Vorarlberger in Vienna

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People from the westernmost Austrian state Vorarlberg who have settled temporarily or permanently in the federal capital Vienna are referred to as Vorarlbergers in Vienna . No other federal state is further away from Vienna than Vorarlberg - there are around 500 kilometers as the crow flies between the Vorarlberg state capital Bregenz and Vienna - there are also significant cultural and linguistic differences between the Vorarlberg population compared to the other Austrian federal states, including Vienna.

The sometimes joking assertion that measured against the number of Vorarlbergers living there, Vienna is the “largest city in Vorarlberg”, is due to the absolute number of Vorarlbergers living in Vienna of around 25,000 - which means that fewer Vorarlbergers live there than in Dornbirn , Feldkirch or Bregenz - nonsensical. Of the approximately 25,000 Vorarlbergers living in Vienna, around a tenth, i.e. around 2,500, are students at the numerous universities in the federal capital.

History of the Vorarlbergers in Vienna

The first permanent immigrants from the Lake Constance area to the emerging metropolis of Vienna were servants of the Habsburgs . South Swabian knights were involved both in the battle of Dürnkrut (1278) against the Bohemian King Ottokar II and in later armed forces that were decisive for the expansion of the Habsburg power. After the Vienna University was founded in 1365, the soldiers were followed by the first students to Vienna. The third group of mostly temporary immigrants were craftsmen, especially in the construction industry, but also professionals in the fine or luxury trades such as watchmakers , goldsmiths or glove makers , all trades that found no place in the rural and small-town milieu of Vorarlberg.

The migration to the residence city increased with the strength of the government bond of the area between Arlberg and the Alpine Rhine to the Hapsburg Austria . In terms of numbers, far more Vorarlbergers emigrated to Switzerland , France and southern Germany than to the east of Austria until the 19th century . The majority of migrant workers in the areas mentioned were traditionally builders. The Vorarlberg immigrants to Vienna were professionals who had no training opportunities or no market in their home country, as well as educated people, artists and entrepreneurs who found or hoped to find better professional opportunities in the imperial city.

In 1884 the Arlbergbahn opened with the Arlberg tunnel and simplified travel from Vorarlberg to Vienna. Just one year later, in 1885, students founded the Vorarlberg Association in Vienna, which still exists today. From this point on, the number of Vorarlberg residents who settled temporarily or permanently in the capital increased significantly in the following years. Thanks to its now better accessibility, Vienna had become a real alternative to the closest major Austrian city, Innsbruck , from Vorarlberg .

Exactly a century after the opening of the Arlberg Tunnel, in 1984, the first scheduled flight connection between Vorarlberg and Vienna was launched. The Vorarlberg regional airline Rheintalflug flew from Hohenems airport several times a week to Vienna-Schwechat airport as part of a scheduled flight . In 1988, after plans for expansion of the Hohenems airfield failed due to popular resistance, flight operations were relocated to the Swiss airfield St. Gallen-Altenrhein located directly on the state border . The People’s airline still operates direct flights to Vienna several times a day from Altenrhein .

Relations between Vienna and Vorarlberg

Vorarlberg coat of arms in the roundabout on Vorarlberger Allee in Vienna-Liesing

Relations between Vienna and Vorarlberg are primarily shaped by the status of Vienna as the Austrian capital and thus the seat of central institutions of the Austrian federal state. In Vorarlberg - as in other Austrian federal states - the term “Vienna” is therefore used synonymously for state administration and legislation. Due to the pronounced federalist self-image of Vorarlberg state politics, the denunciation of alleged abuses in Vienna, which usually means the Austrian federal government and the legislature, not the city and its population, is a frequently used political stylistic device.

