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Popular Things To Do | Other Things To Do Tips | All Tips (18) At. Anton am Arlberg is a place, where rich people have their 2nd or 3rd home and at many places they bought old houses and rebuilt and restored them in the most beautiful way and so you may see lots of really beautiful, traditional tirolean buildings, when taking a walk through the village of St.Anton am Arlberg.
An interesting detail is that small tower on top of a typical tirolean farmhouse, like the one that you may see on my 3rd picture. Mostly it was used as a bell-tower, in order to ring, when the farmers are expected home,in case of emergencies etc. Leave a Comment Directions: When you walk around the church of St. Anton you will pass by these buildings !
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The church of St. Anton am Arlberg consists of an old part that dates back to the year 1691 and a new part that was added in 1932 : take a look at my 4th picture : the lower part is the old church and the higher part in front was added in the 20th century. Take a few mintes to take a look inside for the great frescos and works of art. I could not find out, wether these works of art were made by well known artists, they look nice in any case... Leave a Comment Directions: This church of St. Anton is in the very centre of the village, about 100 meters from the train-station.
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Stuben am Arlberg is the 1st village that you will get to in Bundesland Vorarlberg, when driving over Arlberg-Passstrasse. When you enlarge my picture, you will see the mostly covered road to Zuers and Lech in the left of my picture. Leave a Comment Address: Stuben am ArlbergDirections: Stuben am Arlberg is 7 km from St. Anton am Arlberg, already in Bundesland (county) Vorarlberg!
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Holy Christoph / Christphorus is the saint in charge of merchants and travellers and so the Bruderschaft St.Christoph am Arlberg was founded in 1386 by Heinrich Fildelkind and it was an order of monks, who dedicated their life to giving shelter, lodging and food to the merchants and all other people crossing the passroad over the Arlberg. The tiny chapel of that order is nowadays within the complex of the Luxury Hotel "Hospiz am Arlberg" , you may enter that chapel from the hotel or by a seperate door also from outside and may take a look through the iron-fence in the back of the chapel, like I did. Leave a Comment Directions: Bruderschaftskapelle St.Christoph am Arlberg is part of the building of the Hospiz-hotel am Arlberg, you cannot miss it, when driving over the pass-road !
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Schwarzer Adler in St.Anton am Arlberg is a building that dates back to the year 1570 and it has an ornate facade that is worth seeing. For plenty of centuries already hotels and restaurants were a really good business along such important pass-roads as the Arlberg, the only rather easy path and lateron road between Innsbruck and Bregenz, Switzerland and the area around lake Konstanz / Bodensee.
With the beginning of mass-skiing tourism Arlberg soon became a place, where the rich and weathy spent their vacations. St.Anton am Arlberg is also the home of Karl Schranz, one of the most famous austrian skiing-stars back in 1965, he won almost all races, I remeber a race, where he fell down, quickly stood up again, went back a bit on the hill and still won the whole race... Leave a Comment Directions: Schwarzer Adler is in the very centre of St.Anton, not far from the church !
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St.Christoph am Arlberg is the highest village of the pass-road over the Arlberg and it mainly consists of the 5star-hotel Hospiz and the tiny chapel "Bruderschaftskapelle" and a few appartment-houses and some ski-lifts.
In summer it is a great place to leave your car and start hikings to the surrounding mountains, in winter it is an area, where snow will always be found and sometimes there is so much snow that any kind of trafic is totally impossible and you have to stay in the hotel, book another flight etc. Leave a Comment Directions: St.Christoph am Arlberg is the highest point of the Arlberg-Pass-Strasse, you will have to drive through it, when crossing the pass-road !
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Altes Thönyhaus / Thoenyhaus dates back to the year 1465 and in the 16th century it was made a bit larger, as you may see by the different windows. This building was used for the office, where the toll had to be payed, when merchants wanted to go across the pass-road of Arlberg, mostly taking the precious salt to Switzerland and germany.
The toll was mostly payed by salt as well and that salt was finally sold to the local people : on my 2nd picture you may still see the small window, inside the entrance-arcade, where the salt was sold to the locals.
Today there are 2 appartments to be rent inside this old wooden building. Leave a Comment Address: Fam. MattDirections: Altes Thönyhaus / Thoenyhaus is in the centre of St.Anton am Arlberg, about 100 meters from the church.
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There is one thing people come here for: SKIING. It is one of the most popular and most expensive places for skiing in Austria. The so-called "Skibums" are people from all different nationalities who come here to work at bars or restaurants at night and to go skiing during the day. They come in autumn, try to find a job, and then come back in winter.
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A part of the St. Anton ski pass is the area next to the town Lech. If you think St. Anton is a fashionable place you have to go to Lech here you find shops selling Mclaren-mercedes sports cars and people more into drinking champagne then skiing. From St. Anton you can take a regional bus it cost you around 6 euro for a return ticket or you can go down slope 17 to Alpe Rauz and take a free lift bus from there.
The skiing area in Lech is very nice and the lest difficult of the main area.
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The most cosy part of St. Anton is situated around the pedestrian zone this part of Dorfstrasse is guarded by R2D2 that has a retirement job here together with a cousin in the other end only letting the locals in by car. Address: Dorfstrasse
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