!!!Rankweil

Rankweil, Vorarlberg, market town in the district of Feldkirch, alt. 
480 m, pop. 10,509, area 21.87 km%%sup 2/%, industrial and 
trade centre in the Rheintal valley, situated at the entrance to the 
Laternsertal valley, on the slopes of Liebfrauenberg hill (alt. 
502 m). - Valduna Provincial Neurological Hospital with L. 
Boltzmann Institute of Neurorehabilitation, forest gardens of the 
Province of Vorarlberg, Chamber of Labour library, branch of the 
regional health and social insurance agency, youth centre, leisure 
activities centre, parent-and-child social centre, Carmelite convent 
of St. Teresa of the Infant Jesus, Islamic cultural centre, 
vocational school, advanced-level commercial school, upper secondary 
school for engineering and construction engineering, hydroelectric 
power plant on the Muehlbach stream; 5,667 employed persons (as of 
1991), about 56 % of employment in the industrial sector, 
electrotechnical and textile industry; electric engineering, 
production of car components, fruit-juice production; services sector 
also significant: private, social and public services, trade; trade 
park. - Finds dating back to the Neolithic and Roman eras (remains of 
a Roman villa in Brederis, open-air museum); documented mention 
between 817 and 1209 as "Vinomna", a Carolingian court of 
justice was located here, 1354-1806 imperial provincial court 
(Landgericht); became part of Austria in 1390. - Parish and pilgrimage 
church Mary's Visitation (documented mention 1300, altered after 1470, 
extended in 1657, interior redecorated) with fortified churchyard, 
chapel with late Gothic miracle-working representation of the Virgin 
(1470), Romanesque crucifix (last years of the 12%%sup th/%  century) 
with reliefs, small chapel on Fridolin Stein hill, built from special 
type of quartz marble, at the foot of this hill Romanesque church of 
St. Peter (documented mention 881, redecorated in Baroque style 
in 1624-1627), raguly cross (around 1400), furniture from the 
18%%sup th/%  century; late Gothic church in Brederis (1506), its 
winged altarpiece (1510) is now in the modern Eusebius church (1958).

!Literature
J. Boesch, Heimat Rankweil, 1968; S. Tschanett, Rankweil 
als Industrie-Standort, master's thesis, Innsbruck 1989.


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