RANKWEIL, the best village you can imagine

Dear Rüdiger,

Let me take you on a visual tour through Rankweil.

I want to conduct you trough my village. Rankweil is in Vorarlberg, Austria and has more than 12,000 habitants. We start our tour at the “Liebfrauenberg”, which is in the middle of Rankweil. At the top of this hill there is a big church, the Basilika. It was built around 840 in purpose to protect the population of the farther area of Rankweil. Around the church there is a battlement. From there we have a great view over the whole Rheintal. Direct submontane the hill we are arranged at the market place. From here we walk along the Ringstraße. This is the shopping street in Rankweil. Then we walk towards west till we reach the Frutz, a stream which flow into the Rhein. There we make a walk through the forest. After this effort we take the bus to the shopping area in the south of Rankweil. In the McDonalds we have a rest. Later after doing some shopping we want to play golf at the golf course in the reed. This course is very new. It was built one year ago and has eighteen holes. At the end of the day we walk back to the centre. Our tour ends at the railway station where you can take trains towards Vienna and Bregenz. I hope that you can imagine the place where I live now.

Yours Luzian