainricus de Amides , a half-brother of the last Count of Bregenz named Rudolf (d. 1160 ), could descend.

middle Ages

The beginning of the settlement in the Hohenems area is not known. Since the end of the 12th century, the Altems Castle of the Lords of Ems has been one of the most powerful and largest castle complexes (350 meters long and 80 meters wide) in southern Germany. The Staufer fortress served, among other things, as a repository for prominent prisoners such as Wilhelm III from 1195 . (Sicily) or in 1206 Archbishop Bruno of Cologne . In 1406 the Appenzeller burned down the village of Ems completely in the so-called Bund ob dem See .

In 1333 Hohenems was granted city rights, but this was not realized because the financial means were not raised for the construction of the city wall.

For the history of the spa, see sulfur bath .

Free imperial county

Emperor Ferdinand I stood on April 27, 1560 Ems to a region of the empire. A Renaissance palace was built at the foot of the Schlossberg. In 1570 Karl Borromäus paid a short visit to Count Jakob Hannibal, the husband of his half-sister Hortensia. The parish church is consecrated to Karl Borromeo, who was canonized for his services to the Counter Reformation, and he is the patron saint of Hohenems. Count Kaspar acquired the imperial county of Vaduz and the Freiherrschaft Schellenberg and granted the county of Hohenems market privileges.

At the end of the 18th century Hohenems gained notoriety with the discovery of parts of the Nibelungenlied: in 1755 the manuscript C was discovered in the library of the Lindau doctor Jacob Hermann Oberreit, and a little later in 1779 the manuscript A appeared again in the palace.

Rule of the Habsburgs

In 1765 the County of Hohenems was acquired by Austria. The Habsburgs ruled the County of Hohenems alternately from Tyrol and Upper Austria (Freiburg im Breisgau). From 1805 to 1814 the place belonged to Bavaria , then after four years of dispute over ownership rights back to Austria.

Hohenems has belonged to the Austrian state of Vorarlberg since it was founded in 1861.

In 1595 the sulfur chapel , in 1607 the chapel of St. Sebastian and St. Anthony , 1617 the chapel of St. Karl Borromeo , 1898 the chapel of St. Josef erected in Unterklien .

Republic of Austria

The place was part of the French occupation zone in Austria from 1945 to 1955. Since 1969 the community has belonged to the newly founded Dornbirn district. In 1983 Hohenems was made a city and is the youngest city in Vorarlberg.

Emser Chronicle

In 1616, Bartholomäus Schnell (* 1580 in Langenargen , † April 19, 1649 in Hohenems) established the first printing works in Vorarlberg, the Graflich Hohenemsische Buchdruckerei (1616-1730) in Hohenems. With the Emser Chronik , which he presented in the same year , Schnell succeeded in creating a “masterpiece of book printing” in the first year of his activity in Hohenems, which was repeatedly described as “the most beautiful book ever printed in Vorarlberg”. A well-preserved copy is one of the treasures of the State Library in Bregenz today .

The work, completed by Johann Georg Schleh from Rottweil in 1613, also marked the "beginning of Vorarlberg regional historiography": Around 100 coats of arms are depicted in this work - as are cartographic woodcuts, including the oldest surviving map of Vorarlberg. Not least because of this, the Emser Chronik represents the high point of the art of printing in Vorarlberg. The political intentions behind this work are clear in the Vorarlberg map, which shows the whole of today's Vorarlberg: The area is marked with hatched borders. which, if the initiator, Count Kaspar von Hohenems, had wanted , would form a sovereign territorial state under the rule of the Counts of Ems as a " sub-council ".

In 1663 the print shop was headed by Johann Kaspar Schwendimann, who produced the most famous Hohenems print alongside the Emser Chronicle with the “Philotheus” (autobiographical shepherd novel) by the baroque poet Laurentius von Schnüffis .

Jewish community

In 1617 a letter of protection from Imperial Count Kaspar von Hohenems laid the legal basis for the settlement of Jewish families and the establishment of a Jewish community. The imperial count hoped that this would generate economic impetus for his market. There were evictions in the 17th century, but after Jewish families were allowed to return, the Jewish community flourished. A synagogue , a ritual bath ( mikveh ) and a poor shelter were built, and a cemetery was laid out.

