Bartholomäberg

Bartholomew is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in Vorarlberg, Austria with 2266 inhabitants (December 31, 2013).

• 4.1 Coat of Arms

• 5.1 Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St. Bartholomew
• 5.2 Church " Immaculate Conception " at the Inner Mountain
• 5.3 Pfarrexpositurkirche Gantschier
• 5.4 curate's house
• 5.5 Geological nature trail and Historic Mine Bartholomäberg

Geography

Bartholomew Berg is located in Montafon in the westernmost province of Austria, Vorarlberg. The area covers 27.28 km ². Bartholomäberg extends as far scattered settlement of about 600 to about 1,300 meters on a large, little wooded ridge, 16.8 % of the area Alps, in Verwall with Itonskopf.

Laid out on the sun terrace of the Montafon and therefore climatically most favored Bartholomäberg is the oldest settlement of this valley to Worms is a prehistoric mining area.

Districts of the municipality - from top to bottom - are

• Inner mountain
• Bartholomäberg
• Jetzmunt
• Gantschier
• Except soils

History

The territory of the municipality Bartholomäberg may have been inhabited as early as the third millennium BC. At least suggest settlement remains out. As probably in the Bronze and Iron Ages Bartholomäberg was also through the Middle Ages, a center of mining: iron, copper and silver were mined here.

As early as the Carolingian period mining was here in 1319 and operated a silver mine is already proven. Documented this successfully operated until the 16th century mining, for example, in the landscape peculiarities ( Halden ), under the Miners' Church on Kristbergbahn in which visitors made ​​available but now again closed tourist mine in Bartholomäberg and the Mining Museum in Silbertal.

As the first parish in the Montafon St. Bartholomew Berg appeared in the year 1350. Bartholomäberg came together with the Montafon 1394 in Austria. The Habsburgs ruled the places in Montafon changing of Tyrol and Further Austria from ( Freiburg im Breisgau). From 1805 to 1814, the town belonged to Bavaria, then back to Austria. For the Austrian state of Vorarlberg Bartholomäberg heard since the founding of the Vorarlberg Landtag 1861. The place was from 1945 to 1955 part of the French zone of occupation in Austria.

• See also: avalanche disaster of 1954 in Vorarlberg

Population

Demographics

The proportion of foreigners at the end of 2002 at 5.5 percent.

Policy

The municipal council consists of 21 members. The composition according to the 2010 election: 21 seats list Mayor Martin Vallaster - Together for Bartholomäberg. The municipality revenue from taxes and other charges in 2001 were at € 2,094,871, the municipal expenditure at € 4,441,263. The debt was 2001 4.025.226 €.

Coat of arms

Blazon: "In the drawbar section divided by red, silver and black top over a green Dreienberg growing a goldennimbierter and robed silver saint, in his right hand a silver knife, holding in his left hand a black book, the front two black crossed keys with trefoil riding and behind two silver crossed hammers. "

Coat Explanation: The saint is the Apostle Bartholomew, whose diameter is reminiscent of the tormentors, the flayed the Apostles, the two hammers ( Bergmann Schlegel, see hammer and chisel ) are reminiscent of the mining industry very early mentioned, the keys show the affiliation to the Montafon ( State seal since the early 15th century).

The municipal coat of arms is a canting arms and was created in 1956 after a design by the artist and Schrunser heraldist Konrad Honold and the award of the coat of arms by the Provincial Government of Vorarlberg was on August 17, 1956 ( Zl Ib -311).

Culture and sights

Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St. Bartholomew

Worth seeing is the 1729 ( foundation stone ) to 1743 ( initiation) in the Baroque style, built parish church of St. Bartholomew and St. Anne. Even the choice of the cartridge indicates a possible association with the mining industry and also for a village church unusually magnificent interior of the Bartholomew Berger parish church could be an indication of this relationship.

Church " Immaculate Conception " at the Inner Mountain

The simple construction of the church on the Inner Mountain stands in the middle of the cemetery. In 1791 the foundation stone was laid. The architect was the Schrunser Josef Vonier, who also built the Dome of the Berger Bartholomew Church. The consecration of the church took place on July 4, 1820. The altarpiece of the high altar shows the Immaculata, the head wreathed with roses, painted in 1869 by artist Franz Schrunser Bertle ( 1828-1883 ). Since 1993, The left side altar contains a valuable Gothic Madonna from the period around 1500. The original version was exposed in painstaking work of the restorer Konrad Honold. One of the most beautiful pieces of the church is the magnificently gilded and marbled pulpit with portraits of the four Evangelists John, Mark, Luke and Matthew. The last major renovation took place for the 200th anniversary of the church in the years 1991 to 1993.

