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travel guide winter 2018/19 bregenzerwald Bregenzerwald Tourismus winter 2018/19 Opening times: Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Gerbe 1135 | 6863 Egg | Vorarlberg | Austria Ideas and Addresses. T +43 (0)5512 2365 | F +43 (0)5512 3010 Your guide through the [email protected] | www.bregenzerwald.at Bregenzerwald. www.facebook.com/BregenzerwaldTourismus www.youtube.com/bregenzerwaldtourism www.instagram.com/visitbregenzerwald Published by: Photo credits: Bregenzerwald Tourismus GmbH, Au-Schoppernau Tourismus (p. 2) Gerbe 1135, 6863 Egg Rudolf Berchtel (p. 62) Ludwig Berchtold (p. 12/56/92/94/96) Design by: Adolf Bereuter (Titel, p. 4/6/25/26/33/34/48/61/ broger grafi k, Andelsbuch 65/67/69/76/77/78/83/84/90/102/106/107) Kilian Blees (p. 32) Text by: Christa Branz (p. 49) Kinz Kommunikation Hubert Cernenschek (p. 59) Florian Aicher (p. 2 – 3, 76 – 77) Markus Curin (p. 95) Kurt Bracharz (p. 90 – 91) Damüls Faschina Tourismus (p. 63) Christian Zillner (p. 78 – 79) Markus Gmeiner (p. 97) Thomas Gretler (p. 45) Carthography: Hotel Hirschen Schwarzenberg (p. 86) Aries Werbegrafi k-Design Hittisau Tourismus (p. 57) © State of Vorarlberg for geographic information Alex Kaiser (p. 8/16) system data Christian Kerber (p. 98) Text and planning of hiking routes: Dr Rudolf Berchtel Hotel Krone, Au (p. 104) Marc Van Landeghem (p. 70) Printed by: Björn Matt (p. 82) VVA, Dornbirn Alois Metzler (p. 58) Molke Metzler (p. 100/105) Dates and prices subject to change. Typographical Mathias Moosbrugger (p. 74) errors cannot be excluded. Issue: August 2018 Naturpark Nagelfl uhkette (p. 71) Roswitha Schneider (p. 80) Konrad Stadelmann (p. 60) Elisabeth Stöckler (p.88) Helmut Tiefenthaler (p. 54/55/64) Holiday Destination Austria – give feedback and win! See here for the survey: tmona.at/l7u2 contents 1 www.facebook.com/BregenzerwaldTourismus www.youtube.com/bregenzerwaldtourism www.instagram.com/visitbregenzerwald land & lives ..................................... 2 family tips ..................................... 47 The Bregenzerwald 2 Kids’ programme 48 Snow levels 4 Day trip tips 52 Published by: Photo credits: Bregenzerwald Tourismus GmbH, Au-Schoppernau Tourismus (p. 2) ski & board ...................................... 5 active winter ................................ 53 Gerbe 1135, 6863 Egg Rudolf Berchtel (p. 62) 3-valley ski pass 6 Winter hiking 54 Ludwig Berchtold (p. 12/56/92/94/96) Warth-Schröcken Ski Arlberg 8 Snow-shoe hikes 66 Design by: Adolf Bereuter (Titel, p. 4/6/25/26/33/34/48/61/ Damüls-Mellau-Faschina 12 Horse-drawn sleigh rides 69 broger grafi k, Andelsbuch 65/67/69/76/77/78/83/84/90/102/106/107) Diedamskopf Au-Schoppernau 16 Out and about with animals 70 Kilian Blees (p. 32) Bödele-Schwarzenberg 20 Nagelfluhkette nature park 71 Text by: Christa Branz (p. 49) Egg-Schetteregg 21 Tobogganing 72 Kinz Kommunikation Hubert Cernenschek (p. 59) Hochhäderich Paragliding 74 Florian Aicher (p. 2 – 3, 76 – 77) Markus Curin (p. 95) Hittisau-Riefensberg 22 Kurt Bracharz (p. 90 – 91) Damüls Faschina Tourismus (p. 63) Niedere Andelsbuch-Bezau 23 culture .......................................... 75 Christian Zillner (p. 78 – 79) Markus Gmeiner (p. 97) Hochlitten Riefensberg 24 Architecture 76 Thomas Gretler (p. 45) Snowparks & Freestyle 25 Umgang Bregenzerwald 78 Carthography: Hotel Hirschen Schwarzenberg (p. 86) Ski! Project 26 Werkraum Bregenzerwald 80 Aries Werbegrafi k-Design Hittisau Tourismus (p. 57) Hand-made 82 © State of Vorarlberg for geographic information Alex Kaiser (p. 8/16) ski & freedom................................ 27 BUS:STOP Krumbach 84 system data Christian Kerber (p. 98) Map of the area 28 Cabaret & village culture 85 Text and planning of hiking routes: Dr Rudolf Berchtel Hotel Krone, Au (p. 104) Skiing tours 29 Culture in hotels and pubs 86 Marc Van Landeghem (p. 70) Variation skiing 32 Exhibitions & museums 87 Printed by: Björn Matt (p. 82) Interesting information 34 VVA, Dornbirn Alois Metzler (p. 58) dining out ..................................... 89 Molke Metzler (p. 100/105) xc skiing ........................................ 35 Käsestrasse & Bregenzerwald Dates and prices subject to change. Typographical Mathias Moosbrugger (p. 74) Au-Schoppernau 36 Culinary Delights Region 90 errors cannot be excluded. Issue: August 2018 Naturpark Nagelfl uhkette (p. 71) Bezau-Bizau-Reuthe 37 Culinary winter hikes 92 Roswitha Schneider (p. 80) Damüls 38 Cuisine guide 94 Konrad Stadelmann (p. 60) Hittisau 39 Dairy farming up close 100 Elisabeth Stöckler (p.88) Mellau-Schnepfau 40 Helmut Tiefenthaler (p. 54/55/64) Riefensberg-Hochhäderich 41 well-being ...................................101 Schwarzenberg 42 Health hotels 102 Sibratsgfäll 43 Wellness hotels 103 Sulzberg 44 Natural products 105 Holiday Destination Austria – Nordic Sport Park Sulzberg 45 give feedback and win! Warth-Schröcken 46 Reisemagazin Bregenzerwald 106 See here for the survey: tmona.at/l7u2 Getting there, buses & taxis 108 2 the bregenzerwald Travelling the Bregenzerwald always spectrum which, right at