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Mittelberg
Mittelberg is a municipality in the district of Bregenz in the Kleinwalsertal,in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is accessible by road only from Germany. Geography The town of Mittelberg lies in the Kleinwalsertal, a valley that is accessible by road only from Germany. The largest stream in the municipality is the Breitach which originates in Baad and flows through all three villages of Mittelberg, Hirschegg and Riezlern. It receives water of the side streams such as Derrabach, Turabach, Bärgundbach, Gemstelbach and Wildenbach. The main mountains of Mittelberg include Elfer (2387 m) Bärenkopf (Allgäu Alps) (2083 m), Walmendingerhorn (1990 m), Grosser Widderstein (2536 m) and Zwölfer (2224 m). History Mittelberg was settled around 1300 by five Walser families from Tannberg coming across over the Hochalppass. The first houses were probably in Bödmen, a district of Mittelberg. The settlers inherited the land from the Swabian Counts of Rettenberg. The valley initiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baad, Austria
Mittelberg is a municipality in the district of Bregenz in the Kleinwalsertal,in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is accessible by road only from Germany. Geography The town of Mittelberg lies in the Kleinwalsertal, a valley that is accessible by road only from Germany. The largest stream in the municipality is the Breitach which originates in Baad and flows through all three villages of Mittelberg, Hirschegg and Riezlern. It receives water of the side streams such as Derrabach, Turabach, Bärgundbach, Gemstelbach and Wildenbach. The main mountains of Mittelberg include Elfer (2387 m) Bärenkopf (Allgäu Alps) (2083 m), Walmendingerhorn (1990 m), Grosser Widderstein (2536 m) and Zwölfer (2224 m). History Mittelberg was settled around 1300 by five Walser families from Tannberg coming across over the Hochalppass. The first houses were probably in Bödmen, a district of Mittelberg. The settlers inherited the land from the Swabian Counts of Rettenberg. The valley initiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kleinwalsertal
Kleinwalsertal is a valley in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg and part of the Bregenz district. It includes the municipality of Mittelberg and consists of three villages along the River Breitach. Due to the geographic location in the Allgäu Alps with its alpine terrain, the Kleinwalsertal has no direct traffic connection to the rest of Vorarlberg. It is accessible only via Oberstdorf, Germany, to the north, and thus is an Austrian "practical exclave" or "pene-exclave". Etymology The name of the valley derives from the Walsers who moved there from the Valais (german: Wallis) in the 13th century (see also "Großwalsertal"). Geography Natural geography The Kleinwalsertal is a high valley in the Allgäu Alps and is located in the east of Vorarlberg. The Breitach river runs through the entire valley and is fed by a few side streams, which come from the side valleys of the Kleinwalsertal. The Kleinwalsertal is almost completely surrounded by high mountains of the Allgäu Alps, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breitach
The Breitach is a mountain river, the southwestern (left) source of the Iller in the Allgäu Alps, in the states of Vorarlberg (Austria) and Bavaria (Germany). Detail The river originates in , a part of Mittelberg, in the Kleinwalsertal as the union of three smaller source streams. It flows in the northwestern direction through the valley that in earlier times was called ("Breitach Valley") after the river. At the , the Austrian-German border, the Breitach reaches German territory and curves through the narrow Breitachklamm. Then, the Starzlach flows from the west into the Breitach. At the so-called ("Iller origin") in Oberstdorf, the Breitach, the Stillach and the Trettach Trettach is a river of Bavaria, Germany. At its confluence with the Breitach and the Stillach in Oberstdorf, the Iller is formed. See also *List of rivers of Bavaria A list of rivers of Bavaria, Germany: A * Aalbach * Abens * Ach * Afferbach ... flow together forming the Iller. Of geological interes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riezlern