In 1797 , Herz Jakob Kitzinger from Augsburg founded the first coffee house in Vorarlberg. The “Kitzinger coffee house” was soon a meeting place for a wide variety of Israelite social groups. In 1813, Jewish citizens founded the reading society in this house. The community grew continuously until the first half of the 19th century, with the number of Jewish residents reaching its peak in 1862 with 564 people. The basic state laws of 1867 and the associated free choice of residence for Jews then led to a strong emigration to surrounding cities, so that in 1890 only 118 Jews lived in the city.

In 1935 the Jewish community had only 35 members. In 1938 after the annexation of Austria , Jewish property was "Aryanized" by the Hohenems community . This was followed by the forced dissolution of the religious community in 1940 and the deportation of remaining community members to the extermination and concentration camps . Frieda Nagelberg was the last Jewish woman to be deported from Vorarlberg on February 25, 1942 .

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) were temporarily resettled. None of the former parishioners returned.

After 1945, the Hohenems community acquired the synagogue properties from the Innsbruck IKG to convert them into a fire station . The rabbinate house next to it was demolished. Due to the great commitment of the St. Gallen community , it was possible to prevent the gravestones from being removed from the cemetery and from being made into pencils from the old cedars . The cemetery itself should have been used for planting Christmas trees. (Dreier 1988: 232 f.)

Gad Hugo Sella, who was born Hugo Silberstein in Innsbruck in 1912 and was able to leave Austria on time in 1938, describes his experiences in an on-site report from 1977:

“Apart from the cemetery, nothing remains of the flourishing Jewish community in Hohenems. […] The synagogue, a large building in which the word of God was preached for centuries, has become a tool shed for the Hohenems fire brigade, truly a blasphemy for which there is no excuse. Hohenems is also Jewish today. "

- Gad Hugo Sella : quoted in: Dreier 1988: 228 f.

20th century

With the Diepoldsauer Rhine breakthrough and the regulation of the Rhine in 1923, the constant danger of flooding that had existed for centuries ended and further settlement of the valley floor was made possible.

In 1983 Hohenems was elevated to the status of town by the Vorarlberg state government on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the town charter from 1333.

In 1998, the first Vorarlberg crematorium was put into operation in Hohenems .

Population development


Hohenems is currently home to 16,731 residents (as of January 1, 2020), with the proportion of foreigners at the end of 2002 being 14.5 percent and thus above the national average.

politics

In comparison to most other municipalities in Vorarlberg, Hohenems has a large variety of parties, so in 2015 and 2010 there were five and in 2005 even six different lists for municipal council elections.

City council and mayor

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The Hohenems city ​​council currently consists of 36 members. After the last municipal council election in 2015 , this was made up as follows: Freedom Hohenems (FPÖ) 16 seats, People's Party Hohenems (ÖVP) 12 seats, busy and Greens (Greens) 6 seats, Citizens Movement Hohenems 1 seat and SPÖ Hohenems 1 seat.

Mayor of the city of Hohenems was Richard Amann from the People's Party from 2004 to December 2015. In the last direct mayor election in 2015, he had to go into a runoff election against his challenger from the FPÖ, Dieter Egger , after Egger received 45 percent and Amann only 35 percent of the vote in the first ballot. Despite Egger's lead, Amann managed to turn things around in the subsequent runoff election and to be confirmed in the mayor's office with 50.83 percent of the votes.

However, the FPÖ top candidate Dieter Egger , who lost out in the mayor's runoff election , said that the FPÖ would contest the runoff. In November 2015, the Constitutional Court confirmed irregularities in applying for and issuing voting cards and canceled the result of the mayor's runoff election. This had to be repeated after the decision of the VfGH. The state electoral authority set December 20, 2015 as the date for the re-election. When the mayoral election was repeated in Hohenems, challenger Dieter Egger from the FPÖ won 55.75 percent of the vote. The previous incumbent Richard Amann (ÖVP) achieved 44.25 percent and announced his withdrawal from politics.

