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| Basic data | ||
| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Vorarlberg | |
| Political District : | Bregenz | |
| License plate : | B. | |
| Surface: | 17.78 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 29 ' N , 9 ° 41' E | |
| Height : | 399 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 13,633 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Postal code : | 6971 | |
| Area code : | 05574 | |
| Community code : | 8 02 15 | |
| NUTS region | AT342 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Marktstrasse 18 6971 Hard |
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| Mayoress : | Eva-Maria Mair ( ÖVP ) | |
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Local council : (2015) (33 members) |
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| Location of Hard in the Bregenz district | ||
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 View of Hard from the north |
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| Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria | ||
Hard (also Hard am Bodensee ) is a market town in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . The market town with 13,633 inhabitants (1 January 2020) to the capital of Vorarlberg Bregenz is the second largest municipality in the district Bregenz .
geography
The market town is located on the shores of Lake Constance , nestled between the Bregenzer Ach and the confluence of the New Rhine with Lake Constance, and is part of the Bregenz administrative district in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
Community structure
Hard consists of a single cadastral municipality and village of the same name .
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Neighboring communities
Located on the southern shore of Lake Constance, Hard borders the state capital Bregenz in the east, Lauterach in the south and Fußach in the west .
history
Around 700 AD, the Alemanni first settled in the area of today's Mittelweiherburg . Around 1200, forests near Lake Constance were cleared. The new village was named Hard ( Old High German : forest). Hard was mentioned for the first time in 1249 in a letter of protection from Pope Innocent IV to the Mehrerau monastery .
Margravine Elisabeth born Montfort sold half of the county of Montfort-Bregenz to the Habsburg Archduke Siegmund . Hard came to Austria in 1451. In the Battle of Hard in 1499 , the Confederates defeated the Knights of the Swabian League . The first village school was mentioned in 1620, and Hard became an independent parish in 1646. In 1794 the first textile factory, founded by the Alsatian Samuel Vogel, opened its doors, which at the same time ushered in the age of industrialization. It was later replaced by the company Schindler & Jenny, whose leading figures came from the Swiss canton of Glarus (including Friedrich Wilhelm Schindler ) and were among the founders of the first Protestant community in Vorarlberg.
In 1806 the Bavarian government dissolved the Hofsteig court . Hard became an independent municipality for the first time. According to a record by Landammann Schneider from 1808, Hard had 880 inhabitants, 176 houses and 221 cows.
In 1905, Emperor Franz Joseph I raised Hard to a market town and gave it a municipal coat of arms.
Population development
The increase in the population from 1991 to 2001 is primarily based on a positive birth balance (+531), but also on a positive migration balance (+193). In the following decade, the birth balance fell slightly (+435), but the migration balance rose sharply (+713).
politics
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On December 6, 2019, the previous mayor Harald Köhlmeier announced his immediate resignation from all political functions. He was succeeded on December 19, 2019 by the previous Vice Mayor Eva-Maria Mair.
The municipal council consists of 33 mandataries and is currently composed as follows:
- Harder People's Party - Harald Köhlmeier: 17 seats
- Green Hard: 6 mandates
- Harder list: 5 mandates
- FPÖ Hard: 3 mandates
- SPÖ Hard: 2 mandates
Town twinning
Hard maintains the following community partnerships:
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Bagnoli di Sopra , Italy, since 1986 -
Balgach , Switzerland, since 1995
coat of arms
On the occasion of the market survey in 1905, Hard was awarded a coat of arms.
The central motifs of the coat of arms, the sailing ship with the three-lobed Montfort flag (emblem of the Count Palatine of Tübingen) on the mast and the two trees refer to the former importance of fishing and the timber industry for the place.
The shield was described in the imperial award document: a golden shield divided by a curved blue tip. In each of the two golden fields, a natural pine tree grows out of the green turf. At the base of the shield, the point fills a naturally undulating body of water on which a ship, such as those under the name Lädi on Lake Constance, floats in a natural shape and color. Its mast carries a white square sail with a blue stripe streaked through it, above which a flag flutters, which shows a red, gold-fringed church banner in a silver field. The rudder is attached to the left side of the rear end of the ship. The shield is surrounded by an ornamental bronze-colored border.
