Today, Hatlerdorf is rapidly becoming an industrial center, with such larger firms as Zumtobel Lighting, the Vorarlberg Spar Central Offices and Distribution, J.M.
Hatlerdorf has its own post office, several bank branches, the Catholic parish St. Leopold, the Dornbirn Municipal Hospital and a residential care home for the elderly.
As Hatlerdorf’s population began to grow in the second half of the 18th century there was increasing interest in creating a local place for pastoral care.
In 1790 a modest church was built just south of the Dornbirn river (Ache), on the former rural highway near the main Hatler fountain, in Hatlerdorf’s historic center.
The Neo-Romantic church was built from 1860 to 1866, in a so-called Munich round arch style (Münchner Rundbogenstil), according to the plans of the Bavarian Court Building Inspector Eduard Riedel.
The extensive, richly colored paintings of the barrel vaulting interior were carried out according to the theological iconography of the parish priest at that time, Ferdinand Gierer.