Walgau

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Walgau
View from Gampelün into the Walgau

View from Gampelün into the Walgau

location Vorarlberg , Austria
Waters Ill
Mountains Bregenz Forest Mountains , Lechquellengebirge , Rätikon
Geographical location 47 ° 11 '  N , 9 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 11 '  N , 9 ° 43'  E
Walgau (Vorarlberg)
Walgau
Type Trough valley
height 510 to  570  m above sea level A.
length 20 km
Template: Infobox Glacier / Maintenance / Image description missing

The Walgau ( Rhaeto-Romanic Val Druschauna ? / I ) is an approximately 20 km long valley in the south of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, through which the Ill flows . The heavily populated region, together with the city of Bludenz at the eastern end of the valley, forms a metropolitan area in the otherwise sparsely populated south of Vorarlberg. In the west, the Walgau borders the city of Feldkirch in the even more densely populated Vorarlberg Rhine Valley . Audio file / audio sample

geography

The valley is a side valley of the Rhine Valley, which begins downstream at Bludenz and ends in the Felsenau (Illschlucht) before Feldkirch. It is bordered in the south by the Rätikon and in the north by the Walserkamm . It is continued in the Montafon and the side valleys of the Ill, the Großer Walsertal and the Klostertal . The Brandnertal and some uninhabited valleys flow from the south , namely the Saminatal near Frastanz and the Gamperdonatal near Nenzing.

With 50,324 inhabitants (as of March 31, 2016), the valley is the second most populous valley in Vorarlberg after the Rhine Valley.

The Ill flows through the wide valley with alluvial forests, the water power is used in the Walgauwerk near Nenzing . There are also two hydropower plants on the Lutz in the municipal areas of Ludesch and Bludesch .

Municipalities and associations

In terms of area, the Walgau is no larger than the surrounding valleys in Vorarlberg, but is divided into numerous small communities, especially on the southern slope.

Municipalities in the Illtal (in the direction of the river Ill) on the north side:

Municipalities above the valley on the Walserkamm :

Thüringerberg and Ludescher municipality are already at the entrance to the Großwalsertal

Municipalities on the south side:

The municipalities

are attributed to either the Montafon or the Walgau for historical reasons that cannot be clearly interpreted in one or the other direction . Due to the considerable difference in altitude between St. Anton im Montafon and Lorüns, Lorüns is orographically outside the Montafon, namely at the level of the Bludenzer valley basin , as is Stallehr. In terms of regional planning , the two communities do not belong to the Montafon, but to the greater Bludenz area ( Alpine region Bludenz ), even though Lorüns is commonly described as being at the entrance to the Montafon valley. Stallehr is also at the entrance to the Klostertal .

In addition, in the spatial planning sense, the two Brandnertal communities are included in the Walgau:

The gateway to Walgau is already in the Rhine Valley :

The last-named five municipalities are members of the municipal association for regional development IMWALGAU municipalities together , Lorüns and Stallehr also in the Montafon stand and the district-Feldkirch municipalities (Düns, Dünserberg, Göfis, Röns, Satteins, Schlins, Schnifis) and also Nenzing - i.e. the lower Walgau - also involved in municipal associations in the Rhine Valley .

Neighboring regions

Walgau with Brandnertal; the surrounding mountain groups are in italics
Vorarlberg Rhine Valley Laternsertal
Walserkamm
Great Walsertal
Liechtenstein  (Fst.)  ·  Rätikon Neighboring communities Lechquellen Mountains

Klostertal
Rätikon
Maienfeld / Bündner Herrschaft (Graubünden)
Rätikon
Prättigau (Graubünden)
Verwall group
Montafon

Bludenz and the surrounding communities, Klostertal and Brandnertal together form the Alpine region of Bludenz

traffic

In terms of transport, the valley is opened up by the Rheintal / Walgau Autobahn  (A 14), the L 190 Vorarlberger Strasse state road and the Lindau – Bludenz railway line.

