Bludesch

Bludesch is a municipality with 2264 inhabitants (December 31, 2013) in the district of Bludenz (Vorarlberg / Austria ). It is located in Walgau and belongs next to Thuringia and Ludesch to Blumenegg communities. Great importance is also the plot with the Gais located there Walgau barracks.

Geography

Bludesch is located in the westernmost province of Austria - Vorarlberg - Bludenz in the district. Bludesch is located in the mountainous southern Vorarlberg ( Südvorarlberg ) to 529/540 meters above sea level in the middle Walgau. The immediately surrounding mountains reach 2000-2600 meters altitude. The up to 5 km wide Walgau is crossed by the Ill; whose main tributary is the Lutz. The Lutz with the root syllable " lut / invited " is eponymous for the villages Ludesch, Bludesch and the family name Zerlauth ( zurlutt / zerlut ) as well as a variety of lut -related field names in the valley. The rivers Lutz and Jll have made many thousands of years that the Walgau has an up to 180 m deep stone and gravel layer, which is proving a great aquifers for drinking water supply. This bedload, however, have the agricultural land often vermurt so that the Walgauer Although " filthy rich but low in humus " appear. Today adorn the respective basic limits compiled " reading stones " as " Hägi " partially protected landscape. 44.0 % of the municipal area is planted with Au and high forest, agricultural land are reported at around 40%. More than a thousand years and the average age of the vineyard area was in the slopes and valleys about 10 % of the comparable total. The annual rainfall is 1400 mm with the central portion.

History

Already at the beginning of Roman rule decreed the Walgau ( ' vallis Drusiana ') on permanent settlements. The resident population of the Reti has been influenced over the years by the Romans, Alemanni and later Walser. The place name Bludesch 842 is first mentioned as ' villa pludassis '. He goes back to the Celtic ' pa - lut ' ( in Lutz ). Pludassis / Bludasco is well populated Rhaetian in the late 2nd millennium, is in the course of conquests by Drusus and Tiberius in 15 BC Roman province and thus part of the " Raetia prima". The Christianization began in the 5th century. The Erbteilungsvertrag the Carolingian Verdun 842/843 calls in Bludesch a royal court and a church; the unnamed church mentioned in " cise villa" is obviously a private church and not to the bishop of Chur belonging. Be from Frankish officials Earl in the 10th century, the Udalrichinger, then follow the Montfort and the Barons of Brandis and Sulz. When selling Vorarlberg lands in the 14th and 15th centuries " piecewise " to the Habsburgs only the small rule Blumenegg with the villages Bludesch, Thuringia and Ludesch (all located at the Lutz! ) Remains; Blumenegg 1431 is the free, direct imperial rule. 1614 acquires the kingdom pin Weingarten rule Blumenegg and sells 1804 Habsburg / Austria. After the brief interlude of the Bavarian occupation ( 1806-1814 ) Austria takes over the small final rule Blumenegg. It will take until 1839, and the centuries- long Frondienstpflicht is canceled. Until 1848 Bludesch was indeed represented in the "Great Gnos ", but formed with the neighboring town of Thuringia, a special kind of " double church" with its own town hall. During the construction of the district offices in Vorarlberg Bludesch in 1849 the district of Bludenz allocated and has been in every respect " independent " community.

Demographics

Culture and sights

• The parish church of St. James was built in 1651/1652 according to plans by the Baroque architect Michael Beer; it is his first pilaster church and the only religious building in Vorarlberg. Worth seeing are built by Josef Birgaentzle Organ ( 1804) and the high altar ( 1651). The " Bergöntzleorgel " comes from the Silbermann School, was deposited in the turmoil of the French Revolution in Alsace and spent 1804 by Bludesch and incorporated into the parish church. Parish church and organ since 1971 are performing and Gestaltungsort the " Bludescher organ concerts ."

