Farnach (Bildstein)
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| Pole. District , state | Bregenz (B), Vorarlberg | ||
| Judicial district | Bregenz | ||
| Pole. local community | Bildstein | ||
| Locality | Bildstein | ||
| Coordinates | 47 ° 26 '55 " N , 9 ° 47' 43" E | ||
| height | 747 m above sea level A. | ||
| Post Code | 6858 Bildstein | ||
| prefix | + 43/05572 ( Dornbirn ) | ||
 Village square, village fountain and Michael's chapel in Farnach |
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| Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; VoGIS | |||
Farnach ( 747 m above sea level ) is part of the municipality of Bildstein in Vorarlberg ( Austria ).
history
As early as 1835/36, a single-class elementary school was built in Farnach (formerly also called Fahrnach ). The construction of the Michaelskapelle began in 1899, so the district got its own church.
Farnach was still a purely rural area into the 20th century, until the quarry was opened in 1937. Tourism also began to establish itself. After the Gasthaus Krone burned down on June 8, 1952, it was reopened in 1954 as the “Gasthof-Pension Farnach” with 30 beds, and a ski lift was subsequently installed.
The hillside location has always shaped the fate of the place. In 1957 there were two slides due to heavy rainfall (10/11 July and 18/19 August). Farnach was not connected to the public telephone network until 1959, and in the same year the elementary school was replaced by a new building at the same location. In 1962 a separate milk collection point was built.
In the following years Farnach was gradually incorporated into the infrastructure of the area. In 1983/84, a community association between Alberschwende, Bildstein and Buch established a public drinking and extinguishing water supply in Farnach. Since 1999, Farnach's wastewater has been discharged centrally to the Alberschwende-Zoll sewage treatment plant. This integration into the environment also had the consequence that the old own institutions could no longer be maintained. In 1975, after 140 years, the Farnach elementary school was closed. The milk collection point, which had been bought by the municipality of Bildstein in 1997, was demolished in August 1999.
location
Farnach is located on the Farnacherberg and is separated from the municipality of Bildstein to the north by the Minderach . Seen from the Alpine Rhine Valley , the Farnacherberg is not quite as outstanding as the ridge on which the village of Bildstein lies.
Farnach borders to the south, along the Schwarzach , on the municipality of Dornbirn , and to the southeast on the municipalities of Alberschwende and to the west of Schwarzach . There are other populated parcels around Farnach: Loban, Haag - Hinterhag, Gärtle, Oberschwende, Grül, Schanz, Jungholz, Schnabelburg, Tobel and Ausertobel. Farnach is about 2 km as the crow flies from the center of Bildstein and about 2.7 km from Alberschwende.
traffic
Road traffic
A mule track from the Rhine Valley to Alberschwende and further into the Bregenzerwald has been running over the Linzenberg near Schwarzach - Farnach to Zoll near Alberschwende . The Gasthaus Krone stood on this path, which was demolished and replaced by new buildings (residential buildings) in 2015.
In 1785 the mule track was widened to make it usable for carts and sledges. The Schwarzachtobelstraße (L 7), which still exists today and runs under Farnach, was not built until 1837, which was then relieved in 2009 by the Achrain tunnel (L 200).
For many centuries there was only a mule track between Farnach and the village of Bildstein. Only in the 1920s, a road (in was built by hand by Farnach compulsory labor of the people of Farnach) of 1941-42 from the RAD was redeveloped. From 1955 to 1960 the community built a goods road to Bildstein village via Farnach - Gärtle - the Minderach - through the Sunderwald.
Public transport
The first post bus route from Dornbirn via Bildstein-Dorf to Farnach was opened on February 4, 1968. Today the regional bus route 45 runs in the ring traffic from Schwarzach, Wolfurt via Bildstein, Farnach to Alberschwende (village square) and back (see: Landbus Unterland ).
economy
In addition to an inn (Krone), agriculture dominated the village of Farnach. The local farmers ran their own milk collection point, dairy and milk processing facility until 1940.
There is a “mill” plot of land near the Minderach, which indicates that the water power was used for a grinder here.
The Farnach hard sandstone extracted here is well known, from which the Bezegg-Sul was hewn among other things .
From 1925 until the connection to the public energy network of the Vorarlberg power plants in 1942, some Farnacher houses (7) and Alberschwende-Bereute and Zoll (4) were connected to a small hydropower plant by Johann Georg Kaspar Gmeiner from Alberschwende-Bereute (reservoir) / Zoll-Farnach ( Power house). The power plant, equipped with a Pelton turbine , had an output of around 6 kW .
Waters
In addition to the Minderach, which also partially forms the border to the community of Schwarzach, there are several smaller bodies of water, such as the Laubtobelbach, Töbelebach, Bereutergraben, which arise in Farnach and drain directly into the Schwarzach. The small brook drains first into the Minderach and only over this into the Schwarzach.
Attractions
Nature reserve
" Farnachmoos " nature reserve in the area of the municipalities of Alberschwende and Bildstein .
Chapel of St. Michael
The Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Michael is a listed building and is dedicated to the Archangel Michael .
Web links
- Official homepage of the community of Bildstein
- Bildstein community archive
- 80205 - Farnach (Bildstein). Community data, Statistics Austria .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kapellengemeinschaft Farnach, “Festschrift for the celebration of 100 years of the Sankt Michaelskapelle”, p. 35.
- ↑ a b Kapellengemeinschaft Farnach, “Festschrift for the celebration of 100 years of the Sankt Michaelskapelle”, p. 22
- ↑ Kapellengemeinschaft Farnach, “Festschrift for the celebration of 100 years of the Sankt Michaelskapelle”, p. 19
- ↑ Kapellengemeinschaft Farnach, “Festschrift for the celebration of 100 years of the Sankt Michaelskapelle”, p. 12.
- ↑ Kapellengemeinschaft Farnach, “Festschrift for the celebration of 100 years of the Sankt Michaelskapelle”, pp. 13, 16.
- ↑ Kapellengemeinschaft Farnach, “Festschrift for the celebration of 100 years of the Sankt Michaelskapelle”, p. 16.
- ↑ Kapellengemeinschaft Farnach, “Festschrift for the celebration of 100 years of the Sankt Michaelskapelle”, pp. 12, 17.
- ↑ a b Kapellengemeinschaft Farnach, “Festschrift for the celebration of 100 years of the Sankt Michaelskapelle”, p. 18 f.
- ↑ Kapellengemeinschaft Farnach, “Festschrift for the celebration of 100 years of the Sankt Michaelskapelle”, p. 13.
- ↑ Kapellengemeinschaft Farnach, “Festschrift for the celebration of 100 years of the Sankt Michaelskapelle”, p. 20.
- ↑ ObjectID: 597 (see list of listed objects in Bildstein ).