© Hansueli Krapf This file was uploaded w… · CC BY-SA 3.0Alpine Rhine ValleyKanton GraubündenThe Alpine Rhine Valley is a long, glacier-carved trough where the Alpine Rhine flows east from Reichenau to Lake Constance. The river begins where the Anterior Rhine and Posterior Rhine meet, then runs for 93 kilometres, first through a narrow gorge only 60 metres wide, then through a broad plain three to four… read moreOpen place
© A.Savin · FALKunsthaus BregenzBregenzThe Kunsthaus Bregenz is a modern art museum on the shore of Lake Constance in Bregenz, Vorarlberg. Designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, it was completed in 1997 and stands as a glass-and-steel cube beside the lake. The building’s outer skin of 912 etched glass panels diffuses daylight into the interior, while… read moreOpen place
© böhringer friedrich · CC BY-SA 2.5Evangelische Kirche Hl. KreuzBregenzThe Kreuzkirche am Ölrain stands on a rise above Bregenz in Vorarlberg. It occupies ground once used by a Roman settlement, linking past and present. The church was built between 1862 and 1864 to designs by Stuttgart architect Christian Friedrich von Leins in Gothic Revival style. In 1904 it became the first church in… read moreOpen place
© böhringer friedrich · CC BY-SA 2.5Schloss WolfurtVorarlbergSchloss Wolfurt stands in the village of Wolfurt in Vorarlberg, a few kilometres south-west of Bregenz. It began as a medieval fortress first recorded in 1217 and 1226. By the 15th century the Habsburgs made it a princely possession and granted it to Bregenz patrician families such as the Kaisermanns and the Leber von… read moreOpen place
© A.Savin · FALParish church of St. GallusBregenzPfarrkirche St. Gallus stands on a terrace in the Dorf quarter of Bregenz, overlooking the Thalbach valley and rising toward the Gallusstift and Gebhardsberg. A romanesque church occupied the site as early as the late fifth century, and the Irish monk Gallus is said to have visited here in 610. The present building… read moreOpen place
© Asurnipal · CC BY-SA 4.0BregenzerachschluchtBuchThe Bregenzerachschlucht is a wild forest gorge cut by the Bregenzer Ach in Vorarlberg. It stretches from Egg downstream to Wolfurt and Kennelbach, where the river meets the Rhine plain. On the right side rise the Allgäu Alps with the Sulzberg ridge and the Pfänderstock, while on the left the Bregenz Forest mountains… read moreOpen place
© Reinhard Müller · CC BY-SA 4.0LeiblachHörbranzThe Leiblach protection area is a Natura 2000 site in Vorarlberg beside the Bodensee. It stretches along the lower Leiblach from river kilometre 4.8 to its mouth, covering Bregenz, Hörbranz and Lochau. The landscape includes floodplain forests, sedge meadows, reed beds and a sheltered bay where water levels shift with… read moreOpen place
© Giacomo1970 · CC BY-SA 3.0Burg HohenbregenzBregenzThe ruins of Burg Hohenbregenz stand on the Gebhardsberg, a hill 598 metres above Bregenz. The hill commands wide views over Lake Constance, making it a popular excursion spot. The medieval stronghold was built in the late 11th century by the Counts of Bregenz before 1097. The fortress changed hands several times: in… read moreOpen place
Ruggburg bei Eichenberg VbgEichenbergThe Ruggburg stands on a rocky spur halfway up the western slope of the Pfänder ridge in Vorarlberg, near the village of Eichenberg. It overlooks the Upper Tyrolean Salt Road, an old trade route that once ran from Bad Hall to Lindau, passing close to the Bodensee shore near Lochau. The first wooden fort, called… read moreOpen place
Mariastern Abbey, HohenweilerHohenweilerAbtei Mariastern stands on a hill above the village of Hohenweiler in Vorarlberg, surrounded by the foothills of the Pfänder range ten kilometres north of Bregenz. It is a Cistercian nunnery belonging to the Mehrerau Congregation and dedicated to the Virgin Mary under the title Star of the Sea. The site includes the… read moreOpen place
