!!!St. Christoph am Arlberg

St. Christoph am Arlberg, Tirol, Weiler (hamlet) in the district of 
Landeck, alt. 1,765 m, originally hospice on the Arlberg 
Pass, municipal area of St. Anton am Arlberg. - Federal sports home, 
cable railway. - The chapel and hospice, built in 1386 with money 
saved by the servant H. Findelkind and a collection he initiated, were 
destroyed by a fire in 1956, between 1957 and 1959 the hospice was 
rebuilt as a hotel and a new chapel built in 1958. An original book of 
the Coat of Arms of the Arlbergbruderschaft (Arlberg brotherhood) has 
been kept in the Tirol Provincial Archives since 1973.


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