the start of means having to overcome dizzy tourism, had travellers extolling the heights to start with: from Bregenz “charming landscape” as an “enclosed you take the Pfänder, from the Rhine park” whilst at the same time shudder- Valley the valley side which ascends ing at the “Siberian exile” on the wild, 500 m, from the north you take the upper course of the Ache. A valley area Sulzbergstock, from the east the Ried- of contrasts, borders, crossings. berg or Hochtannberg pass, from the south the Furkajoch or Faschinajoch. Crossings Cross-border experiences also leave Up and over is the way to go – the most their mark on the locals – they know impressive views are from the north how to set themselves apart from out- and the west – and a space is revealed side. Yet the scarce rural areas have which, in all its diversity, is completely never been sufficient to feed the pop- different to all that surrounds it, with ulation. The locals had to get mov- the Bregenzerache uniting it all. Your ing, cross borders, leave behind their route takes you through gorges and homes and families. This took on flat hollows – wide between the hills many different forms: the nomadic of the foothills of the Alps around existence of alpine animal husbandry Alberschwende and Lingenau, narrow (home, mountain pasture, alp → between the mountains of the foothills page 90), or in the form of seasonal of the Alps around Andelsbuch and migrant work outbound commuting Bezau, squeezed in between the alpine or even emigration (to America in the peaks of the Kanisfluh, Diedams- 19th century in particular). Flexibility, kopf, Zitterklapfen and Widderstein ideas and self-help were essential to around Schnepfau, Au, Schoppernau, stave off poverty. Warth and Schröcken. This correlates The area was only sparsely populated with the division into the Vorder- for a long time: only plot names give wald, Mittelwald and Hinterwald rise to assumptions about the border (front, central and rear regions of the between Celtic and Rhaeto-Romanic Bregenzerwald) – a topographical cultures. It was not until the High the bregenzerwald 3 land & lives ski & board ski & freedom Au and the Kanisfluh Middle Ages that Mehrerau Mon- school in the Habsburg Empire was skiing xc astery in Bregenz encouraged the established. The new rulers were the population of the area upwards of cheese barons who amassed stagger- the Bregenzerache. From above, com- ing wealth with the products of the ing the opposite direction, you come new form of agriculture, and textile across a second wave of population manufacturers who supplied mate- family tips family with the Walsers. The particle “Wald” rial produced by the textiles home (forest, wood) found in many of the industry before the railway provided names of places makes it clear how factories in the Rhine valley with undeveloped this settlement area was workers after 1902. Such changes for a long time. Naturally, the locals were also accompanied by resist- active winter active gladly take advantage of this remote- ance – Franz Michael Felder, author ness: interesting as a hunting ground and spokesman of the revolt, is still at best for the feudal rulers, extensive considered an exceptional charac- autonomy was allowed to develop ter (Franz Michael Felder Museum → which went down in literature as a page 87) in the valley today, and “peasants’ republic”. It ended with which is why one’s own house and the brief Bavarian occupation (1806 – home are tenaciously clung to. New culture 1814) as a result of the realignment of sources of income have to be continu- Europe by Napoleon. ously developed – the multitude of manual skills is proof of this. Hard cheese and lace It was during this time that the region This culture has succeeded in main- dining out developed in the form you see today. taining its vitality. Innovation and Rational, mercantile methods gained flexibility based on the acquired con- importance in agriculture, desert- tinue today in initiatives such as the edness became characteristic of the Werkraum (→ page 80) and have Vorderwald to the Mittelwald, pro- turned the Bregenzerwald into a well-being duction of hard cheese grew (alpine model European region. dairy → page 90) to such a sustain- able extent that the first dairy farm 4 snow levels & weather Measurement of snow in the Bregenzerwald What makes winter into winter? Wetter-Apps und Links: Snow, of course! Thanks to its loca- tion on the northern edge of the weather forecast for Alps, an above-average amount of vorarlberg: snow falls in the Bregenzerwald. wetterring / www.wetterring.at With precipitation amounting wetter.orf.at to 2,000 mm per year (up to 3,000 mm at higher altitudes), weather forecast for austria: the Bregenzerwald is one of the www.zamg.ac.at highest-precipitation regions in Austria ( average 900 mm). metgis global weather forecast: www.metgis.com skiing areas and weather: Info: bergfex/Ski Lite SNOWGRID was developed at the Central Institute for Meteorology avalanche information app: and Geodynamics (ZAMG) for snowsafe / www.snowsafe.at analysing and forecasting snow nationally.