An expression of the friendly connection between Vienna and Vorarlberg is the renaming of a previously unnamed traffic area on the outskirts of the 23rd Viennese district of Liesing in Vorarlberger Allee in 1985. Born in Lustenau, Siegfried Hämmerle, who was living as a freelance journalist in Vienna at the time , at a meeting at the Bregenz Festival , offered the then Mayor of Vienna Helmut Zilk to donate 150 Vorarlberg linden trees for the design of an avenue , if it was named after his home state. Shortly thereafter, a previously unnamed street in the commercial area of actually Inzersdorf in Vorarlberg Avenue renamed and planted in May 1985 with the donated linden trees. For the 20th anniversary of the street naming, a memorial stone made of Silbertaler granite was set and the directly adjacent expressway exit of the Vienna outer ring expressway was also named after Vorarlberger Allee. On July 10, 2008, an eight-meter-high Vorarlberg coat of arms made of chrome steel with the names of the two federal states engraved was erected as a memorial in the roundabout on Vorarlberger Allee. In October 2014, Siegfried Hämmerle initiated another deciduous mixed forest on an area of ​​4,000 square meters in the Liesingen industrial park, which was referred to as the “Vorarlberg Forest”.

Vorarlberg Association in Vienna

Head of the Vorarlberg Association in Vienna
choice Surname
1885 Jakob Schneider
1887 Casimir Hämmerle
1900 Alois Seeger
1903 Ludwig Mähr
1919 Gebhard Schatzmann
1922 Karl Zuppinger
1925 Josef Knapp
1934 Max Eugling
1939 Martin Haemmerle
1945 Hermann Victorin
1952 Alphons Willam
1956 Sepp Zangerle
1985 Werner Kresser
1989 Werner Kessler
2001 Andreas Koeb
2015 Ulrike Willam-Kinz

History of the club

The founding meeting of the Vorarlberg Association in Vienna took place on November 21, 1885 in the restaurant "Zum Mohren" (Lindengasse 2, 1070 Vienna). 17 participants were present. In 1886 the association already had 152 members. From the very beginning, the Vorarlberg Association in Vienna saw its task as organizing events as meeting places for Vorarlbergers in Vienna. The first costume party took place in 1895. Bowling evenings and ladies' evenings were among the regular events. In 1900 the Vorarlberg Association in Vienna created a fund to enable students in need to attend theater performances and concerts. This tradition was maintained well into the 1990s . The first “student representative” was appointed (Josef Finkernagel), lectures and excursions were on the club's program.

A commemorative publication was published for the 25th anniversary in 1910. The library contained 760 books, including numerous books relating to Vorarlberg. During the First World War from 1914 to 1918 the number of members decreased. The association's activities consisted primarily of passing on (material) donations to Vorarlberg soldiers in Vienna's hospitals. Many Vorarlbergers moved back to Vorarlberg because the cost of living in Vienna was very high and at the same time the supply situation was poor. Club life only got going again from 1925. 120 guests took part in the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the association. The club history reports that club events were well attended in the 1930s because there was often something to eat there. In 1935, on the 50th anniversary, another commemorative publication was published, which was also printed as a supplement to the Vorarlberger Tagblatt . During the Second World War , club life again almost came to a standstill. In 1945 the club's premises were bombed out and many files were lost. After the war, in 1946, the association's first public event was a memorial service for former Vice Chancellor Jodok Fink , who came from the Bregenzerwald .

From the 1950s onwards , the Vorarlberg Association in Vienna became more active again. Meetings took place weekly, especially the monthly evenings developed into popular meeting places with mostly over a hundred visitors. The proportion of student members increased. The task of supporting Vorarlberger was resumed. The state of Vorarlberg and the Vorarlberg textile industry supported the efforts with financial contributions. In 1954, for example, the association collected 46,000 schillings at a benefit concert in the Great Music Club Hall  for the town of Blons in the Great Walser Valley, which was badly hit by an avalanche accident .

In 1955 the Vorarlberg Association celebrated its 70th anniversary in Vienna. Foreign Minister Leopold Figl attended the ceremony. In 1956 the association had 750 members. The calendar of events included St. Nicholas celebrations , a carnival ball in “Hübner's Kursalon” , the jury , an excursion in early summer, slide shows and much more. The association saw an important task in supporting students. There was a study library, free tickets to theater and sporting events, low membership fees and events. The club was also socially active. Members looked after Vorarlberg children who attended the blind school in Vienna . They also visited Vorarlberg patients in Viennese hospitals. In 1965 the association opened its library in the “Rhomberghaus” on Gonzagagasse, at the corner of Esslinggasse . The library included books for students and Vorarlbergensien.

