Tschagguns

Tschagguns
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location in the district
Tschagguns Location within Austria
Coordinates: 47°04′36″N09°54′03″E / 47.07667°N 9.90083°E / 47.07667; 9.90083
Country	Austria
State	Vorarlberg
District	Bludenz
Government
•  Mayor	Herbert Bitschnau
Area [1]
• Total	57.65 km2 (22.26 sq mi)
Elevation	685 m (2,247 ft)
Population  (2018-01-01) [2]
• Total	2,195
• Density	38/km2 (99/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	6774
Area code	05556
Vehicle registration	BZ
Website	www.tschagguns.at

Tschagguns is a village in the Montafon valley, Bludenz district in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. Tschagguns offers skiing with its own ski resort called Golm. Tschagguns offers hiking, mountain biking, winter sports and much more. Gauertal is a valley found in Tschagguns between Mittagspitze and Golm. It is famous for the "3 Türme" which means 3 Towers.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1869	1,006	—
1880	1,024	+1.8%
1890	992	−3.1%
1900	895	−9.8%
1910	947	+5.8%
1923	1,028	+8.6%
1934	971	−5.5%
1939	1,330	+37.0%
1951	1,572	+18.2%
1961	1,769	+12.5%
1971	2,196	+24.1%
1981	2,176	−0.9%
1991	2,237	+2.8%
2001	2,335	+4.4%
2011	2,185	−6.4%

Sons and daughters of the place

• Werner Bleiner (born 1946), ski racer
• Christian Orlainsky (born 1962), ski racer
• Stefan Bitschnau (born unknown), Engineer

Persons with reference to the place

• Georg Friedrich Haas (born 1953 in Graz), composer, has grown up in Tschagguns

Honorary citizen

• Arnold Durig (1872-1961), physiologist

Transport

Tschagguns railway station is located on the Bludenz–Schruns railway line. The station is called at by the S4 regional train service of Vorarlberg S-Bahn, operated by Montafonerbahn (MBS).

References

1. "Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
2. "Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.

3. "It was snow too that fell all Christmas week that year up in the Gauertal..." Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro".