Watzenegg

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Church of Mary Queen of Peace in the center of Watzenegg

Watzenegg ( 647  m above sea level - church) is a mountain parcel in the municipality of the Austrian town of Dornbirn in Vorarlberg . The settlement on the mountain slope east of the urban area of ​​Dornbirn is crossed today by Bödelestrasse and has a settlement structure that has grown together from several formerly independent hamlets. The mountain village of Watzenegg is part of the Oberdorf district of Dornbirn .

Origin of name

The settlement was first mentioned historically in 1340 in a register of the interest of the Mehrerau monastery under the Latinized name "de wazzeneggo". Herzuleiten is probably the name given by the combination of the personal name “Watzo” and the geographical name “Egg”, ie a corner in the area.

Infrastructure

The townscape of Watzenegg in the old town center is characterized by historical Rheintalhöfe and other simple wooden buildings, while on the outskirts and especially on the hillside numerous newer buildings determine the landscape. Watzenegg has its own kindergarten , an elementary school , the Catholic Church of Our Lady Queen of Peace (part of the parish of Oberndorf), a cemetery and a fire brigade of volunteer firefighters Dornbirn . The latter was housed in an extension of the Watzenegg elementary school (which also houses the kindergarten) from 1977 to 2016 and in 2016 was given its own, newly built fire station directly on Bödelestrasse.

In terms of traffic, Watzenegg is connected by Bödelestrasse (L 48). There are regular buses of the Landbus Unterland from Dornbirn train station to Bödele or to Schwarzenberg in the Bregenz Forest .

Hamlet structure

Historic center of the hamlet of Häfenberg with houses in the Rhine Valley

The Watzenegg mountain parcel includes numerous other hamlets, which in today's settlement structure can hardly be recognized as independent settlements. In the original cadastre from 1857, for example, the village of Watzenegg with around 16 farms and the surrounding hamlets, usually consisting of only one or two houses, can still be recognized. Today these are mostly connected to the center of Watzenegg or, down the slope, to the city of Dornbirn. These include the hamlets of Klotzen, Häfenberg, Heilenberg , Unterries and Schwendebühel.

literature

  • Johann Peer: Documentation of the cultural landscape: Watzenegg - Fallenberg - Haselstauder Berg . In: Stadtarchiv Dornbirn : Dornbirner Schriften - Contributions to urban history . Volume 37, Dornbirn 2009. ISBN 978-3-901900-24-2

Web links

Commons : Watzenegg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Kalb: Place names in Dornbirn . In: Stadtarchiv Dornbirn (Hrsg.): Dornbirner Schriften - Contributions to urban history . Volume 41. Dornbirn, 2012. ISBN 978-3-901900-33-4 . P. 31.
  2. ↑ Website of the parish of St. Sebastian in Dornbirn-Oberdorf
  3. ↑ Watzenegg fire brigade on the website of the voluntary fire brigade of the city of Dornbirn. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
  4. ^ Watzenegg: fire station for 660,000 euros . Article by ORF Vorarlberg from May 1, 2015.

Coordinates: 47 ° 24 ′ 40.6 "  N , 9 ° 45 ′ 56.2"  E