Hittisau

Hittisau
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Vorarlberg
Political District :	Bregenz
License plate :	B.
Surface:	46.62 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 28 '  N , 9 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '37 "  N , 9 ° 57' 24"  E
Height :	798  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,063 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	44 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6952
Area code :	05513
Community code :	8 02 16
Address of the municipal administration:	Place 370 6952 Hittisau
Website:	www.hittisau.at
politics
Mayor :	Gerhard Beer
Local council : (2015) (18 members)	18th 18th  A total of 18 seats Open list Hittisau: 18
Location of Hittisau in the Bregenz district
View from the Kurzentobel
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

The municipality of Hittisau with 2063 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) is located in the east of the Bregenzerwald region , and thus in the Bregenz district of Vorarlberg .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located in the east of the Bregenzerwald (Bregenzerwald marked in red in the sketch ). Hittisau is located in the middle of a three-valley gorge. The landscape is characterized by forests, natural monuments and numerous bodies of water. Hittisau is a member of the German-Austrian joint project Naturpark Nagelfluhkette .

Mountain landscape

The most important mountains in the Hittisau municipality belong to the Nagelfluh chain , including the westernmost mountain in this chain, the Hochhäderich ( 1565  m above sea level ). Other important mountains are the Rote Berg and the Hittisberg . The lowest point of the municipality is at 640  m above sea level. A. in Scheidbachtobel, the highest point is the top of the Feuerstätterkopf .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following two localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Bolgenach (476)
• Hittisau (1587)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Bolgenach and Hittisau.

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Hittisau borders on six Austrian and two German municipalities. These are the communities of Riefensberg , Krumbach , Langenegg , Lingenau , Egg and Sibratsgälle in the Austrian district of Bregenz , as well as the community of Balderschwang and Markt Oberstaufen in the Bavarian district of Oberallgäu .

politics

The community council of Hittisau consists of 18 members. These were elected by list in the last municipal council election in 2015 and all come from the Hittisau Open Citizens List.

Gerhard Beer has been mayor of the municipality since April 7, 2015.

economy

The municipality is characterized by agriculture, especially alpine farming (81 Alps in the municipality). Tourism is also well developed. Of the total communal area, 19% is agricultural land, 35% Alps, 41% forest and 5% other areas.

Hittisau also includes the Lecknertal with the lake of the same name , which is used for agriculture from the end of May to mid-September. The Lecknerstraße is subject to toll above the Höfle parcel to the parking lot near the lake (15 minutes walk).

Panoramic view of Hittisau in winter

energy

Hittisau is one of the 24 municipalities in Austria (as of 2019) that have received the highest award of the e5 municipal energy project. The e5 community project aims to promote the implementation of a modern energy and climate policy at community level.

history

Done since the turn of the millennium development , deforestation and cultivation of the Bregenz Forest, led by the former Counts of Bregenz and the monastery Mehrerau.

First documented mention of Hittisau: 1249 AD

In the 19th century, an earthy iron source in Hinteregg was used to treat eye diseases, among other things. An alkaline, earthy healing spring was in use in Korlen.

• See also: Avalanche catastrophe of 1954 in Vorarlberg

Population development

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Hittisau

Parish Church of the Three Kings

Parish church and chapels

• Dreikönigskirche in Hittisau

As early as 1510, the chronicles report on the first parish church in Hittisau, which was raised to a separate parish in 1580.

After the old church had become too small despite having been extended twice, the Hittisau residents built today's parish church from 1843 to 1845 according to the plans of the local builder Johann Peter Bilgeri (1802–1849) with the support of the population.

The hall church , built in the classical style , houses the historic organ (1868) by master organ builder Alois Schönach (1811–1899) and a large ceiling painting by Munich academy professor Waldemar Kolmsperger , depicting the Last Judgment, in which Winston Churchill also takes his place in the (Vor -) Hell found.

In contrast to the national alignment of the churches, in which the tower and chancel face east, the Hittisau church is adapted to the terrain in a north / south position. The builder was Johann Konrad Bechter (Hittisau headmaster and one of the largest farmers and alpine owners in the Bregenzerwald) who had the new "Krone" built in 1838, not least with the intention of promoting the establishment of a regional court in Hittisau.

The stained glass windows of the church in Nazarene style date from the middle of the 19th century, the apostolic sculptures are the work of Franz Schmalzl from Val Gardena . The Stations of the Cross, which Christian Moosbrugger created around 1950, he carved negatively into light-colored, unmounted wood.

• Chapel in Gfall
• Chapel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Höfle
• Antonius Chapel in the Leckner Valley
• Michaelskapelle in the hamlet of Reute
• Assumption Chapel in Sippersegg

Bregenzerwald workshop

In Hittisau, wood appears in many different forms. The local wood is processed in an uninterrupted regional value chain . Wood is embedded in the everyday life of the village: as the most important element in architecture, in sawmills, old wooden bridges (the Gschwendtobel Bridge , a covered wooden bridge between Lingenau and the Egger district of Großdorf, which is based on Alois Negrelli , the planner of the Suez Canal, is remarkable declining), the biomass heating plant , special craft businesses such. B. Peter Lässer , the only commercial master cooper in far, or in the old trees.

Innovative private houses or renovated and adapted residential buildings as well as the Hittisau fire brigade and culture house , in which the only Austrian women's museum is located, can be seen.

Hittisau Women's Museum

Hittisau Women's Museum

The women's museum in Hittisau , the first in Austria, has set itself the task of making the cultural work of women visible. There are cultural events, lectures and projects in and with other institutions. It was created in 2000 through an initiative by women, under the leadership of the Hittisau native and museum curator Elisabeth Stöckler, who directed it until 2009.

Hittisau water hiking trail

This path also leads through the Engenloch Gorge, where, behind a suspension bridge, a true-to-original model of a sawmill shows how a real sawmill works nearby. The hiking trail provides an insight into water management by means of numerous information boards . It is also part of the Hittisau circular route and can be connected to it - including a real badger burrow. Mountain hikers can combine this path with the ascent to the local mountain Hittisberg . The nearby Rappenfluh natural monument is also worth seeing .

Personalities

Associated with Hittisau

• Doris Hager-Hämmerle (* 1970), politician (NEOS), member of the National Council (2019), has lived in Hittisau since 2000

Sons and daughters of the church

• Josef von Bergmann (1796–1872), director of the Vienna Coin Cabinet
• Gottlieb Bechter (1872–1960), Austrian politician (CSP), poor house manager and farmer
• Adolf Helbok (1883–1968), historian and folklorist
• Oskar Ospelt (1908–1988), Liechtenstein athlete
• Edwin Fasching (1909–1957), theologian
• Hans Weiss (* 1950), journalist and author
• Dietmar Eberle (* 1952), architect

Others

Every two years in Hittisau in the parish hall of the closing ballot of the exercise Blue Flag - Fo (u) r Peace Central Europe takes place. The last time this happened was in July 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ e5 communities in Austria as of March 2019
3. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 141.
4. ^ ORF : Discussion about the Hittisau Women's Museum
5. ↑ frauenmuseum.at: The Women's Museum Hittisau
6. ↑ Alton.at: eulogy for Elisabeth Stöckler for the Prix water Woman 2005

Web links

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

• 80216 - Hittisau. Community data, Statistics Austria .