Feldkirch

A nice old town commented James Joyce

At the beginning of the 20th century, Feldkirch was a quiet, if not sleepy little town. Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle was a bit more exact and described Feldkirch as a place in a green valley, below arched hills and a thousand feet below the Arlberg pass.

Both Conan-Doyle as a student and musician and Joyce as an author spent some time in Feldkirch. "I make music here on the "Bombenhorn", this is a perfect training for my lungs", that´s what Conan-Doyle, the young inventor of Sherlock-Holmes reported home about his studies in the well-known Jesuit college "Stella Matutina". By the way, Leo Naphta, in Thomas Mann´s famous work "Zauberberg" (The Magic Mountain) studied at the same college.

460 m Elevation
31005 Inhabitants
Location: Center, Close to the ski slope, Riverside, by a mountain, Railroad Station Nearby, Out in the Open

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The student, Arthur Conan Doyle preferred to stroll through mountains surrounding the town or walk along the river Ill to the Rhine, On the other hand, James Joyce, went to the railroad station almost every day, to listen to the passengers. Some of what he could understand from the difficult Alemannian dialect can be found in "Finnegans Wake". "Over on those tracks there", he said one evening, "the fate of Ulysses was decided in 1915." He referred to the fact that in this Austrian border town he had almost been prevented by some jinx from crossing into Switzerland during the First World War

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Feldkirch Werbung & Tourismus
Palais Liechtenstein
Schlossergasse 8
A- 6800 Feldkirch, Austria

Tel.: +43(5522)73467
Fax: +43(5522)73467 3429

E-Mail: tourismus@feldkirch.at
WWW: http://www.feldkirch.at

Opening Hours

Monday to Friday 8.00 to 12.00 o´clock and 13.30 to 17.30 o´clock
Saturday 9.00 to 12.00 o´clock

24-h-booking service:

The new info@terminal at the train station offers the possibility to book rooms around the clock and ask for information about Feldkirch.