Schruns is a municipality in the

Montafon Montafon ( in local dialect: "''Muntafu''") is a 39 km long valley in the westernmost Austrian federal state of Vorarlberg. It is traversed by the river Ill (Vorarlberg) and extends from the city of Bludenz and the Verwall Alps in the nort ...

valley (altitude 690 meters), in the

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of the westernmost Austrian state of

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. To the west is the famous Zimba mountain, often called the "Vorarlberger

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," which is very popular among climbers and hikers. Schruns, het gemeentehuis foto3 2014-07-22 13

Geography

The

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river, a tributary of the

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river flows through the town. A side valley, the

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, stretches to the east of Schruns. The area has a high mountain massif accessible by train and ski-lifts. To the north is the

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, to the south

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, and to the west Tschagguns. The nearest larger municipality is Bludenz. About 45.2 percent of the area is forested, with 18.1 percent mountainous.

Sports

Since 2012/13, Schruns has been part of the FIS Snowboard World Cup, which takes place annually in December. During the daytime, visitors can watch

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races up on the Hochjoch of the Silvretta Montafon ski area. In the evening, concerts are held in Schruns. Schruns is a hotspot for mountain biking and trail running. For more than ten years, Schruns has hosted the M3 Montafon Bike Marathon with over 500 bikers.

Notable people

In the early 1920s Schruns was the favorite ski resort of

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. He wintered there with his first wife, Hadley, and oldest son, who was then just an infant. It was there that he revised the manuscript of ''

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''.(Ernest Hemingway. A Moveable Feast, Touchstone Books: New York. pp 197–202) In Hemingway's classic story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" the third scene in the first flashback sequence recounts memories of Schruns. These images of snow and glacier skiing stand in stark contrast to the description of the Serengeti Plain in the main story and anticipate the coming journey to the snows of Kilimanjaro. *

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died there in 1972 *

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, (9 December 19153 August 2006) was a German-born Austro-British soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta, as well as the op ...

lived in the village in her last years and died there in 2006 *

Georg Margreitter Georg Margreitter (born 7 November 1988) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Swiss Super League side Grasshopper Club Zürich. Career Margreitter began his professional career with Austrian Bundesliga club ...

, footballer for

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, born in 1988

References

External links

topskiresort.com
- Schruns ski resort guide, ratings, webcams, news... Cities and towns in Bludenz District {{Vorarlberg-geo-stub