Damüls

Damüls (Alemannic German: Dimülsch) is a village community and popular tourist resort in the district of Bregenz in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg.

It borders on the Bregenz Forest, the Biosphere Reserve Großes Walsertal, the Laternsertal, and all other Vorarlberg districts (Bludenz, Feldkirch and Dornbirn).

In the late Middle Ages c. 1300, the Walser ethnic folk group fled from the Swiss Kanton Wallis to this area seeking a better way of life and agricultural land.

The art-historically valuable church with its preserved frescoes depicting a Bible for the poor dates from the time of the arrival of the Walsers in the 13th/14th centuries.

This transhumance is one of the prime factors preserving the natural and cultural landscape of the region, along with the strong tradition of cheese production in Vorarlberg.

[4][13] Numerous hiking trails lead from Damüls over alpine meadows and to summits with views over the surrounding mountain tops.