!!!Frastanz

Frastanz, Vorarlberg, municipality in the district of Feldkirch, alt. 
509 m, pop. 5,881, area 32.29 km%%sup 2/%, situated east of Feldkirch 
at the mouth of the Samina Valley in the Walgau. - Electric plant, 
Stiftung Maria Ebene Hospital, recreational facilities, residential 
home, spiritual centre, vocational school for home economics. Strong 
economic growth, in particular in the production sector and in trade; 
economic restructuring and the establishment of new businesses 
followed the decline of the textile industry: paper industry, 
production of animal feed, adhesive tape, curtains, bedding made of 
natural materials and cables; marble processing plant, vegetable 
wholesale trade, tourism. - Site of a battle (1499) in the Swabian 
War; neo-Gothic parish church (1885-1888); Mariahilf Chapel (1826); 
industrial monuments: spinning mill (around 1835), machinery factory 
(1836).


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