Schwarzach (Vorarlberg)

Schwarzach
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Vorarlberg
Political District :	Bregenz
License plate :	B.
Surface:	4.91 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 27 '  N , 9 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 26 '41 "  N , 9 ° 45' 47"  E
Height :	433  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,927 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	800 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	6858
Area code :	05572
Community code :	8 02 35
Address of the municipal administration:	At Dorfplatz 2 6858 Schwarzach
Website:	www.schwarzach.at
politics
Mayor :	Thomas Schierle (FOR Schwarzach)
Local council : (2015) (24 members)	17th 5 2 17th 5 2  A total of 24 seats FOR Schwarzach: 17 GREEN : 5 SPÖ : 2
Location of Schwarzach in the Bregenz district
Schwarzach community
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Schwarzach is a municipality in the Bregenz district in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg with 3927 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Schwarzach is located in the westernmost state of Austria, Vorarlberg, in the Bregenz district south of Lake Constance at an altitude of 433 meters. 29.1% of the area is forested. There are no other cadastral communities in Schwarzach.

Neighboring communities

The community of Schwarzach is one of the communities in Vorarlberg with the fewest neighboring communities. Only three other municipalities share a municipal boundary with Schwarzach. These are the market town of Wolfurt and the town of Bildstein in the Bregenz district and the town of Dornbirn in the Dornbirn district of the same name .

history

The settlement of the Bregenzerwald takes place u. a. over the Steussberg and the Linzenberg in Schwarzach. Schwarzach (as "Swarzahe") is first mentioned as a settlement in a letter from Pope Innocent IV on September 17, 1249, in which he confirms the possessions of the Mehrerau monastery. The place belonged to the lower court Hofsteig . On January 6, 1330, a forged document is produced in Weingarten Monastery, in which "Shwarzahe" is referred to as the count's seat and capital of the Rheingau county. Count is said to be Marquardus, a son of Count Rudolf von Ems and Irmgard von Calw.

With the division of the County of Bregenz on November 5, 1338, the Schwarzach becomes the border river between the Counties of Montfort-Feldkirch and Montfort-Tettnang-Bregenz . Together with part of the rulership of Bregenz, the place came to Austria in 1451. The Habsburgs ruled the places in Vorarlberg alternately from Tyrol and Upper Austria ( Freiburg im Breisgau ).

In 1468, with the permission of the abbot of Mehrerau, Johann III., A chapel was built and a chaplain built at the foot of the Linzenberg (today's cemetery) (the chapel was demolished in 1802 and a new one built in 1803). With the establishment of the Wolfurt parish in 1512, the link to the Alberschwende parish, which Schwarzach had belonged to since 1180, was lifted and Schwarzach (Hofsteig) came to this parish for pastoral care (until 1824).

In 1527 the knight Max Sittich von Ems bought the Schwarzach farm from Margarethe Pfannerin. In 1640 entrenchment work was carried out on Linzenberg in the course of the Thirty Years' War and in 1647 there was fighting ( Swedish War ).

In 1774 a primary school was founded in the village and in 1787 a school building was built. In 1788 the previous Almende in Ried was divided among the 52 full citizens of Schwarzach.

The 18th century was also a time of better traffic development for the place. In 1768 the road through the Ried was completed, from 1768 to 1771 the "common" road from Bregenz to Feldkirch was expanded and in 1785 the first driveway over the Linzenberg to Alberschwende was built. In 1837 another major road construction project was completed, the construction of Schwarzachtobelstrasse.

In the 19th century and until a little over the middle of the 20th century, the production, trading and contract processing of whetstones in Schwarzach was an important branch of production and an important employer for the predominantly rural population (see: Whetstone production in the Schwarzachtobel ).

From 1805 to 1814 the place belonged to Bavaria , then again to Austria. Schwarzach has belonged to the Austrian state of Vorarlberg since it was founded in 1918.