Finances

The budget for 2013 provides for expenditures in the amount of almost 38 million euros. Loans of 1.17 million must be taken out to balance the budget. The debt will be reduced to 21.66 million by the end of the year. The estimate of the city of Hohenems Immobilienverwaltungs GmbH & Co.KG (GIG) provides for income and expenditure of 1.25 million euros for 2013. The debt level of the GIG, through which the renovation of city buildings is carried out, will fall to 11.98 million at the end of 2013.

Town twinning

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Hohenems

The second smallest city in Vorarlberg after Bludenz offers a diverse range of culture and has several sights in the city area.

Museums

Jewish Museum Hohenems

Jewish Museum in Hohenems

The Jewish Museum Hohenems is a regional museum with international appeal. It commemorates the rural Jewish community of Hohenems and their diverse contributions to the development of Vorarlberg and the surrounding regions. The museum's events deal with the Jewish present in Europe, the diaspora and Israel as well as with questions of the future of the European immigration society.

See also: Mikwe (Hohenems) .

Music museums

In connection with the Schubertiade music festival founded here, a number of museums were created that deal with different aspects of the music presented here. The Schubertiade Museum is dedicated to the endeavors of posterity for the works and person of the Viennese composer Franz Schubert . The focus is on personalities who have made a contribution to Schubert as interpreters, editors or teachers. The Dreimäderlhaus-Museum opposite, based on the operetta of the same name from 1916, traces the legends and curiosities that the involvement with Schubert brought about. The Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Museum is dedicated to one of the most important sopranos of the 20th century, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. In the Walter Legge Music and Record Museum , original documents from the extensive archive of the first and one of the most important record producers of classical music can be seen.

Hohenems and Nibelungenlied Museum

This museum is about the city's rich history, including the discovery of the Nibelungen manuscripts C and A at the end of the 18th century.

Stoffels saw mill museum

Stoffel's saw-mill

The “Stoffels Säge-Mühle” museum is located in a historic industrial area that was first mentioned in 1626. The building, which at that time already housed two saws driven by water wheels, has been in the possession of the Amann family ( house name “Stoffels”) since 1835 . The museum documents 2000 years of technology and development from mills and sawmills to the present day on an area of ​​600 m². It consists of two parts:

In the open-air museum, a historical, water-wheel-driven saw and mill is exhibited in its original size and its original surroundings, as well as 30 tools for the sawmill and milling industry as well as the running wheels of the Pelton , Kaplan and Francis turbines .

The mill museum houses 35 milling machines from the period from 1880 and mill technology from the period from 1920 to 1955 through to computer-controlled mills from the 1990s. Display boards provide information about wheat cultivation and flour production.

Old Times Museum, Säge district

The sponsoring association Alte-Zeiten-Museum is renovating (e) the wooden house at Sägerstrasse 5, which was dated to 1602 using dendrochronology . The small history museum - opened in April 2016 - shows the history of the house and illuminates life in Hohenems at the beginning of the 17th century. There are old crops in the garden.

Noah's Ark - Art & Nature Collection

Since May 2019, the private museum in Bäumler Park, Markus-Sittikus-Straße 20, has been showing two collections by Hans Bäumler from Ingolstadt . In a former textile factory of his family you can see animal preparations - butterflies, game, albinos - as well as fossils and minerals from different countries and on the other hand paintings. Images from the late romantic era of the 19th century, for example by Waldmüller and Spitzweg . Works by French and German impressionists and post-impressionists, such as Manet , Monet , Renoir , Gauguin , Liebermann . 107 works form a panorama from 130 years of art history, the most recent is a still life by Picasso from 1945/46.