From 1972 the “Grünes Tor” restaurant ( Lerchenfelder Straße , 1070 Vienna) was the regular eatery for ten years. Up to 500 Vorarlbergers and guests met here, for example, for the annual slaughter. From 1983 the restaurant "Schöner" ( Siebensterngasse , 1070 Vienna) was the club's place. A few years later (until 2007) the “Smutny” restaurant ( Elisabethstraße , 1010 Vienna) was the club's meeting point. The “Vorarlberger Landes Delegation ” set up by the State of Vorarlberg existed from 1985 to 1996 . The office was located in the “House of the Federal States” (Schenkenstrasse 4, 1010 Vienna). The state delegation and the association cooperated at some events, for example at the “Vorarlberger Ball”. In 1988 the “Vorarlberger Ball” took place for the first time in the Palais Ferstel . In 1990 the library moved to the "Hämmerle-Haus" on Franz-Josefs-Kai . For the first time, the addresses of the members were processed by computer.

With the opening of the eastern borders , nearby foreign countries also became a destination for club excursions. In 1990 the hydrofoil excursion on the Danube led to Bratislava . At the Kässpätzle parties, which take place every two years, chefs from Vorarlberg ensure optimal spaetzle and thus many visitors. The barley floor of the Ottakringer Brewery was the new venue for the jassing competition , with a good 200 "Jasser" taking part every year. A cultural event is new to the annual program, for example city tours or visits to museums. From 1992 the club library was located in rented rooms on Josefstädter Straße (1080 Vienna). In the 2000s, the Vorarlberg Association in Vienna modernized its visual appearance. The first website went online in 2002 and communication was now primarily via e-mail.

In 2005, the association collected 10,000 euros for flood victims in Vorarlberg for the “Ma helps” campaign by Vorarlberger Nachrichten . In 2010 the association celebrated its 125th anniversary with an event in the Vienna City Hall . The festival publication entitled “Vorarlberger Fußspuren in Wien” was published for the anniversary. With around 1000 members, the Vorarlberger Association in Vienna is the largest association of the federal states in Vienna. In October 2015, chairman Andreas Köb handed over his duties to Ulrike Willam-Kinz, the first chairwoman in the history of the association. Since then, the association has also been present on social media, on Facebook and Twitter .

Vorarlberg sparks in Vienna

Vorarlberg sparks “In the sky” in 2011

On the initiative of Hans Schmuck, who comes from Thal near Sulzberg and lived in Vienna at the time, and with the support of the Vorarlberg state delegation, which existed from 1985 to 1996, a Vorarlberg spark festival took place in Vienna for the first time in 1987 . The first spark was burned off on a meadow on the Cobenzl, later the Bellevuewiese above Grinzing was the venue. Five spark festivals took place from 1987 to 1991, each with the participation of a different spark guild from Vorarlberg (1987 Thal / Sulzberg , 1988 Bludenz / Rungelin, 1989 Lustenau / Hofstald, 1990 Dornbirn / Kehlegg , 1991 Feldkirch / Tisis ). In the following years there was no more spark festival. On the one hand, the organizational and financial outlay was always very high; on the other hand, the “Vorarlberger Landesdelegation”, then the main organizer, only existed until 1996.

In 2000, students had the idea to host another spark in Vienna. The spark was held in the area of ​​the tree of life circle, "Am Himmel" , above Grinzing and met with great public interest the first time. Around 600 visitors came. Since then, the Vorarlberg Spark Festival has taken place every year "Am Himmel". The “Vorarlberger Funkenzunft in Wien” founded by Karlheinz Kopf and the “Kuratorium Wald”, which looks after the “Am Himmel” area, take care of the organization and financing .

Ball of Vorarlberg in Vienna

Ball of Vorarlberg in Vienna 2017

Ten years after it was founded, in 1895, the Vorarlberg Association held a costume festival in Vienna for the first time, which was also very popular in the following years. From the 1950s onwards, a carnival ball was held in "Hübner's Kursalon" on the edge of Vienna's city park . Some of the club members designed shows and costumes.