• The Church of St. Nicholas is the oldest church in Vorarlberg. It was the first time mentioned in 842; due to new pictures of the foundation masonry is no longer excluded a pre-Romanesque building at 450/500. The oldest surviving part is the nave in the early Romanesque style ( 700-800 ). Also worth mentioning is the attached tower with its top up brick gabled spire. The 1950 exposed, dated to the first third of the 14th century frescoes depicting the Last Judgement, the train of the blessed with Peter at the Pearly Gates and two scenes from the Passion of Christ. The train of the Damned is shown in other pictures as a very impressive history of hell fall and the seven deadly sins. In the bottom frame (register ) of the north wall curtain painting was discovered in 2006. An outstanding feature of the St. Nicholas Church is the brick to the tip from breaking and tufa tower; the lower square tower dated about the 10th century, the upper structure with early Gothic pinnacles corresponds to the 13th century.

• Former sanatorium Gaisbühel: The object was 1917 - built in 1920 as a " sanatorium for tuberculosis patients ," set to the highest possible self-preservation and therefore come with a private, 1925 finished on a country estate for their own reasons. The estate remained 60 years in lease and operation. The development of the sanatorium led by the special station for Chronic hospital to acute hospital and 2005 for the laying of oncology and pulmonology to Feldkirch. This marked the end of the sanatorium was reached: the landmarked building by architect Willi Braun is empty.

• Castle ruin Jordan: For the first time in 1578 mentioned under this name, it was as a temporary dwelling for agricultural use (wine ) by Christoph Brockh built. 1637 acquired Georg Ludwig von Lindenspeur the good and enlarged it in 1653 to his hunting and summer residence. After several changes of ownership 1842 only by walls of a two story, undeveloped house the speech. Since 2009, the ruins of privately owned and largely forfeited.

Policy

(Balance after local council elections on 13 March 2010)

Mayor Michael Tinkhauser ( We in Bludesch / Gais )

Vice Mayor: Otmar Meyer ( We in Bludesch / Gais )

Parish Council:

• Otmar Meyer ( We in Bludesch / Gais )
• Stefan Bleicher ( We in Bludesch / Gais )
• Franz Dunkl ( Free electorate Bludesch - Gais )
• Manfred Dietrich ( Working Group Bludesch / Gais )

The municipal council consists of 21 members, including five women. The seats are distributed among the various groups as follows:

Economy and infrastructure

The Blumenegg region experienced during the first third of the 19th century - as well as other places in Vorarlberg - industrialization, which was designed to the highest degree by the textile industry. Built in 1830 in the village of Gais the " Müller'sche Roth and Bunthfärberei " in 1837 in Thuringia, the " kkprivil.Spinnerey & Weberey " of Escher- Kennedy - Douglass. Both factories - textile finishing in Gais and the cotton mill in Thuringia - dominated region and village structure by more than a hundred years. The company was dependent Fabrikler From the stately frondienstleistenden subject. At the same time the hitherto dominant viticulture lost from the mid-19th century from its meaning, until he fully came to a halt in 1900. Only since 1990 the wine is revived. Before the end of the 20th century, the factory was shut down in Thuringia; from multi-storey factory buildings arose apartments. The factory in Gais survived the 2005 compulsory settlement, bought in 2007 as DELUNAMAGMA and ended in 2010 as abgeräumter, freed from any building construction site. No event, the municipality has Bludesch more affected than the subject BARRACKS and no development Bludesch has more marked as the consequences of this national event. Garrison - Groundwater Sanctuary - Farm Community - Armed Forces - Exercise Place: 1989 Groundbreaking, 1989 Opening, from 1990 to 1999, more than 120 homes. For this purpose, doctor and pharmacy, post office and bank branch, gastronomy and new business. Much has come much was lost. Bludesch had awakened from its slumber. In 2003 there were 34 farms in the place of the industrial economy, with 572 employees and 24 apprentices. Taxable wage -employed, there were 662 agriculture plays a minor role.

In Bludesch there are two kindergartens and a school with (as in January 2003) with 155 students.