According to a record by Landammann Schneider from 1808, Schwarzach had 281 inhabitants, 73 houses and 130 cows. There was still a famine in 1817.

The Schwarzach was a border river for a long time and until 1824 the left part of the area belonged to the parish Dornbirn and the right part (since 1512) to the parish Wolfurt, the parcel Ingrüne to Bildstein. In 1824, the municipality of Schwarzach became its own parish (the rectory was built next to the cemetery in 1821).

In 1859 a post office was opened in the “Löwen” inn in Schwarzach, and between 1868 and 1869 the arcades that still exist today were built around the cemetery. In 1869 the first Vorarlberg industrial exhibition took place in Schwarzach. The gendarmerie post established in 1876 was closed in 1977.

The place was part of the French occupation zone in Austria from 1945 to 1955.

In 2010 a new village center was created. The community of Schwarzach was awarded the European Village Renewal Prize for these efforts to create a communicative village center .

Population development

The proportion of foreigners at the end of 2002 was 12.2 percent.

politics

The community council consists of 24 members.

After the municipal council election in 2015 , the list FOR Schwarzach received 17 seats, the Greens 5 seats and the SPÖ 2 seats.

Head or Mayor

• 1802 to 1810: Anton Schertler
• 1810 to 1823: Jakob Flatz
• 1823 to 1826: Johann Schertler
• 1826 to 1838: Adam Sutterlütti (also called sun host)
• 1838 to 1850: Johann Georg Vögel
• 1850 to 1853: Johann Troll
• 1853 to 1857: Johann Georg Vögel
• 1857 to 1872: Gebhard Schwärzler (manufacturer)
• 1872 to October 6, 1888: Johann Georg Troll
• October 6, 1888 to January 17, 1910: Johann Kohler
• 1910 to 1914: Johann Schwendinger
• 1914 to 1919: Johann Georg Troll
• 1919 to 1936: Georg Schwendinger
• 1936 to 1938: Heinrich Schertler
• 1938 to 1945: Franz Meusburger
• 1945 to 1948: Josef Stadelmann
• 1948 to 1950: August Grabher
• 1950 to 1955: Josef Schertler
• from 1955 to January 10, 1979: Josef (Peppe) Vonach († August 1995; non-political electoral community )
• from January 10, 1979 to April 12, 2010: Helmut Leite ( apolitical electoral community , from 1980: called independent voter community )
• from April 12, 2010 to 2019: Manfred Flatz (ÖVP), (FOR Schwarzach)
• since May 9, 2019: Thomas Schierle (FOR Schwarzach)

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the community of Schwarzach was awarded by the Vorarlberg state government on October 20, 1928. It is a silver shield with a wavy black pole in which three silver perches, turned to the left, appear one above the other. The shield is surrounded by an ornamented bronze-colored border.

Culture and sights

Parish church hl. Sebastian

Hofsteiger community center

Bad Ingrüne, former sulfur bath, inn, now a holiday home

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

• Parish church Schwarzach : In 1468 there was a Sebastian chapel here. From 1901 to 1903, a new church building was erected by Josef Kröner at the current location according to a plan by Peter Huter.
• Lourdes Chapel : The neo-Gothic rectangular building was built according to plans by Georg Baumeister .
• Chapel Linzenberg , small, light chapel on the Linzenberg.
• Schwarzach local history museum
• Ingrüne spa: The Ingrüne spa in Schwarzach with sulfur springs already existed in the 18th century and had its wedding at that time. In the 19th century, the popularity fell sharply and since then it has increasingly been focused on the summer vacation and the hospitality of guests. When the house was sold in 1957, the water was examined and it was found that the springs hardly contain any minerals. The bathing operation had already been stopped in the interwar period. The springs are still contained and flowing today. In the basement of the house there are still some facilities from the days of the bathing operation, but in a desolate condition. The house is now occasionally rented out for holiday purposes.

economy

In 2003 there were 82 commercial companies with 1,454 employees and 78 apprentices. There were 1,529 employees subject to wage tax. Agriculture plays an important role. The proportion of agricultural land in the total area is 47%.

