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30-533: Feldkirch may refer to: Places [ edit ] Feldkirch, Vorarlberg , a medieval city and capital of an administrative district in Austria Feldkirch (district) , an administrative division of Vorarlberg, Austria Feldkirch (Hartheim) , a village in the municipality Hartheim, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany Feldkirch, Haut-Rhin ,

60-472: A border station for passengers arriving from Liechtenstein and Switzerland. As such, checks may be performed in the station by Austrian customs officials. Systematic passport controls were reduced when Switzerland joined the Schengen Area in 2008 and later scrapped when Liechtenstein joined in 2011. Irish writer James Joyce paid a visit to Feldkirch in 1932 to see his friend Eugene Jolas . During

90-588: A commune (municipality) in France County of Feldkirch , a county in the Holy Roman Empire Other uses [ edit ] Battle of Feldkirch , a 1799 battle between Republican France and Habsburg Austria VEU Feldkirch , a professional ice hockey team from Feldkirch, Austria See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Feldkirch Feldkirchen (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

120-434: A force of 5,500 Austrians. Feldkirch has had its own local bus network since 1993. It currently consists of eight lines, including buses which run to the north of neighbouring Liechtenstein. The bus system cooperates with Vorarlberg's regional bus system. There are several railway stations in the municipality of Feldkirch. The main station is Feldkirch , which is an intermediate stop on Vorarlberg's main railway line and

150-657: A member of the Association of Small Historic Towns, a tourism marketing association . In 2015, the Montforthaus Feldkirch was newly renovated. It is a public venue for cultural activities like balls, trade fairs, concerts and theatre performances. The streets of the Schlossgraben, Hirschgraben and St. Leonhardsplatz marked the former course of the city wall surrounding the Neustadt area in

180-586: Is a modern music and cultural festival in Feldkirch. Held annually in July and August, it attracts around 20,000 visitors; it features music, exhibitions, poetry slams , fashion and an architectural prize. It was first held in 1994 as a cultural summer-academy and is, in its organization and implementation of landscape and architecture, very different from other open-air events. The bi-annual light art festival Lichtstadt Feldkirch lets international artists fill

210-450: Is an interdisciplinary festival that takes place three times a year. Each series is based on a specific topic which is artistically and dramaturgically interpreted without genre-orientated boundaries. There are contributions from the fields of music, poetry, architecture, science, dance etc. The festival addresses issues of social and personal development on site and provides impetus for urban and regional development. The Poolbar Festival

240-515: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Feldkirch, Vorarlberg This medieval town, which remains well preserved to this day, was mentioned as a city for the first time in 1218, after Count Hugo von Montfort built the " Schattenburg ", a castle which still is the major landmark of Feldkirch. Other sights in the town include the Gothic-style cathedral of St. Nikolaus . Feldkirch

270-406: Is open two days a week. The Irish writer James Joyce is inextricably linked to Feldkirch. In World War I , Joyce was mistaken for a spy at the border check in Feldkirch in 1915 and almost arrested. Thanks to influential friends, he was regarded as a "friendly foreigner". The Irishman saw this event at the Feldkirch train station as fateful. Subsequently, it influenced his most important work. In

300-693: Is situated in Bahnhofplatz, in the northern Feldkirch district of Levis, between the Ardetzenberg and the Känzele. The station was opened on 1 July 1872, together with the rest of the Vorarlberg railway. The original station building was repeatedly extended from 1884, as the Arlberg railway transformed Feldkirch into an international transport hub. In the 1960s, the original station building

330-727: Is the border station of the line to Buchs SG (Switzerland) and it is the only Austrian border station adjacent to the Principality of Liechtenstein . It is also situated on the Vorarlberg line , which continues northwards to Lindau-Insel in Germany. As of the December 2023 timetable change, the following regional train services exist (the S1 and R5 are both also part of Bodensee S-Bahn ): Feldkirch station is, for customs purposes,

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360-403: The 13th century. The wall was largely rebuilt around 1500, and torn down in many places beginning in 1826. When Feldkirch was surrounded by a city wall and a city moat , one could enter the city only through one of its four gates. These city gates were called Bregenzertor or Nikolaustor, Bludenzertor or Schultor, Milltor or Sautor, and Churertor or Salztor. The last two gates are still standing,

390-529: The bell room for the Katzenturmglocke ( cat tower bell ) named "Maria Rochus" was built. The bell is the biggest in Vorarlberg and weighs 8,5 t. The tower has an image of the Virgin Mary restored by Florus Scheel in the 19th century. The origin of the name Katzenturm has not been fully clarified to this day. One theory is that it got its name from the heavy artillery that the fortified tower

420-613: The best preserved medieval townscapes of Vorarlberg. The town was built around 1200 and has a geometric grid system. Since around 1500, when the city wall was rebuilt, the city has remained unchanged over the centuries. Since 2015, the Feldkirch Municipal Ensemble has been listed in the Austrian List of Cultural Heritage ( cultural property protected by the Hague Convention ). The city is also

450-708: The city of Feldkirch , in the Feldkirch district of the Austrian federal state of Vorarlberg . Opened in 1872, it forms the junction between the Vorarlberg railway and the Feldkirch–Buchs railway . The station, which is owned and operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) , is the largest in Feldkirch. Other railway stations within the city limits are Altenstadt , Feldkirch Amberg , Gisingen and Tisis . Feldkirch railway station

480-453: The city of Feldkirch with light objects, projections and sculptures. Its first edition was held in 2018 and attracted 30.000 visitors. The POTENTIALe (formerly 'ArtDesign Feldkirch') is an art fair and festival at which about 110 exhibitors present their products and ideas. In addition to a vintage market, there are workshops and discussion groups, a design laboratory, photography exhibitions, and music and films are presented. The aim of

