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Jewish Museum Hohenems

The Jewish Museum Hohenems is a regional museum of international stature. It commemorates the Jewish community Hohenems country and its many contributions to the development of Vorarlberg and the surrounding regions. In the museum is given to events with Jewish presence in Europe, the Diaspora and Israel, as well as auseindander with questions of the future of the European immigration society.

Palace of Hohenems

The palace Hohenems was of Martino Longhi in the years 1562 to 1567 planned and created.The building is a regular three-storey building with a gabled roof with a rectangular courtyard. In the north and south are under biaxial corner projections cone roofs, the Mittealachse is emphasized by a plastically articulated arched portal. The palace is the most important Renaissance Hohenems in western Austria. It is still inhabited, and used for catering and events.

Old City Hall

The old City Hall is located in the oldest city in the area of Hohenems Sagerstrasse towards Emsreute and served from 1637 to 1830 as the town hall. The building is owned by the city and is a listed building. A notched ax in a window sill beams reminiscent of the former Count's blood jurisdiction.

Salomon Sulzer Hall

In 1770-1772 was designed by the architect Peter leg Bregenzerwalder the domed church in the late baroque, classical style, which was one of the most important synagogues in the Bodensee area - a building with a mansard hipped einkubischer. Between 1863 and 1867, the synagogue was rebuilt inside and got a clock tower with chimes.

Castle Neu-Ems

The Castle Neu-Ems (also called "lock Glopper" or popularly known as "Glopper") is a medieval castle in the Vorarlberg town Hohenems. The plant was a stronghold of the aristocratic and knightly family of the lords of Ems. Built in 1343 knight Ulrich I of Ems with the permission of Emperor Louis of Bavaria on the ridge of the Rhine Valley in Emsreute, near his stronghold Alt-Ems to create a new castle to his large family in turbulent times a fixed Hort. 1407 in Appenzell War, the castle of the former Counts of Hohenems was first destroyed and rebuilt immediately.

Alt-Ems

Alt-Ems is a ruined castle in Hohenems in Vorarlberg ( Austria ).This castle was at 740 meters above sea level, about 300 feet above the Rhine Valley in the vertical ridge rising above the market locationIn the final stage of expansion in the early 17th Century gave the plant the rock head, "Miss" in the north of the castle over the wide saddle Castle (castle meadow) and the citadel to the outer works on the "Gsatzle" and "Güggenstein" in the southwestern Felsgehange.

Palace Hohenems

The palace was the residence of the Hohenems counts of Hohenems in Vorarlberg town Hohenems in Austria and is still privately owned by the family of Waldburg-Zeil. The palace is a Hohenems Vorarlberg needle back sfamilie originally as Reichsministeriale (documented since 1180) of Guelph and the Hohenstaufen with the Burghut the imperial castle Ems (see ruins of old EMS ) and the monitoring of the national route to Italy were entrusted.

Jewish Cemetery Hohenems

The Jewish Cemetery Hohenems (also Jewish Cemetery Hohenems) is a Jewish burial ground in the Austrian town of Hohenems. The cemetery is just like the previously existing Jewish community of the city a nearly 400-year history. It was founded in 1617 with the arrival of the first Jews in Hohenems and is in contrast to the Jewish Community Hohenems, during the period of National Socialism in Austria was destroyed, until today.The Jewish cemetery in Hohenems is as old as the first settlement of Jews in 1617, when Count Kaspar of Hohenems twelve Jewish families from southern Germany and Switzerland ( Rheineck ) recorded in his imperial county.

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