Buildings

  • Ruin Old-Ems
    The castle Alt-Ems was with seven gates, a drawbridge and 47 premises once one of the largest castles in Southern Germany. At 740 meters above sea level, around 300 meters above the Rhine Valley, the castle originally had a length of 800 meters and a width of up to 85 meters. The legendary Konradsbrunnen is still visible in the inner courtyard .
    The ruins have been renovated since 2006.
Glopper Castle
  • Glopper Castle - Neu-Ems Castle
    In 1343, knight Ulrich I von Ems built a new castle on the ridge of the Rhine Valley in Emsreute, near his fortress Alt-Ems , in order to create a permanent refuge for his large family in troubled times.
    The Neu-Ems Castle , and Castle Glopper and shortly popularly Glopper called, consists of a single architectural ensemble of small-scale stronghold with a peaceful mountain-like stronghold, and an attached Palas and a deeper outer bailey. In 1843 the castle fell to Clemens Waldburg-Zeil-Lustenau-Hohenems and has been owned by the Waldburg-Zeil family ever since .
  • Hohenems Palace
    The palace of Hohenems was designed by Martino Longhi planned in the years 1562 to 1567 and created.
    The building is a regular three-storey structure with pitched roofs and a rectangular inner courtyard. In the north and south there are two-axis corner projections under conical roofs, the central axis is emphasized by a three-dimensionally structured round arch portal. The Hohenems Palace is the most important Renaissance building in western Austria. It is still inhabited and used for restaurants and events.
town hall
  • City Hall
    The City Hall originally belonged to the palace as a guest house and was also planned by Martino Longhi. A two-armed flight of stairs leads to the raised entrance.
  • Old Town Hall
    The old town hall is located in the oldest urban area of ​​Hohenems on Sägerstraße in the direction of Emsreute and served as town hall from 1637 to 1830. The building, also known as the Chancellery , is owned by the city and is a listed building. A notched ax in a window ledge is a reminder of the earlier counts' blood judiciary, at least that is the well-known tradition.
Salomon Sulzer Hall
  • Salomon-Sulzer-Saal (former synagogue)
    From 1770 to 1772, the high-vaulted church in the late Baroque, classical style was built according to plans by the Bregenzerwald master builder Peter Bein, which was one of the most important synagogues in the Lake Constance area - a cubic structure with a mansard hipped roof. The interior of the synagogue was rebuilt between 1863 and 1867 and received a tower with a clock and striking mechanism.
    In 2003/2004 the former synagogue was renovated under the direction of the architects Ada and Reinhard Rinderer , and most of the original appearance was restored. For the first time in more than 60 years, a Jewish Sabbath service was held in the former synagogue on July 22, 2004 . The official opening after the renovation took place on May 21, 2006. It was opened jointly by Rabbi Hermann Schmelzer (Jewish Community of St. Gallen), Pastor Thomas Heilbrun (Parish of St. Karl; see below) and Imam Samir Redzepovic as a representative of the Islamic religious community in the presence of some descendants of Jewish citizens who were important for the city.
    Today the building bears the name Salomon Sulzer Hall, named after the famous cantor and citizen of the city, and is available to the public as an event hall and part of the music school.
  • Jewish cemetery Hohenems
    The Jewish cemetery is located on the southern outskirts of the city. The cemetery complex was built in 1617 when the Jews were settled in Hohenems.
Markus Sittikus Hall
  • Embroidery Amann
    The representative functional building from the time before the First World War and was planned from 1910 to 1911 by the Vorarlberg architect Hanns Kornberger (1868–1933). The architecture is based on clear pillar structures with a balanced window division and an elaborately designed entrance with fencing.
Old Hospital (Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Str.)

Regular events

  • Several times a year the Schubertiade takes place in Hohenems , the focus of which is on the music of Schubert and his time. The events usually take place in the Markus Sittikus Hall.
  • The annual Homunculus Festival , which the organizers call the Festival for Puppets, punch lines and poetry , is an integral part of the city of Hohenems' calendar of events.
  • The Hohenems Choir and Organ Days take place annually on three days at the beginning of October.
  • The Emsiana cultural festival every weekend in May offers guided tours, lectures and exhibitions, readings and concerts.

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2003 there were 316 commercial enterprises in Hohenems with 2999 employees and 189 apprentices. A total of 6195 employees subject to wage tax were employed.

In the 2000s, job losses in the textile industry and ski and sporting goods production (see Kästle ) were offset by the establishment of new companies, such as a multiplex cinema and a branch of an international hardware store. Large companies are the metal processing company Collini and the meat products production company efef .