510-527: The eastern terminus of the Feldkirch–Buchs railway . The station is served by Railjet long-distance services to Zurich HB , Wien Hbf , Budapest Keleti and Bratislava-Petržalka and regional trains of Vorarlberg S-Bahn . The other stations are Altenstadt , Feldkirch Amberg , Gisingen and Tisis , which are only served by Vorarlberg S-Bahn . The following companies and service organizations are based in Feldkirch: Feldkirch has one of

540-506: The festival is to establish a network of artists, craftsmen and customers that share the common vision of sustainable design . The Feldkirch Festival (2001-2012) was an annual summer festival that offered theater performances, concerts and other cultural events. The Wochenmarkt Feldkirch is a market in the Marktgasse in the city centre. At the market, fresh local produce and specialities like Bregenz Forest cheese are offered. It

570-413: The other two were removed together with the city wall at the beginning of the 19th century. The Katzenturm ( cat tower ) or colloquially Dicker Turm ( fat tower ) is a defense tower built in 1507 as part of the city wall's Hirschgraben. The 8-storey round and 40 m high tower was built as part of the city fortifications under the reign of Emperor Maximilian I from 1491-1507. In the 17th century,

600-426: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feldkirch&oldid=942088956 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

630-477: The sixth most beautiful railway station in Austria. Feldkirch is one of Vorarlberg's major railway stations. It also serves as a loading station for the motorail train from Feldkirch to Vienna , Graz and Villach . Additionally, it is served by Railjet and other long-distance trains as well as regional train services of Vorarlberg S-Bahn , with some services also operating for Bodensee S-Bahn . Feldkirch

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660-716: The summer of 1932, the friendship with the publisher couple Maria and Eugene Jolas brought the writer back to Feldkirch, where he stayed for several weeks at the Hotel Löwen and worked on Finnegans Wake (published 1939). During this stay, Joyce himself said that Ulysses (1922) was inextricably linked to Feldkirch: "Over there, on those tracks, the fate of 'Ulysses' was decided in 1915." Chapter XII of Cecil Roberts ' novel Victoria, Four-Thirty (published 1937) takes place in Feldkirch. Feldkirch has an oceanic climate ( Cfb ). Feldkirch railway station Feldkirch railway station ( German : Bahnhof Feldkirch ) serves

690-486: The train rolled in, a special kind of train, a Salon train. The locomotive stopped. A motion was palpable through the ranks of those waiting, I still did not know why. Then I saw behind the mirror glass of the coach an erect Emperor Karl, the last Emperor of Austria and his black-clad wife, Empress Zita. I was startled: the last Emperor of Austria, heir to the Habsburg dynasty, which ruled the country for seven hundred years,

720-682: The visit, he said to Jolas, "Over there, on those tracks, the fate of Ulysses was decided in 1915." Since Bloomsday 1994, the quote has been displayed in German translation in the station concourse. Joyce had travelled through Feldkirch by train in 1915. Due to World War I , he had been considered an "enemy alien" in his then home town of Trieste , which, at that time, was part of Austria-Hungary . Thanks to influential friends, he had obtained permission to leave Austria-Hungary, with his partner Nora Barnacle and their two shared children, and travel to Zürich . Meanwhile, his brother Stanislaus Joyce

750-517: The ÖBB replaced a plaque mounted by the Feldkirch culture circle above the ticket counters on Bloomsday 1994 with a more conspicuous presentation of the Joycean literary quotation. In his memoirs The World of Yesterday (German: Die Welt von Gestern ), the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig explained that on 24 March 1919 he had been an eyewitness at Feldkirch railway station, as Charles I of Austria

780-456: Was arrested in Trieste and detained until the end of the war. During border control checks at Feldkirch, the train on which Joyce and Barnacle were travelling was boarded, and passengers inspected by officials; Joyce escaped arrest by a whisker. If Joyce had been arrested then, he would have been unable to write Ulysses in its present form, hence his comment to Jolas. At the end of 2001,

810-535: Was deported from the Republic of German Austria into exile in Switzerland: Upon returning to Austria via the border station at Feldkirch an unforgettable experience stood before me. Even getting out I had noticed a strange unrest in the border guards and policemen. A bell tolled to signal the approach of a train. The policemen stood, all railway officials rushed out of their boxes. Slowly, majestically,

840-525: Was equipped with at the time. These were decorated with a lion's head, popularly referred to as a "cat". In the 19th century the Feldkirch bourgeoisie built a number of prestigious residential buildings, most of which are still privately owned. The villas were built mostly on the Reichsstraße, mainly in the area between the Bärenkreuzung and the train station. The Montforter Zwischentöne

870-822: Was the birthplace of Rheticus , and is currently the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Feldkirch . From 1651 to 1773 and from 1856 to 1979, Feldkirch was the home of the Jesuit school Stella Matutina . March 1799 saw two clashes between the forces of the First French Republic and the Habsburg monarchy . On the 7th, Nicolas Oudinot , with 9,000 French soldiers, defeated Friedrich Freiherr von Hotze and his 6,000 Austrians. The Battle of Feldkirch occurred on 23 March, when André Masséna and 12,000 Frenchmen were beaten by Franjo Jelačić and

900-484: Was torn down. In early 1969, the new building was put into operation. Between 1999 and 2001, the station was renovated and rebuilt again, as part of the ÖBB-Bahnhofsinitiative . The renovation work included replacement of the platforms, the pedestrian underpass and the station building. In 2010, in a survey conducted by the Verkehrsclub Österreich (VCÖ), the station was nominated by the interviewed passengers as

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