The Vorarlberg Association has been holding a ball in the traditional sense since 1988. The Palais Ferstel in the inner city has been the venue from the start. Since 1997, a different Vorarlberg city, municipality or region has been taking on the ball patronage every year :

Award Vorarlberger of the year z'Wian

The “Vorarlbergerin of the year z'Wian” award has been presented by the Vorarlberg state government since 2012 . The award is intended to bring people from Vorarlberg living in Vienna who have achieved something special or achieved extraordinary things to the curtain. In this way, the Vorarlberg state government would also like to make visible how diverse and successful Vorarlberg is in Vienna.

The award winners will receive a certificate of honor, and by 2019 one of Vorarlberg sculptor Herbert Albrecht made bronze sculpture at the annual summer festival of Vorarlberg in Vienna by the Vorarlberg state governor will be awarded. In 2020, the trophy created by the Vorarlberg artist Marbod Fritsch , who now lives in Vienna, was presented by the governor for the first time at the Vorarlberg Ball in Vienna.

jury

The winners of the “Vorarlberger des Jahres z'Wian” award are nominated annually by a five-member jury. From 2012 to 2015, the former had Bundesrat and Federal Minister a. D. Jürgen Weiss chairs the jury. Karlheinz Kopf , Member of the National Council and Secretary General of the Chamber of Commerce , has been Chairman since 2015 . The other members are currently the chairwoman of the Vorarlberger Association in Vienna, Ulrike Willam-Kinz, State Secretary Magnus Brunner , Siegfried Menz, the supervisory board of Ottakringer Getränke AG and the journalist and blogger Johannes Huber (as of October 2019).

Prize winners

2019: Udo Felizeter and Nico Schwendinger

The WU graduates Udo Felizeter from Bregenz and Nico Schwendinger from Dornbirn founded in 2016 the club Open Piano for Refugees - Association for the promotion of public meeting, integration and charity . In 2018 the social music institute DoReMi was founded , based in Vienna. The jury praised the initiative itself, which is attracting more attention from year to year. The current reason for the award was the 1st place that the project achieved in June 2019 in the social start-up initiative Found .

2018: Sabine Haag

The General Director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum was named “Fundraiser of the Year” by the Fundraising Association Austria in 2017 and was awarded the MAECENAS 2017 art sponsorship prize by the “Initiative Wirtschaft für Kunst” . The jury also recognized Sabine Haag's remarkable commitment to the further development of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, for the cooperation with business and, where possible, with Vorarlberg's cultural institutions.

2017: Martin Gruber

The action theater ensemble under the direction of Martin Gruber was awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize in 2016 for “No play about Syria”. The jury also praised the social commitment, the international presence and the new standards that the action theater ensemble is setting in the off-theater sector.

2016: Gerhard Widmer

Gerhard Widmer, Professor of Computer Science at the Institute for Computational Perception at Johannes Kepler University Linz , was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant award by the European Research Council in 2015 . The jury also recognized that Gerhard Widmer was awarded the most important Austrian science prizes ( Wittgenstein Prize 2009, START Prize 1998) for his research and development work and is thus the only Vorarlberg resident to have received these three major science prizes.

2015: Lukas Bereuter & team

Lukas Bereuter, Mathias Kappaurer and their team from the restaurants “Tonstube” and “Ludwig & Adele” in the Künstlerhaus Wien expanded their gastronomic sphere of activity in 2014/15, opened the Badeschiff , took over the catering in the jazz club “Porgy & Bess” and in the Wien Museum and expanded their catering business. The jury praised the commitment of the restaurateurs, who make Vorarlberg tangible with self-designed interiors as well as in the kitchen and service.

2014: Michael Linhart

Michael Linhart was appointed Secretary General for Foreign Affairs in the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs on December 1, 2013 , making him the highest official in the Austrian Foreign Ministry. The jury also praised the connection to Vorarlberg, which Michael Linhart has always maintained.

2013: Caroline Weber

Caroline Weber ended her career as an athlete in 2013. The jury praised the fact that Caroline Weber is by far the most successful Austrian in her field of rhythmic gymnastics . In the international scene, she was one of the few gymnasts from Western and Central Europe who was among the best in the world. In addition, she won 55 Austrian state championship titles and thus holds the championship world record.

