!!!Nenzing

Nenzing, Vorarlberg, market town in the district of Bregenz, alt. 
530 m, pop. 5,140, area 110.32 km%%sup 2/%, industry, trade 
and summer tourism (60,902 overnight stays) in the Walgau region at 
the end of the Gamperdonatal valley. Vorarlberg Centre for 
Naturopathy, Walgauwerk storage power station (built in 1984, 94 MW); 
2,298 persons in gainful employment (1991), of whom about 65% are 
employed in processing trades and industries: metal processing (final 
processing of aluminium), crane manufacturing, food industry. 
Theatres: Theater der Figur and Theater Minimus Maximus (touring 
company with headquarters in Nenzing). - On the Scheibenstuhl hill, 
remains of a Rhaetic settlement from the Bronze Age; late Roman 
fortification (4%%sup th/%  or 5%%sup th/%  century A.D.) at the end 
of the Gamperdonatal valley with remains of walls, trenches and an 
exterior wall. First documented mention around 826 as "Nancinengos", 
Austrian in 1474. Baroque parish church St. Mauritius (first 
documented mention 842) with Gothic choir in walled-in graveyard, 
originally Carolingian construction (main apsis with 6 graves of the 
church founders) surrounded by an early-Gothic choir; after the fire 
of 1633, the choir and the nave were extended; in the subsidiary 
church in Berschling (first documented mention around 1470) high altar 
with late-Gothic superstructure and carved figures by an artist from 
Vorarlberg (1484), painted coffered ceiling (1686 or 1703); Kuehbruck 
pilgrimage church (1806), church (1791) in Gurtis; ruins of 
Welsch-Ramschwag castle (13%%sup th/%  century), a fortress destroyed 
in 1405.

!Literature
B. Nigsch, Nenzing im Umbruch der Wirtschaftsstruktur des 
Walgaus, 1970; K. Gamon (ed.), Nenzing, 1977/78; G. Schatzmann, Die 
geschichtliche Entwicklung der Pfarrgemeinde Nenzing, master´s 
thesis, Innsbruck 1988.


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