6850 — LEISURE
DORNBIRN HAS MANY FACES Depending on where you are standing, looking or walking, these faces are looking completely different. There is the promising one of the Karren. The wild and romantic one of the Rappenloch gorge. The profound one, you can touch, in inatura. And there are the different faces of the museums: Art as provocation and discussion in the FLATZ museum. 1.000 years of settlement history under different magnifying glasses in the Town Museum. Historical and astounding things all around beer and its production in the Mohren Museum. The fascination for cars, which is in the air in the Rolls-Royce Museum, and finally craft and expression across cultures in the Krippenmuseum (Nativity Museum). Different faces, all of them worth letting them work their magic on oneself.
WORDS Miriam Jaenecke PHOTOS Dornbirn Tourismus
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If you go up, you can look down. — The Karren, Dornbirn’s local mountain, in numbers: One hour of puffing, then the hiker has reached the top at 976 metres. One can also easily reach this height by cable car, at times until midnight, and dare to enter the platform that is protruding twelve metres into the sheer nothing to take a breath-taking photo of the view. 150 seats and seasonal dishes are offered by the panorama restaurant, and a further 200 seats on the cosy terrace.
Up close, please — “Please touch!”, is the motto of the inatura – Erlebnis Naturschau Natural History Museum. The mountain adventure area is awaiting with thundering avalanches and impressions from a bird’s-eye view, in the forest everyone can touch lifelike wolves, there is a “glassy river” and the wonders of our body are accessible. The Science Zones encourage us to join in, and who knows, perhaps the former machine shop is also still alive?
Karrenseilbahn
inatura – Erlebnis Naturschau
Gütlestraße 6
T +43 5572 22140
karren.at
Nature in super-size — The 50-metre-high California redwood tree in Gütle is the starting point of the walk, which takes one and a quarter hours. The entry to the Rappenloch gorge is reached within a few minutes. At its edge, partially at spectacular height, the path is leading along rock formations and allows us to perceive prehistorical forces. The pleasant Staufensee circular trail joins, and several rest points are beckoning as a reward.
Beer as cultural heritage — The historical development of the brewing trade can be closely followed in the Mohren Museum of the Mohren Brewery. The centrepiece is a fully preserved brewing plant from the 19th century, which is coming to life thanks to history. Many exhibits from the collection of the owner family Huber are displayed on four floors. There are also answers to big questions like: What does the perfect beer taste like?
Rappenlochschlucht
Mohren Museum
Gütlestraße
Doktor-Waibel-Straße 2
Jahngasse 9
T +43 5572 37770
T +43 5572 232350
rappenloch.at
inatura.at
T +43 5572 22188
mohrenbrauerei.at
