Langenegg

This article deals with the community of Langenegg, for the castle see Langenegg Castle .

Langenegg
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Vorarlberg
Political District :	Bregenz
License plate :	B.
Main town :	Oberlangenegg
Surface:	10.46 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 28 '  N , 9 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '5 "  N , 9 ° 53' 49"  E
Height :	700  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,133 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	108 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6941
Area code :	05513
Community code :	8 02 23
Address of the municipal administration:	Bach 127 6941 Langenegg
Website:	www.langenegg.at
politics
Mayor :	Kurt Krottenhammer
Local council : (2015) (15 members)	Majority vote
Location of Langenegg in the Bregenz district
View of the church village of Langenegg
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Parish Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary

Church village from the north

Typical Bregenzerwald house in Langenegg

Langenegg is a municipality with 1133 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg .

geography

Langenegg is located in the westernmost federal state of Austria, Vorarlberg, in the Bregenz district southeast of Lake Constance. 38.6% of the area is forested. The place is a member of the German-Austrian community project Naturpark Nagelfluhkette .

Langenegg is divided into the cadastral communities Oberlangenegg and Unterlangenegg.

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Langenegg borders five other Vorarlberg municipalities. These communities, which are also located in the Bregenz district, are clockwise, starting in the north, Doren , Krumbach , Hittisau , Lingenau and Alberschwende .

history

The Habsburgs ruled the places in Vorarlberg alternately from Tyrol and Upper Austria (Freiburg im Breisgau). From 1805 to 1814 the place belonged to Bavaria, then again to Austria. For Austrian province of Vorarlberg Langenegg heard since its founding in 1861. By the year 1924, today's community was divided into two Langenegg local churches: Oberlangenegg and Unterlangenegg. These two communities merged on January 1, 1924 to form the new community of Langenegg. The place was part of the French occupation zone in Austria from 1945 to 1955. On July 6, 2010, Langenegg won the competition for the 11th European Village Renewal Award .

In the Biedermeier period , a saline iron source in Unterlangenegg (Gfung) is said to have been used as a healing source to heal chronic rashes and ulcers.

Population development

The proportion of foreigners in 2002 was 7.1%.

The strong increase in population after 1981 is due to a positive birth balance and a positive migration balance. After 2001 the birth balance turned negative, but this was offset by immigration.

Culture and sights

Langenegg sculpture trail

In 2007 and 2009, nine artists each from Austria , Italy , Germany and Switzerland dedicated themselves to a tree of choice - still standing in the forest, lying down as a trunk or in the form of wood chips. A total of 18 sculptures were created and can be viewed along the line of the forest railway line like a string of pearls. A corresponding description as a brochure is available from the local tourist office .

See also:  List of listed objects in Langenegg

Municipal coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was created in 1969 based on a design by the Schruns artist and heraldist Konrad Honold .

The coat of arms shows two entwined green linden twigs with two leaves each on a silver background. It was awarded on July 22, 1938.

politics

The Langenegger municipal council consists of 15 members. In the last municipal council election in 2015, the election was not made by party lists, but by majority vote. Kurt Krottenhammer has been mayor of the community since April 2015.

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2003 there were 16 commercial enterprises with 92 employees and four apprentices on site. There were 429 employees subject to wage tax. Agriculture plays an important role. The proportion of agricultural land in the total area is 54.6%.

education

There is a school with 107 students (as of November 2006) and a kindergarten on site.

energy

Langenegg is one of the 24 municipalities in Austria (as of 2019) that were awarded 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.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Konrad Eberle (1903–1961), physician and politician

Web links

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

• 80223 - Langenegg. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of the Vorarlberg state government of October 19, 1923, regarding the unification of the communities of Ober- and Unterlangenegg. LGBl. No. 66/1923
2. ↑ Christoph Vallaster: Kleines Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch , p. 141.
3. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Langenegg, population development. Retrieved March 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Cornelia Albertani, Ulrich Nachbaur: Vorarlberg municipal coat of arms registry . Ed .: Vorarlberger Landesarchiv. 3. Edition. Bregenz 2011, ISBN 978-3-902622-17-4 , pp. 33 ( vorarlberg.at [PDF]).
5. ↑ e5 communities in Austria as of March 2019