2012: Doris Knecht

In 2011 Doris Knecht made it onto the long list of only 20 books for the German Book Prize with her first novel “Gruber geht” . The jury also praised the fact that Doris Knecht also addressed the relationship between Vorarlberg and Vienna in her broad journalistic work and took a pointed position on it.

Well-known Vorarlbergers in Vienna

Places in Vienna named after Vorarlberg residents

In the city of Vienna there are several streets, squares and parks that are named after personalities from Vorarlberg. The state itself has also been the namesake of a street in Vienna since 1985 with Vorarlberger Allee in Liesing. Likewise, since 1953 a Vorarlberg river, the Ill , has given its name to a street, namely the Illgasse in the 21st Viennese district of Floridsdorf .

literature

  • Andreas Dünser: The Vorarlberger's relationship with his federal state . In: topic vorarlberg . July 2016 ( available online on the thema vorarlberg website ).
  • Association of the Vorarlbergers in Vienna (publisher): Vorarlberg footprints in Vienna. 125 years of the Vorarlberg Association in Vienna . Self-published by the Vorarlberg Association in Vienna, Vienna 2010.
  • Julia Ortner , Berndt Anwander: Z'Wian si ... The service manual for all Alemanni in Vienna. Numbers, data, facts . Falter Verlag , Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-85439-274-5 .
  • Walter Zirker: Vorarlberger in parliament and government. An encyclopedia of politicians from Frankfurt am Main, Kremsier, Vienna, Strasbourg, Luxembourg and Brussels (1848–2000) (= Association for Vorarlberg Educational and Student History [Ed.]: Alemannia Studens. Messages from the Association for Vorarlberger Bildungs - and student history . Special volume 6). S.Roderer , Regensburg 2001, ISBN 3-89783-400-6 ( full text as PDF on the website of the Vorarlberger Landesarchiv ).
  • Susanne Müller, Kuno Bachstein: 10 years Vorarlberg state delegation in Vienna . Ed .: Office of the Vorarlberg state government . Bregenz 1995.
  • Klaus Plitzner (Ed.): Casimir Hämmerle. A Vorarlberg resident in Vienna 1847 - 1920 (=  documents from the Vorarlberg State Archives . No. 4 ). fink's Verlag, Bregenz 1987, ISBN 978-3-900438-23-4 .
  • Klaus Plitzner: The Vorarlberg Association in Vienna . Vienna 1981 (dissertation at the Department of Austrian Historical Research at the University of Vienna).

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ A b Johannes Huber: City of Vienna is Vorarlberg's 97th municipality. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). April 15, 2017, accessed May 1, 2020 .
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  5. ^ Beat Rünzler: From auto-mania to schizophrenia . In: Franz Mathis , Wolfgang Weber (ed.): Vorarlberg. Between Fußach and Flint, Alemannentum and cosmopolitanism (=  Herbert Dachs , Ernst Hanisch , Robert Kriechbaumer [Ed.]: History of Austrian provinces since 1945 . Band 4 ). Böhlau Verlag , Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-205-98790-X , p. 146 .
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  15. ^ A b c d Klaus Plitzner: The Vorarlberg Association in Vienna . Vienna 1981 (dissertation at the Department of Austrian Historical Research at the University of Vienna).
  16. ^ Susanne Müller, Kuno Bachstein: 10 years Vorarlberg state delegation in Vienna . Ed .: Office of the Vorarlberg state government . Bregenz 1995.
  17. ↑ a b Mireya Ladenberger: Customs transfer using the example of the Spark Sunday in Vorarlberg and Vienna . Master's thesis at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna . Vienna 2015 ( available online in the web space of the University Library of the University of Vienna [PDF]).
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  20. ↑ These are the "Vorarlbergs of the year z'Wian" 2019. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). January 26, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Sabine Haag is “Vorarlbergerin des Jahres z'Wian”. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). June 22, 2018, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  22. ↑ "Vorarlberg of the year z'Wian": Martin Gruber. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). September 27, 2017, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Birgit Entner: Computers learn from him. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten (VN.at). June 24, 2016, accessed April 30, 2020 .
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