Dornbirn

Dornbirn is a town inside the Austrian nation of Vorarlberg. It is the executive centre for the district of Dornbirn, which additionally includes the city of Hohenems, and the marketplace metropolis Lustenau. Dornbirn is the most important metropolis in Vorarlberg and the 10th biggest in Austria. It is an critical business and buying centre. Dornbirn is placed in western Vorarlberg at 437 metres above sea stage within the Alpine Rhine Valley, on the foot of the Karren mountain, a part of the Bregenz Forest Mountain chain at the edge of the Eastern Alps.

It is close to the borders to Switzerland, Germany and Liechtenstein. The Dornbirner Ach river flows via the town and later into Lake Constance. Dornbirn as soon as consisted simplest of 4 "quarters": Markt, Hatlerdorf, Oberdorf and Haselstauden. By the twentieth century Dornbirn had annexed previously unbiased agencies to the west: Rohrbach and Schoren, consequently bringing the entire extensive style of districts to six.