Gaschurn

Gas Churn is the southernmost and with a district area of 176.7 km ² geographically largest municipality in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is located in the district of Bludenz and has 1485 inhabitants (December 31, 2013). For comparison: The Principality of Liechtenstein has a district area of 160 km ².

• 4.1 Coat of Arms

• 7.1 Tourism
• 7.2 energy
• 7.3 Media

Geography

The village is located 979 m above sea Gaschurn. A. im Montafon between Gortipohl and belonging to the community Gaschurn place partenen, with the height range to up 3312 m above sea level. A. ( Piz Buin ) extends. 12.7 percent of the municipality is forested, 51.7 percent determine the Alps.

Gaschurn divided into two Ortega churn and partenen.

History

The Romansh place names are already in the documents of the 15th century ( 1423 " Gaschurra " 1499 "Part henna " ), individual Alps mentioned even earlier (for example, 1089 " ALPEM in Signes " = Zeinisalpe ). Benefiting from the warmer climate in the Middle Ages, but also until the 18th century, the high Alpe Vermunt was used by farmers from Ardez and Guarda in the Lower Engadine ( cattle drive over the Vermunt ).

The community was affected by repeated avalanche disasters ( worst 1689), damage caused by flood and landslide (eg 1762, 1770, 1910) as well as by large fires (1800 village fire in partenen ). Meanwhile, the natural hazards could be substantially mitigated by extensive avalanche and torrent control.

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 Gaschurn heard since the founding of the country in 1861.

From the mid 19th century, the summer tourism comes on. 1885 founded a Beautification Association. Several mountain huts were opened: 1885 Madlenerhaus, 1896 Wiesbaden hut, hut Tübingen 1908, 1910 Saarbrücken Cabin, 1927 Heilbronnerhütte. Around 1910 began the road from Schruns to partenen.

After the First World War, which was founded in 1922 Vorarlberg Illwerke began to tap the water power for the power supply. 1925-1930 created the Vermuntsee and Vermuntwerk in the district partenen with the Rhineland line as the first high voltage transmission in Central Europe; as access to the building sites put you on the narrow gauge railway Schruns- partenen and the inclined elevator partenen - Trominier. This was followed by significant extensions of hydropower: 1938-1952 Silvretta reservoir and Obervermuntwerk, 1959-1970 Kops reservoir and underground power plant Kops with different creek lines and Rifawerk with balancing reservoir.

The place was from 1945 to 1951 part of the French zone of occupation in Austria.

The former Bauhilfsweg the Bielerhöhe ( 2071 m above sea level. A. ) in 1954 opened the tourist traffic than Silvretta High Alpine Road and further expanded in 1961. Since 1963, gas churn has on the route of the 1954 abandoned narrow-gauge railway through a bypass road.

In the 1960s, one began with the extensive development for winter sports: Versettlabahn since 1967, from 1972 connecting the ski areas Versettla and Garfrescha the greater metropolitan area Silvretta Nova area with the current name Silvretta Montafon with around 30 lifts. At the same time the settlement pattern changed by the construction of hotels, guest houses, inns and other tourist facilities.

Population

Demographics

The proportion of foreigners in 2002 was 10.9 percent.

Religion

In gas churn in the 15th century there was a St. Michael's Chapel; a separate parish was formed in 1587. In partenen 1729 was a filial church of gas churn.

Policy

• Mayor Martin Netzer is the ' People's Party - List citizens gas churn partenen '.
• Municipal Council: The municipal council has 18 members, who after the 2010 election composed of People's Party - List citizens gas churn partenen 10 seats and 8 seats together for gas churn and partenen. The municipality revenue from taxes and other charges in 2001 were at € 2,676,343, the municipal expenditure at € 4,830,269. The debt amounted to 2001 1.341.895 €.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was created in 1966 after a design by the artist and Schrunser heraldist Konrad Honold. It shows next to the crossed papal keys a waterwheel and a halberd. This refers to the local hero Lukas sealed oven that has been associated with all kinds of good deeds.

Culture and sights

• The Museum of Tourism Gaschurn was opened in 1992 in gas churn as Austria's first Tourism Museum.
• In the finished 1986 new community center of the resort is a 300 -year-old Montafonerstube - the so-called Lucas Tschofen room - furnished.
• The Parish Church of St. Michael as neo-Romanesque church was established in 1869 by the Bishop of Linz Franz Josef Rudi greed, who was born in partenen inaugurated. The altar and ceiling paintings have been executed by the brothers Franz and Jakob Schrunser Bertle in late Nazarene.
• St Mary of the Snow: Construction of the chapel is the inscription back to the year 1637. As the founder and builder applies Lukas Tschofen, a legendary and mythical figure of the Montafon valley. The chapel houses a Mary Help of image ( copy after a miraculous painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder ) and has become a popular place of pilgrimage. The chapel is situated on a small hill in the Gaschurner village.

