Erlach (Hohenems)
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| Pole. District , state | Dornbirn (DO), Vorarlberg | ||
| Judicial district | Dornbirn | ||
| Pole. local community | Hohenems | ||
| Coordinates | 47 ° 22 '18 " N , 9 ° 41' 45" E | ||
| height | 412 m above sea level A. | ||
| Post Code | 6845 Hohenems | ||
| prefix | + 43/05576 (Hohenems) | ||
| Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; VoGIS | |||
Erlach is a district of the city of Hohenems and the northernmost part of the contiguous settlement area of Hohenems.
Origin of name
The name Erlach consists of the Old High German words erl and lahha . Erlen are a plant genus in the family of the birch family (Betulaceae). The root- related word is -ach with floodplain ahd. Ouwa ' island ', Middle High German ouwe for 'water-flooded land, river island, moist ground, wet meadow , floodplain , alluvial forest ', and. Â and an. ey , from * awjō , with a -j- suffix.
Composed of Erlach and Erlach means "a swamp overgrown with alders ".
The term “Erlach” can be found in Vorarlberg and throughout the German-speaking area.
history
The Erlach has belonged to the Hohenems rulership and city of Hohenems for centuries.
The “General National Calendar for Tyrol and Vorarlberg” lists 14 houses and 24 families with a total of 112 people in Erlach and Steinach for the year 1825, and these together are referred to as hamlets .
Topography, geography, location and traffic
Erlach ( 412 m above sea level ) borders the Oberklien district to the northeast and is about 1 km from the center of Hohenems. Erlach borders the Tiergarten district in the south. Erlach is divided into Unter-Erlach (towards Oberklien / Dornbirn) and Ober-Erlach (towards Hohenems Markt).
Erlach is located directly below Emsreute ( 682 m above sea level ), near the Schloßberg with the ruins of Alt-Ems . Some of the houses are close to the steeply sloping rock walls made of various layers of rock.
In “ Schematismus für Tirol und Vorarlberg ” (1839) Erlach is not listed as an independent hamlet and part of Hohenems. There is also no such separate entry in the “ Provinzial-Handbuch von Tirol und Vorarlberg for the year 1847 ”.
Relatively narrow streets lead to and from the district, which are no longer suitable for through traffic. From southwest to northeast, Vorarlberger Straße (L 190) runs past Erlach to the northwest .
Waters, fauna
The only notable body of water that flows through Erlach is the Hellbrunnenbach.
In the stone walls near the Erlach there are various species of rock-breeding birds.
Craft, trade
The so-called “Obere Steinbruch” in Erlach (called “Büchele” quarry, “Spitzeneck” quarry and “Erlach” quarry) adjacent to Oberklien was operated by the Büchele family from 1883. Rock was mined in this area before and for centuries. In 1890 the quarry was given a siding on the Lindau – Bludenz railway line . The Hoch-Tief-Bau company operated it under the name "Steinbruch Spitzeneck" around the Second World War until it was shut down in 1976.
Rockfalls
The area around the Breitenberg is geologically very turbulent and has been known for centuries for massive and uncontrolled rockfalls due to the different rock layers.
In January 1943 it was very cold for a long time with temperatures of −16 ° even during the day. On January 13, 1943, there was a sudden onset of the foehn. As a result, the temperature suddenly rose sharply. The thaw in the Büchele quarry in Unter-Erlach, on the "Spitzenegg", caused large masses of stone to loosen. These had not come off in a previous blast. The rock fall killed six Russian prisoners of war and three local residents and seriously injured three Russian and three local workers. Three of these workers died a few days later. A total of twelve deaths. One of the unfortunate Russian prisoners could no longer be recovered due to the acute danger of further rock drops and is said to be under the stone masses to this day. The other victims were made in the cemetery near the chapel of St. Sebastian and St. Antonius (Hohenems) is buried. The graves of the Russian prisoners of war are today at the LKH Rankweil (Valduna) in the local cemetery Valduna .
To commemorate the accident, the Hohenems cultural group created a wayside shrine near the former quarry area Büchele (Tiergarten) and a commemorative plaque (2003). The wayside shrine with its wrought iron gate has a picture of the academic painter Heilgard Bertel (3 angels) and a stone with a carved cross, which a surviving Russian prisoner of war had given to Friedrich Fenkart as thanks (this cross is attached to the wayside shrine on the roof).
religion
In Erlach there is also a wayside shrine that is popularly known as the “Madonna in the Bathtub” (Ober-Erlach location). The wayside shrine is located opposite the Villa Ivan Rosenthal at the junction of Radetzkystraße / Erlachstraße. The wooden Madonna with Child Jesus in the wayside shrine was created by the woodcarver Siegfried Fulterer. There is an inscription on the wayside shrine, which is intended to remind of the Loreto Chapel that used to stand here (only difficult to read).
literature
- Norbert K. Peter, " Hohenems - old pictures of a young city ", Hohenems 1988, ed. von Kulturkreis Hohenems, series of publications by the Kulturkreis Hohenems, 6.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolf-Armin von Reitzenstein : Lexicon of Franconian place names. Origin and meaning . Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59131-0 , p. 160 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ General national calendar for Tyrol and Vorarlberg on the common year 1825 , Innsbruck 1825, Wagner'sche Buchhandlung, p. 41.
- ↑ From 1839, p. 154 and 1845, p. 412.
- ↑ [1] , Google Books, p. 154.
- ↑ Provinzial-Handbuch von Tirol und Vorarlberg: for the year 1847 , Google Books, p. 414.
- ↑ Rita Kilzer, inventory and distribution of rock-nesting birds in Vorarlberg , p.33, 48th
- ↑ Chronicle of the Hohenems-Unterklien quarry and rock mining between Dornbirn and Hohenems , appendix.
- ^ Bomb deals by Harald Walser in Studies on the History and Society of Vorarlberg, Volume 6, published by the Johann-August-Malin-Gesellschaft, p. 260 f.
- ↑ The "Russian Cemetery" above the Valduna in Rankweil .
- ↑ The Villa Rosenthal is a listed building (ObjektID: 6272), built in 1890 and consists of the main wing with hipped and cross-gable roof, cube-shaped with a classifying entrance, side wings, utility wing with half-timbering.