The transport policy functional concept Rheintal - Walgau (FKRW) forms the planning basis for the two main settlement areas in the state.

View of the south terrace of the Walserkamm over the entire Walgau towards the south into the Rhätikon , with the cuts of the Brandnertal , Gamperdonatals , Galinatals and Saminatals (left to right); far left the approach of the Großwalsertal , the cut of the Klostertal and a distant view of the Montafon ; far right, view over the Rhine Valley to the Appenzell Alps .

history

Map of Vorarlberg (from 1783); lower middle red, yellow and blue Hft. Sonnenberg, Jagdberg, Blumeneck

The Walgau was already settled during the Neolithic period because of the favorable climatic conditions and the comparatively high level of security due to the remoteness of the area.

Walgau means Welschgau , as Welsche , in today's speaking Rhaeto-Romanic , inhabited the valley. The Rhaeto-Romanic name of the valley was Vutruschauna after Ulrich Campell . In his Raetiae Alpestris Topographica Descriptio (after 1570) he writes: “ […] ex antiqua inde consuetudine vocant 'Vutruschauna', corruptius pro 'Valdruschauna', id est Vallem Drusianam; […] ”(German:“ According to an old custom they call it 'Vutruschauna', distorted from 'Valdruschauna', which means Vallis Drusiana. ”). Johannes Guler von Wyneck wrote in the Raetia in 1616 that he still knew old people in Walgau who could speak Rhaetian , but now only German is common among them.

Former administrative division:

Sonnenberg county Manorial seat of Nüzider
Coat of arms of Sonnenberg (today the municipality of Nüziders)
included in Walgau:
Lordship of Blumenegg Lost castle near Thuringia
Thuringia, Bludesch, Ludesch and Thüringerberg
Blumenegger coat of arms
Jagdberg reign Manorial seat of today's Schlins
Coat of arms of the Jagdberg rule (image missing)
was united with the rule Bludenz as early as 1474 :
Lordship of Rosenegg Lost castle near Bürs
Coat of arms of the Counts of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg

From 1805 to 1814 the Walgau belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria , from 1814 back to Austria .
With the reorganization of the Vorarlberg court districts in 1806, the upper Walgau was subordinated to the newly installed Sonnenberg Regional Court with its seat in Bludenz, the lower to the Feldkirch Regional Court , from which today's political districts have developed.

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

Regional development in Walgau

The Walgau region has been carrying out a region development process since the beginning of 2009. As part of this process, a regional wiki with a lot of detailed information was set up, the Walgau Wiki .

literature

Historical:

  • Alois Niederstätter, Stefan Sonderegger, Manfred Tschaikner: The country in Walgau . 600 years of the Appenzell Wars in southern Vorarlberg. In: Thomas Gamon, ELEMENTA Walgau (Ed.): Series of publications . tape 2 . Nenzing 2005, ISBN 3-900143-02-1 ( vorarlberg.gv.at [PDF; 2.1 MB ; accessed on May 14, 2018]).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b History of Lorüns , website of the community
  2. a b History of Stallehr , website of the community
  3. Mobile in the country . Transport Concept Vorarlberg 2006. In: Office of the Vorarlberg State Government, Dept. VIa - General Economic Affairs; Rosinak & Partner ZT GmbH, Besch + Partner KEG (Hrsg.): Spatial planning series Vorarlberg . 26: Functional concept Rheintal - Walgau. . Bregenz January 7, 2006, p. 76 ff . ( vorarlberg.at [PDF; 864 kB ]). , Local public transport. In: vorarlberg.at - Transport Policy. State of Vorarlberg, accessed in 2011 .
  4. Johannes Guler von Wyneck : Raetia. 1616, fol. 221r. books.google.de
  5. Rosenegg, Burg . austria-lexicon
  6. Ferry Orschulik (web design) reigns in the Walgau. Image 29. In: Vorarlberg school media center: series of images → Walgau. S. For more information , accessed 7 July 2011 ( Home School Media Center ).
  7. ^ Walgau Wiki