!!!Nüziders

Nueziders, Vorarlberg, municipality in the district of Bludenz, alt. 
560 m, pop. 4,171 (1981: 3,644), area 22.08 km%%sup 2/%, in the 
Walgau area to the northwest of Bludenz; mainly industry and trade. - 
Benedictine nunnery, mediaeval hall of the Sonnenberg family, 
waterworks; about 71% of 1,421 people are employed in industry and 
trade (1991): textile and metal processing industries (especially 
steel construction and boilermaking), building material factory, 
construction and related industries, dairy products, crafts and 
trades, transport, summer tourism (28,880 overnight stays). In the 9th 
century Carolingian king´s court, oldest church in the Walgau 
region. First documented mention 820 under the name of "Nezudene", 
part of Austria since 1474. - Baroque parish church with Gothic choir 
and classicistic façade and tower (1826/27); Romanesque St. 
Vinerius church (oldest church in the Walgau region), exterior 
frescoes around 1330 and late Romanesque altar shrine around 1530; 
ruins of Sonnenberg Castle (before 1258, destroyed in 1473); 
"Tschannhaus" mansion (presumably developed from the Carolingian 
king´s residence, 17%%sup th/%  century).


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