Lingenau
Lingenau is a municipality in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg with 1364 inhabitants ( as at 31 December 2013).
- 3.1 Demographics
Geography
Lingenau located in the westernmost province of Austria, Vorarlberg, in the district of Bregenz southeast of Lake Constance to 685 meters. 30.8 % of the area is forested. There are no other cadastral Lingenau. The place is a member of the German - Austrian joint project Nagelfluhkette National Park.
Neighboring communities
The municipality borders on Lingenau four other municipalities in Vorarlberg. These communities also located in the district of Bregenz are clockwise starting in the north, Langenegg Hittisau Egg and Alberschwende.
History
" Lindigenowe " was first mentioned in 1227. It is the oldest settlement in the front forest and for a long time to the monastery Mehrerau.
The Habsburgs ruled the areas in Vorarlberg 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 Lingenau heard since the foundation in 1861.
The place was from 1945 to 1955 part of the French zone of occupation in Austria.
Population
Demographics
End of 2002, the proportion of foreigners was increased to 7.0 percent.
Policy
The municipal council consists of 15 members. In the local council elections in 2010 entered into Lingenau the Lingen Auer citizens list as a unit list. For the mayor was elected by the municipal council on April 5, Annette Sohler. She was so in her assumption of office, the youngest mayor in Vorarlberg and one of only two women at the top of a municipality in the state.
Culture and sights
- The Parish Church of St. John the Baptist choir, nave and north tower in neo-Romanesque style from the 19th century, in 2010 a modification to the altar in the center of the nave.
- The Chapel of St.. Anna in the field from 1722 has a particularly pure Baroque style. The unique thanks to its unique basic form chapel is situated outside the village on the road to Müselbach. It was built in place of an earlier chapel by the architect Konrad Auer Lingen Nussbaumer together with the master carpenter Konrad Bilgeri.
- The built Gschwend Tobel Bridge 1834 Alois Negrelli and connects Lingenau with Egg.
- The Lingen Auer high bridge is 370 meters long reinforced concrete arch bridge one of the biggest bridges in Central Europe.
Natural Monuments
There is a tuff nature trail. A source stream separates more than 40 meters height from massive tufa ( travertine ). This monument was built in the late Ice Age.
Economy and infrastructure
In the village there were in 2003, 34 companies in the industrial sector with 171 employees and 17 apprentices. Taxable wage -employed, there were 592 tourism and tourism are important. In the tourism year 2001/2002 there were a total of 37 727 nights. Agriculture plays an important role.
The proportion of agricultural land in the total area is 59.8 %.
Education
In Lingenau there is a music high school, high school and an elementary school and a kindergarten. At the site there are (as of January 2003) 345 students.
Personalities
- Hagspiel Ludwig (1922-2012), politician and farmer
- Elmar Bereuter (* 1948), writer
Others
Lingenau was chosen by the readers of Vorarlberg news in 2006 for the third time to the " most beautiful flowers municipality in Vorarlberg ".