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Marktgemeinde Lauterach

Lauterach is a market town in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. The market town is located in the northern part of the Vorarlberg Rhine Valley in the district of Bregenz between the two cities of Bregenz in the north and Dornbirn in the south.

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church Lauterach hl. Georg
Art in the Rohnerhaus: a private foundation houses mainly works by Vorarlberg artists from the 17th century onward.
Lourdes Chapel in the Kapellenstrasse

Nature

In the southwest of Lauterach is the Natura 2000 area Lauteracher Ried, which, with an extent of about 580 hectares, is an important recreational area for the population of the region (the Lauteracher Ried as a whole has about 800 hectares). The Lauteracher Ried is an important breeding area for rare birds such as the curlew, black-tailed godwit, snipe, lapwing, lark, stonechat, whinchat and the corncrake, which is threatened with extinction throughout Europe.

The Jannersee is located in the Lauteracher Ried. From 1959 to 1961, gravel was quarried by the Janner company on the site of today's bathing lake.
Sports
Jannersee Triathlon 2009

Every year in August the Jannersee Triathlon takes place in Lauterach since 1994. At this competition for "everyone" in the Lauteracher Ried, a triathlon over the distances of 400 m swimming, 16 km cycling and 4 km running is held as the Vorarlberg Triathlon Regional Championship. In 2009, the two professional triathletes Yvonne van Vlerken and Peter Schoissengeier were also at the start.