Companies

• Rieger Orgelbau : In 1946 the organ building company was relocated to Schwarzach.
• Russmedia : media group with Vorarlberger Nachrichten , Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung , Wann & Wo , Vorarlberg Online and the radio station Antenne Vorarlberg .

traffic

• Road: The Bregenzerwaldstraße (Bundesstraße 200) has been running through the Achrain Tunnel between Dornbirn and Alberschwende since 2009 and has a direct connection to the Dornbirn-Nord motorway entrance and thus to the Rheintal / Walgau motorway (A14). This new road layout relieves Schwarzach and connects the Bregenzerwald more directly to the motorway network.

education

In January 2003 there were 407 students in the village. There are two kindergartens in Schwarzach. There is also a middle school with a linguistic and technical focus.

societies

The oldest club, which has been founded several times, name changes and amalgamated, is today's Burgermusik Schwarzach (first founded in 1856). The association that has consistently had the longest continuity is the Schwarzach volunteer fire brigade, founded in 1877. A gymnastics association was founded in 1898 and the beekeeping association that still exists today on January 22nd, 1899.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Anton Behmann (1850–1932), organ builder
• Helmut Leite (* 1948), politician, mayor of Schwarzach and honorary citizen of Schwarzach since April 12, 2019
• Toni Hiebeler (1930–1984), publicist and alpine photographer
• Gebhard Schwärzler (1815–1896), politician and manufacturer
• Alfons Troll (1889–1964), provincial governor of Vorarlberg

Web links

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

• 80235 - Schwarzach (Vorarlberg). Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Schierle new mayor of Schwarzach. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . May 10, 2019, accessed May 10, 2019 . 
2. ^ Emil Gmeiner in: Heimat Schwarzach. Self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, pp. 14, 62.
3. ^ Emil Gmeiner in: Heimat Schwarzach. Self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, p. 14.
4. ^ Emil Gmeiner in: Heimat Schwarzach. Self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, pp. 14, 15, 48.
5. ^ Emil Gmeiner in: Heimat Schwarzach. Self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, pp. 15, 43.
6. ^ Emil Gmeiner in: Heimat Schwarzach. Self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, p. 15.
7. ^ Emil Gmeiner in: Heimat Schwarzach. Self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, pp. 15, 52.
8. ^ Emil Gmeiner in: Heimat Schwarzach. Self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, p. 15
9. ^ Emil Gmeiner in: Heimat Schwarzach. Self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, p. 83.
10. ↑ Heimat Schwarzach , self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, p. 169.
11. ^ Josef Amann in: Heimat Schwarzach. Self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, p. 44.
12. ^ Josef Amann in: Heimat Schwarzach. Self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, p. 50.
13. ^ Emil Gmeiner in: Heimat Schwarzach. Self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, p. 15.
14. ^ Johann Peer, Schwarzach , Riefensberg Fürst 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502034-8-6 , p. 18 f.
15. ↑ From 1802 to 1955 from: Heimat Schwarzach , self-published by the community of Schwarzach, Schwarzach 1990, p. 169 f.
16. ↑ ^{a b} Klaus Hämmerle: Former Mayor Helmut Leite is made an honorary citizen in Schwarzach today. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). April 12, 2019, accessed May 10, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Decision 1928 10 20 AVLReg IIb-1207 / 1-28.
18. ↑ "Ornate bronze-colored edging" was awarded or confirmed from 1927 to 1935 (see: Vorarlberger Gemeindesymbole , p. 39 .; and Vorarlberger Gemeindewappenregistratur , p. 44.)
19. ^ Christoph Vallaster: Small Vorarlberger Heilbäderbuch. Book Spezial Verlag, Dornbirn 1984, ISBN 3-900496-03-3 , p. 67 f.