Krumbach (Vorarlberg)

Krumbach
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Vorarlberg
Political District :	Bregenz
License plate :	B.
Surface:	8.71 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 29 '  N , 9 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '59 "  N , 9 ° 56' 9"  E
Height :	732  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,036 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	119 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6942
Area code :	05513
Community code :	8 02 21
Address of the municipal administration:	Dorf 2 6942 Krumbach
Website:	www.krumbach.at
politics
Mayor :	Egmont Schwärzler
Local council : (2015) (12 members)	12 12  A total of 12 seats Citizen list Krumbach: 12
Location of Krumbach in the Bregenz district
View of Krumbach from Sulzberg
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Krumbach is a municipality with 1036 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg .

geography

Krumbach is located in the westernmost state of Austria, Vorarlberg, in the Bregenz district east of Lake Constance at 732  m above sea level. A. Height. 34% of the area is forested. Krumbach is a neighboring municipality of Langenegg, Hittisau, Riefensberg, Sulzberg and Doren. The place is a member of the German-Austrian community project Naturpark Nagelfluhkette . In Krumbach, the Giessen Bridge leads over the Bolgenach .

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Krumbach borders a total of five other Vorarlberg municipalities in the Bregenz district. In a clockwise direction, starting in the north, the communities Sulzberg , Riefensberg , Hittisau , Langenegg and Doren are around Krumbach .

history

Krumbach was first mentioned in a document on September 17, 1249 . On this day, Pope Innocent IV issued a document to the Benedictine monastery Mehrerau in Lyon , in which Krumbach was placed under the special protection of the Pope among the 65 named places. The Habsburgs ruled the places in Vorarlberg from 1278 alternately from Tyrol and Upper Austria (Freiburg im Breisgau). In 1490 a chapel was consecrated in honor of St. Martin; Krumbach has been an independent parish since 1648 . From 1805 to 1814 the place belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria as a result of the Pressburg Peace in 1805 , then again to Austria. In 1807 the so-called "Krumbach Women's Uprising" took place, against which Karl Ernst von Gravenreuth , Bavarian Commissioner General of the Swabian Province, first took great harshness, but then enforced the rebels' pardon.

For Austrian province of Vorarlberg Krumbach heard since its founding in 1861. The place was 1945-1955 part of the French occupation zone in Austria.

For the history of the spa see Rossbad . The second therapeutic bath, the Kressbad, was an obese sulfur bath in the Biedermeier period . The Badwirt Johann Fink published a bath booklet in 1838: Use and usage of the Kreßbad zu Krumbach .

The Bregenzerwald embroiderers

Until the middle of the 18th century, the village chronicle relocated the beginnings of embroidery to the Bregenzerwald. Before 1800 chain embroidery found its way into the municipality of Krumbach and soon became an important source of income: the monthly earnings of a capable embroiderer were about the value of a cow .

At first, the “employment for the crooked and lame” turned into a small local industry and no house was missing the embroidery machine , which was also described many times in poetry. The first orders came from the Swiss Rhine Valley, but the fame of the "Wälderspitz" quickly spread in the countries of the monarchy and hotels in Vienna, Budapest and Trieste ordered from the Bregenzerwalders.

The heyday of embroidery fell in the years after the First World War, in the Roaring Twenties, when buyers from overseas brought huge orders with them, which secured the work and income of the mostly large families for months .

The socially reform-minded poet Franz Michael Felder (1839–1869) describes the work of the embroiderers in his “Wälderspitz”.

Population development

The proportion of foreigners at the end of 2002 was 9.1 percent. The population growth in the last few decades is based on a positive birth balance and positive migration balance . Only between 1991 and 2001 was emigration stronger than immigration, but this was offset by the high birth rate.

politics

The municipal council of Krumbach consists of 12 members, all of whom belong to the Krumbach citizens' list after the 2015 municipal council election . Arnold Hirschbühl was mayor until May 14, 2018, before resigning for personal reasons. At the municipal council meeting on May 18, Egmont Schwärzler was elected mayor of Krumbach as his successor.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Krumbach (Vorarlberg)

The BUS: STOP project was presented in October 2013 : seven bus stop houses ("Bushüsle") are being built in Krumbach. They were designed by international architecture firms, Smiljan Radic from Chile, dvvt-Architecten from Belgium, Rintala Eggertsson Architects from Norway, Alexander Brodski from Russia, Amateur Architecture Studio with Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu from China, Ensamble Studio from Spain and Sou Fujimoto from Japan who received a week's vacation in the area as a fee. The shelters are not based on the conventional appearance, but use regional materials such as wood or shingles or take into account local features such as a street crossing, the view or neighboring buildings. A comparable project ( BUSSTOPS ) was realized in Hanover in the 1990s .

For the nature reserve, see Rossbad (nature reserve) and for the chapel, which has won multiple architecture prizes: Lourdes Chapel Salgenreute .

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2003 there were 25 commercial enterprises with 91 employees and 22 apprentices in the village. There were 404 employees subject to wage tax. Tourism and tourism are important for the community. In the 2001/2002 tourism year there were a total of 20,492 overnight stays. Agriculture plays an important role. The proportion of agricultural land in the total area is 59.4%.

education

There are (as of January 2003) 62 students in the village. In Krumbach there is also a kindergarten with 29 children and a public library.

literature

• Eva Maria Feurstein: The Wälderspitz . Bucher Verlag, Hohenems, 2007, ISBN 978-3-902525-42-0 .

Web links

Commons : Krumbach (Vorarlberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 80221 - Krumbach (Vorarlberg). Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Official website of the municipality

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 141.
2. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the municipality of Krumbach, population development. Retrieved March 25, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Krumbach's mayor resigned. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . May 15, 2018. Retrieved May 16, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Krumbach: 28-year-old lawyer new mayor. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . May 19, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018 . 
5. ↑ BUS: STOP - International architects designed Bregenzerwald bus shelters
6. ↑ Ingeborg Wiensowski: Stops architecture: Hopefully get the bus too late. In: Spiegel Online . October 14, 2013, accessed January 4, 2017 .