Bregenz District

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Bregenz District
Bezirk Bregenz
District
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Bregenz District
Country Austria
State Vorarlberg
Number of municipalities40
Administrative seat Bregenz
Government
 • District GovernorGernot Längle
Area
 • Total
863.37 km2 (333.35 sq mi)
Population
 (2012 [1] )
 • Total
130,425
 • Density150/km2 (390/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)

The Bezirk Bregenz is an administrative district ( Bezirk ) in Vorarlberg, Austria. It comprises the Bregenz Forest region, the Leiblach valley, and the Austrian part of Lake Constance.

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The area of the district is 863.37 km2, its population is 130,425 (2012), and the population density is 151 people per km2. The administrative centre of the district is Bregenz.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1869 41,186—    
1880 41,628+1.1%
1890 44,864+7.8%
1900 49,479+10.3%
1910 53,785+8.7%
1923 51,644−4.0%
1934 56,304+9.0%
1939 56,407+0.2%
1951 70,056+24.2%
1961 78,958+12.7%
1971 95,235+20.6%
1981 105,345+10.6%
1991 115,500+9.6%
2001 121,123+4.9%
Source: Statistik Austria

Administrative divisions

The district is divided into 40 municipalities, one of them is a town, and six are market towns.

Towns

  1. Bregenz (28,012)

Market towns

  1. Bezau (1,976)
  2. Egg (3,452)
  3. Hard (12,696)
  4. Hörbranz (6,357)
  5. Lauterach (9,612)
  6. Wolfurt (8,173)

Municipalities

  1. Alberschwende (3,139)
  2. Andelsbuch (2,356)
  3. Au (1,684)
  4. Bildstein (714)
  5. Bizau (1,015)
  6. Buch (556)
  7. Damüls (324)
  8. Doren (1,024)
  9. Eichenberg (379)
  10. Fußach (3,726)
  11. Gaißau (1,700)
  12. Hittisau (1,852)
  13. Höchst (7,764)
  14. Hohenweiler (1,261)
  15. Kennelbach (1,860)
  16. Krumbach (2,252)
  17. Langen (1,300)
  18. Langenegg (1,066)
  19. Lingenau (1,341)
  20. Lochau (5,490)
  21. Mellau (1,311)
  22. Mittelberg (5,013)
  23. Möggers (517)
  24. Reuthe (611)
  25. Riefensberg (1,024)
  26. Schnepfau (472)
  27. Schoppernau (934)
  28. Schröcken (228)
  29. Schwarzach (3,746)
  30. Schwarzenberg (1,822)
  31. Sibratsgfäll (395)
  32. Sulzberg (1,760)
  33. Warth (1,521)

(population numbers 2012)

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "vorarlberg.at Landesstatistik Bevölkerung". Land Vorarlberg. Archived from the original on 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-08-04.

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