Schruns

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Schruns
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Austria
State	Vorarlberg
District	Bludenz
Mayor	Erwin Bahl
Basic statistics
Area	18.04 km² (7 sq mi)
Elevation	700 m  (2297 ft)
Population	3,826  (31/12/2005)
- Density	212 /km² (549 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	BZ
Postal code	6780
Area code	05556
Website	www.schruns.at Coordinates: 47°04′49″N 09°55′09″E / 47.08028, 9.91917

Schruns is the main village of the Montafon valley in Vorarlberg, Austria, in the Bludenz district.

In the west, one can see one of the most popular hiking and climbing mountains in Vorarlberg, the Zimba, which is called the "Vorarlberger Matterhorn".

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf lived in the village in the last years of her life.

Schurns was for a period of years in the early 1920s the favorite ski resort of Ernest Hemingway. He wintered there with his first wife, Hadley, and oldest son, who was then just an infant. Hemingway wrote the second, published, draft of his first novel, The Sun Also Rises , in Schruns in the winter of 1925-6. (Ernest Hemingway. A Moveable Feast, Touchstone Books: New York. pp 197-202) In Hemingway's classic story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" the third scene in the first flashback sequence recounts memories of Shruns. (Ernest Hemingway. The Short Stories, Scribner Paperback Fiction: New York, 1995 pp 56-7) These images of snow and glacier skiing stand in contrast to the description of the Serengeti Plain in the main story and anticipate the coming journey to the snows of Kilimanjaro.

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