!!!Klaus

Klaus, Vorarlberg, municipality in the district of Feldkirch, alt. 507 
m, pop. 2,465, area 5.24 km%%sup 2/%, situated on the Klausbach 
stream, on the edge of the Rhine valley. - Dynamic economic activity: 
worsted factory, processing of plastics (foils, packaging materials) 
and foamed materials, powder coating factory, numerous medium-scale 
businesses (building materials, electric furnaces, kitchen 
furnishings), hazardous waste reprocessing plant; some tourism; some 
viticulture, mostly for tradition's sake. - Part of Austria since 
1390; Late Gothic parish church of Saint Agnes (built around 1500), 
with Gothic gallery, enlarged in the 19%%sup th/%  century.


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