!!!Hohenems, Stadt

Hohenems, Vorarlberg, town in the district of Dornbirn, alt. 
432 m, pop. 13,531, area 29.19 km%%sup 2/%, industrial town 
with sulphur spas (since the 15%%sup th/%  century), on the 
eastern edge of the Rhine valley, south-west of Dornbirn. Hospital, 
customs office, local health and social insurance branch office, 
airfield, Herrenried stadium, "Stoffels Saegemuehle" saw mill, Islamic 
culture centre, youth centre, branch of the Vorarlberger Medienhaus 
media centre, Rheinauen recreation centre, skating rink, waterworks, 
concerts of the Bregenz festival (July- August) in the Renaissance 
palace; schools: landwirtschaftliche Fachschule (agricultural 
college), landwirtschaftliche Berufsschule (agricultural vocational 
school), hauswirtschaftliche Berufsschule (vocational school for home 
economics), flying school (private). 4,995 employees (1991), about 
65 % working in the manufacturing sector: ski manufacture, 
textile industry (men´s wear, home textiles), anodic oxidation 
and electroplating company (cutlery), wide range of small and 
medium-sized enterprises (e.g. foods, textiles, knitwear, wood-working 
industry, marble works, etc.); commerce, tourism. - First documented 
mention 1180 as "Amides", was a directly subordinate imperial domain, 
came under Austrian administration in 1765, granted town status in 
1983; parish church (1576-80, 1796/97 extended) with frescoes (1798) 
and Renaissance high altar (figures by H. Dieffolt, 1580), sepulchres 
by Mark Sittich I (1533) and Kaspar von Hohenems (1635). Jewish 
museum, synagogue, Judengasse and former Jewish cemetery are 
reminiscent of the Jewish quarter (from 1617); Alt-Ems fortress ruins 
(built in stages 12%%sup th/%  - 17%%sup th/%  centuries, 
residence of the epic poet  Rudolf von Ems); Neu-Ems Castle (also 
called Glopper Palace, founded 1343, today´s remains mostly date 
from the time when it was rebuilt around 1407); in the town, 
Renaissance palace (1562-67) of Cardinal Mark Sittich, 1603-10 
extended; 1755 and 1779 two manuscripts of the Nibelungenlied were 
found in the library; Nibelungen fountain (1955) on the castle square; 
town hall (1567); largest siliceous limestone quarry in Vorarlberg. 
Open-air museum.

!Literature
Marktgemeinde Hohenems (ed.), Hohenems, 3 vols., 
1975-1983; C. Wallmann, Hohenems - die juengste Stadt in Vorarlberg, 
master´s thesis, Innsbruck 1987.


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