Rhomberg (Dornbirn)

Rhomberg ( hamlet )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Dornbirn  (DO), Vorarlberg
Judicial district	Dornbirn
Pole. local community	Dornbirn
Coordinates	47 ° 24 '58 "  N , 9 ° 45' 41"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '58 "  N , 9 ° 45' 41"  E
height	566  m above sea level A.
Post Code	6850 Dornbirn
prefix	+ 43/5572 ( Dornbirn )
View of houses on the Rhomberg (in the background the chapel)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; VoGIS

House Romberg No. 3 in the Rotte Rhomberg above Dornbirn .

House Romberg No. 4 in the Rotte Rhomberg above Dornbirn . After this house the way of the cross to the chapel begins .

Rhomberg ( 566  m above sea level ) is a district of the city of Dornbirn in Vorarlberg ( Austria ) outside the urban area . When Rhom mountain it is not a solitary standing mountain.

Origin of name

In earlier times Rhomberg was also written as Rauberg or Raberg. Even today, the term " Rauberg " is sometimes used next to Rhomberg on official maps . This word could be derived from the Middle High German rûch meaning inhospitable , barren. A reliable word derivation is not available.

In " schematism for Tyrol and Vorarlberg " and " Provincial Manual of Tyrol and Vorarlberg for the year 1847 ", the rotting R h Omberg as an independent hamlet out. Since there is already much older evidence for people with the name "Rhomberg", it can be assumed that this group was already named in this way or similarly in earlier times. According to the Dornbirn Lexicon, with reference to the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv, the name Rhomberg (Rauberg, Raberg) is said to have been mentioned for the first time in 1347 and is therefore one of the oldest documented names in Dornbirn.

Romberg is written in the street directory (without "h").

Well-known namesake: see Rhomberg .

Topography, geography, location and traffic

The district is about 1.3 km as the crow flies from the center of Dornbirn and can only be reached by motor vehicle via one road (via the Eulentobel) . A very steep field path and footpath leads from southwest to northeast from the last house (Romberg No. 4) to the higher hamlet of Bantling (also Bantlig - 646  m above sea level ). This path rises to around 185 m, around 62 meters in altitude, and thus has an average gradient of around 33%. The Maria vom Siege chapel is on this path, and a way of the cross with 14 stations leads to it. South-southeast of the Rhomberg lies the deeply cut Eulental (formerly "Mühletal"), through which the Bantlingergraben / Eulenbach flows.

Buildings and Infrastructure

The building Romberg No. 1 is a Rheintalhof from the 19th century with possibly older structures. The house has a strongly bent gable roof. A somewhat recessed residential building was connected to the west. House Romberg No. 2 adjoins this on the north-east side. It is a new building from the 1980s. The service wing and living area of ​​house Romberg no. 3 are attached to it. House Romberg no. 4 is a separate courtyard in this row of houses. The house is provided with white Eternit shingles in the residential wing, the economic part has wood planking or is bricked.

Chapel Maria vom Siege on the Rhomberg. Built around 1870. View from the Rhomberg on the Bödelestrasse to the Häfenberg in Dornbirn , Oberdorf .

religion

The Roman Catholic chapel Maria vom Siege is located on the Rhomberg and is also looked after by the parish in Oberdorf (Church of St. Sebastian) (see: List of parishes in the dean's office in Dornbirn ).

The chapel was donated by the Dornbirn citizen and well-known wine merchant Matthäus Thurnher (* August 28, 1792; † April 11, 1878; see: Johannes Thurnher ) and built between 1875 and 1877. Johann Kaspar Rick drew the construction plans for the Rhomberg Chapel . On the altarpiece in the chapel on Romberg is recorded: “ ... through gifts and foundations and voluntary work by the owners of the Rhomberg, especially Andreas Schmidinger, mainly through the sacrifice of the founder, Matthäus Thurnher, the current chapel was built in 1877 and the latter by the same equipped with everything. “The original bell with the inscription:“ Cast by Gebr. Graßmayr in Feldkirch, donated by Mathäus Thurnher. “Was cast in 1875 and had to be delivered in World War II.

Craft, trade

Due to the traffic situation and the limited space, no special craft or commercial operations emerged on the Rhomberg. Agriculture still dominates the area today.

Web links

Commons : Rhomberg (Dornbirn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• One of the last running steam engines in Rhomberg's factory , active there from 1912–1991
• “Kunhn 100” steam engine , active there from 1858–1921

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See: Dornbirner Familienbuch ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , online. 
2. ↑ See: Vorarlberg Atlas VOGIS .
3. ↑ From 1839, p. 159.
4. ↑ p. 413
5. ↑ Schematism for Tyrol and Vorarlberg ; Provincial handbook of Tyrol and Vorarlberg: for the year 1847 , Google Books.
6. ↑ See also: Alois Niederstätter; Manfred Tschaikner, " History of the City of Dornbirn ", Volume 1, Dornbirn 2002, Verlag Stadt Dornbirn.
7. ↑ Dornbirn Lexicon ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
8. ↑ Official spelling of place, field, mountain and river names .
9. ↑ From the water column 0.60 of the Eulenbach - confluence with the Bantlingergraben, approximately at the level of the houses Romberg No. 8 / Eulental No. 6, the course of the brook is only called Eulenbach. The Eulenbach drains in the urban area of ​​Dornbirn into the Fischbach and this into the Dornbirner Ach
10. ↑ Dornbirn Lexicon ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on-line. 
11. ↑ Dornbirn Lexicon ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on-line. 
12. ↑ Listed object, ObjectID: 7641. See list of listed objects in Dornbirn
13. ↑ Likewise the chapel in Schwendebach Stadtarchiv Dornbirn ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 4. Then the building application was submitted in 1875 and both chapels were inaugurated in 1877. 
14. ↑ See: Stadtarchiv Dornbirn ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 4. 
15. ↑ http://www.rhombergsfabrik.at/index.html