Culture and sights
- Parish Church of St. Sebastian: is located on the shore road, near the lake. The neo-Romanesque basilica building was built by Balthasar Brill in 1864 and consecrated in 1876.
- Church of St. Martin: is located on Mühlestrasse and was built 1974–1976
- Schleienlöcher: The Schleienlöcher are a nature reserve near Hard in the Rhine delta, between the Dornbirner Ach and the New Rhine. Because of the frequent occurrence of the tench , such habitats were also referred to as "tench holes".
- Hohentwiel since 1990 - see traffic
- Textildruckmuseum Mittelweiherburg: In 1794 a textile printing shop was set up in the former moated castle, at that time it was one of the most important textile printing factories in Austria. Today the building only serves as an interesting museum, which can also be visited with guided tours.
- Villa Jenny: The villa of the former owner of today's textile printing museum Melchior Jenny, can today u. a. can also be visited as an art museum.
- The Hard-Fussach water tower was built in 1900. In 1902 the Fussacher water system was also connected.
- The town hall is a large, lens-shaped building from 1996 (architects Klas & Lässer).
- The Rheintalhaus at Landstrasse 8 is a log building from the 17th century. The cornices are profiled, the rafter triangles dated 1671.
Site design
In 1996, Hard was awarded a gold medal in the village category as part of the European “ Entente Florale Europe ” competition.
Culture
- Library
- Harder Literature Prize (awarded every three years since 1983)
- Mittelweiherburg Textile Printing Museum
- Kammgarn culture workshop
An ensemble of factory buildings and workers' houses is located on the site of the former Vorarlberg worsted yarn spinning mill on Spinnereistraße. The nationally known Kammgarn culture workshop is located in the factory building. In addition to running events throughout the year, the FOEN-X cabaret festival takes place every year in late summer . The spinning mill building is a single-storey iron construction in the spinning room and a representative elongated front. It was built in 1896 and enlarged in 1909 by Josef Schöch . The houses were built in two rows in 1910/11 and 1924/25.
Social facilities
- Kindergartens (Falkenweg, Hofsteig, See, Wallstraße)
- Hard retirement home
- Nursing Association
- Social district
- Red Cross Hard
education
- Elementary school market
- Mittelweiherburg elementary school (with Montessori classes)
- Secondary school market (with a focus on computer science as well as sport and exercise)
- Mittelweiherburg secondary school (with a visual and creative focus)
- Hard music school
- School by the lake
sport and freetime
The most famous sports club is the Alpla HC Hard , which plays in the Handball League Austria (HLA) and became champions in 2003, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017.
In Hard there are many opportunities to do sports all year round. For example, an ice skating rink, curling rink (also on concrete), nudist beach, bowling alley (with eight lanes also suitable for international tournaments), mini golf course, Schützenheim (Union Schützengilde Hard), lake sports facility, sailing and motorboat school Hard, skater area (largest in Vorarlberg ), Sports hall by the lake (the home hall of HC Hard ), lido (in terms of area the largest on Lake Constance), tennis courts, forest stadium (home stadium of FC Hard ).