There are 6 business parks:

  • at & co regional center ems / prism center
  • Baeumler Park
  • The Spinnerei Wirtschaftspark GmbH
  • GeDe-Park (Dtex)
  • Kästle Park
  • Otten Real

The Hohenems State Hospital has 128 beds. The hospital also operates a palliative care unit . There are departments for anesthesia , internal medicine and intensive medicine , pulmonology , conservative orthopedics and a day surgery ward.

In the immediate vicinity of the hospital is the Hohenems rescue center, completed in 2019, which houses the Hohenems department of the Red Cross and the Hohenems mountain rescue service. Ambulance, ambulance and emergency medical services for the region are provided from here.

freetime and sports

Local recreation area Rheinauen

With the Rheinaue, Hohenems - together with the neighboring municipality of Altach - has the largest natural and outdoor swimming pool in western Austria. On 13 hectares there is a 400-meter-long natural lake on the Old Rhine, a 50-meter sports pool, a 1,000 m² family pool, a relaxation pool and a children's, paddling and play area. The swimming and leisure facility also includes a vitality trail and a freely accessible barbecue area. In the evenings, the facility can be rented for events from 30 to 5000 people.

Alpine sports

Due to its central location in the Rhine Valley, Hohenems is the starting point for hikes and mountain bike tours. Popular excursion destinations include the Schlossberg with the Alt-Ems ruins, the Hoher Staufen panoramic mountain , the Alpe Gsohl, the Schuttannen or the Fluhereck ( Emser hut ) . The Löwenzähne limestone rock group above Emsreute is popular with sport climbers . There are climbing routes of various levels of difficulty with wall heights of up to 150 meters.

In winter, the mountain landscape above Hohenems, in the Schuttannen ski area, offers good conditions for skiers, ski tourers and snowboarders.

traffic

Public transport

Hohenems train station, operated by ÖBB , is on the Lindau – Bludenz railway line . Only regional trains stop, such as the regional express and regional trains of the Vorarlberg S-Bahn that run every quarter of an hour during the day .

The train station is also a bus stop for the Vorarlberger Verkehrsverbund bus lines . In addition to the lines 22a, 23a, 55 as well as 55a and 55b, which only run in the local area of ​​Hohenems (also as a bathing, ski and hiking bus), lines 22, 22g, 23, 53 and 54 of the Unterland bus also run through Hohenems. The Rhine Bus AG communicate with the line 303 of Heerbrugg up to Hohenems lock space.

In September 2012, work began on converting the train station and the associated bus stop into a modern local transport hub. Up to and including 2016, the technical part of the railway station including new platforms, pedestrian and cyclist underpasses as well as lifts and a new station forecourt were rebuilt or completely rebuilt. The regional buses now stop directly opposite the house platform .

Private transport

The state roads Vorarlberger Straße (L 190) and Rheinstraße (L 203) cross the municipality from north to south; there are east-west connections between these two streets in the local area with the L 46 and L 47.The former runs north of the center from the L 190 to the full connection to the Rheintal / Walgau Autobahn (A 14) and to the border crossing to Diepoldsau.

In 2010, after years of planning, a re-routing of Vorarlberger Straße through Hohenems was completed, which now leads around the city center in a west loop. This measure is intended to relieve the historical center of through traffic.

Airport tower

aviation

With the Hohenems-Dornbirn airfield, Hohenems owns a sports airfield. In the 1970s this was used by the Rheintalflug until the airline had to switch to the neighboring St. Gallen-Altenrhein airfield in Switzerland for reasons of capacity .

education

As early as 1604, Count Kaspar founded the first school in Hohenems, in the court chaplaincy the pupils were taught by the early knife. In 1612, Count Kaspar hired a first secular schoolmaster, who worked alongside the early knife in the Latin school. In addition, in 1617 he allowed the Jews living in Hohenems to build their own Jewish school, which, despite a checkered history, was preserved until 1913. Between the years 1861 and 1896, students of other faiths were also allowed to attend this school. A total of 106 Catholic boys, 28 Catholic girls, 45 Protestant boys and 63 Protestant girls made use of this right. Today Hohenems has three elementary schools, the VS-Markt, the VS-Herrenried and the VS-Reute, two middle schools, the SMS-Markt with a sports focus and the MS-Herrenried, a special school and the rural school and education center (see below ). Further educational institutions are the adult education center, the music school and a private Montessori school. There are eight kindergartens at pre-school facilities.

