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| | Feldkirch, Austria |
 | | Feldkirch, the old district capital in Vorarlberg, the most westerly town in Austria, lies some 35km/22mi south of Bregenz, where the Ill carves its way through a rocky gorge from the Wallgau into the Rhine valley. |
 | | Feldkirch is an international rail and road junction on the route via the Arlberg to Innsbruck and to the tourist centers near the Arlberg and in the Grosses Walsertal. |
 | | Feldkirch was the birthplace of the doctor and geographer Hieronymus Münzer (1437-1508), of the painter Wolf Huber (after 1480-1539), an important member of the "Danube School", and of the humanist, mathematician and astronomer Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514-76), who disseminated the new map of the world drawn up by his teacher Copernicus. |
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