🏛️ Culture & Quiet Days

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Alpine and Tourism Museum Gaschurn Gaschurn 🏛️

In Gaschurn's timber early-mass house (early 19th c.): how a mountain village became a resort – first ascents, first guests, ski pioneers; 7 minutes from the house.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Montafon Mining Museum Silbertal Silbertal 🏛️

Why the valley is called Silbertal: 14th- to 16th-century silver, copper and iron mining in the old schoolhouse, with show tunnel and mine cart – under-18s free.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Montafon Heritage Museum Schruns Schruns 🏛️

The valley's main museum in a roughly 500-year-old stone house on the church square: home life, costume, workshops, mountain school, Nazi era – under-18s free.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Frühmesshaus Museum Bartholomäberg Bartholomäberg 🏛️

The priest's house of 1657 beside the Baroque church: Baroque home life and 2,000 years of settlement and mining history on the sunny terrace – a museum since 2009.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Aktionsraum Naturgefahren Montafon Vandans 🏛️

Avalanches, floods, rockfall: the torrent-control service's exhibition space in Vandans, opened in 2025, with a 3D model of the valley – guided visits by appointment.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Atelier Arte Ferrum Partenen 🏛️

Studio and gallery in Partenen: graphics and painting by Dieter Schneeweiß, iron art by Rudolf Farkas, sculpture by Martin Pfefferkorn – open whenever the artist is in.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Atelier Roland Haas Schruns 🏛️

Studio of Schruns painter Roland Haas (b. 1958): watercolour, acrylic, land art and printmaking from Spitsbergen to Antarctica – visits by e-mail appointment.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Baroque church of Bartholomäberg Bartholomäberg 🏛️

The Montafon's mother parish on the sunny terrace: Baroque church of 1743 with the miners' altar, a Romanesque cross from around 1150 and the Graß organ of 1792.

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St Mary Magdalene's church in the Montafon's highest village (1,423 m): founded 1611, destroyed 1622, consecrated 1644 – and a fresco rediscovered in 1999.

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The illwerke vkw exhibition on hydropower and energy history in the Vallülahaus, Partenen – phone ahead, the operator no longer lists it online in 2026.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Ernest Hemingway exhibition Gaschurn 🏛️

Small exhibition in the Gaschurn tourist office on Hemingway's Montafon winters of 1924/25 and 1925/26: ski tours with Walther Lent, Hotel Taube, work on “Fiesta”.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Old parish church of Vandans (cemetery church) Vandans 🏛️

Vandans' old church of St John: Baroque, with shingle roof and onion tower, abandoned in 1960, a ruin for three decades – and rescued by the villagers in 1992.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Historic mine of Bartholomäberg Bartholomäberg 🏛️

Vorarlberg's only show mine: 115 m into the St Anna gallery at 1,300 m, where iron, copper and silver were mined since Celtic times – guided tours by appointment, 8 °C.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Chapel Jetzmunt Bartholomäberg 🏛️

A small 1960s chapel of the Virgin in the hamlet of Jetzmunt on the sunny slope between St. Anton and Bartholomäberg – a resting point with views over the outer Montafon.

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The pilgrimage chapel on the Bühel hill above Gaschurn: endowed in 1637 by farmer Lukas Tschofen, with a painted vault and a rare depiction of the Turin Shroud.

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The Transfiguration church in Latschau (1965–68): concrete-glass windows by Martin Häusle, a late-Gothic Madonna of about 1515 – by the reservoir and Golm cable car.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Gauenstein monastery church Schruns 🏛️

Pilgrimage church of Our Lady of Sorrows (1851) at Gauenstein monastery above Schruns – 177 years of Capuchins, Poor Clares since 2021, views of the Drei Türme.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Kunstforum Montafon Schruns 🏛️

Gallery and art school in the old loden mill in Schruns, co-founded by Roland Haas in 1996: three to four exhibitions a year, free entry, Wed–Fri and Sun 4–6 pm.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Gortipohl church (St Nicholas) Gortipohl 🏛️

Gortipohl's St Nicholas church, rebuilt in 1692 after an avalanche, houses the oldest organ in the Montafon – 1.8 km from the holiday home, within walking distance.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Innerberg church Bartholomäberg 🏛️