The focus of the rural school and education center for Vorarlberg (BSBZ) in Hohenems is: agriculture, housekeeping and landscape maintenance. Graduates of the three-year technical school receive a skilled worker certificate and are gladly trained as employees by regional craft businesses and various social institutions. In addition, after graduation, secondary schools with maturity can be attended. With the technical college for working people, the BSBZ offers adults a second vocational training in housekeeping and agriculture. Since the 2015/16 school year, the Higher Education Institute for Agriculture, with a focus on resource management and renewable energy, has offered the opportunity to take the school-leaving examination directly at the school. For the first time, Hohenems has a school that can be completed with the Matura after five years.

useful information

The Emperor of Austria-Hungary also carried the title "Count von Hohenems" (see Grand Title of the Emperor of Austria ). Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary (better known as "Sissi" or "Sisi") also traveled incognito as "Countess von Hohenems" (corresponding business cards are still preserved), including at the time of her murder in Geneva.

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the city

  • Arthur Neudörfer (1877–1952), doctor (senior medical officer)
  • Konrad Renn (1881–1959), pastor
  • Otto Amann (1926–2011), former mayor

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities related to Hohenems

  • Jean Améry (1912–1978), former name: Hans Chaim Mayer, writer; his family comes from Hohenems.
  • August Brentano (1828–1886), Jewish emigrant from Hohenems, who came to the United States in 1851 and was a newspaper carrier there. He later founded Brentano’s , New York ’s largest bookstore. He lived in the house opposite the former synagogue in Hohenems.
  • Karl Borromeo (1538–1584), plague saint, cardinal, then Archbishop of Milan, is the patron saint of Hohenems.
  • Karl Falschlunger (1930–2012), Member of the State Parliament and Vice President of the State Parliament
  • Esaias Gruber († around 1595), the elder and the younger, family of sculptors, created sculptures in the parish church of St. Karl and in the palace.
  • Jürgen-Thomas Ernst (* 1966 in Lustenau), author, grew up in Hohenems.
  • Ely Jacques Kahn , American architect.
  • Michael Köhlmeier (* 1949), author, lives in Hohenems.
  • Paula Köhlmeier (1982–2003), daughter of Michael Köhlmeier, author, grew up in Hohenems and had a fatal accident there.
  • Hanns Kornberger (1868–1933), Art Nouveau architect, was involved in numerous buildings in Hohenems and died here.
  • Martino Longhi the Elder (around 1530 - 1591), architect of the Hohenems Palace and current town hall (formerly the Count's guest house)
  • Aron Tänzer (1871–1937), rabbi (1896–1905 in Hohenems) and historian
  • Regina Ullmann (1884–1961), writer
  • Andreas Ulmer (1880–1953), historian, wrote an important book about the castles and noble residences of Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein
  • Ludwig Welti (1904–1971), historian
  • Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), writer (his mother comes from the Brettauer house)

mayor

Since 1818 the following people have been the heads of the Hohenems community:

  • 1818–1830 / 1834–1847 Andrä Peter
  • 1850–1856 Johann Peter
  • 1856–1859 Hermann player
  • 1859–1861 Alois Peter
  • 1861–1864 Jakob Mathis
  • 1864–1867 Anton player
  • 1867–1869 Johann Häfele
  • 1869–1882 Johann Georg Witzemann
  • 1882–1885 Josef Anton Waibel
  • 1885–1896 Hermann Mathis
  • 1896–1904 August Reis
  • 1904–1912 Alois Peter
  • 1913 Count Clemens von Brandis (administrator 1st half year)
  • 1913-1919 Alois Amann
  • 1919–1937 August Waibel
  • 1937–1938 August Mathis
  • 1938 Karl Hämmerle (acting)
  • 1938–1945 Josef Wolfgang
  • 1945–1965 Hanny Amann
  • 1965–1990 Otto Amann
  • 1990–1997 Herbert Amann
  • 1997-2004 Christian Niederstetter
  • 2004–2015 Richard Amann
  • since 2015 Dieter Egger

