Götzis

Götzis
Coat of arms
Götzis Location within Austria
Location in the district
Coordinates: 47°19′59″N 09°38′00″E / 47.33306°N 9.63333°ECoordinates: 47°19′59″N 09°38′00″E / 47.33306°N 9.63333°E
Country	Austria
State	Vorarlberg
District	Feldkirch
Government
• Mayor	Christian Loacker (ÖVP)
Area
• Total	14.64 km^2 (5.65 sq mi)
Elevation	448 m (1,470 ft)
Population (1 January 2016)[1]
• Total	11,287
• Density	770/km^2 (2,000/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	6840
Area code	05523
Vehicle registration	FK
Website	www.goetzis.at

Götzis is a town in the western Austrian state of Vorarlberg in the district 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.

Personalities

The singer Elfi Graf lives in Götzis.^[2]

References

1. Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden (Gebietsstand 2016-01-01), 2016-01-01.
2. "Rindsvögel von Elfi Graf". Radio Vorarlberg. ORF. Retrieved 2009-03-29.

External links

• Town of Götzis

church: Pfarrkirche hl. Ulrich