!!!Götzis

Goetzis, Vorarlberg, market town in the district of Feldkirch, alt. 
448 m, pop. 9,512, area 14.65 km%%sup 2/%, industrial and commercial 
centre town in the Rhine valley. - Office of the regional health 
insurance, Chamber of Labour library, counselling centre, Norwegian 
consulate, Patent Archives of the Chamber of Commerce, Educational 
Centre Sankt Arbogast, sheltered workshop, Kolpinghaus centre, 
community centre and home for children and adolescents, Islamic 
Cultural Centre, Neo-Apostolic church, stadium, sportsground, 
children´s zoo, editorial office of the Vorarlberg edition of 
the Standard daily newspaper; schools: Bundes-Oberstufenrealgymnasium 
secondary school, vocational school of domestic science, training 
institute for teachers of special needs children, adult education 
centre. In 1991, 56% of the 3,816 people working in Goetzis were 
employed in the production industries: textile and clothes 
manufacturing, timber industry, building and construction industry, 
small-scale production (electroplating works, production of artificial 
stones, printing works); diverse commercial enterprises; Vorarlberg 
industrial estate (some 160 SMEs, high-tech products, computer 
hardware and software, trading and marketing firms; some tourism. - 
First documented mention around 830, (old) parish church from the late 
Gothic period (1340, extended in 1590), choir and frescoes from the 
same period, tabernacle (1597); new (neo-Romanesque) parish church 
(1862-1865), stained glass windows (1946-1948); subsidiary church 
Sankt Arbogast (first documentary mention in 1473, consecration: 1721) 
with panel paintings (1659, depicting the legend of Arbogast), panel 
ceiling; Neu-Montfort ruin, ancestral seat of the Counts of Montfort 
(founded 1311-1319), converted during the 15%%sup th/% , 16%%sup th/%  
and 17%%sup th/%  centuries, only the courtyard and parts of the 
fortification wall are still intact; Sonderberg manor house (since 
1584), Jonas-Schloesschen house from the Renaissance period (1584).

!Literature
W. Fehle, Goetzner Heimatbuch, 1988.


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