Recreation and Sports

The area- most populous municipality in Vorarlberg gas churn partenen has a large network of hiking trails ( total of 266.8 km ) and numerous mountain bike trails (totaling 71.9 km - both as at autumn 2013). From partenen on Gaschurn to St. Gallen church runs an approximately 12 km long cycling, walking and winter hiking route. Based on an elaborated by the University of Innsbruck sports science concept running and Nordic walking Montafon was created. 13 selected routes were first entered and signposted in Vorarlberg. Marked snowshoe hiking routes in gas churn partenen enable near town, a walking even without a guide.

The Biel height is set amidst the Silvretta; in the summer you can reach this place via the Silvretta High Alpine Road, in the winter there is access to the Vermuntbahn ( partenen ) and the tunnel taxi. There lies the highest boat navigation of the Alps. Trained on the lake among other things, the British rowing national team in preparation for their competitions. The offer includes skiing, ski tours, winter and snow -shoeing and cross-country skiing on the frozen Silvrettastausee. The 9- hole golf course of the Golf Club Silvretta is the highest golf course in Vorarlberg.

The municipal area Gaschurn there are five mountain huts: the New Heilbronnerhütte the DAV section Heilbronn, the Madlenerhaus and the Wiesbaden lodge the DAV section Wiesbaden, Saarbrücken hut the DAV section Saarbrücken and Tübingen hut the DAV section Tübingen.

Economy

A strong increase in population led in the 18th century (eg 1754: 1010 inhabitants) to a relative to the livelihoods of high population density. One consequence was the expansion of mountain farming livestock industry to the limit of the possible. In 1800 there were in Gaschurn 1000 cattle, 1500 sheep and 750 goats (compared to 1990: 430 cattle). The necessary additional purchases were found to turn of the century partly by seasonal migration (eg construction workers as " French People " ), but mainly by commercial traffic on the Zeinisjoch (on Zeinis is already in the 16th century a tavern detectable) and finally by the advent of mountaineering. The first care of the tourists in the 19th century was primarily done by the inn Rössle. From 1925 there was a rapid increase of income opportunities through the construction and operation of the Illwerke (the main employer in partenen ) and by the upward development of tourism. It was followed by the Silvretta Nova ski area and the tourist development of the Silvretta High Alpine Road, the Vermuntbahn and Bielerhoehe a strong increase in guest nights since the 1960s. Between 1960/61 and 1991/92, the number of overnight stays increased from 109,000 to around 430,000 in an expansion of the Beherbungsangebotes from 1800 to 3700 beds. Since 1974, more nights in winter than in summer are increasingly recorded.

At the site there were in 2003 66 commercial establishments with 360 employees and 25 apprentices. Taxable wage -employed, there were 818

Tourism

In the tourism year 2001/2002 there were a total of 428 119 in gas churn nights.

The Bank for Tirol and Vorarlberg since 2007, the main shareholder of the previous Silvretta Nova cable cars AG, the Silvretta Montafon has since been known.

Energy

The community Gaschurn operates the drinking water plant ANGLE and supplies the generated electricity to the FMV green electricity. Since November 2008, all three machines of the 450 - MW power plant cop 2 are on the network.

The biomass heating plant gas Churn is the only municipal biomass heating plant in Montafon. It has been in operation since 2000. In May 2008, two buffers were installed with 43 ​​m³ to smooth the tops. This could already be throughout 2008 without any kind of heating oil throughout the summer.

The most recent project (2013 ) the municipality gas Churn is the use of waste heat from power plants Kopswerk I and II as well as the Kopswerk Vermuntwerks. The biomass heating plant gas churn would then also be supplied with a part of the waste heat. Approx. 60 percent of the heat required could be provided by the new waste heat project.

Since autumn 2008, the congregation gas Churn is the e5 - communities program (Energy Efficient Community ). 2013 e5 Gaschurn is again certified. It seeks the third " e".

Media

The GaPa - Zitig or GaPa flash are the community messages that are issued by the municipality Gaschurn. Homepage: www.gaschurn.at

Traffic

Gas churn is on the L 188 Montafonerstraße (formerly Silvrettastraße ) accessible from Bludenz in about 25 minutes by car. Gas churn is also accessible by the Montafon Railway, which runs from Bludenz to Schruns, and from there by public bus MBS bus. In the summer months you can reach Gaschurn by car from Landeck about Galtür and the Silvretta High Alpine Road in about one and a half hours.

Education

At the site there are (as of January 2003) 71 students. There is a primary school and a kindergarten, which can be attended by all children from the age of three. Since 2008, younger children can attend kindergarten.

Also in partenen there is a primary school and a kindergarten. The special feature of the nursery facilities is that there is no parish within the municipality in the kindergarten area. Parents and children can choose their kindergarten is so even. Since the summer of 2006, the municipality in one of the kindergartens at a summer child care. Every Wednesday offers Gaschurn children up to 10 years the opportunity to participate in an extracurricular playful English Education.

Personalities

• Peter Rudi greed (1882-1963), a farmer and member of parliament