Dornbirn

Dornbirn
Coat of arms
Dornbirn Location within Austria
Location of Dornbirn within Vorarlberg
Coordinates: 47°24′50″N 09°44′40″E / 47.41389°N 9.74444°E / 47.41389; 9.74444Coordinates: 47°24′50″N 09°44′40″E / 47.41389°N 9.74444°E / 47.41389; 9.74444
Country	Austria
State	Vorarlberg
District	Dornbirn
Government
• Mayor	Andrea Kaufmann (ÖVP)
Area
• Total	120.97 km2 (46.71 sq mi)
Elevation	437 m (1,434 ft)
Population (1 January 2016)
• Total	48,067
• Density	400/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	6850
Area code	05572
Vehicle registration	DO
Website	www.dornbirn.at

Largest groups of foreign residents
Nationality	Population
Turkey	1,813
Germany	1,209
Bosnia & Herzegovina	460
Croatia	347
Russia	239

Dornbirn [ˈdɔʁnbɪʁn] is a city in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is the administrative centre for the district of Dornbirn, which also includes the town of Hohenems, and the market town Lustenau.

Dornbirn is the largest city in Vorarlberg and the tenth largest in Austria. It is an important commercial and shopping centre.

Dornbirn is located in western Vorarlberg at 437 metres above sea level in the Alpine Rhine Valley, at the foot of the Karren mountain, part of the Bregenz Forest Mountain chain at the edge of the Eastern Alps. It is near the borders to Switzerland, Germany and Liechtenstein. The Dornbirner Ach river flows through the town and later into Lake Constance.

Dornbirn once consisted only of 4 "quarters": Markt, Hatlerdorf, Oberdorf and Haselstauden. By the 20th century Dornbirn had annexed two formerly independent communities to the west: Rohrbach and Schoren, thus bringing the total number of districts to 6.