Lochau

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Lochau
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Lochau coat of arms
Lochau (Austria)
Lochau
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Vorarlberg
Political District : Bregenz
License plate : B.
Surface: 10.25 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 32 '  N , 9 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '48 "  N , 9 ° 45' 6"  E
Height : 416  m above sea level A.
Residents : 6,059 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 591 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 6911
Area code : 05574
Community code : 8 02 26
NUTS region AT342
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Landstrasse 22
6911 Lochau
Website: www.lochau.at
politics
Mayor : Michael Simma ( ÖVP )
Local council : (2015)
(27 members)
15th
8th
2
2
15th 8th 2 2 
A total of 27 seats
Location of Lochau in the Bregenz district
Alberschwende Andelsbuch Au Bezau Bildstein Bizau Bregenz Buch Damüls Doren Egg Eichenberg Fußach Gaißau Hard Hittisau Höchst Hörbranz Hohenweiler Kennelbach Krumbach Langen bei Bregenz Langenegg Lauterach Lingenau Lochau Mellau Mittelberg Möggers Reuthe Riefensberg Schnepfau Schoppernau Schröcken Schwarzach Schwarzenberg Sibratsgfäll Sulzberg Warth Wolfurt VorarlbergLocation of the municipality of Lochau in the Bregenz district (clickable map)
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Panorama view of Lindau, Lochau and Hörbranz from the Pfänder
Panorama view of Lindau, Lochau and Hörbranz from the Pfänder
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria
The parish hall opened in 2018
The old Lochau municipal office. The building from the 1930s was demolished in 2016 after a referendum and replaced by a new building
Wellenstein residence
Lochau lido with a view of Bregenz on Lake Constance

Lochau is a municipality in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg with 6059 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Lochau is located in the westernmost state of Austria, Vorarlberg, in the Bregenz district east of Lake Constance at an average of 416  m above sea level. A. In the Lochau municipality, 50.3% of the area is forested. The Pfänder , the local mountain of the Vorarlberg state capital Bregenz, also belongs to the municipality of Lochau.

Lochau is framed between the 1064 meter high wooded Pfänderrücken and the eastern Lake Constance, the Bregenz Bay.

Neighboring communities

In the west, the municipality of Hörbranz and in the south with the municipality of Tannenbach, the state capital of Bregenz borders on Lochau.

history

In the Late Bronze Age, the Wellenstein Cave on the Pfänder was temporarily inhabited. Brickers Carinus and Carinianus operated a kiln at Schanzgraben am See . The production was mainly for Brigantium and ended in the year 380 AD. In a document from 1186 "de Lochin" is mentioned in connection with a first name.

Lochau came to Austria in 1523 with the second part of the Bregenz reign and then belonged to the Hofrieden court . The seat of the court - today known across the border as Gasthaus Adler (Haus Reiner) - has been renovated in recent years. In 1647, during the Thirty Years' War , Lochau became the scene of acts of war when the Swedes attacked Bregenz. The attackers met resistance from the Austrian troops above the so-called Haggen or at the now so-called Schwedenschanz about 100 m below the Pfänderspitze. The fortifications from 1618 to 1648 are still clearly visible today. 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. Lochau has belonged to the Austrian state of Vorarlberg since it was founded in 1861.

In April 1945, shortly before the war, which was in Lochau concentration camp Lochau as a satellite camp of Dachau concentration camp set up. On April 29, 1945, French troops crossed the Vorarlberg border at Lochau and Hohenweiler . After the end of the war, from 1945 to 1955, the place was part of the French occupation zone in Austria.

Located between mountain and lake, Lochau, with the only road between Lake Constance and Pfänderrücken, was heavily burdened by increasing vehicle traffic until 1980. However, this changed when the two-lane eastern tube of the Pfänder tunnel was opened on December 8, 1980 . Due to the increasing volume of traffic, a further expansion of the Pfänder tunnel became necessary, which began in autumn 2008 with the tapping of the second tube (four-lane expansion). Both tubes were opened to traffic in June 2013.

The residence of the Turkish Consulate General, the only professional consular representation in Bregenz, has been in Tannenbach, Lochau, since it was founded at the end of 1973. In 1986 Lochau celebrated its 800th anniversary.

Population development

The proportion of foreigners at the end of 2002 was 13.2 percent.

politics

Municipal council election 2015
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60
50
40
30th
20th
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53.42
(-5.33)
29.55
(+6.30)
9.99
(-2.82)
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The Lochau municipal council consists of 27 members. After the municipal council and mayoral election in 2015 , 15 of these belong to the ÖVP, 8 to the Greens, 2 to the FPÖ and 2 to the SPÖ.

Michael Simma of the ÖVP has been mayor since September 1, 2014. He was confirmed in office in the last direct mayor election in 2015 with 59.31 percent of the votes.

coat of arms

As early as 1186 the Knights of Lochau had a swan neck in their coat of arms and in 1928 the municipality was given the current coat of arms by the Vorarlberg state government.

Blazon : "In red a silver swan striding from right to left in a fighting stance with raised wings."

