Brand, Vorarlberg
Brand is a municipality in the district of Bludenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
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  Brand Location within Austria | |
| Coordinates: 47°06′00″N 09°44′00″E | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Vorarlberg |
| District | Bludenz |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Erich Schedler |
| Area | |
| • Total | 40.28 km2 (15.55 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,010 m (3,310 ft) |
| Population (2018-01-01)[2] | |
| • Total | 719 |
| • Density | 18/km2 (46/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 6708 |
| Area code | 05559 |
| Vehicle registration | BZ |
| Website | www.brand.at |
Geography
A tourist resort in western Austria, Brand is about five kilometres north of the Swiss border and eight kilometers east of the border with the Principality of Liechtenstein.
Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1869 | 349 | — |
| 1880 | 327 | −6.3% |
| 1890 | 311 | −4.9% |
| 1900 | 296 | −4.8% |
| 1910 | 344 | +16.2% |
| 1923 | 337 | −2.0% |
| 1934 | 371 | +10.1% |
| 1939 | 376 | +1.3% |
| 1951 | 446 | +18.6% |
| 1961 | 530 | +18.8% |
| 1971 | 583 | +10.0% |
| 1981 | 644 | +10.5% |
| 1991 | 646 | +0.3% |
| 2001 | 709 | +9.8% |
| 2011 | 657 | −7.3% |
Sports
Winter sports in Brand include both downhill and cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, sledding, winter hiking, skitouring, icefall climbing, skating, curling, horse riding, archery and indoor tennis. Summer activities include hiking, climbing, mountain biking, golf, tennis, horse riding, fly fishing, canyoning, archery, beach volleyball and soccer.
gollark: FEAR low-cost biotechnology.
gollark: It is, at least, possible to vaccinate against novel things very fast now.
gollark: We could probably manage decently high populations without removing vast quantities of environment with better management and application of existing technology, but nobody is doing this.
gollark: I mean, we chlorinate water now because of that sort of thing, you would have to get around all of that.
gollark: If you wanted to wipe out all humans for some reason, it would probably be quite effective to make a virus with reaaally delayed fatal effects which spreads well in the meantime.
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.
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