Pfarrexpositurkirche Gantschier

In the Pfarrexpositurkirche Gantschier since the spring of 2008, is an altar from Paznauner Baroque artist Johann Ladner, who was previously in the now demolished old chapel in Gantschier.

Curate's house

On June 6, 2009, a new museum opened its doors in Montafon. Dating back to 1657 old curate's house in Bartholomew Berg is one of the oldest buildings in the valley and has been adapted for museum purposes. First, the house was shown as it has left the last owner. Visitors thus had the opportunity to participate in the following years at a museum development process.

Geological nature trail and Historic Mine Bartholomäberg

The geological nature trail in Bartholomäberg was opened in 1978. The consistently marked alpine trail on the mountain Stock Monteneu is a circular route that begins at the church Bartholomäberg and ends. He is almost 16 km long and requires about 10 hours of hiking for a total commission. Of these, 4-5 hours walking time. 24 signs along the way give an insight into one billion years Montafon Earth's history. Various rocks, their age, their origin and composition are explained. At the same time the mountain structure of the surrounding mountain ranges is explained and provides an insight into the growth and decay of rocks and mountains.

From the parking lot at the church of Bartholomew mountain ( 1087 m), where an information board stands, the nature trail leads in a northwesterly direction to Rellseck (Alpine Inn, 1492 m). In this way pieces are successively four outcrops, which are explained on rock explanatory panels. From the former inn Linda (1215 m) offers a view to the southwest of the Rätikon Illtals. Immediately in the foreground stands the Tschaggunser midday peak ( 2168 m), in the background Sulzfluh ( 2818 m) and northwest of these are the three towers, the Eisjöchl and Drusenfluh, all at 2830 m, to identify.

When Alpengasthaus Rellseck, the path turns to the right and ascends in a northeasterly direction along the ridge area of ​​the Monteneu up to Wannaköpfle ( 2,032 m ). The promising Itonskopf ( with 2089 m above sea level. A. the highest point of the mountain stocks) remains lie to the left and the path to the summit of Alpilakopfes ( 2078 m). The comb Wanna heads - Itonskopf - Alpilakopf ( Itonskopfgruppe ) is built up from main dolomite and underlain by massive gypsum bodies of Raibler layers. The path leads to the Upper Meadow continue where you come across a fossil coral reef ( natural monument ). The Rhätolias - reef limestones are formed in a sea of ​​Jura. Well-preserved corals, shells, and crinoids can be seen here.

From the Upper Meadow (1880 m) can be seen in a northerly direction into the incision and to the nearly 2000 meter high escarpment of the Kloster with the Red Wall ( 2890 m) the highest peak. The road passes by the circumnavigation of the Black Horn (1883 m) on the case - Amman Legi - Torah lake - Lake Fula - Friitza Legi - Knappa Gruaba back to the starting point. The panorama board Knappagruaba (1340 m) indicates the mining as a landscape designer. The from the 9th to the 17th century flowering ore mining iron, copper and silver has ransacked the slopes like a mole. The spoil heaps dominate the landscape here. In terrain former mine shafts are still recognizable. Here, at Worms, there is also the Historical mine Bartholomew Berg ( St. Anne's Stollen ), a show mine, which opened in 2010.

The trail is equivalent walkable in both directions. Numerous hiking and riding paths cross the nature trail and allow partial inspections.

Economy and infrastructure

At the site there were in 2003 18 companies in the industrial sector with 77 employees and eight apprentices. Taxable wage -employed, there were 911 in the tourism year 2006/ 2007 there were a total of 97 424 nights ( 54 317 Winter, Summer 43 107 ).

In Bartholomäberg there are two kindergartens; in the school year 2007/2008 there were 177 pupils in the municipality, of which 100 the two primary schools visited. Furthermore, in the municipality of the Polytechnic School Except Montafon.

Personalities

• Franz Josef Kessler (1867-1949), community leader and member of parliament
• Josef Kessler (1885-1967), Mayor and Member of Parliament
• Anita Wachter ( born 1967), former ski racer

Clubs

• Harmony Music Bartholomäberg
• Trachtenkapelle Gantschier
• Rural Youth Montafon
• Theater group Bartholomäberg
• Singkreis Bartholomäberg
• Radio guild Bartholomäberg
• Breeders association Bartholomäberg
• Ortsfeuerwehr Inner Mountain
• Ortsfeuerwehr Gantschier
• Ortsfeuerwehr Bartholomäberg
• SC Bartholomäberg