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Bludenz

Country
Austria
State
Vorarlberg
City
Bludenz
Type of Location
Multiple
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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By Railway

Opened in 1872, Bludenz station is now a separate station on the railway Vorarlberg , the Arlberg railway and the railway line Bludenz-Schruns (the latter operated by Montafonerbahn ). As a starting point of the west ramp of the Arlberg railway Bludenz has special meaning and thus became a railway town.

By Car

Bludenz is the terminus of the Rhine-Walgau A14, here in the Arlberg expressway passes S16. Parts of the Old Town are as pedestrian furnishings.

By Bus

The "Public transport" consists of three city bus lines that connect the villages of South Tyrolean village, Rungelin and well field every half hour with the train station. Further still lead country bus services in the five surrounding valleys.

By Cable car

From the hamlet Obdorf leading mother mountain cable car to the Bludenzer mountain mother mountain , which in the municipality of Nüziders lies. The cable car was restored a few years ago and expanded.
 

Key places to visit
Lawrence's Church, Castle Gayenhofen, Fatima Church, Monastery of Saint Peter, Holy Cross Church, Church of the Good Shepherd, St. Anthony's Church


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Places to Visit

Lawrence's Church

The St. Lawrence Church is a Roman Catholic church in the town of Bludenz .The church stands in a dominant height next to the baroque castle Gayenhofen over the city and is accessible by lock forth by an arch. Furthermore, the church is reached via a covered staircase, which at the upper gate and the city museum begins in Herrengasse. The course is bent double and was built in 1694 and renovated in 1840. The Pilasterportikus bears a fresco in the lunette of God the Father after Florus Scheel Schnorr. Starting at the top right is a grave stone coats of arms in 1684 for Johann Baptist Solomon and wife Mary of Salomonsegg Gwendolyn, born treasure box of love, died 1669th The second staircase in the west was built in 1830 and bears an oval fresco in tympanum of Florus Scheel.

Castle Gayenhofen

The castle is located in the structural ensemble Gayenhofen with the parish church dominates the city Bludenz (Vorarlberg).The Counts of Berg , built 1222-1245 as the center of the Counts of Berg and the sacred-be domination or domination Berg Bludenz a castle. This was in addition to Bludenz Bregenz and Feldkirch in the Middle Ages a fortified town in Vorarlberg.Built from 1745 to 1752 Johann Caspar Bagnato, including the medieval building structure a new building. Andreas Freiherr Franz Baron von Sternbach (1675-1755) was the name of the newly built castle Gayenhofen and created the castle at the site of the medieval castle of Bludenz.

Fatima Church

The Heart of Mary Parish, also of Fatima Church, a Roman Catholic church in the Austrian town of Bludenz in Sonnenbergstrasse 14th.On the initiative of Rev. Dean Adolf Ammann was in a district Obdorf Fatima Church built. The church is regarded as thanks for Bludenz in the Second World War was spared from war damage, and applies to in the Nazi era with the South Tyrolean settlement Obdorf developed.The Church is very rural, and was built with a crypt and common areas of Vorarlberg was the first church built after the war in the years 1948 to 1950. The architect was Otto Linder , who is already the St. Holy Cross Church has planned.

Monastery of Saint Peter

The monastery of St. Peter is a Dominican convent in Bludenz , in the Austrian Vorarlberg . The monastery is located on the eastern outskirts of Bludenz, at the entrance to the Montafon and Klostertal . It is the oldest still existing in Vorarlberg .The first Bludenzer Stadtherr Count Hugo I of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg founded in 1278 in place of an older church, a new one.The monastery began in 1286 and this was extended to 1354th The monastery was long considered the Institute of the Daughters of the supply-Rhine Valley walgauisch nobility and later the bourgeois and upper classes in the rural surrounding area.

Holy Cross Church

The parish church of the Holy Cross is a Roman Catholic church in the Austrian town of Bludenz in St. Peter's Street 2.The 1932 and 1934 in the church built by the architect Otto Linder is characterized by a high square tower and a church hall with a rotunda dome. The wall is made of broken stones studded.

Church of the Good Shepherd

The Church of the Good Shepherd is an Evangelical Protestant church in the city Bludenz Oberfeldweg on 13th.The church was built 1935-1936 and designed by the architect Dehm and Nigg. The church is located on the upper floor of the rectory and has a flat roof and rectangular windows and a very high loft. The church was first preaching place in 1965 and was elevated to parish.In the hall is a picture of the Good Shepherd from the painter Johannes Troyer 1935. The bell from 1729 is the bell-founder Peter Ernst .

St. Anthony's Church

The St. St. Anthony's Church is a Roman Catholic branch of the Church of the Holy Cross Parish in the district in Rungelin Bludenz in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg .The church was built in 1668 in place of a dome image (1531) under the master mason and master builder Balthasar Kaspar Barward Purtscher in 1669 in honor of St. Anthony of Padua dedicated. The nave and choir under a gable roof has an attached vestry and west of the gable façade with a bell tower spire. The copper site of St. Anthony by sculptor Josef Baumgartner is under one roof.

Right Time to Visit

June - August

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