literature

  • Office of the City of Hohenems (ed.): Commemorative publication of the Hohenems town survey 1333–1983. Commemorative publication for the city elevation ceremony on May 28, 1983 (with a field name map for Hohenems by Siegfried Fulterer), Dornbirn 1983.
  • Hermann Begle: The Emser Chronicle - A propaganda work of the Emser Counts. Reprint of the typewritten. Term paper for German Philology from September 1980. Bookstore Märk, Hohenems o. J.
  • Werner Dreier: Recklessly and with all his might. Anti-Semitism in Vorarlberg 1880–1945. Bookstore Märk, Hohenems (ed.): Antisemitism in Vorarlberg. Regional study on the history of a worldview. Bregenz 1988, pp. 132-249.
  • Wilhelm Frey: The colorful house. Jewish stories from Hohenems. Ed. And with an afterword by Bernhard Purin. Hecht-Verlag, Hard 1996, ISBN 3-85298-019-4 .
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Districts defined . Sending out by the city of Hohenems to redefine the districts.
  2. ↑ Alfred Steinitzer, Historical and cultural-historical walks through Tyrol and Vorarlberg . Innsbruck 1905, p. 474.
  3. ↑ Alois Niederstätter : Comments on Vorarlberg regional historiography after 1945 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF; 195 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorarlberg.at
  4. ^ Event on Bartholomäus Schnell. State Library 2005.
  5. ^ Norbert Schnetzer: The beginnings of book printing in Vorarlberg. ISBN 3-85376-203-4 .
  6. ^ Gotthard Deutsch, Aaron Tänzer:  Hohenems. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
  7. ^ Austrian Association of Municipalities: Press release (PDF; 70 kB) October 30, 2007.
  8. ↑ Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)
  9. ^ Results of the municipal council election 2010. Website of the city of Hohenems. Accessed September 22, 2011.
  10. ↑ Amann just remains mayor of Hohenems . Article on vorarlberg.ORF.at from March 29, 2015.
  11. ↑ Redial in Hohenems and Bludenz . Article on vorarlberg.ORF.at from November 23, 2015, accessed on November 23, 2015.
  12. ^ Blue smoke in Hohenems: Egger triumphs . Article on vorarlberg.ORF.at from December 20, 2015, accessed on December 20, 2015.
  13. ^ Schubertiade Museum
  14. ^ Bernhard Amann: Stoffels saw mill. A worldwide unique cultural-historical documentation covering 2000 years of mill technology . Folder to the museum. Hohenems 2012.
  15. ↑ Noah's Ark combines nature and art orf.at, May 2, 2019, accessed May 3, 2019.
  16. ↑ A Noah's Ark for Art and Nature donaukurier.de, April 30, 2029, updated May 1, 2019, accessed May 4, 2019.
  17. ↑ Two Collections - One Museum: Noah's Ark: Collection Art & Nature Museum website, accessed May 4, 2019.
  18. ↑ Legend: The Konradsbrunnen in Hohenems. Website from haben.at.
  19. ↑ Wirtschaftsparks Hohenems.at, accessed May 4, 2019.
  20. ^ Regional Hospital Hohenems - Portal
  21. ↑ Hohenems rescue center
  22. ↑ ÖBB Infrastruktur AG: Hohenems train station ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 15, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oebb.at
  23. ↑ Relief of traffic in Hohenems city center - Neue Stadtspange officially opened to traffic In: Vorarlberg.at, project archive.
  24. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: honorary citizen in Vorarlberg. 1986, ISBN 3-85258-001-3 .
  25. ↑ Marktgemeinde Hohenems (Hrsg.): Hohenems culture. Vol. II of the overall presentation, Vorarlberger Graphische Anstalt, Bregenz 1978, p. 157.