Riezlern is a village in Mittelberg, Vorarlberg, Austria. In the winter season it is well known as a centre for alpine skiing. A well known hotel in the village is Hotel Erlebach Erlebach was a village in Germany, founded in 1310 A D. It was destroyed by the East German authorities in 1986 as it stood too close to the Inner German border (part of the larger "Iron Curtain"), the border between the post-war states of East .... Education Kindergarten: * Kindergarten Riezlern " Mittelberg. Retrieved on January 6, 2018. References Cities and towns in Bregenz District {{Vorarlberg-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horizon Field
''Horizon Field'' is a 2010 sculpture installation by Antony Gormley. The installation features 100 life-sized cast iron statues of the human body left at exactly above sea-level in the Austrian Alps. It is the first art project of its kind erected in the Alps and the largest landscape intervention in Austria to date.Artnations.co.uk retrieved 1 August 2010 The work covers an area of in the Land , Austria, communities of , , |
Bregenz District
The Bezirk Bregenz is an administrative district (''Bezirk'') in Vorarlberg, Austria. It comprises the Bregenz Forest region, the Leiblach valley, and the Austrian part of Lake Constance. The area of the district is 863.37 km², its population is 130,425 (2012), and the population density is 151 people per km². The administrative centre of the district is Bregenz. Administrative divisions The district is divided into 40 municipalities, one of them is a town, and six are market towns. Towns #Bregenz (28,012) Market towns #Bezau (1,976) #Egg (3,452) #Hard (12,696) # Hörbranz (6,357) #Lauterach (9,612) #Wolfurt (8,173) Municipalities #Alberschwende (3,139) #Andelsbuch (2,356) # Au (1,684) #Bildstein (714) #Bizau (1,015) #Buch (556) #Damüls (324) #Doren (1,024) # Eichenberg (379) #Fußach (3,726) #Gaißau (1,700) #Hittisau (1,852) # Höchst (7,764) # Hohenweiler (1,261) #Kennelbach (1,860) # Krumbach (2,252) # Langen (1,300) #Langenegg (1,066) #Lingenau (1,341) #Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bregenz (district)
The Bezirk Bregenz is an administrative district (''Bezirk'') in Vorarlberg, Austria. It comprises the Bregenz Forest region, the Leiblach valley, and the Austrian part of Lake Constance. The area of the district is 863.37 km², its population is 130,425 (2012), and the population density is 151 people per km². The administrative centre of the district is Bregenz. Administrative divisions The district is divided into 40 municipalities, one of them is a town, and six are market towns. Towns #Bregenz (28,012) Market towns #Bezau (1,976) #Egg (3,452) #Hard (12,696) # Hörbranz (6,357) #Lauterach (9,612) #Wolfurt (8,173) Municipalities #Alberschwende (3,139) #Andelsbuch (2,356) # Au (1,684) #Bildstein (714) #Bizau (1,015) #Buch (556) #Damüls (324) #Doren (1,024) # Eichenberg (379) #Fußach (3,726) #Gaißau (1,700) #Hittisau (1,852) # Höchst (7,764) # Hohenweiler (1,261) #Kennelbach (1,860) # Krumbach (2,252) # Langen (1,300) #Langenegg (1,066) #Lingenau (1,341) #Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walser People
The Walser people are the speakers of the Walser German dialects, a variety of Highest Alemannic. They inhabit the region of the Alps of Switzerland and Liechtenstein, as well as the fringes of Italy and Austria. The Walser people are named after the Wallis (Valais), the uppermost Rhône valley, where they settled from roughly the 10th century in the late phase of the migration of the Alamanni, crossing from the Bernese Oberland; because of linguistic differences among the Walser dialects, it is supposed that there were two independent immigration routes. From the upper Wallis, they began to spread south, west and east between the 12th and 13th centuries, in the so-called Walser migrations (''Walserwanderungen''). The causes of these further population movements, the last wave of settlement in the higher valleys of the Alps, are not entirely clear. Some think that the large ''Walser'' migrations took place because of conflicts with the valley's feudal lords. Other theories con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWII
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, massa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