Personalities
- Benedikt Bilgeri (1906–1993), high school teacher and historian
- Emil Bonetti (1922–2007), Catholic chaplain and head of several social projects as well as resistance fighters against National Socialism
- Otto Burtscher (1910–1991), managing director of the trade section of the Chamber of Commerce and Vorarlberg Red Cross President
- Manfred Dörler (1941–2004), President of the State Parliament, ÖAAB chairman, VOGEWOSI, IFS
- Lorenz Dür (1885–1936), priest and politician (CS)
- Ernst Fehr (* 1956), economist
- Elena Herburger (* 1966), university professor for linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington
- Hermann Hermann (1870–1933), politician (SdP)
- Anton Jussel (1816–1878), Governor of Vorarlberg (1873–1878)
- Harald Kloser (* 1956), composer, screenwriter (2012; The Day After Tomorrow)
- Walter Kölbl (* 1948), sculptor and architect
- Gerhard Köhlmeier (1938–2006), prominent mayor
- Michael Köhlmeier (* 1949), writer
- Hugo Lunardon (1893–1940), gendarmerie commandant of Dornbirn who was murdered by the National Socialists
- Gerald Matt (* 1958), director and curator of the Kunsthalle Wien
- Anna Mayr (1922–1966), qualified nurse, politician, member of the Vorarlberg state parliament
- Georg Meusburger (* 1938), honorary citizen of Hard, pastor until 2013
- Othmar Motter (1927-2010), graphic artist
- Karl Pesta (1871–1945), politician, Federal Minister of Transport (1920–1921)
- Gerhard Schwarz (* 1951), Austrian-Swiss journalist
- Eugen Stadelmann (1919–1998), teacher, school director and local poet
- Martin Staudinger (* 1979), politician (SPÖ)
- Matthias Sutter (* 1968), economist
- Jürgen Weiss (* 1947), politician (ÖVP)
- Adalbert Welte (1902–1969), writer
Economy and Infrastructure
In 2003 there were 252 commercial enterprises with 3541 employees and 213 apprentices on site. There were 5274 employees subject to wage tax. Tourism is also an important economic factor.
Major industrial companies
- Alpla Kunststoffwerke
- Viessmann wood combustion systems
- Faigle plastics technology
- Künz GmbH - container cranes, special cranes and hydraulic steel construction
- Simplon GmbH - bicycle manufacturer
Transport, seaport
Hard is located on the St. Margrethen – Lauterach railway line and on Schweizer Straße (L 202) , which is an important connection from Bregenz to Switzerland.
In Hard, the last bridge leads over the Alpine Rhine before it flows into Lake Constance.
There is a seaport on site. There is also the now Austrian steamship and technical monument Hohentwiel , the last active paddle steamer on Lake Constance . She was originally the former state yacht of the last King of Württemberg, Wilhelm II, with her home port in Friedrichshafen. After its renovation, the Hohentwiel is the only steamship still in operation (diesel boiler) and at the same time the oldest, still in service, passenger ship on Lake Constance. It operates in charter operations.
In Hard, near its mouth in Lake Constance, the Rhine repeatedly forms sandbanks that keeled sailing boats can run aground and tip over. A warning buoy was therefore set.
Mineral spring
A sulphurous valley spring from the Bregenzer Ache and the Rhine delta with a content of> 10 mg iron / l water was formerly provided with moor additives and regarded as a healing spring. The associated bath has been abandoned today, the spring is no longer used commercially. There is evidence of the use of the spring since 1684, when the pool attendant Hans Ölz sold the bathing hut including the bathing kettle and tubs etc. to Hans Georg Arbagauß from Graubünden for 815 guilders . The bathing business in Bad Hard existed until the end of the 1970s.
Web links
- 80215 Hard. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Individual evidence
- ^ Emil Gmeiner in Heimat Schwarzach , Schwarzach 1990, self-published by the community of Schwarzach, p. 83.
- ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the municipality of Hard, population development. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .
- ^ Bang: Harder Mayor Köhlmeier resigns. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). December 6, 2019, accessed December 6, 2019 .
- ^ Eva-Maria Mair new mayor of Harder. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . December 19, 2019, accessed December 20, 2019 .
- ^ Museums in Vorarlberg - decorative model Harder coat of arms
- ↑ Rhine Delta nature reserve
- ↑ Maria Aschauer, Markus Grabher, Ingrid Loacker: History of nature conservation in Vorarlberg - A consideration from an ecological point of view . Report on behalf of the Vorarlberg Nature Conservation Council, 2007. p. 89.
- ↑ Flower Office Austria
- ↑ Sandbank will be the fate of skippers , orf.at, August 25, 2015, accessed August 25, 2015.
- ^ Josef Zötl, Johann Goldbrunner, " The mineral and healing waters of Austria: Geological foundations and trace elements ", Springer Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 978-3-7091-7371-8 , p. 116 Google Books .
- ^ Christoph Vallaster: Small Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch. Book Spezial Verlag, Dornbirn 1984, ISBN 3-900496-03-3
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