Dornbirn is the largest town in Vorarlberg located on the River Rhine, it is the administrative centre for the district of Dornbirn which also includes Hohenems and Lustenau.

Dornbirn is the largest town in Vorarlberg and the tenth largest city in Austria, it is an important commercial and shopping centre.

Dornbirn is located at 437 metres above sea level in the Alpine Rhine Valley at the foot of the Karren mountain which is part of the Bregenz Forest Mountain chain at the edge of the Eastern Alps. It is close to the borders to Switzerland,  Germany and Liechtenstein. The Dornbirner Ach river flows through the town and on into Lake Constance.

The City Museum Dornbirn is Dornbirn's local museum specializing in the city's history, early photography, traditional crafts, agriculture and the formerly flourishing textile industry.

Inatura is an interactive natural history museum which includes a documentation centre about nature in Vorarlberg together with an interactive exhibition.

The Mohren Biererlebniswelt is a beer museum of Vorarlberg's oldest brewery Mohrenbrauerei. It showcases traditional brewery equipment and gives insights in to the history of beer brewing. Additionally, it hosts workshops on beer production.

The  Mohrenbrauerei August Huber is Vorarlberg's oldest brewery and market leader selling to the local restaurants and retail sectors.

The Rolls-Royce Museum is a privately-owned automobile museum which is said to have the world's largest collection of Rolls-Royce cars.

ART BODENSEE is an annual meeting point for artists, art collectors and connoisseurs. Since 2001 it has included exhibits of works by international artists.

The FLATZ Museum sees itself as a forum concerned with artistic impulses and contemporary cultural positions. It shows changing exhibitions designed by international guest curators with a focus on photographic art, it organises readings, lecture series, discussions and performances.

The town was formerly a major centre of the textile industry which suffered a serious decline since the beginning of the 1980s.

Located in the middle of the Rhine Valley Dornbirn is an important junction of regional and interregional bus lines connecting Bregenz to the north, Feldkirch to the south and the Bregenz Forest to the east. The A14 Rheintal motorway passes by to the west.

The Achrain Tunnel, opened in 2009, connects Dornbirn / Haselstauden with the Bregenz Forest - Alberschwende region. The town also has an excellent network of municipal buses.

Dornbirn's railway station is an important stop for all trains between western and eastern Austria.

A small civil airport is located at nearby Hohenems

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