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Lochau
  • Catholic parish church Lochau hl. Franz Xaver: In the original Bregenz branch there has been a Xaverius chapel since 1707. The current church was built in 1844. The exterior was restored in 1970 and the interior was restored in 1972/1973.
  • Castle ruins (Alt-Hofen) : These castle ruins are located northeast of the village - on the slope, above Hofen Castle.
  • Hofen Palace (Neu-Hofen) . This second important Renaissance building in Vorarlberg (next to the Hohenems Palace ) was built under the reign of Hans Gaudenz von Raitenau (councilor and bailiff of Augsburg, bailiff of the lords of Bregenz and Hohenegg, Bregenz city governor, colonel over the Tyrolean regiment, imperial councilor and chief steward) Erected in the years 1584/1585. The difference between these two important buildings of the Middle Ages is already clear from the names "Schloss" (Hofen) and "Palast" (Hohenems). The topographical structure of the unobtrusive palace structure can be seen as the overall picture of the medieval architecture of Vorarlberg.
  • Wellenstein Manor : This property was built between 1555 and 1559 halfway between the Bregenz Klause and Lochau on a hillside. The building was renovated in 1965 and a general renovation was carried out in 1982/1983. The building is a two-storey rectangular building under a gable roof - at the NE corner there is a three-storey, square tower with a bell-shaped, curved hood ( Welsche hood ).
  • Seehotel am Kaiserstrand , Villa Mauthe , Villa Gravenreuth , Altes Schulhüsle , Gasthaus zum Adler , Klausturm .
  • Wellensteinhöhle , Klause , Klausberg , Neue Schanze and St. Magdalena Chapel .

economy

In 2003 there were 65 commercial enterprises with 633 employees and 38 apprentices on site. There were 2,413 employees subject to wage tax.

Companies

After the first founding of food and luxury food factories in Vorarlberg in the 19th century (e.g. Maggi 1887 in Bregenz , Suchard 1888 in Bludenz ), the company Rupp, Käsewerk in Lochau , was founded in 1908.

It was followed by the Alma cheese factory in Hard in the interwar period (1921) . The focus of the two companies is on processed cheese production - in January 2008 Rupp took over the Alma company. In the same year the new company headquarters was built in Hörbranz.

A building complex that was built as a hotel and later used as barracks, partly listed, was converted into a high-priced hotel and residential complex "Am Kaiserstrand" in 2010 .

traffic

Lindauerstraße next to the railroad track to Bregenz near Lochau

Lochau is connected to the Lindau – Bludenz railway line via the Lochau-Hörbranz station. The S1 and REX trains in the direction of Lindau and Bludenz stop at the station . In addition, the Rheintal / Walgau motorway runs through the municipality (mostly in the Pfänder tunnel ).

With the port at Bäumle (today the sports port), the community has had access to Lake Constance for centuries.

education

In 2003 there were 953 pupils on site, 603 of them at higher vocational schools. There are also four kindergartens in Lochau. There is an elementary school, a middle school and the state vocational school for the catering trade, which borders the “Hofen” castle. The former special education center has been closed since July 8, 2011.

Hofen Castle is home to the state-wide "Science and Further Education Center of the State of Vorarlberg and the Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences ". A wide variety of extra-occupational courses, seminars and adult education courses are offered here in the renovated ambience. The state of Vorarlberg has also set up the administrative academy in Schloss Hofen for itself and the communities.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

People related to the community

Mayor of Lochau

  • 1806 to 1632: Franz Salomon Vögel,
  • 1832 to 1840: Xaver Fricker,
  • 1840 - 1864: Josef Vögel,
  • 1864 to 1885: Melchior Bickel,
  • 1885 to 1895: Felix Hehle,
  • 1895 to 1919: Kaspar Stadler,
  • 1919 to 1929: Eduard Bildstein,
  • 1929 to 1938: Josef Rupp sen. ,

Mayor of the community of Lochau

  • July 15, 1938 to September 23, 1938: Eugen Reiner,
  • from 1939 to 1947 Lochau was part of the city of Bregenz,
  • 1947 to 1968: Michael Mangold ,
  • 1968 to 1970: Josef Rupp jun.,
  • 1970 to: Wilfried Schallert,

Honorary citizen of the Lochau community

  • since 1864: Philipp Huber (born February 26, 1812 in Vienna), community doctor,
  • since 1959: Josef Rupp (born January 30, 1885), community leader,
  • since 1967: Michael Mangold (born April 21, 1889 in Lochau), master baker, innkeeper, mayor,

Honorary ring holder of the community of Lochau

  • since 1967: Michael Mangold, Mayor,
  • since 1970: Adolf Heidegger, municipal secretary from 1930 to 1938 and 1947 to 1970,
  • since 1981: Maria Ligoria Berkmann, superior of the Jesuheim Oberlochau,
  • since 1982: Viktor Schwarzmann , Federal Councilor and City Councilor from 1947 to 1982,
  • since 1995: Erwin Bennat, local researcher

Honorary needle holder of the Lochau community

  • since 1981: Margarethe Schneider, qualified nurse

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dehio-Handbuch, Vorarlberg; ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 .
  2. ↑ http://www.keom.de/denkmal/lager_anzeig.php?lager_id%5B%5D=422&submit.x=76&submit.y=4&submit=ausw%E4hlen Germany a monument. Project to research the National Socialist camps and detention centers as well as the sites of mass murder from 1933 to 1945. (Link no longer available, January 3, 2012).
  3. ↑ http://www.bregenz.bk.mfa.gov.tr/MissionChiefHistory.aspx
  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. 35 ( vorarlberg.at [PDF]).
  5. ↑ Vorarlberg-Lebendige Wirtschaft, Alma-Käse, in: Vorarlberger Wirtschaftschronik , Vienna undated, p. II / 66.
  6. ↑ Rupp private cheese dairy buys Alma.
  7. ↑ Science and further education center of the state of Vorarlberg and the FH Vorarlberg
  8. ↑ Family tree of the Raitenau family
  9. ↑ Martin Begle: "This look lasts a lifetime". In: Wann & Wo / Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). May 14, 2017. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .