The best city hikes and walks around Hohenems

The Jewish Museum Hohenems commemorates the Jewish community of Hohenems and its diverse contributions to the development of Vorarlberg and the Alpine region. It tells an exemplary history of the diaspora. It also explores the Jewish present in Europe, with questions of coexistence and migration. In between these two contexts stands the end of the Jewish community of Hohenems, marked by the region's Nazi history, anti-Semitism, expulsion, and deportation. Along these fault lines of regional and global history, it is dedicated to the people, their experiences, and life stories, and cultivates relationships with the descendants of Jewish families from Hohenems all over the world. Source: https://www.jm-hohenems.at/ueber-uns/das-museum

Marktstrasse, together with the neighboring Jewish Quarter, forms Hohenems's old town. Here, you'll find a colorful variety of small, locally owned shops and stories around every corner. https://www.hohenems.at/services/marktstrasse/

The Jewish Quarter is considered, far beyond Vorarlberg, to be one of the few ensembles of Jewish history that has been so completely preserved. Accordingly, in 1996, the Federal Monuments Office placed the most significant parts of the Jewish Quarter under protection. Together with the former Christengasse (now Marktstraße), the former Jewish Quarter forms the urban core of Hohenems. The historic buildings of the city center are a cultural and historical testament to the centuries-long coexistence of two traditional communities – Christian and Jewish – in this town. Source and much more information: https://www.jm-hohenems.at/juedisches-viertel/gegenwart District map with description https://www.jm-hohenems.at/static/uploads/2011/12/viertelplan-mit-beschreibung.pdf

Nibelungen Fountain and Hohenems Palace with Restaurant

Hohenems Castle Square is the ideal place to eat ice cream.🥰

Saint Charles Borromeo (1538 to 1584), to whom this baroque church is dedicated, came from a noble family and was Cardinal of Milan. Since one of his interests was education, the Association of Catholic Public Libraries in Germany, founded in 1845, was named after him (if you are interested, see https://www.borromaeusverein.de/ ). Saint Charles Borromeo's memorial day in the calendar of saints is November 4th. A huge monument is dedicated to him in his Italian homeland (Arona in Piedmont), see: https://www.komoot.com/de-de/highlight/585434

Ring of the Nibelung (Wagner) Overwhelming, pregnant with meaning, pathetic: Wagner needed 16 years to write this work. His patron was the Bavarian King Ludwig II (fairytale king). "The Ring of the Nibelung" is designed as a "stage festival for three days and an evening before" and consists of four parts: "The Rheingold", "Die Walküre", "Siegfried" and “Twilight of the Gods”. Without a break, the entire work is approximately 16 hours long. Wagner conceived the mammoth work as a new form of romantic opera that combines text, music, drama, dance, stage design, costume and effects as a total work of art. Short version: At the beginning, the Nibelung Alberich robs the Rhine of the Rhine gold, which has the power to rule everything, and forges a ring with it. He pays a high price for this: from now on he has to renounce love. Meanwhile, Wotan, the father of the gods, has another problem. He had the giants Fafner and Fasolt build him a castle and promised them the goddess Freia as payment. But Wotan changes his mind and wants to reward the giants with Alberich's ring. Wotan steals the ring from Alberich, whereupon Alberich curses the ring. The curse has an effect: Fafner kills his brother and runs away with the ring. Siegfried, who does not know that he is part of Wotan's plan to free the world from the curse of the ring, kills Fafner, who has now turned into a dragon, and takes the ring. Siegfried falls in love with Brünnhilde and gives her the ring as a pledge of love. Hagen, Alberich's son, gives Siegfried a magic potion, whereupon he forgets Brünnhilde and falls in love with Gutrune. Siegfried takes the ring from Brünnhilde again, whereupon she reveals Siegfried's vulnerable spot to Hagen out of revenge. Hagen kills Siegfried, who in his last hour sees clearly again and knows his love for Brünnhilde. Brünnhilde has a funeral pyre built for Siegfried and throws herself into the flames to join her lover. The Rhine then overflows its banks and the Rhinemaidens take back what belongs to them: the ring. The curse is ended by Brünnhild's love. But the end of the gods is also sealed, because the flames of the pyre ignite Valhalla, the abode of the gods. A new, uncertain world order is dawning.

Chestnuts need help. Fight against the chestnut leaf miner (Cameraria ohridella). The collection and professional destruction of the leaves is the only and most effective method to date to keep the leaf miner in check without any ecologically disadvantageous side effects and thus possibly save the chestnut tree. The speedy removal of the autumn leaves prevents the unchecked proliferation of the moths Because the last generation of the moth overwinters in the leaves. In the following spring, the first moths hatch and the cycle begins again.