Planken
Planks ( dialect: Planka ) is a municipality in the constituency Oberland of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Planks has four exclaves and two enclaves. With about 400 inhabitants, it is the smallest municipality inhabitants moderately in the Principality. Became known planks through the ski Olympic champion Hanni Wenzel.
History
The village name planks is guided by the Roman word Plaunca, which is translated as heap. The Roman population from Schaan and Vaduz, the area of the present village that is already cleared before probably towards the end of the 13th century, the Walser immigrated there and in turn cleared more land to the upper mountain slopes. The first mention Plankens is documented in the year 1361. Two large Kriegsplünderungen suffered the village: in 1499, when the Confederates marched across planking after Frastanz, and 1799, after drove by the French, the quartier this end in planks imperial troops.
1868 planks was connected to the road network, so that now even large wagons were in the village and it was no longer accessible only by dirt tracks. After a devastating fire in 1869, a strong migration. Thus, the village had in 1901 only 56 inhabitants. The land consolidation 1961-1981 and improved infrastructure improved the situation Plankens back then.
Coat of arms
The shield is divided diagonally left in white and green. In front a six-pointed golden star.
Policy
Community leaders, Rainer Beck ( VU). In the FBP council has four seats and the VU two seats. The next municipal election will take place in spring 2015.
Sight
Chapel of St. Joseph, planks belongs to the parish church seen Schaan, has with the chapel of St. Joseph but a private house of God. The chapel was probably built in 1767 and was complemented by a tower in 1861. 1929 Prince Franz I donated the church three neo-baroque altars. Finally, in 1955 reconstruction works were carried out, so that the chapel at that time got their final appearance of the year. In the course of this work, inter alia, who built in 1861 the tower was replaced by a hexagonal wooden roof skylights.
Personalities
- Hanni Wenzel ( born 1956 ), alpine skier
- Andreas Wenzel (born 1958 ), skier
- Tina Weirather (* 1989), alpine skier