Late-Baroque church of the Immaculate Conception (1792) at the end of the mountain road – with the Drei Türme behind it, one of the Montafon's best-known photo motifs.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Litzkapelle Schruns 🏛️

Baroque chapel of the Virgin from 1688 on the edge of Schruns with an Anna Selbdritt fresco, Renaissance altar and pear-tree legend – start of the miners' trail.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Lukas Tschofen Stube Gaschurn 🏛️

Panelled farmhouse parlour with a carved door of 1681, a 16th-century chest and a Montafon table of 1786 – in the Gaschurn tourist office, 6 minutes from the house.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Maisäß landscape & Montafon farmhouses Montafon 🏛️

Three-stage farming valley–Maisäß–alp since the Middle Ages: hut settlements at 1,200–1,600 m like Garfrescha above our house, plus the farmhouse trail in Gortipohl.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM MAP Kellergalerie e.V. Schruns 🏛️

The cellar gallery of the “Montafoner Artgenossen Plattform” next to Schruns station: three to four exhibitions a year since 1999, open Fri–Sun 5–7 pm.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Montafonerbahn – train ride Bludenz–Schruns Schruns 🏛️

Electric since 1905: almost 13 km and 19 minutes from Schruns to Bludenz every half hour – today S-Bahn line S4, included with the Premium guest card and WildPass.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Münster Schruns Schruns 🏛️

St Jodok's on the church square, a Münster since 2020: neo-Romanesque hall of 1867 with a 42 m Baroque tower, Bertle frescoes, Pflüger organ and six new bells (2025).

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Naturraum.Verwall Partenen 🏛️

Since June 2025: free exhibition on the Verwall European protected area in Partenen – landscape model with projections, touchscreens, children's guide, daily 7 am–10 pm.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Parish and pilgrimage church of Tschagguns Tschagguns 🏛️

One of Vorarlberg's three Marian pilgrimage sites: Gothic choir of 1454, miraculous altar of 1520, frescoes of 1814 and the Bergöntzle organ (1816) with 38 stops.

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Post-war modernism by Werner Pfeifer (1960–64): offset volumes, concrete-glass windows by Adolfo Winternitz, a Mathis organ from 2013 – Vorarlberg's youngest parish.

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Gaschurn's neo-Romanesque St Michael's church (1867–69) with frescoes by the Bertle family of painters and a Romantic organ from 1883 – 6 minutes from the holiday home.

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Partenen's St Martin's church: built in 1728, destroyed in the village fire of 1800 and rebuilt the same year – Baroque high altar, frescoes from 1926.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Parish church Silbertal Silbertal 🏛️

Neo-Gothic hall church designed by Vienna's cathedral architect Friedrich von Schmidt (1893), with the tallest church tower in the Montafon: 57 m.

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Baroque church of St Anthony from 1651 that gained a modern side aisle in 1989/90 and was turned through 90 degrees – old and new under one roof at the valley entrance.

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Our village's St Gallus church: late-Gothic core from 1474, Baroque ceiling paintings from 1774 and a 38 m onion-domed tower – 1.2 km from the holiday home.

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One of the valley's few modern churches: an octagonal tent-shaped building by Hans and Ingo Feßler (1959/60) with coloured concrete-glass windows and a campanile.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Showroom in the Lünersee power station Tschagguns 🏛️

A view into the machine hall of the Lünersee power station (1958, 974 m head, 280 MW) with a working model – showroom open daily beside the Golm cable car in Latschau.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM St Agatha miners' chapel on the Kristberg Silbertal 🏛️

The Montafon's oldest church (c. 1400) at 1,430 m: Gothic winged altars, zodiac timber ceiling and the legend of the buried miners – 5 min from the Kristberg cable car.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Pilgrimage chapel of Vens (Venser Bild) Vandans 🏛️

The “Venser Bild” above Vandans: vowed by Anna Planggin in the plague year 1613, with three Baroque altars, early 16th-century reliefs and a view down the valley.

Aerial imagery basemap.at (CC BY 4.0) · track OSM Winter sports exhibition Tschagguns Tschagguns 🏛️

The Montafon winter sports collection: skis, bindings and photos from 1895 to today, assembled by Helmut Marent – by booked guided tour only.