Hohenems

Hohenems is a metropolis inside the Austrian country of Vorarlberg in the Dornbirn district. It lies in the middle of the Austrian a part of the Rhine valley. With a populace of 15,200 it is the 5th largest municipality in Vorarlberg. Hohenems' points of interest encompass a Renaissance palace relationship again to the sixteenth century and a Jewish museum. The summit of the Schlossberg rock, inside 45 minutes stroll from city centre, hosts the ruins of Alt-Ems, a fort courting lower back to the 9th century. From the 12th century it became among the most important fortifications within the south of the German kingdom.

The stronghold was very strung-out and extended up to 800 m in length and eighty five m in width. The lords and knights of Hohenems resided there, being at the height of repute from thirteenth to sixteenth century. As they were unswerving ministeriales of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, the citadel served for the arrest of top notch prisoners just like the Norman king William III of Sicily, who possibly died here in 1198.