Altach is a municipality in the district of
Feldkirch Feldkirch may refer to:
Places
* 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 municip ...
, in the westernmost
Austrian state of
Vorarlberg.
Neighboring municipalities
Five other municipalities surround Altach:
Hohenems in the district of
Dornbirn,
Götzis and
Mäder in the district of
Feldkirch Feldkirch may refer to:
Places
* 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 municip ...
, and
Oberriet and
Diepoldsau in the
Swiss canton
The 26 cantons of Switzerland (german: Kanton; french: canton ; it, cantone; Sursilvan and Surmiran: ; Vallader and Puter: ; Sutsilvan: ; Rumantsch Grischun: ) are the member states of the Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Conf ...
St. Gallen.
History
The
Habsburgs
The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...
ruled over the villages in Vorarlberg alternately from
Tyrol and
Further Austria. In 1801 Altach was separated from neighboring Götzis; from 1805 to 1814 Altach belonged to
Bavaria, then reverted to Austria. Altach has been part of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg since the latter's founding in 1861. From 1945 to 1955 the municipality was in the
French occupation zone in Austria.
Population
Sport
As of the season 2021-22, the football club
SC Rheindorf Altach plays in
Bundesliga, the highest division.
References
External links
* Official homepage of Altach
www.altach.at''
Cities and towns in Feldkirch District
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