Dornbirn

Dornbirn is a city of roughly 44,000 inhabitants in the province of Vorarlberg in Austria, at , near the borders to Switzerland, Germany and Liechtenstein. The Dornbirner Ach river flows through the city and later into the Lake of Constance.

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The largest and busiest city in Vorarlberg, Dornbirn is an important commercial center and shopping mecca. The regional ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Institution), the Fachhochschule (University of Applied Sciences), the Higher Technical Vocational College (HTL) and many large companies are situated there. The city used to be a major centre of the textiles industry, which has been in decline since the 1980s.

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Dornbirn is also the name of a county, which also includes the township Lustenau and the city of Hohenems.

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