Götzis

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (April 2010) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the German article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Götzis]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Götzis}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Place in Vorarlberg, Austria

Coat of arms

Location in the district

47°19′59″N 09°38′00″E / 47.33306°N 9.63333°E / 47.33306; 9.63333CountryAustriaStateVorarlbergDistrictFeldkirchGovernment

• MayorChristian Loacker (ÖVP)Area

^[1]

• Total14.64 km² (5.65 sq mi)Elevation

448 m (1,470 ft)Population

(2018-01-01)^[2]

• Total11,473 • Density780/km² (2,000/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

6840

Area code05523Vehicle registrationFKWebsitewww.goetzis.at

Götzis is a town in the western Austrian state of Vorarlberg. The Alpine Rhine valley municipality belongs to the district of Feldkirch.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1869	2,534	—
1880	2,701	+6.6%
1890	2,982	+10.4%
1900	3,370	+13.0%
1910	4,013	+19.1%
1923	3,773	−6.0%
1934	4,052	+7.4%
1939	4,171	+2.9%
1951	5,435	+30.3%
1961	7,034	+29.4%
1971	8,292	+17.9%
1981	8,735	+5.3%
1991	9,512	+8.9%
2001	10,097	+6.2%
2011	10,627	+5.2%

Events

The town is well known for its annual hypo-combined events meeting, the so-called Hypo-Meeting, where some of the world's leading decathletes and heptathletes gather in the Mösle stadium. Past winners at Götzis include former decathlon world record holder, Olympic and world champion Roman Šebrle (who achieved the record at the 2001 Götzis meeting), world champion Bryan Clay and Olympic champion Carolina Klüft.

Notable people

Hotelier Johannes Baur was born in Götzis in 1795.^[3]
The singer Elfi Graf (born 1952) lives in Götzis.^[4]
Michael Kopf (born 1948), racing driver.
Jürgen Loacker (born 1974), bobsledder.

References

^ "Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
^ "Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
^ Ueli Müller: "Baur, Johannes", in: Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (DHS), version of 16.05.2002, translated from German. Online: https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/fr/articles/030971/2002-05-16/, accessed 25.02.2023.
^ "Rindsvögel von Elfi Graf". Radio Vorarlberg. ORF. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2009-03-29.