Nüziders

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Vorarlberg

Political District :

Bludenz

License plate :

BZ

Surface:

22.07 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 10 ′ N , 9 ° 48 ′ E Coordinates: 47 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ E

Height :

562 m above sea level A.

Residents :

4,992 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

226 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

6714

Area code :

05552

Community code :

8 01 17

NUTS region

AT341

UN / LOCODE

AT NUZ

Address of the
municipal administration:

Sonnenbergstrasse 14
6714 Nüziders

Website:

www.nueziders.at

politics

Mayor :

Peter Neier ( ÖVP )

Local council : (2015)
(24 members)

16

6th

2

16 6th 2

A total of 24 seats

ÖVP : 16
SPÖ : 6
FPÖ : 2

Location of Nüziders in the Bludenz district

Nüziders town center seen from the east

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Nüziders (in local Vorarlberg also: Nüzigers ) is a municipality in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg in the Bludenz district with 4992 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Nüziders is located in the westernmost state of Austria, Vorarlberg, in the Bludenz district. 58.1 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

There are no other cadastral communities in Nüziders.

Districts and parcels of Nüziders are

Village
Count
Vadatsch
Auserbach / Bad Sonnenberg
Wingert

Chalenga
In the Hag
Blumenau settlement
Daneu
Hare jump

Hinteroferst
Laz
Lutafaz (abandoned mountain parcel)
Muttersberg
inch

history

The Walgau was already in the Stone Age and in the Bronze Age - i.e. 1250 BC. - settled by the Illyrian tribe from which the Raetians developed. Nüziders is considered to be the oldest settlement in Walgau and already had a certain importance in Roman times, as the Roman road from Reutte in Tyrol to Bregenz also led through Nüziders. Parts of an old Roman watchtower are still preserved today, which was converted into the bell tower of an early Christian church towards the end of the fifth century.

Hugo I († 1228) founded the Count family Montfort . He owned the county of Churrätien , Tettnang , Bregenz , Feldkirch , Sonnenberg , Werdenberg and Sargans . Nüziders was the headquarters of the County of Sonnenberg, which extends far beyond today's municipal boundaries .

The wealthy Vaistli also came from Nüziders and were based in Triesen and Vaduz in the 14th century. The Vaistli were servants of the Counts of Vaduz-Werdenberg. Later they were imperial bailiffs on Gutenberg, ammen in Vaduz, on the Eschnerberg and in Werdenberg.

1473 conquered and destroyed mercenaries under Burkhard von Knöringen on behalf Sigismund of Tyrol , the castle Sonnenberg . As a result, the Counts of Sonnenberg renounced their land in 1474 in favor of the Habsburgs, who with this conquest in Innerwalgau were able to rule over the area from the Arlberg to the Rhine.

The Habsburgs ruled the places in Vorarlberg alternately from Tyrol , or from Upper Austria from Freiburg im Breisgau . During the Napoleonic period from 1805 to 1814, the place belonged to Bavaria .

Bad Sonnenberg (also: Bad Nüziders) with its sulfur spring was already known in the Biedermeier period . In 1878 the bathing establishment was renovated, expanded and reopened, destroyed in a major fire in 1912. The healing spring is said to contain above all magnesium and iron and to help against rheumatism , gout , sciatica and gynecological problems.

In 1972 the largest forest fire in Austria at the time occurred at Hohen Fraßen . 41 fire brigades, 95 armed forces , helicopters, airplanes from the Swiss army and many volunteers fought the fire, which destroyed 100 hectares of forest.

Surname

The name Nüziders is said to come from the Rhaetian language and is first mentioned in the sources in 820 as Vicus Nezudene .

Etymologically, the name is also interpreted as a Rhaeto-Romanic or vulgar Latin modification of the Latin nucis terra , which means something like Nussland, Nussfeld or Nussdorf.

According to another opinion, the first part of the word is derived from the Latin fornaces for melting furnace and the second part of the word is derived from the indefinable ending dura . From fornacedura should then via the intermediates nacedura , nezedura , nezudera , nezuderes , nizidures , niziders have originated the current name.

Parish partnership

Houssen near Colmar Agglomération in Alsace, France

Population development

The proportion of foreigners at the end of 2002 was 10.1 percent.

Since both the birth balance and the migration balance have been positive since 1981 , the number of inhabitants is increasing sharply.

politics

The community council has a total of 24 members.

With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Vorarlberg in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 8 SPÖ, and 3 FPÖ.

With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Vorarlberg in 2005, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 9 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.

With the municipal council and mayor elections in Vorarlberg in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.

With the municipal council and mayor elections in Vorarlberg 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 16 team Mayor Peter Neier and Nüziger People's Party, 6 DI Hansjörg Wolf - SPÖ and party-free Nüziders, and 2 FPÖ and party-free Nüziders.

mayor

around 1967 E. Burtscher
1977–1997 Armin Spalt (ÖVP)
until 2006 Eugen Zech (ÖVP)
since 2006 Peter Neier (ÖVP)

coat of arms

	Blazon : "On a blue background a black three-mountain , above a golden sun with alternating six straight and six flamed rays."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The municipal coat of arms is taken from the coat of arms of the Sonnenbergers .

Culture and sights

View from the Laz mountain parcel towards the municipality of Bürserberg at midnight.

Sonnenberg castle ruins
Catholic parish church Nüziders Hll. Viktor and Markus
Vinerius Church as the oldest church in Walgau.
Chapel of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary
Elementary school with the Austrian builder award in 1967

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2003 there were 75 commercial businesses in the village with 958 employees and 121 apprentices. There were 2,089 employees subject to wage tax.

The settlement area has grown almost completely to that of Bludenz in recent years .

traffic

The Nüziders stop is located in the village, where the S1 trains stop.

education

There are (as of January 2003) 568 students in the village. In Nüziders there is also a kindergarten , an elementary school and a sports and middle school.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Pius Moosbrugger (1897–1919), pilot in the First World War, train driver, vice-president of the state parliament
Anton Vonbun (1799–1864), lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
Franz Josef Vonbun (1824–1870), doctor, dialect poet and collector of sagas
Anton Galehr (1900–1957), farmer and politician, member of the Vorarlberg state parliament
Adolf Mayer (1918–1996), mining engineer and resistance fighter
Reinelde Knapp (* 1933), high jumper, long jumper, hurdler and pentathlete
Helmut Wolf (* 1939), politician
Beat Kammerlander (* 1959), sport climber