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Marktgemeinde Hörbranz

Hörbranz is a market town in Austria in the district of Bregenz in Vorarlberg. Hörbranz is located in the westernmost province of Austria, Vorarlberg, in the district of Bregenz north of Lake Constance at an altitude of 426 meters.

Culture and sights

Halbenstein Castle: In the Backenreute district, the minimal remains of the former castle can be found on the access path to the Ruggburg.

Catholic parish church Hörbranz hl. Martin

Salvatororkolleg: Father Franziskus Maria vom Kreuze Jordan founded the order of the Salvatorians in 1893 as a Marian College. The Swiss architect August Hardegger built the main building of the Salvator College between 1896 and 1906 in the style of historicism. The campanile-like tower and the two corner risalites give the building a Mediterranean accent. The institution was used from 1896 to 1979 as a grammar school with a dormitory or boarding school and is now a church educational institution and meeting house. Since 1981, it has also housed the boarding school for students of the Landesberufsschule für das Gastgewerbe Lochau. During the First World War it was used as a military hospital, from 1938 to 1945 it was a barracks and finally a collective camp for prisoners of war.